[Selections by Humberto Barreto for SHOE list.]
Issue of 2022‒04‒18
papers chosen by
Erik Thomson <http://econpapers.repec.org/RAS/pth72.htm>
University of Manitoba <http://umanitoba.ca/>
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1. Walter Eucken on competitive order at the founding meeting of the
Mont Pèlerin Society 1947
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_-1952923416352119247_p1> By Kolev,
Stefan
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Kolev,%20Stefan>; Horn,
Karen <http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Horn,%20Karen>
2. Do economists replicate?
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_-1952923416352119247_p2> By Fiala,
Nathan
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Fiala,%20Nathan>;
Neubauer,
Florian
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Neubauer,%20Florian>;
Peters,
Jörg
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Peters,%20J%C3%B6rg>
3. Thinking as an Engelsian
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_-1952923416352119247_p3> By Royle,
Camilla
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Royle,%20Camilla>
4. The "place of the Phillips curve" in macroeconometric models: The
case of the first Federal Reserve Board's model (1966-1980s)
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_-1952923416352119247_p4> By Rancan,
Antonella
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Rancan,%20Antonella>
5. The Economics of Education : Unkept Promises ?
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_-1952923416352119247_p5> By Jean-Luc
Demeulemeester
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Jean-Luc%20Demeulemeester>
; Claude Diebolt
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Claude%20Diebolt>
6. Categorical versus graded beliefs
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_-1952923416352119247_p6> By Franz
Dietrich
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Franz%20Dietrich>
7. Die Werttheorie von Karl Marx - neu interpretiert
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_-1952923416352119247_p7> By Rainer
Lippert
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Rainer%20Lippert>
8. Behavioral and heuristic models are as-if models too — and that’s
ok <https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_-1952923416352119247_p8> By Ivan
Moscati
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Ivan%20Moscati>
9. A tribute to Thierry Bréchet, an economist of the environment and of
the public interest
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_-1952923416352119247_p9> By Tulkens,
Henry
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Tulkens,%20Henry>;
Borissov,
Kirill
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Borissov,%20Kirill>;
Eyckmans,
Johan
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Eyckmans,%20Johan>;
Lambrecht,
Stéphane
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Lambrecht,%20St%C3%A9phane>
; Picard, Pierre M.
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Picard,%20Pierre%20M.>
; Tsachev, Tsvetomir
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Tsachev,%20Tsvetomir>
; Veliov, Vladimir
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Veliov,%20Vladimir>
10. When lawmakers met progressives. Debating the American federal
income tax of 1894
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_-1952923416352119247_p10> By Javier
San Julian Arrupe
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Javier%20San%20Julian%20Arrupe>
11. Revisiting the Properties of Money
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_-1952923416352119247_p11> By Hull,
Isaiah <http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Hull,%20Isaiah>
; Sattath, Or
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Sattath,%20Or>
12. A 'Sudden Outrcry' for Free Trade: Autonomy, Empire and Political
Economy in the Irish Free Trade Campaign, 1779-1785
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_-1952923416352119247_p12> By Carlos
Eduardo Suprinyak
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Carlos%20Eduardo%20Suprinyak>
13. Hacia una renovación de la teoría marxista del valor. Debates
recientes <https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_-1952923416352119247_p13>
