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Katarzyna Metelska-Szaniawska 《Constitutional Political Economy》2009,20(1):1-41
Experiences of countries undergoing post-socialist transition in Central and Eastern Europe, as well as Central and Southwestern
Asia, during the last 17 years, reveal great variety in economic reform paths and their successful implementation. At different
moments of transition varying constitutional rules have also emerged in these countries. In our empirical study we find a
significant relationship between constitutional rules and the economic reform process in post-socialist countries of Europe
and Asia after 1989. In principle, the results confirm the arguments of the so-called negative constitutionalists, according
to which the main function of the constitution for economic reforms in transition is its functioning as a commitment mechanism.
The conclusions constitute an important step towards verification of different and often conflicting theories proposed by
constitutional economists and allow to formulate practical recommendations for constitutional legislators and other actors
capable of influencing constitutional change in countries encompassed by the study.
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Katarzyna Metelska-SzaniawskaEmail: |
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The paper investigates the social exclusion process in the European Union (EU), particularly in Luxemburg, addressing both
conceptual and empirical issues. It examines aspects such as: the most appropriate definition of social exclusion for the
case of Luxemburg, the way economic and social disadvantages cumulate within the social exclusion process, and the main determinants
of social exclusion, income poverty and deprivation. To analyze the topics mentioned above, different econometric models have
been applied.
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Ileana TacheEmail: |
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John F. Henry 《Forum for Social Economics》2007,36(1):17-27
Social outcomes are analyzed either by placing responsibility for those outcomes on the individual or to locate the cause
in a specific social factor – discrimination. Here, I argue that individual decision-making cannot be the cause of poverty,
illustrative of one outcome, and that commentary specifying a particular social factor is insufficient to address the fundamental,
underlying cause of poverty. Rather, one must examine the nature of the economic system that lies at the root of such issues.
In the process of developing the argument, it is shown that the individualist explanation of poverty is linked to the neoclassical
framework, and that this individualist explanation is a product of the (capitalist) economic system itself which then induces
an ideology both privileging such an explanation and preventing the development of satisfactory theory that would inform proper
policy. An example of this point is drawn from the 1960’s “war on poverty” program.
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John F. HenryEmail: |
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David B. Skarbek 《The Review of Austrian Economics》2009,22(1):109-112
F.A. Hayek’s broad research program has led some to conclude that his impact on economics has been minimal. This citation
study examines the frequency of Nobel laureates cited by other laureates in the official Prize Lectures to understand how
elite economists influence other elite economists. It finds that Hayek is the second most frequently mentioned laureate in
the Prize Lectures, and he has the second most publication citations of the laureates. Hayek’s influence on the top tier of
economists is substantial.
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David B. SkarbekEmail: |
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We present a two-sector endogenous growth model with human and physical capital accumulation to analyze the long-run relationship
between population growth and real per capita income growth. Formal education and investment in physical capital are assumed
to be two separate components of human capital production. Along the balanced growth path equilibrium, population change may
have a positive, negative, or else neutral effect on economic growth depending on whether physical and human capital are complementary/substitutes
for each other in the formation of new human capital and on their degree of complementarity.
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Davide La TorreEmail: |
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Richard H. Day 《Journal of Evolutionary Economics》2008,18(2):261-273
The natures of rational thought and rational lives are described as the basis of an adaptive economizing theory which presents
an alternative microeconomic foundation contrasting with but complementary to optimal control theory for modeling mesoeconomic
order. Contrastingly, that micro foundation seems to imply the inappropriateness of representing macro data as an optimal
economic agent. Rather, direct representation of the emergent causal order in the macroeconomic data is suggested.
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Richard H. DayEmail: |
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Dobdinga C. Fonchamnyo 《International Advances in Economic Research》2009,15(3):322-335
For more than two decades, the majority of countries in the African continent have experienced repeated episodes of rising
external debt and debt service, which has led to numerous efforts of external debt relief. This paper provides new evidence
on the effects of the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative on different economic and social indicators in 60
low income countries (LICs). Results show that LICs that were included in the HIPC Initiative marginally performed better
than non-HIPC countries. There is evidence that countries that have reached the completion point of the HIPC Initiative by
2005 have experienced an average improvement in investment, health care, gross secondary education enrollment, and GDP per
capita growth.
