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Colonialism and Industrialization: Empirical Results

Alam, M. Shahid - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1998

This paper presents theory and evidence to show that imperialism was a major factor impeding the spread of the industrial revolution during the century ending in the 1950s. Two empirical results stand out. First, analysis of historical evidence shows that most sovereign countries were...

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Financial instruments for human development

Chichilnisky, Graciela - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1998

Economics often provides the wrong incentives to those who control the assets, such as people in developing countries where most forests are located and who could potentially benefit most from conservation . There is increasing unease about this situation, and an emerging view is that standard...

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The endogenous nature of the measurement of social preferences

Smith, John - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Measures of preferences are primarily useful in that they are helpful in predicting behavior. We perform an experiment which demonstrates that the timing of the measurement of social preferences can affect such a measure. Researchers often measure social preferences by posing a series of...

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Disorganizing Organizational Culture: Comment on the Individual and Family Factors

El Fasiki, Hamza - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Defining culture in relation to organizational culture has also focused on the operation level of culture. This latter … as discussed by Maurice Thévenet (1993) concludes that culture is a collective phenomenon that concerns an enterprise as … whereby entrepreneurial activities in collectivist cultures are constructed via two non-identical cultures: individual culture …

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Peculiarities of management accounting in Libya

Iacob, Constanta; Karim, Abdelali Abdel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

motivational efficacy in relation to Anglo-American culture. In this context, we try to present some aspects of management …

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Culture, Economics and Drugs addiction

Azmat, Hayat - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Drug use is one of the pressing issues facing humanity since time immemorial. Ground reality exhibits that there are linear association of drug use with violence, corruption, incest and numerous other immoral activities. Towards drugs addiction the policy approach of economists are based on...

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Culture and Economic Growth of Cities; Evidence from Liberia

Gul, Ejaz - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Culture can now be used as an instrument for sustainable economic growth and developmental instrument of cities. By … remained in crises for 10 years. This paper examines the role of culture in overall economic growth sighting evidences from … cultural activities. This study forms a useful contribution on the role of culture in sustainable economic growth of cities. …

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The Culture of Entrepreneurship

Chakraborty, Shankha; Thompson, Jon; Yehoue, Etienne - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

entrepreneurs. In either case culture ceases to be destiny. We relate the theory to historical and recent episodes. …

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Dissecting the Act of God: An Exploration of the Effect of Religion on Economic Activity

Carpantier, Jean-Francois; Litina, Anastasia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This research establishes that religiosity has a persistent effect on economic outcomes. First we use a sample of migrants in the US to establish that religiosity at the country of origin has a long lasting effect on the religiosity of migrants. Second, exploiting variations in the inherited...

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Cultural Biases in Public Service Delivery: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Approach

Athias, Laure; Wicht, Pascal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

(efficiency and political considerations), this paper emphasizes the role of culture and quantifies it. We build a representative … identical actual set of policies and institutions to analyze the causal effect of culture on the choice of how public services … out that culture is a source of a potential bias that distorts the optimal choice for public service delivery. Systematic …

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