Similar Search Results

Doepke, Matthias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - In: Handbook of Economic Growth

We discuss the two-way link between culture and economic growth. We present a model of endogenous technical change … British Industrial Revolution. We also discuss empirical studies documenting the importance of culture and preference …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011043182

The economic origins of the evil eye belief

Gershman, Boris - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 110 (2015) C, pp. 119-144

The evil eye belief is a widespread superstition according to which people can cause harm by a mere envious glance at coveted objects or their owners. This paper argues that such belief originated and persisted as a useful heuristic under conditions in which envy was likely to trigger...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011190125

Computer Mediated Transactions

Varian, Hal R. - In: American Economic Review 100 (2010) 2, pp. 1-10

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008584548

Globalization and the Concept of Subsistence Wages

Block, Walter; Dauterive, Jerry; Levendis, John - In: Journal of Income Distribution 16 (2007) 1, pp. 74-88

argue that the Iron Law of Wages, and slavery for production and profit, are logically incompatible: if one ever existed …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010733897

A note on slavery and the roots of inequality

Soares, Rodrigo R.; Assunção, Juliano J.; Goulart, … - In: Journal of Comparative Economics 40 (2012) 4, pp. 565-580

African slavery use based on the flow of slaves received divided by historical populations. We also construct a proxy for the … use of native slavery. The slavery variables are highly correlated with current levels of inequality. The correlation … between our slavery use variables and inequality is stronger than that observed between inequality and development, geographic …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011052861

Smallpox and Native American mortality: The 1780s epidemic in the Hudson Bay region

Carlos, Ann M.; Lewis, Frank D. - In: Explorations in Economic History 49 (2012) 3, pp. 277-290

The smallpox epidemic of 1781–82 in the Hudson Bay region is said to have devastated the native population, causing mortality of at least 50%. We reassess this claim using a four-pronged approach. First, we total smallpox deaths reported by two fur trading posts that were in the midst of the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010693370

The 'Out of Africa' Hypothesis, Human Genetic Diversity, and Comparative Economic Development

Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - In: American Economic Review 103 (2013) 1, pp. 1-46

This research advances and empirically establishes the hypothesis that, in the course of the prehistoric exodus of Homo sapiens out of Africa, variation in migratory distance to various settlements across the globe affected genetic diversity and has had a persistent hump-shaped effect on...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010815736

THE EVOLUTION OF THE CONCEPT OF POVERTY: A DIACHRONIC ANALYSIS

GROSU, Marilena-Raluca - In: Management Intercultural (2014) 31, pp. 443-448

Anyone who has studied poverty cannot help but be struck by the importance of family and community as enduring resources for those in need. Poverty is a perennial problem in world history, but over time its causes have shifted from local issues like natural disasters or warfare to more global...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011079453

How capitalism and the bourgeois virtues transformed and humanized the family

Horwitz, Steven - In: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics … 41 (2012) 6, pp. 792-795

McCloskey's two volumes argue that a change in our ideas about the dignity of human beings laid the groundwork for the tectonic changes in economic organization known as the advent of capitalism and the Industrial Revolution. The Industrial Revolution also changed human behavior by cultivating...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011051790

The Economics and Politics of Women's Rights

Doepke, Matthias; Tertilt, Michèle; Voena, Alessandra - In: Annual Review of Economics 4 (2012) 1, pp. 339-372

Women's rights and economic development are highly correlated. Today, the discrepancy between the legal rights of women and men is much larger in developing compared with developed countries. Historically, even in countries that are now rich, women had few rights before economic development took...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010604249

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Next
Last