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What’s wrong with the world? Rationality! A critique of economic anthropology in the spirit of Jean Gebser

Pogany, Peter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Jean Gebser (1905-1973) was a multidisciplinary thinker whose ideas about human consciousness and the future inspire the following five vantage points for the heterodox critique of contemporary economic anthropology: (1) Characteristic attributes of consciousness and those of the environment...

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Allocation rules on networks

Ilkilic, Rahmi; Kayi, Cagatay - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

these rules fairness principles and we extend fairness principles to allocation rules on networks. We require that for each …

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Global e-commerce and african participation:a critical assessment

Nwaobi, Godwin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Indeed, it has been asserted that the most fundamental resource in the modern economy is knowledge while the most important process of economic development is learning. Therefore, e-commerce is an important contributor to the learning process which shapes economic performance. In fact, it...

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Social Capital and Economic Growth: A case study

Chakrabarty, Aritra - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Financial income and parental education are two determinants of child well-being rooted in a long tradition of sociological and economic research. These resources have been titled financial and human capital respectively. James Coleman had suggested a third type of capital which can have equally...

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Beauty, Polygyny, and Fertility: Theory and Evidence

Cahu, Paul; Fall, Falilou; Pongou, Roland - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

We propose a simple model of a mating economy in both monogamous and polygynous cultures, and derive implications for how polygyny affects individual and aggregate fertility. We find that an attractive woman is more likely to find a high-status husband. However, when polygyny is allowed,...

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Protection of Intangible Assets in Cooperative Networks

Najda-Janoszka, Marta - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

In cooperative networks firms appropriate value through bargaining over the economic benefits generated from successful … protection of intellectual resources in networks, the paper presents an outline of this subject …

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Network Co-Evolution

Todeva, Emanuela - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

Conceptual overview, critical commentary and future directions.

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Inclusive Institutions and Long-Run Misallocation

Galor, Oded; Munshi, Kaivan; Wilson, Nicolas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This research advances the hypothesis that resource abundant economies characterized by a socially cohesive workforce and network externalities triggered the emergence of efficiency-enhancing inclusive institutions designed to restrict mobility and to enhance the attachment of community members...

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A link based network route choice model with unrestricted choice set

Fosgerau, Mogens; Frejinger, Emma; Karlstrom, Anders - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper considers the path choice problem, formulating and discussing an econometric random utility model for the choice of path in a network with no restriction on the choice set. Starting from a dynamic specification of link choices we show that it is equivalent to a static model of the...

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Network Averaging: a technique for determining a proxy for the dynamics of networks

Bell, William Paul - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

accurately determining the structure of real networks can be difficult and the network averaging technique provides a proxy for … real networks. A second aim is to introduce the adaptive interactive expectations (AIE) model, which uses a ‘pressure to … networks. The AIE model could be readily applied to other forms of expectations and as a replacement for the utility curve …

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