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This paper investigates whether the industrial relations climate inIndian states has affected the pattern of manufacturing growthin the period 1958-92. We show that states which ammendedthe Industrial Disputes Act in a pro-worker direction experiencedlowered output, employment, investment and...
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Economic institutions encompassing increasingly sophisticated concepts of risk-sharing and liability flourished in Europe since the High Middle Ages. These innovations occurred in an environment of fragmented local jurisdictions, not within the framework of the territorial state. In this short...
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Most economic historians would surely endorse Paul Romer's view expressed above that technological progress lies at the heart of long run economic growth. Long ago Kuznets identified the epoch of 'modern economic growth' as one where growth came to be driven by scientific and technological...
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We find little support for the Schumpeterian hypothesis of a positiverelationship between market power and innovation … viewed as arisinglargely from the difficulties of reaping the benefits of innovation rather thanfrom a failure to innovate …
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innovation under three headings: How was premodern technical knowledge stored to avoid loss? How were tacit, visual, verbal, and …
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Dieser Aufsatz untersucht die wirtschafts- und unternehmensethischen Arbeiten vonWilliam Baumol und rekonstruiert seine ökonomische Erklärung für die spektakulärenWachstumserfolge westlicher Marktwirtschaften.
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Dieser Beitrag skizziert eine „conceptual history“ der modernen Gesellschaft. Er unterscheideteine malthusianische Stagnationsphase und eine postmalthusianische Wachstumsphaseder Weltwirtschaftsgeschichte und entwickelt anhand eines Modells zur Interdependenzwirtschaftlicher und politischer...
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In der öffentlichen Diskussion werden die Bezüge von Führungskräften mit der Semantikder Leistungsgerechtigkeit bewertet. Allerdings zeigt eine detaillierte Analysevon Prinzipal-Agent-Problemen in der modernen Wirtschaft, dass eine leistungsgerechteEntlohnung oft nicht das beste Ergebnis...
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Already in the early 1980s, city officials realised the challenge of structural change for Bremen. It was at this point that decisions were made to initiate a profound ‘change of direction’ in the economic focus of the city (Warsewa, 2006). In the past, Bremen’s economic fortunes had been...
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a high proportion ofmanufacturing jobs until the 1970s andwere internationally renowned for theirskills and innovation …
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