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The limits of Ricardian value: law, contingency and motion in economics
Freeman, Alan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1999
This paper discusses the relation between law and contingency in the formation of value. It begins from a much-ignored assertion of Marx, repeated throughout his works, that the equality of supply and demand is contingent and their non-equality constitutes their law. This highly complex and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789658
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Promoting Competition or Helping Less-Endowed? An Experiment on Collective Institutional Choices under Intra-Group Inequality
Kamei, Kenju - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
promote competition or to lead to a more equal environment is often in question in societies or organizations. With … by their risk attitudes or the size of awards in competition. These suggest that people’s institutional choices are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113335
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Relative Inequality and Poverty in Germany and the United States Using Alternative Equivalence Scales
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Smeeding, Timothy M.; Merz, Joachim - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1994
-specific equivalence scales developed for Germany and the United States by Merz et al. (1993). We verify previous studies that show that … inequality and the incidence of poverty are greater in the United States than in Germany. Overall inequality and poverty levels …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837119
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Relative Inequality and Poverty in Germany and the United States Using Alternative Equivalence Scales
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Smeeding, Timothy M.; Merz, Joachim - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1994
-specific equivalence scales developed for Germany and the United States by Merz et al. (1993). We verify previous studies that show that … inequality and the incidence of poverty are greater in the United States than in Germany. Overall inequality and poverty levels …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005079301
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Equivalence Scales Based on Revealed Preference Consumption Expenditure Microdata - The Case of West Germany
Merz, Joachim; Faik, Jürgen - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1994
Germany 1983. It is a part of a joint US and German research project comparing equivalence scales with consistent methods and … Germany based on actual available individual consumption expenditure data shows a variety of interesting results with regard …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005079335
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Two Scales, One Methodology - Expenditure Based Equivalence Scales for the United States and Germany
Merz, Joachim; Garner, Thesia; Smeeding, Timothy M.; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1994
based on a revealed preference consumption approach for West Germany and the United States. We review several approaches and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621617