By Samuel Jaramillo
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Samuel%20Jaramillo>
14. Why Was Keynes Opposed to Reparations and Carthaginian Peace?
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_-1952923416352119247_p14> By Elise
S. Brezis
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Elise%20S.%20Brezis>
15. Jewish Law and Ethics: The Case of the Revolving Door
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_-1952923416352119247_p15> By Elise
S. Brezis
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Elise%20S.%20Brezis>
16. The Cold War Origins of Global IR. The Rockefeller Foundation and
Realism in Latin America
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_-1952923416352119247_p16> By Laiz,
Álvaro Morcillo
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Laiz,%20%C3%81lvaro%20Morcillo>
17. Male and Female Voices in Economics
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_-1952923416352119247_p17> By
Sievertsen,
Hans Henrik
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Sievertsen,%20Hans%20Henrik>
; Smith, Sarah
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Smith,%20Sarah>
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1. Walter Eucken on competitive order at the founding meeting of the
Mont Pèlerin Society 1947
<http://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:zbw:aluord:2203>
By: Kolev, Stefan
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Kolev,%20Stefan>; Horn,
Karen <http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Horn,%20Karen>
Abstract: This paper provides, after a contextualizing introduction, the
first-time translation of Walter Eucken's presentation during the first
session of the founding meeting of the Mont Pèlerin Society, April 1-10,
1947. Eucken was the only scholar based in Germany to attend the conference
and took an active part already in its preparation, especially through his
extensive exchange with Friedrich A. Hayek and Wilhelm Röpke. While Eucken
participated in several subsequent sessions, his intervention in the
session ''Free' Enterprise and Competitive Order' is of particular interest
with regard to the political economy of the Freiburg School. It reveals
strong parallels to Hayek's contemporaneous research program and the 'Old
Chicago' School.
Keywords: Mont Pèlerin Society,neoliberalism,ordoliberalism,Walter
Eucken,Friedrich A. Hayek,Chicago School
JEL: A11 B25 B31 B41 H11 P16
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?jel=A11%20B25%20B31%20B41%20H11%20P16>
Date: 2022
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:zbw:aluord:2203&r=
2. Do economists replicate?
<http://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:zbw:rwirep:939>
By: Fiala, Nathan
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Fiala,%20Nathan>;
Neubauer,
Florian
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Neubauer,%20Florian>;
Peters,
Jörg
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Peters,%20J%C3%B6rg>
Abstract: Reanalyses of empirical studies and replications in new
contexts are important for scientific progress. Journals in economics
increasingly require authors to provide data and code alongside published
papers, but how much does the economics profession indeed replicate? This
paper summarizes existing replication definitions and reviews how much
economists replicate other scholars' work. We argue that in order to
counter incentive problems potentially leading to a replication crisis,
replications in the spirit of Merton's 'organized skepticism' are needed -
what we call 'policing replications'. We review leading economics journals
to show that policing replications are rare and conclude that more
incentives to replicate are needed to reap the fruits of rising
transparency standards.
Keywords: Replication,research transparency,generalizability
JEL: A11 C18
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?jel=A11%20C18>
Date: 2022
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:zbw:rwirep:939&r=
3. Thinking as an Engelsian
<http://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:ehl:lserod:114326>
By: Royle, Camilla
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Royle,%20Camilla>
Abstract: In this essay, I address the question of how Marxism
influences our thought and action as radical intellectuals by focusing on
Friedrich Engels’ work, Dialectics of Nature, the way it has been taken up
in critical environmental studies and how Engels’ thinking has influenced
me. In later life, Engels made important contributions on topics that are
distinct from Marx's economic work. He attempted to apply dialectical
methods to the “natural sciences” and he also used his knowledge of
anthropology to produce a study of the historical origins of private
property and women's oppression. In both cases he has been accused of
adopting a positivist approach that lacks the emphasis on human agency
found in Marx. Here, I challenge this view by showing how Engels’ work has
been of use to practicing scientists – particularly to Richard Levins and
Richard Lewontin in their book The Dialectical Biologist. I further argue
that this understanding of dialectics is fully commensurable and actually
advances an approach to Marxism that is based on human self-emancipation.
As an undergraduate biology student these scientists inspired me with their
approach to their subject as well as their activism. The essay concludes
with some brief thoughts on the importance and limitations of adopting a
Marxist method when considering socio-environmental change.
