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Jameson, Kenneth P. | Comment on the theory and measurement of dynamic X-Efficiency | Discusses a mathematical model capable of explaining the observations of the concept of X-efficiency on more familiar economic grounds. Presentation of a model of industry maximization over time; Emphasis given on the investment demand function derived from the cost of adjustment; Solution of the in... | Calculus; Economics; Mathematical models | 1972-05 |
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Jameson, Kenneth P. | Determinants of Latin American exchange rate regimes | The experience of the last thirty years suggests that a wide range of factors affects policymakers' choice of exchange rate regime. The initial explanation was that changes in the international sphere dominated domestic policies and strongly influenced how governments decided among the trade-offs. M... | Monetary policy; Exchange rate regimes | 2005 |
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Fowles, Richard | Determinants of motor vehicle fatalities using classical specification testing and Bayesian sensitivity methods | This paper uses classical regression methods along with Bayesian Extreme Bounds Analysis (EBA) to addresses the effect of cell phones on motor vehicle fatality rates so as to examine the potential of net life-taking and life-saving effects. The models adjust for a time trend (YEAR), the maximum b... | Motor vehicle fatalities; Motor vehicle statistical studies; Cell phones | 2008-01-09 |
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Fowles, Richard | Cell phone effect on motor vehicle fatality rates: a Bayesian and classical econometric evaluation | This paper examines the potential effect of cell phones on motor vehicle fatality rates normalized for other driving related and socioeconomic factors. The model used is nonlinear so as to address both life-taking and life-saving attributes of cell phones. The model is evaluated using classical meth... | | 2010 |
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Jameson, Kenneth P. | Supply-side economics: a skeptical view | The current buzzword in Washington--and one presumes in Denver, San Diego, and South Bend as well--is "supply-side economics." Since a significant number of economists seem to be lining up behind its flag, it would be worthwhile to take a hard look at the current rage. | Wealth; Poverty | 1981 |
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Fowles, Richard | Forecasting the probability of failure of Thailand's financial companies in the Asian financial crisis | The financial crisis in Southeast Asia has gained widespread attention.1 In particular, the financial problems in Thailand since early February 1997 have been a major focus of this attention. Even enthusiasts for the McKinnon-Shaw arguments for financial liberalization (eliminating financial repres... | | 2002 |
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Maloney, Thomas N. | Review: Race, liberalism, and economics | Choose any two of these three topics: race, liberalism, and economics. Now trace the connections between the two that you have chosen over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, incorporating both fundamental philosophical concepts and policy implications. Doing this could easily prod... | Racism; Classical liberalism; Paternalism | 2005 |
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Jameson, Kenneth P. | Institutions and development: what a difference geography and time make | Ha-Joon Chang, in his article ?Institutions and Economic Development: Theory, Policy, and History?, provides a description and critique of the mainstream view of institutions and development. It applies well to Latin America in the 1980s and 1990s. However, the effort to introduce these Anglo-Americ... | | 2011 |
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Jameson, Kenneth P. | Dollarization in Latin America: wave of the future or flight to the past? | Ecuador undertook official dollarization in 2000 when it destroyed its own currency, the sucre, and adopted the dollar. El Salvador converted all financial instruments to dollars, and Guatemala now allows transactions to be carried out in any currency. Both assumed that the dollar would soon displac... | Domestic currencies; Latin America; Dollarization | 2003 |
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Waitzman, Norman J. | For cost-reducing technologies, knowing markets is to change them | Sponsored research from a NSF Foundation/Whitaker Foundation initiative on cost-reducing technologies brought together faculty from engineering, medicine, and social sciences to link economic and policy assessments to engineering design. The technology under development is to be an inexpensive, e... | Cost-reducing technologies; PKU monitors | 2003 |
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Jameson, Kenneth P. | Supply side economics: growth versus income distribution | This article discusses the supply-side policies of developing countries and the relationship between growth and income distribution leading to a equitable distribution of income, which have important implications for developed economies. The huge spurs to investment have aided growth but worsened in... | Economic development; Income; Progressive taxation; Developing countries | 1980-11 |
