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This paper discusses the establishment of the minimum wage determination process in the early twentieth century Australia, following the institutionalisation of compulsory industrial arbitration between capital and labour. This process led to the 1907 Harvester judgment whereby the Common-...
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models in Welfare Economics, General Equilibrium Theory, Information Economics and Game Theory have created the necessity to … integrate the neoclassical theory of free markets and the insti-tutional theory. It argues that while the main goal of economics … capitalism. But they do not happen in a vacuum, institutions are required. It argues that the future of economic theory and …
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This study focuses on the well-known theme of Schumpeter’s system of economic theory. Specifically, the study discusses … Schumpeter’s paradoxical stance on Walras’ general equilibrium theory, which Louçã (1997) called Schumpeter’s paradox. We … reconsider the significance of the notion of circular flow in business cycle theory, after recognising the continuity from static …
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The recent recession has brought a sharp decrease in income, output, and world trade, as well as an increase in unemployment in developed and underdeveloped countries. Experts such as Paul Krugman, Christina Romer, or Barry Eichengreen, compare the current situation with the Great Depression of...
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Australia, since the early 1980s, has been a leading advocate and practitioner of the neo-liberal economic model, also known as the Anglo-Saxon (or Anglo-American) model due to its geographical origins in the UK and the US, and its subsequent ascendancy in Australia, New Zealand and Canada,...
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This review of the book by Thomas Piketty, the capital in the XXI century, presents the central themes of the work and exposes its scope on the relationship between inequality and wealth. In particular a positive reflections on the progressive tax is added.
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This review of the book by Thomas Piketty, The capital in the XXI century, presents the central themes of the work and exposes its scope on the relationship between inequality and wealth. In particular a positive reflections on the progressive tax is added.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015245429
, The Theory of Price. Even almost 50 years after the publication of Coase’s original article, the consequence of the …
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Schumpeterian theory of scientific development? Subsequently: is Vergangenheit und Zukunft only «a brief outline of what first …
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Using recent findings from modern empirical disciplines and mainly building on F.A.Hayek’s thoughts, the paper gives a definition of knowledge in accord with the Austrian School’s tradition, and basing on the definition, it sums up three behavior assumptions and a framework on explaining...
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