Keywords: biology; dialectics; environment; friedrich Engels; Karl Marx
JEL: B14 B24 P2 P3
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?jel=B14%20B24%20P2%20P3>
Date: 2021–11–03
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ehl:lserod:114326&r=
4. The "place of the Phillips curve" in macroeconometric models: The
case of the first Federal Reserve Board's model (1966-1980s)
<http://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:mol:ecsdps:esdp22080>
By: Rancan, Antonella
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Rancan,%20Antonella>
Abstract: In the article I examine how model builders from academia and
from the Federal Reserve Board confronted the Phillips curve in the
construction and subsequent modifications of the Federal Reserve, MIT and
University of Pennsylvania macroeconometric model. It is argued that
academic debates on Friedman's and Phelps' accelerationist hypothesis, and
the evolution of the macroeconomics discipline, did not affect the model
building agenda at the Division of Research and Statistics of the Board
over the 1970s and 1980s.
Keywords: Phillips curve, Natural rate hypothesis, Federal
Reserve-MIT-University of Pennsylvania model
JEL: B22 B23 E12
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?jel=B22%20B23%20E12>
Date: 2022–03–29
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:mol:ecsdps:esdp22080&r=
5. The Economics of Education : Unkept Promises ?
<http://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:wpaper:hal-00279007>
By: Jean-Luc Demeulemeester
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Jean-Luc%20Demeulemeester>
(Dulbéa
- Département d'économie appliquée de l'université libre de Bruxelles - ULB
- Université libre de Bruxelles, SKOPE, Economics - University of Oxford
[Oxford]); Claude Diebolt
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Claude%20Diebolt> (BETA
- Bureau d'Économie Théorique et Appliquée - UL - Université de Lorraine -
UNISTRA - Université de Strasbourg - INRA - Institut National de la
Recherche Agronomique - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche
Scientifique, Humboldt University of Berlin, LAMETA - Laboratoire
Montpelliérain d'Économie Théorique et Appliquée - UM1 - Université
Montpellier 1 - UPVM - Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3 - INRA -
Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - Montpellier SupAgro -
Centre international d'études supérieures en sciences agronomiques - UM -
Université de Montpellier - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche
Scientifique - Montpellier SupAgro - Institut national d’études supérieures
agronomiques de Montpellier)
Abstract: In the introduction of the Handbook of Health Economics,
Anthony Cuyler and Joseph Newhouse (2000) have contended that the economics
of education was not very successful as a field and that it was
comparatively lagging behind health economics. The latter had been much
more active and able to accumulate much firmer results. Indeed, "whereas
the economics of education seems to have atrophied, however, health
economics has flourished and provided practical answers to practical
questions as well as developing its own distinctive theoretical modes.
Education economists have largely failed to resolve their own research
agenda (the determination of earnings differentials, the contribution of
education to economic growth, the social rate of return to training and
education, the optimal size of schools and classes, the use of primitive
outcome measures...). Blaug (1998, p.S66) comments that virtually all of
the 100 articles in the 1985 International Encyclopaedia of Education
devoted to the economics of education could just as well have been written
in 1970 or even 1960" (Cuyler and Newhouse, 2000, p.3). Is it a provocative
stance, or does it embody at least some elements of truth ? The objective
of this special issue of the Brussels Economic Review is to present a
series of pieces of research, both theoretical and applied, even
policy-oriented, in order to let the reader judge by himself. In this very
short introduction, we would like to remind the history of the field of
economics of education, and then situate the various contributions in this
context.
Keywords: Economics of Education,Health economics,Education
Date: 2022–03–24
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:wpaper:hal-00279007&r=
6. Categorical versus graded beliefs
<http://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:cesptp:halshs-03615028>
By: Franz Dietrich
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Franz%20Dietrich> (PSE
- Paris School of Economics - ENPC - École des Ponts ParisTech - ENS-PSL -
École normale supérieure - Paris - PSL - Université Paris sciences et
lettres - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - CNRS - Centre
National de la Recherche Scientifique - EHESS - École des hautes études en
sciences sociales - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour
l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement, CES - Centre d'économie
de la Sorbonne - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - CNRS - Centre
National de la Recherche Scientifique)
Abstract: This essay discusses the difficulty to reconcile two paradigms
about beliefs: the binary or categorical paradigm of yes/no beliefs and the
probabilistic paradigm of degrees of belief. The possibility for someone to
hold beliefs of both types simultaneously is challenged by the lottery
paradox, and more recently by a general impossibility theorem by Dietrich
and List. The nature, relevance, and implications of the tension are
explained and assessed.
