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The virtues of native discourse : striking a balance between English and the native language
Forslund, Eva; Henrekson, Magnus - 2022
An increasing number of researchers, whether in Sweden, Slovakia, Italy, Japan, Brazil, or many other places, are using English in their discourse, written or oral, despite working in a place where the native language is not English. To convey insights and research results to the general public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013401936
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Explaining changes in tax burdens in Latin America : does politics trump economics?
Hallerberg, Mark; Scartascini, Carlos G. - 2015
This paper examines whether elections, which are generally held on fixed dates, and banking crises explain the timing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011339426
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Political Economy in a Changing World
Acemoglu, Daron - 2014
We provide a general framework for the analysis of the dynamics of institutional change (e.g., democratization, extension of political rights, or repression of different groups), and how these dynamics interact with (anticipated and unanticipated) changes in the distribution of political power...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013063669
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A Journal is a Club : A New Economic Model for Scholarly Publishing
Potts, Jason - 2016
A new economic model for analysis of scholarly publishing — journal publishing in particular — is proposed that draws on club theory. The standard approach builds on market failure in the private production (by research scholars) of a public good (new scholarly knowledge). In that model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012994716
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Political economy : critical concepts in the social sciences
Schofield, Norman (contributor) - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009158928
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Democracy and ethno-religious conflict in Iraq
Wimmer, Andreas - 2003
support for their respective ethno-religious organizations. Elections are likely to stir up ethno-religious conflicts in the … rights and a judicial apparatus capable of enforcing the rule of law. Elections should come last, not first in the process of … support that are needed, during years to come, to make democracy sustainable. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011577536
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Reason, Ideology, and Democracy : A Study in Entangled Political Economy
Tuszynski, Meg Patrick; Wagner, Richard E. - 2024
Chapter 1:Valuation, Choice, and Human Action: Economic Calculation Reimagined -- Chapter 2:Human association within a theory of social organization -- Chapter 3:Human Differences, Leadership, and the Emergence of Politics -- Chapter 4:System’s Theory as an Appropriate Tool for Understanding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015077853
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Political Economy of Happiness
Frey, Bruno S.; Gallus, Jana - 2013
Happiness research has been a great success by yielding new and important insights. These results are often used in a technocratic manner: governments should maximize, or at least raise, the subjective well-being of the population measured by the national happiness index. Yet the government has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014152233
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Economic policies and elections : a principal-agent point of view
Caleiro, António - 2004
elections are indeed the appropriate mechanism to punish or to reward the past behaviour of the incumbent. In fact, elections …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011502336
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The virtues of native discourse: Striking a balance between English and the native language
Forslund, Eva; Henrekson, Magnus - 2022
An increasing number of researchers, whether in Sweden, Slovakia, Italy, Japan, Brazil, or many other places, are using English in their discourse, written or oral, despite working in a place where the native language is not English. To convey insights and research results to the general public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014278268