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Dobdinga C. FonchamnyoEmail: |
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Randall G. Holcombe 《The Review of Austrian Economics》2009,22(3):209-224
Neoclassical welfare economics takes an outcome-oriented approach that uses Pareto optimality as its benchmark for welfare
maximization. When one looks at the remarkable improvements in economic welfare that have characterized market economies,
most of those improvements in welfare have been due to economic progress that has introduced new and improved goods and services
into the economy, and innovations in production methods that have brought costs down, leading to higher real incomes. Pareto
optimality is only peripherally related to actual economic welfare, and no economist would argue that people are materially
better off today than a century ago because the economy is closer to Pareto optimality. After analyzing the actual factors
that lead to improvements in welfare, this paper suggests a reformulation of the foundations of welfare economics to replace
the almost irrelevant outcome-oriented concept of Pareto optimality as the benchmark for evaluating welfare with a process-oriented
benchmark based on factors that generate economic progress. The paper then explores some implications of this reformulation.
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Randall G. HolcombeEmail: |
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Giandomenica Becchio 《The Review of Austrian Economics》2008,21(1):61-79
This paper is focused on the relation between economics and mathematics in the Wiener Kreis and in the Mathematische Kolloquium. In the 1930s, the economic theory became a part of Otto Neurath’s project of Unified Science, but in Menger’s Kolloquium, the reformulation of the model of general economic equilibrium (GEE) distanced it greatly from the Kreis’s neopositivist point of view. The role of Karl Menger is fundamental to understand the methodological and epistemological
cleavage that arose in Mathematische Kolloquium. His role was very important also for understand the relation between the economic theory of the Austrian school and mathematical
economics.
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Giandomenica BecchioEmail: |
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Irene van Staveren 《Forum for Social Economics》2007,36(2):127-141
The objective of this paper is to provide an insight into the ethics in the works of Christian economists in The Netherlands.
The paper starts with a brief review of some key texts by Dutch Christian economists representing faith-based organizations.
The next section presents a summary of (Dutch) Christian ethics, distinguishing four approaches: motivation, values, institutions,
and instrumentalism. The following section will discuss some recent scholarly texts by Dutch Christian economists. It will
be shown that three of the four ethical approaches are represented in these writings. In a comparison of the texts, the faith-based
civil society economic thought seems to remain closer to the Christian ethics tradition. The last section will explain this
gap by showing how, in faith-based civil society, morality is largely understood as being part and parcel of the economy,
whereas in the academic economic literature, morality is largely regarded as belonging to the private sphere.
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Irene van StaverenEmail: |
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Darwinism in economics: from analogy to continuity 总被引:2,自引:3,他引:2
Christian Cordes 《Journal of Evolutionary Economics》2006,16(5):529-541
Currently there is an ongoing discussion about how Darwinian concepts should be harnessed to further develop economic theory. Two approaches to this question, Universal Darwinism and the continuity hypothesis, are presented in this paper. It is shown whether abstract principles can be derived from Darwin’s explanatory model of biological evolution that can be applied to cultural evolution. Furthermore, the relation of the ontological basis of biological and cultural evolution is clarified. Some examples illustrate the respective potential of the two approaches to serve as a starting-point for theory development.
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Christian CordesEmail: |
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Export variety and the economic performance of countries 总被引:3,自引:0,他引:3
We explore the relationship between export variety and economic development, using data on OECD countries between 1964 and
2003. We show that structural change in the world economy has a particular arrow of time leading to a growing variety of exports.
Distinguishing between related variety (within sectors) and unrelated variety (variety between sectors), we also show that
related variety stimulates growth instantaneously, while unrelated variety only promotes growth with a considerable time lag.
This finding is in line with the evolutionary notions that economic development and international trade patterns are path
dependent.
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Koen FrenkenEmail: |
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Corrado Andini 《Portuguese Economic Journal》2009,8(1):15-22
In a seminal paper, Levine et al. (J Monet Econ 46:31–77, 2000) provide cross-sectional evidence showing that financial development has positive average impact on long-run growth, using
a sample of 71 countries. We argue that the evidence is sensitive to the presence of outliers.
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Corrado AndiniEmail: |
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Evolutionary thinking in environmental economics 总被引:3,自引:2,他引:1
Jeroen C. J. M. van den Bergh 《Journal of Evolutionary Economics》2007,17(5):521-549
Evolutionary and environmental economics have a potentially close relationship. This paper reviews past and identifies potential
applications of evolutionary concepts and methods to environmental economics. This covers a number of themes: resource use
and ecosystem management; growth and environmental resources; economic and evolutionary progress; and individual behavior
and environmental policy. The treatment will address both biological and economic—including institutional, organizational
and technological-evolutionary phenomena. Attention will be drawn to the fact that evolutionary economics shows a surprising
neglect of environmental and natural resource factors.
