PRN: Distributive & Economic Justice最新文献

{"title":"The Relationship between Romanian Exports and Economic Growth after the Adhesion to European Union","authors":"Ramona Dumitriu, R. Stefanescu","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2593427","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2593427","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores the relationship between the quarterly values of the Romanian exports and of the Gross Domestic Product for the period 2007 – 2014, which was marked by the consequences of the adhesion to European Union and by the global crisis. In this analysis we employ cointegration tests, Vector Autoregression (VAR) and Granger causality techniques. The results indicate no cointegration between the two variables but a causal effect of exports on the Gross Domestic Product.","PeriodicalId":208075,"journal":{"name":"PRN: Distributive & Economic Justice","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116506286","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Kuznets Inverted U Hypothesis of Income Inequality: Looking Inside the Available Economic Literature","authors":"A. Ganaie, B. Kamaiah","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2591284","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2591284","url":null,"abstract":"A dynamic shift in thinking has taken place both locally as well as globally to understand the phenomenon of rising economic inequalities and accordingly find measures to correct this state of disequilibrium. However in no way the contribution of predecessors cannot be put in vain, as their work became the base to build the ongoing recent debate on the subject of economic and income inequalities. One such contribution the literature of economics received was from the seminal work of Simon Kuznets. It was the beginning to discuss the relationship between income distribution and development which later on became popular as Kuznets inverted U hypothesis or Kuznets curve. Though with respect to findings and analysis there is no common consensus to support or reject the Inverted U Hypothesis, but in its own sphere it became the base for carrying forward the research on an important aspect of the economy. In this paper we have tried mainly to show how from different perspectives the literature flowed over the period of time, to see the reliability and the efficacy of this Hypothesis. We divided the whole literature into four categories and accordingly included some important studies within each.","PeriodicalId":208075,"journal":{"name":"PRN: Distributive & Economic Justice","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133486049","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Responding to Complexity in Socio-Economic Systems: How to Build a Smart and Resilient Society?","authors":"D. Helbing","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.2583391","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.2583391","url":null,"abstract":"The world is changing at an ever-increasing pace. And it has changed in a much more fundamental way than one would think, primarily because it has become more connected and interdependent than in our entire history. Every new product, every new invention can be combined with those that existed before, thereby creating an explosion of complexity: structural complexity, dynamic complexity, functional complexity, and algorithmic complexity. How to respond to this challenge?","PeriodicalId":208075,"journal":{"name":"PRN: Distributive & Economic Justice","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124488447","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"La Titolarizzazione Della Proprietà Informale: Consensi E Critiche Del Pensiero Di Hernando De Soto (Land Titling and Informal Property Rights: Critique and Consensus of Hernando De Soto Theory)","authors":"Cora Fontana","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2579045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2579045","url":null,"abstract":"Italian Abstract: La proliferazione degli insediamenti informali e uno dei tratti distintivi dei processi di urbanizzazione che, dalla meta del secolo scorso, sta investendo molte citta dei paesi del sud del mondo. Tra le strade percorse per affrontare il problema dell’informalita urbana, quella della regolarizzazione tramite la concessione di titoli di proprieta e una delle strategie sulle quali, negli ultimi due decenni, si e concentrata maggiormente l’attenzione. Il contributo piu noto e importante in merito e quello dell’economista peruviano Hernando de Soto. Definito da Bill Clinton come il piu grande economista vivente, e da Mike Davis “guru globale del populismo neo-liberista”, de Soto ha attirato contemporaneamente importanti apprezzamenti e accese critiche nei confronti delle sue teorie. Indipendentemente da cio, e indubbio il merito che De Soto ha avuto nel riaccendere il dibattito internazionale sulla validita della titolarizzazione come possibile strategia per affrontare l’informalita la poverta urbana. L’articolo, dopo aver introdotto le teorie de Soto riportate nelle sue pubblicazioni piu rilevanti – The Other Path e The Mistery of Capital, fornira un quadro complessivo sia dell’impatto che queste hanno esercitato a livello internazionale, sia delle maggiori critiche alimentatesi nei confronti del lavoro del noto e controverso economista peruviano.English Abstract: The proliferation of informal settlements is one of the most relevant consequences of the urbanization processes that, from the middle of the last century, has been affecting the majority of the cities in developing countries. Among the different paths to cope with the problem of urban informality, the regularization of the settlements, through the concession of legal property titles, has, for the last twenty years, been one of main shared strategies that scholars and policy makers have focused on. One of the most important and