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Review: Liah Greenfeld, The Spirit Of Capitalism: Nationalism And Economic Growth (Cambridge, Mass., 2001), Andre Wakefield
Review: Liah Greenfeld, The Spirit Of Capitalism: Nationalism And Economic Growth (Cambridge, Mass., 2001), Andre Wakefield
Pitzer Faculty Publications and Research
Reviewed work: Liah Greenfeld. The Spirit of Capitalism: Nationalism and Economic Growth. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001. Pp. xi+541. $45.00
Benchmarking Study Of The Small Business Environment In Saginaw County, George A. Erickcek, Brad R. Watts
Benchmarking Study Of The Small Business Environment In Saginaw County, George A. Erickcek, Brad R. Watts
Reports
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Funded Pensions, Labor Market Participation, And Economic Growth, Mark A. Roberts, Eric O'N. Fisher
Funded Pensions, Labor Market Participation, And Economic Growth, Mark A. Roberts, Eric O'N. Fisher
Economics
This paper analyses a model of overlapping generations in which agents who do not participate in the labor market are unable to borrow. Thus an increase in a fully funded pension raises aggregate savings even with a fixed participation rate since private savings are not crowded out one-for-one. When labor force participation is determined endogenously, a rise in the level of fully funded pensions increases the aggregate labor supply. This in turn increases aggregate savings and growth, directly by raising per capita savings and indirectly through tax and interest rate effects.
The Benton Harbor Area Benchmarking Study, George A. Erickcek, Brad R. Watts
The Benton Harbor Area Benchmarking Study, George A. Erickcek, Brad R. Watts
Reports
No abstract provided.
An Economic Analysis Of Fiscal Federalism In Ethiopia, Abu Girma Moges
An Economic Analysis Of Fiscal Federalism In Ethiopia, Abu Girma Moges
International Conference on African Development Archives
Fiscal federalism is a process of redistribution of fiscal decision-making power in an effort to improve the performance of the public sector in resource mobilization, efficient resource allocation and in the process enabling the economy achieve fast and sustainable economic growth. This paper addresses the economic rationale, implications and concerns of pursuing fiscal federalism in a poor country and in a political environment of ethnic federalism. The main findings suggest that when fiscal decentralization is exercised with high horizontal and vertical imbalances, it fails to diversify public output in line with the preferences and priorities of local population and to …
The Role Of Equipment Investment In Nigeria's Growth Process, James Akperan Adam, Oladipo Tajudeen Busari
The Role Of Equipment Investment In Nigeria's Growth Process, James Akperan Adam, Oladipo Tajudeen Busari
Economic and Financial Review
This paper examines empirically the role of equipment investment in Nigeria's growth process. A growth accounting equation was utilized to analysed the contribution of private capital stock to growth. A Granger-causality test was also employed to explore the relationship between components of domestic fixed investment, productivity growth, labour force growth and economic growth. In addition, regression analysis was employed to complement the other methods. The first conclusion is that for sustainable growth, private capital stock growth need to rise to a level of 9 percent, for fixed investment- GDP ratio to oncrease by 18 percent. In the second approach, the …
International Economic Convergence: Measuring Economic Growth And Income Inequality From 1975-1999, Brian Kent Smedley
International Economic Convergence: Measuring Economic Growth And Income Inequality From 1975-1999, Brian Kent Smedley
Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects
As the world continues to be reshaped by technological advances and globalization, national borders are rapidly dissolving. Nations that are many thousands of miles away now seem closer than ever due to modern technology and transportation. The world has experienced tremendous progress and economic growth in the last few decades, and today people in many countries enjoy a higher standard of living than the world's citizens have ever known. Yet despite all that we have accomplished as a human society, somehow we are still unable to solve the most fundamental problem facing humanity: relieving the poverty and misfortune of billions …
Entrepreneurship And Economic Growth: The Proof Is In The Productivity, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Chihwa Kao
Entrepreneurship And Economic Growth: The Proof Is In The Productivity, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Chihwa Kao
Center for Policy Research
Popular and policy discussions have focused extensively on "entrepreneurship." While entrepreneurship is often viewed from the perspective of the individual's benefits--an increase in standard of living, flexibility in hours, and so forth--much of the policy interest derives from the presumption that entrepreneurs provide economy-wide benefits in the form of new products, lower prices, innovations, and increased productivity. How large are these effects? Using a rich panel of state-level data, we quantify the relationship between productivity growth--by state and by industry--and entrepreneurship. Specifically, we use state-of-the-art econometric techniques for panel data to determine whether variations in the birth rate and death …
Empirical Analysis Of Economic Growth, Winford Henderson Masanjala
Empirical Analysis Of Economic Growth, Winford Henderson Masanjala
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
International evidence on growth rates in per capita incomes reveals persistent differences in development patterns among nations, and shows that the world distribution of per capita income is multi-modal with several basins of attraction. This dissertation investigates the factors underlying these international variations in both the level and rate of growth of per capita incomes. The first essay examines whether nonlinearities in the aggregate production function can explain parameter heterogeneity in the Solow (1956) growth regressions. The choice of and alternative specification of the production function is justified by showing that cross-country level regressions are more consistent with the more …
What Caused Enron? A Capsule Social And Economic History Of The 1990s, John C. Coffee Jr.
What Caused Enron? A Capsule Social And Economic History Of The 1990s, John C. Coffee Jr.
Faculty Scholarship
The sudden explosion of corporate accounting scandals and related financial irregularities that burst over the financial markets between late 2001 and the first half of 2002 e.g., Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, Adelphia, and others-raises an obvious question: why now? What explains the sudden concentration of financial scandals at this moment in time? Much commentary has rounded up the usual suspects and blamed the scandals on a decline in business morality, “infectious greed,” and similar subjective trends that cannot be reliably measured.