Keywords: impossibility theorem,lottery paradox,belief
binarization,subjective probability,yes/no belief vs. graded belief,logic
vs. rational choice theory,binary belief,credence
Date: 2022
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:cesptp:halshs-03615028&r=
7. Behavioral and heuristic models are as-if models too — and that’s
ok <http://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:baf:cbafwp:cbafwp22177>
By: Ivan Moscati
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Ivan%20Moscati>
Abstract: I examine some behavioral and heuristic-based models of
individual decision making, and argue that the diverse psychological
mechanisms these models posit are cognitively too demanding to be
implemented, consciously or unconsciously, by actual decision makers.
Accordingly, and contrary to what their advocates typically claim,
behavioral and heuristic models are best understood as “as-if modelsâ€
that account for the observable choices that individuals make, but do not
pretend to capture the actual psychological mechanisms that generate those
choices. In this respect, behavioral and heuristic models are just like
neoclassical models, whose as-if status is generally acknowledged. I then
sketch a local version of scientific antirealism that justifies the
practice of as-if modelling in the theory of decision making. The
antirealism on offer emphasizes the role that mechanistic explanations play
in decision analysis, and therefore goes beyond traditional instrumentalism.
Keywords: Decision theory; Expected Utility theory; Cumulative Prospect
Theory; Priority Heuristic model; Scientific antirealism; Mechanistic
explanation
Date: 2022
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:baf:cbafwp:cbafwp22177&r=
8. A tribute to Thierry Bréchet, an economist of the environment and of
the public interest
<http://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:cor:louvco:2022010>
By: Tulkens, Henry
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Tulkens,%20Henry>
(Université
catholique de Louvain, LIDAM/CORE, Belgium); Borissov, Kirill
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Borissov,%20Kirill>
(European
University at St. Petersburg); Eyckmans, Johan
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Eyckmans,%20Johan>
(Katholieke
Universiteit Leuven); Lambrecht, Stéphane
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Lambrecht,%20St%C3%A9phane>
(Université
Polytechnique des Hauts de France); Picard, Pierre M.
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Picard,%20Pierre%20M.>
(University
of Luxembourg); Tsachev, Tsvetomir
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Tsachev,%20Tsvetomir>
(Bulgarian
Academy of Sciences); Veliov, Vladimir
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Veliov,%20Vladimir>
(Technische
Universität Wien)
Abstract: In this obituary we evoke a few of the many areas in which he
worked, focusing on results and his personal contributions. In the last
section we review the main stages of his career.
Date: 2022–01–01
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cor:louvco:2022010&r=
9. When lawmakers met progressives. Debating the American federal income
tax of 1894 <http://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:ewp:wpaper:418web>
By: Javier San Julian Arrupe
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Javier%20San%20Julian%20Arrupe>
(University
of Barcelona)
Abstract: In 1894 the American Congress passed a 2% tax on incomes over
4,000 US dollars, as part of a bill seeking to reduce tariffs.
Transformations in the American society after the Civil War triggered an
increasing role of the State, calling for a tax reform. Concerned for tax
justice, progressive economists sponsored a tax system grounded on ability
to pay, demanding an income tax. Farmers and the working class joined this
demand, feeling that American tax system was harmful to them. The decade of
1890 consolidated this opinion, leading a majority of lawmakers at the
House to embrace the idea of a federal income tax. Even if struck down by
the Supreme Court, the federal income tax of 1894 was an economic milestone
in the Progressive Era, mirroring new social concerns. This paper examines
the debates on the income tax in the House, with a twofold conclusion.