well-known contributions concerning the issue of the regularization of informality is the one by the Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto. Defined by Bill Clinton as one of the best economists in the world, and by Mike Davis as “guru of neo-liberal populism”, de Soto attracts both important endorsements and harsh criticisms regarding his theories. Independently from this, the Peruvian economist also deserves the recognition to have aroused the international debate on the effectiveness of land titling programs as strategy for urban poverty reduction. The contribution of this paper is to provide, after an introductive part outlining the framework in which de Soto thinking has developed, a complete framework of the main achievements and the most relevant critiques developed against de Soto’s theory.","PeriodicalId":208075,"journal":{"name":"PRN: Distributive & Economic Justice","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121923182","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Secularization and Long-Run Economic Growth","authors":"H. Strulik","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2577770","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2577770","url":null,"abstract":"This paper integrates a simple theory of identity choice into a framework of endogenous economic growth to explain how secularization can be both cause and consequence of economic development. A secular identity allows an individual to derive more pleasure from consumption than religious individuals, leading secular individuals to work harder and to save more in order to experience this pleasure from consumption. These activities are conducive to economic growth. Higher income makes consumption more affordable and increases the appeal of a secular identity for the next generation. An extension of the basic model investigates the Protestant Reformation as an intermediate stage during the take-off to growth. Another extension introduces intergenerationally dependent religious preferences and demonstrates how a social multiplier amplifies the speed of secularization.","PeriodicalId":208075,"journal":{"name":"PRN: Distributive & Economic Justice","volume":"132 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116249009","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Efficient Multilateralism or Bilateralism? The TTIP from an EU Trade Policy Perspective","authors":"Patricia Garcia-Duran, M. Millet","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2596519","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2596519","url":null,"abstract":"The EU bilateral trade strategy since 2006, including the TTIP, has been justified by the European Commission on the bases that deep and comprehensive trade agreements are compatible with efficient multilateralism. The Commission argument is the following: in a context marked by international supply-chains, preferential agreements that allow for progress on what has been achieved at the multilateral level (topics WTO +) and in areas not already covered by the WTO (items WTO- X) may be considered as a stepping stone, not a stumbling block for multilateral liberalization. In other words, EU recent bilateral negotiations and agreements should be seen at worst as complementary to multilateral negotiations and at best as promoters.This paper challenges this argument by pointing out that the multilateralization potential of a bilateral agreement may not be a sufficient condition for compatibility between the bilateral and multilateral approaches. Their complementarity may also be influenced by what is happening at the multilateral level. Content analysis of a primary source of information - the Bridges Weekly reports - shows that there has been a change in EU actions in the Doha Round towards Brazil, India and China since 2009. Though the EU did not preclude the inclusion of these emerging powers in the high table of negotiations at any time and was in favour of the Bali agreement of 2013, its willingness to respond to their demands reached a plateau in 2008. That may signal a change in the nature of its bilateral strategy. Indeed, from 2006 until 2009 the EU may have sought bilateral partners among new important trade players (India, ASEAN and South Korea) to complement or even facilitate a multilateral agreement. Since then, however, the EU may have focused on reaching agreements with even more important trade partners: the old Quad members (Canada, Japan and the USA) as a way to ensure the market access opportunities that it cannot longer expect to obtain from the Doha Round. Following this analysis, the TTIP should be read, at least in the short time, as an example of efficient bilateralism.","PeriodicalId":208075,"journal":{"name":"PRN: Distributive & Economic Justice","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131397256","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Evolution of the Interindustry Wage Structure in China Since the 1980s","authors":"O. Kwon, Simon Chang, B. Fleisher","doi":"10.1111/1468-0106.12092","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0106.12092","url":null,"abstract":"Industry mean wages in China have exhibited sharply increased dispersion since the early1990s. Researchers have attributed this rising inequality within the industrial wage structure to: (i) increasingly competitive labour markets leading to better matches between worker pay, worker skills and employer demands; or (ii) residual government control in some industrial sectors that has generated high wages through monopoly rent sharing. We argue that the rise in China's industrial wage dispersion is primarily attributable to increasingly competitive labour markets, which have led to greater returns to schooling and to efficient redistribution of workers across major industry groups. We cannot reject the null hypothesis that the level or changes in government monopoly power has had negligible impact on China's