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The Contributions of Professor Amartya Sen in the Field of Human Rights

Vizard, Polly - 2008

This paper analyses the work of the Nobel Prize winning economist Professor Amartya Sen from the perspective of human … rights. It assesses the ways in which Sen's research agenda has deepened and expanded human rights discourse in the … across traditional disciplinary divides. The paper suggests that Sen's development of a 'scholarly bridge' between human …

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Social Trust Distance in Mergers and Acquisitions

Lin, Tse-Chun - 2019

This paper studies the role of regional cultural differences in M\&A transactions in the U.S. We construct a county-level measure of cultural trust based on the World Values Survey data and find that a larger social trust distance between two companies reduces the likelihood of them combining...

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Tax Activists and the Global Movement for Development Through Transparency

Christians, Allison - 2016

Activists around the world seek to expose a global system that fails to tax multinationals adequately and thus deprives governments of needed revenues, with profound effects for development in the world's poorest nations. These tax activists have sparked a global movement, with groups all over...

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The Rule of Law Under Extreme Conditions and International Law : A Law and Economics Perspective

Salzberger, Eli - 2014

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Confidence Game : Fritz Machlup, Robert Triffin and Plans to Reform the World Monetary System

Connell, Carol M. - 2011

Nearly a half-century before the financial crisis of 2008, there was another time when reforming the world monetary system was on everyone’s lips and many academics and policy makers were developing and attempting to promote plans for its reconstruction before illiquidity, speculation and loss...

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Fighting through Britain - The 'Gift Dimension' of Keynes's Quest for a New Global Order

Cedrini, Mario A. - 2008

Dissatisfied with both Skidelsky's "Fighting for Britain" approach to Keynes's quest for a new global order and its specular competitor, the "Figthing despite Britain" view, we explore the possibility of a "Fighting through Britain" approach to the issue. We claim that though Keynes was fighting...

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Coping with Complexity - Keynes and International Economic Relations in the Aftermath of WWI

Carabelli, Anna; Cedrini, Mario A. - 2008

In the attempt to deepen the understanding of Keynes's thought as an international macroeconomist, we explore the hypothesis of consistency between his general methodological approach to the economic material and his way of reasoning about international economic relations as shaped by WWI. We...

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Ulrich Beck, Globalization and the Rise of the Risk Society : A Critical Exegetic Analysis

Jarvis, D. S. L. - 2009

Ulrich Beck has been one of the foremost sociologists of the last few decades, single-handedly promoting the concept of risk and risk research in contemporary sociology and social theory. Indeed, his world risk society thesis has become widely popular, capturing current concerns about the...

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Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren - 75 Years After : A Global Perspective

Zilibotti, Fabrizio - 2008

In the heart of the Great Crisis, amidst great uncertainty and concerns surrounding the future of capitalism, John Maynard Keynes launched his optimistic prophecy that growth and technological change would allow mankind to solve its economic problem within a century. He envisioned a world where...

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Current Global Imbalances : Might Keynes Be of Help?

Carabelli, Anna; Cedrini, Mario A. - 2007

A large number of interpretations have been proposed for current global imbalances, with a variety of future scenarios for world economy. The perspective here adopted tries to be fully respectful of the assumption of global economic interdependence as well as to cope with the complexity of a...

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