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Theory of the Evolution of Technology
Evolution of technology is a stepwise advancement of a complex system of artifact, driven by interactions with sub-systems and other technological systems, considering technical choices, technical requirements and science advances, which generate new and/or...
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Evolution and Human Activity
The humanities and social sciences analyse change, both micro and macro. Thus, there is much talk about development in both explanation and prediction.
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Survival Analysis
Survival analysis or duration modelling is a widely applied statistical method for estimating the expected time until a specific event of interest occurs.
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Kaldor-Pasinetti Cambridge Equation
The Kaldor-Pasinetti equation has a much deeper meaning than is commonly believed. It describes the fair distribution of total income between capitalists and workers.
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New Institutional Economics
New Institutional Economics is a field of economics which expands the neoclassical concept. Its main representatives are Ronald Coase and Oliver Williamson. In 1937 Ronald Coase describes the firm as a result of relationships which arise when the role of the market is undertaken by the manager-entrepreneur.
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Market Anomalies
There are many market anomalies observed in financial markets that efficient-market hypothesis (EMH) and standard asset-pricing models cannot explain.
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Rationality and Institutions
Individual rationality is a model of personal choice behaviour, whoever he or she may be. It sets out from a perspective on life as a decision between action or no action, i.e.
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Trade, Deglobalisation and the New Mercantilism
The COVID-19 pandemic is accelerating changes underway since the global financial crisis (GFC) in 2008. It is ushering in a new era of deglobalisation and protectionism — a new mercantilist world order.
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Currency Board vs Central Bank
Central banking is familiar to most people, at least on a practical level, as the monetary system of their country. A central bank is a monetary authority that has discretionary monopoly control of the supply of the reserves of commercial banks.
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Market Failures
Market failures represent the inability of the market to allocate resources optimally. In the absence of transaction costs optimal allocation would be at the Pareto optimum, that is, where supply and demand meet.
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