rising industrial wage dispersion.","PeriodicalId":208075,"journal":{"name":"PRN: Distributive & Economic Justice","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117139244","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Die Tochter Der Kassiererin Und Das Abschreckgespenst – Versuch Einer Inhaltsanalyse Der Deutschen Studiengebührendebatte (The Till Girl's Daughter and the Ghost of University Deterrence – A Content Analysis of the German Tuition Fee Debate","authors":"Stefan Winter","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2547380","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2547380","url":null,"abstract":"German Abstract: Bayern und Niedersachsen waren die letzen beiden Bundeslander, die die allgemeinen Studiengebuhren an staatlichen Hochschulen wieder abgeschafft haben. Im Vorfeld waren Studiengebuhren in allen betroffenen Landern ein heis diskutiertes Wahlkampfthema. Die Entscheidung fur die Abschaffung der Studiengebuhren wurde in allen Bundeslandern vor allem mit der These begrundet, dass jede Art von Studiengebuhr sozial ungerecht sei, weil Gebuhren junge Menschen aus armeren Haushalten vom Studium fernhalten wurden. Zusatzlich wurde auf die positiven Externalitaten verwiesen, die von Akademikern auf die Gesellschaft ausgehen. Ein groser Teil der Debatte wurde indessen von Argumenten beherrscht, die sich dem klassischen okonomischen Erklarungsansatz entziehen. So wurde z.B. darauf verwiesen, dass Bildung ein Menschen- oder Grundrecht sei, was bereits ein hinreichender Grund fur die vollstandige offentliche Finanzierung von Studienplatzen sei. Eine andere These lautete, dass Bildung keine Ware sein durfe, bei privater Zahlungspflicht aber zur Ware wurde. Der vorliegende Beitrag unternimmt den Versuch, okonomischen sowie die nicht-okonomischen Argumente zu systematisieren und deren Stichhaltigkeit zu bewerten.English Abstract: Bavaria and Lower-Saxony were the last German states to abolish tuition fees at public universities. Before, tuition fees had become a major topic in several election campaigns. The final abolition was mainly driven by the hypothesis that any kind of tuition fee negatively affects the participation of younger people from poorer and less educated family backgrounds. Tuition fees were simply seen as socially unjust. Other reasons for abolition were offered in the heated political debate as well. For example, free higher education was justified by its assumed positive externalities. Still, a major part of the debate relied on arguments outside the classical economic context. For example, it has been argued that higher education constitutes a human or basic right which allegedly requires full public funding. Another rather paternalistic argument offered was that education should not become a tradable good and should therefore not be paid for by students. The paper surveys the German debate and evaluates its economic as well as its non-economic arguments.","PeriodicalId":208075,"journal":{"name":"PRN: Distributive & Economic Justice","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124572964","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Teaching Economics: The Wea Textbook Commentaries Project","authors":"K. S. Birks","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2515373","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2515373","url":null,"abstract":"There is currently a lot of controversy about the nature of economics teaching around the world. Criticisms focus on a perceived overemphasis on a narrowly defined \"mainstream economics\". These concerns are being widely voiced by academics and students alike. This presentation briefly outlines some of the factors leading to the increasing dominance of this mainstream approach. These include the nature of teaching and assessment resources that are provided by key textbooks, the standardization of courses and degree structures, and the impact of research assessment exercises. The presentation then indicates some of the concerns that have been voiced about this development, such as the political messages implicit in this framing and the disregard for important economic phenomena including instability and adjustments over time. Attempts to bring about change include the development of alternative textbooks. These can be useful, but several such books have been written over the past 20 years to little effect. In this context, the World Economics Association’s Textbook Commentaries Project seeks to provide a platform for independent, inclusive, participatory enrichment of courses. The project is outlined and reasons given as to why this might be a means of increasing the influence of alternative and critical material. Ways in which the audience can contribute to the project and use its resources are also described.","PeriodicalId":208075,"journal":{"name":"PRN: Distributive & Economic Justice","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116686311","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"To the Question of Development of System of Distribution of Goods in the Enterprise","authors":"I. Shapovalova","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2548793","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2548793","url":null,"abstract":"As the market changes and economic factors of the market channels of distribution businesses also undergo corresponding changes. This inherent variability of the market is a complex economic phenomenon, as shaped by a variety of different internal market and general economic factors. Development directions of the distribution system in the company will allow, based on the forecast of options to change the situation to determine the effectiveness of specific guidelines for its activities","PeriodicalId":208075,"journal":{"name":"PRN: Distributive & Economic Justice","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129043952","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}