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Jeroen C. J. M. van den BerghEmail: |
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Persefoni V. Tsaliki 《International Review of Economics》2008,55(4):363-371
A systemic element of prevailing economic growth and development is the massive introduction of machinery into the production
process. The introduction of new technologies became decidedly a debated issue in economic analysis because of the dual character
of technology, which simultaneously creates and destroys employment, advances and deteriorates labor skills. This paper attempts
to introduce the relative issues and to assess the extent to which the introduction of machinery into the labor process improves
human capital or simplifies labor skills and forms a stream of unskillful laborers.
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Persefoni V. TsalikiEmail: |
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Thierry Aimar 《The Review of Austrian Economics》2009,22(3):199-207
The Austrian School has had a curious destiny: while contributing many concepts to contemporary economic theory, it is either
ignored or criticised by much of modern economic literature. This article discusses possible reasons for this institutional
sidelining and the main futures of a renewal of Austrian thought.
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Thierry AimarEmail: |
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We analyze the role of vertical innovation in trade patterns for developing economies trading with technologically advanced
countries. A model is presented where the international diffusion of knowledge, promoted by economic integration, is the source
of a technological catching up and leads to a convergence in the quality of traded goods, with a positive effect on exports.
We then turn our attention on the evolution of trade between the Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs-5) and their
European Union partner countries, assessing whether economic integration has increase the quality of the goods produced. For
the period 1995–2005, we find evidence of the increasing role of intra-industry trade and vertical differentiation and a process
of specialization in higher quality products, especially in the medium- and high-skill sectors.
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Marcella Mulino (Corresponding author)Email: |
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Lefteris Tsoulfidis 《International Review of Economics》2009,56(1):29-45
The widespread idea among economists is that monopolistic or imperfect competition is a set of realistic models that were
invented in the 1930s and their purpose was to fill the gap between the polar and, at the same time, hypothetical models of
perfect competition and pure monopoly. The main argument of this paper is that the monopolistic competition revolution set
in motion a reaction—partly driven by methodological considerations, partly ideological—that ultimately led to the restoration
of perfect competition, as the benchmark for evaluating market outcomes. In the end, monopolistic competition eclipsed, and
perfect competition from the fridges of economic analysis that was up until the 1920s was placed to the very core of microeconomic
model-building.
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Lefteris TsoulfidisEmail: |
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Carmine Gorga 《Forum for Social Economics》2009,38(1):53-69
With the help of planes and solids, this paper presents an enlargement of the field of observation of economic theory. Through
this transformation, the distribution of ownership rights to money and wealth assumes a central position in economic analysis.
Thus social relevance is returned to economics. The validity of this operation is confirmed by the return of the millenarian
field of economic justice to its traditional function as guidance to economic policy. The paper then presents four sets of
economic rights and responsibilities that offer the potential of translating principles of economic justice into the complexities
of the modern world.
Carmine Gorga is a former Fulbright scholar and the recipient of a Council of Europe Scholarship for his dissertation on “The Political Thought of Louis D. Brandeis.” Dr. Gorga has transformed the linear world of economic theory into a relational discipline in which everything is related to everything else—internally as well as externally. He was assisted in this endeavor by many people, notably for 27 years by Professor Franco Modigliani, a Nobel laureate in economics from MIT. The resulting work, The Economic Process: An Instantaneous Non-Newtonian Picture, was published in 2002. During the last few years, Mr. Gorga has concentrated his attention on the requirements for the unification of economic theory and policy. For details, see . 相似文献
Carmine GorgaEmail: |
Carmine Gorga is a former Fulbright scholar and the recipient of a Council of Europe Scholarship for his dissertation on “The Political Thought of Louis D. Brandeis.” Dr. Gorga has transformed the linear world of economic theory into a relational discipline in which everything is related to everything else—internally as well as externally. He was assisted in this endeavor by many people, notably for 27 years by Professor Franco Modigliani, a Nobel laureate in economics from MIT. The resulting work, The Economic Process: An Instantaneous Non-Newtonian Picture, was published in 2002. During the last few years, Mr. Gorga has concentrated his attention on the requirements for the unification of economic theory and policy. For details, see . 相似文献
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In the present article the time series of the decomposition of Greek real GDP are investigated for the presence of a unit
root, allowing for a maximum of two breaks which take place at an unknown point in time. This methodology is preferred to
the conventional Dickey and Fuller tests because the covered time horizon, namely from 1858 to 1938, is characterized by a
number of very important events, the nature of which is either economic or historical.
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Erotokritos VarelasEmail: |