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Coups and the dynamics of media freedom
Bjørnskov, Christian, Andreas Freytag and Jerg Gutmann. 2022. Coups and the dynamics of media freedom. Economic Modelling, 116(2), 106025. h...
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Development from below? Islands of effectiveness or Enclaves in South Africa today.
What influence does living or working in a given area, an area delimited –even if informally - from its surroundings, have on those inside and those outside this distinct area?
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Patent Offices – The Problem of Profits: What striving for PTO profits can do to a patent system
This project aims to address the economic mechanisms governing or heavily influencing all significant patent offices (PTOs) worldwide.
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Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can’t Explain the Modern World
Deirdre N. McCloskey. 2011. Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can’t Explain the Modern World. University Of Chicago Press. 592 pp. ISBN-10: 0...
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A Shift in Western Development Agency Thinking? The Case for Second Best
Bekker, Simon and Norman Bromberger. 2016. A Shift in Western Development Agency Thinking? The Case for Second Best. Social Dynamics 42(3):5...
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The Revolution of Information Economics: The Past and the Future
The economics of information has constituted a revolution in economics, providing explanations of phenomena that previously had been unexplained and upsetting longstanding presumptions, including that of market efficiency, with profound implications for economic policy.
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Analysing sub-Saharan African states through a limited access lens
During the past decade, an extraordinary disconnect regarding the futures of states in sub-Saharan Africa has emerged: ‘Aspiring Africa, the world’s fastest growing continent’ (in the words of The Economist on its title page), on the one hand, and, in the words of an economist, ‘informalised and subsistence Africa, with swathes of survivalist pockets of existence, remains the overriding economic reality’ in these states, on the other.