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In the popularly used ranking method of peer rating, the exclusion of the evaluations/marks given to oneselves is intuitively appealing and has been actually practiced, since a person/university/country typically is biased in favor of itself. This short paper shows that this apparently...
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pt. 1. Pre-Smith analyses -- pt. 2. The Smithian economics of the division of labor -- pt. 3. Marx on the division of labor in capitalist manufacturing and the Hayekian problem of knowledge -- pt. 4. Economic development framed in the economics of the division of labor.
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Summary In pursuing their plans economic agents regularly have to adjust their pacing of orders, production, and deliveries in unanticipated ways. Information constraints turn many of these adjustments into myopic reactions to accelerations/decelerations observed in the activity level of...
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Brody (1997) notices that for large random Leontief matrices, namely non-negative square matrices with all entries i.i.d., the ratio between the subdominant eigenvalue (in modulus) and the dominant eigenvalue declines generically to zero at a speed of the square root of the size of the matrix as...
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