First, representatives accepted the arguments of progressive economists for
tax reform and used them in the discussion. Second, political economy
played a central role in the debate as an instrument to confer legitimacy
and reputation to representatives’ arguments for the income tax, and
crucially aided in the building of consensus for the reform.
Keywords: Tax policy, income tax, progressive era, progressivism.
JEL: B15 H20 H71 N11
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?jel=B15%20H20%20H71%20N11>
Date: 2022
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ewp:wpaper:418web&r=
10. Revisiting the Properties of Money
<http://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:hhs:rbnkwp:0406>
By: Hull, Isaiah
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Hull,%20Isaiah> (Research
Department, Central Bank of Sweden); Sattath, Or
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Sattath,%20Or>
(Department
of Computer Science)
Abstract: The properties of money commonly referenced in the economics
literature were originally identified by Jevons (1876) and Menger (1892) in
the late 1800s and were intended to describe physical currencies, such as
commodity money, metallic coins, and paper bills. In the digital era, many
non-physical currencies have either entered circulation or are under
development, including demand deposits, cryptocurrencies, stablecoins,
central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), in-game currencies, and quantum
money. These forms of money have novel properties that have not been
studied extensively within the economics literature, but may be important
determinants of the monetary equilibrium that emerges in forthcoming era of
heightened currency competition. This paper makes the first exhaustive
attempt to identify and define the properties of all physical and digital
forms of money. It reviews both the economics and computer science
literatures and categorizes properties within an expanded version of the
original functions-and-properties framework of money that includes societal
and regulatory objectives.
Keywords: Money; CBDC; Digital Currencies; Quantum Money; Currency
Competition
JEL: E40 E42 E50 E51
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?jel=E40%20E42%20E50%20E51>
Date: 2021–11–01
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hhs:rbnkwp:0406&r=
11. A 'Sudden Outrcry' for Free Trade: Autonomy, Empire and Political
Economy in the Irish Free Trade Campaign, 1779-1785
<http://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:wpaper:hal-03586046>
By: Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Carlos%20Eduardo%20Suprinyak>
(The
American University of Paris - The American University of Paris)
Abstract: In November 1779, the group of Irish militias known as the
Volunteers rallied around a statue of King William III in Dublin protesting
for free trade between Ireland and Britain. The episode kickstarted a
series of political negotiations around the topic that culminated in the
abortive proposal for the establishment of a free trade area in 1785. From
the Irish perspective, free trade was regarded as a strategy for
eliminating the restrictions and regulations, emanating from London, which
had so far stifled the development of local industry. In Britain, however,
the proposal faced hostilities due to the expected dislocations for
established manufacturing interests. Newly appointed prime minister William
Pitt tried to justify the case for free trade with Ireland before the
British public by appealing to its beneficial effects for a unified and
coherent imperial trade policy. This, in turn, proved unacceptable to Irish
politicians and agitators, who regarded free trade as a step in the route
to more -- not less -- political autonomy. Exploring public arguments on
this topic, the paper investigates the economic and political meanings
associated with free trade during the later decades of the 18th century,
while discussing how these notions related to the literature on political
economy circulating at the time.
Keywords: free trade,protection,British Empire,Ireland,Josiah
Tucker,Adam Smith
Date: 2022–02–23
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:wpaper:hal-03586046&r=
12. Why Was Keynes Opposed to Reparations and Carthaginian Peace?
<http://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:biu:wpaper:2022-04>
By: Elise S. Brezis
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Elise%20S.%20Brezis>
(Bar-Ilan
University)
Abstract: The Economic Consequences of the Peace was first published in
1919, and since then, changed the economic discourse surrounding
reparations and Carthaginian peace. This paper specifies how three elements
hinted at in the introduction of the Economic Consequences of the Peace –
social classes, national sovereignty, and the international political
system – can explain Keynes’ assessment of Carthaginian peace. The paper
analyzes the optimality of reparations in the context of these three
elements. I show that in the situation of a hegemonic country, all classes
- the working class as well as the elite - opt for no reparations. But, in
a balance of power context, wherein no single actor on the international
scene possesses hegemonic status, the working class will choose harsh
reparations, while the transnational elite and Keynes will not.