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Li, Minqi | Dialogue on the future of China | Three Chinese scholars speak to the question: How do you think the June 4th movement of 1989 will be remembered-----as another May 4th 1919, the threshold of a period of general political awakening and turbulence, or instead as a Chinese version of 1848 or 1968 in Europe: a last spontaneous explosio... | China; Politics; Social conditions | 1999 |
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Jameson, Kenneth P. | Data and social science rhetoric: policy and instruction | I believe that social science and empirical investigation can make important contributions to our understanding and to resolution of policy issues, but only if we are clear on the nature of social science and the role of quantification. In particular we must admit the limits of our truth claims, th... | Social sciences; Quantification; Empirical investigation | 1996 |
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Li, Minqi | After neoliberalism: empire, social democracy, or socialism? | Analyzes political doctrines such as imperialism, social democracy and socialism as a possible economic trend after the neoliberalism era. Characteristics of neoliberal regime; Alternative scenarios of global economic crisis; Problems that a revived social democratic capitalism would not address; Ac... | Political doctrines; Liberalism; Imperialism | 2004 |
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Von Arnim, Rudiger Lennart | Labor productivity and energy use in a three sector model: an application to Egypt | This paper presents a model of a developing economy with three sectors| industry, agriculture, and energy. Industry and energy are assumed to be demand- constrained, but agriculture supply-constrained. The model highlights (a) structural transformation, through labor transfer from agriculture to in... | | 2010 |
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Waitzman, Norman J. | Half-life of cost-of-illness estimates: the case of Spina Bifida | Neural tube defects, which include spina bifida, are one of the most frequent and important categories of birth defects. Accordingly, there has been considerable interest in studying the impact of spina bifida as a public health problem. This impact can be measured in various ways, including dise... | Spinal cord; Birth defect; Healthcare costs | 2004-10-12 |
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Li, Minqi | Rise of China and the demise of the capitalist world-economy: exploring the historical possibilities in the 21st century | China's rising importance in the capitalist world economy raises questions of world-historic significance. How is China's internal social structure likely to evolve as China assumes different positions in the existing world system? Will China's current regime of accumulation survive the potential pr... | World economy; China; Economic development | 2005 |
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Zick, Cathleen D.; Srisukhumbowornchai, Sivithee | Does housework matter anymore? The shifting impact of housework on economic inequality | In recent years, American women's housework time has declined while American men's housework time has risen. We examine how these changes have affected economic inequality in America. Using time-diary data from the Time Use in Economic and Social Accounts, 1975-76 (N=1,484) and the American Time Use... | Demography; Socioeconomic status; Household duties; Female; Male; United States; Economics | 2006-09-25 |
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Jameson, Kenneth P. | Has institutionalism won the development debate? | Institutionalism has again become central to development thinking, accompanied by an appreciation of the variety and complexity of institutional evolution. The result is not the 'old institutionalism' of Thorstein Veblen and Clarence Ayres or the 'new institutionalism' of the early Douglass North. ... | Development; Institutionalism; Markets | 2006 |
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Li, Minqi | Secular trends, long waves, and the cost of the state: evidence from the long-term movement of the profit rate in the U.S. economy | Theorists in the tradition of either Classical Marxism or Keynesianism understand that as capitalism provides an historical space for the development of material forces of production, its economic and social contradictions tend to develop, requiring progressively more complex institutional structure... | Marxism; Social structures of accumulation; Neoliberalism | 2006 |
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Maloney, Thomas N. | Making the effort: the racial contours of Detroit's labor markets, 1920-1940 | In 1940 the Ford Motor Company employed half of the black men in Detroit but only 14 percent of the whites. The authors postulate that black Detroiters were concentrated at Ford because they were excluded from working elsewhere. Those most affected were young married black men. A Ford job was vir... | Automotive workers - Black people; Ford Motor Company | 1995 |
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Maloney, Thomas N. | Higher places in the industrial machinery?: tight labor markets and occupational advancement by black males in the 1910s | The economic history of African American workers since 1940 has been marked by alternating episodes of progress and stagnation. Sharp gains in relative incomes during the 1940s were followed by little change in this measure in the 1950s. Renewed progress from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s was follo... | Black people; Job opportunities; Labor market | 2005 |