Keywords: Balance of Power, Carthaginian Peace, Hegemony, Reparations,
National Sovereignty.
JEL: B17 B27 E12 F30
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?jel=B17%20B27%20E12%20F30>
Date: 2022–03
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:biu:wpaper:2022-04&r=
13. Jewish Law and Ethics: The Case of the Revolving Door
<http://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:biu:wpaper:2022-03>
By: Elise S. Brezis
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Elise%20S.%20Brezis>
(Bar-Ilan
University)
Abstract: What is ethics and how is it related to the legal system and
to economics? Are there ethical values in Jewish Law, and could it be that
we find in the writing of Hazal [the sages] an interest in job turnover?
The purpose of this paper is to answer to those questions by focusing on a
specific element of our economic life: the revolving door.
Keywords: corruption; ethics; legal system; revolving door; social norms.
JEL: H10 H70 O11 O43
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?jel=H10%20H70%20O11%20O43>
Date: 2022–03
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:biu:wpaper:2022-03&r=
14. The Cold War Origins of Global IR. The Rockefeller Foundation and
Realism in Latin America
<http://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:osf:socarx:g9xqb>
By: Laiz, Álvaro Morcillo
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Laiz,%20%C3%81lvaro%20Morcillo>
Abstract: The literature on global international relations (IR) has
argued that the discipline develops in the footsteps of world politics, but
no sustained at- tention has been given to more immediate causes such as
the funders that pay for IR teaching and scholarship. These donor–recipient
relations have only attracted the attention of authors interested in
cultural hege- mony and those contributing to the recent historiography of
IR. Among the latter, some have studied how during the Cold War the
Rockefeller Foundation attempted to buttress classical realism in the
United States and Western Europe. This article connects and moves forward
IR histori- ography and the global IR literature by shedding light on
philanthropic foundations’ attempts to further a specific IR
theory—classical realism— and area studies in the global south. The article
argues that world poli- tics influenced global IR, but this influence was
mediated by highly con- tingent events. Even a proximate cause like science
patronage, let alone “world politics,” is not a sufficient cause capable of
determining IR the- ories and disciplinary boundaries. Donors may achieve
some impact but only under specific circumstances such as the ones explored
here, that is, the donor is a unitary actor determined to advance its
agenda by resorting to conditionality, alternative donors and funding are
scarce, the discipline is either poorly or not institutionalized, and the
recipient perceives the donor’s preferences as legitimate. The article uses
previously untapped, fine-grained, primary sources to unravel
philanthropy’s impact on Latin America’s first IR center. Because science
patronage is exposed to many sources of indeterminacy and to contingency,
donors cannot determine scholarship, which makes cultural hegemony all but
impossible. Still, IR scholars need to study their patrons to understand
their discipline, in and outside Europe and the United States.
Date: 2022–02–28
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:osf:socarx:g9xqb&r=
15. Male and Female Voices in Economics
<http://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:iza:izadps:dp15133>
By: Sievertsen, Hans Henrik
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Sievertsen,%20Hans%20Henrik>
(University
of Bristol); Smith, Sarah
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Smith,%20Sarah>
(University
of Bristol)
Abstract: Women's voices are likely to be even more absent from economic
debates than headline figures on female under-representation suggest.
Focusing on a panel of leading economists we find that men are more willing
than women to express an opinion and are more certain and more confident in
their opinions, including in areas where both are experts. Women make up 21
per cent of the panel but 19 per cent of the opinions expressed and 14 per
cent of strong opinions. We discuss implications for the economics
profession and for promoting a genuine diversity of views.
Keywords: gender, economics profession
JEL: A11 J16
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?jel=A11%20J16>
Date: 2022–03
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:iza:izadps:dp15133&r=
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