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    Title: The globalisation of inequality  Author(s): BOURGUIGNON, François Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: There has been an apparently contradictory trend in the global inequality in living standards over the past quarter-century. On the one hand, global inequality between countries has decreased significantly, while on the ...
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    Title: The strange non-death of multiculturalism  Author(s): MODOOD, Tariq Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: One of the strange features of the ‘Multiculturalism is dead’ discourses is that they now define ‘multiculturalism’. It is now commonplace for even neutral commentators to define multiculturalism as a view which emphasises ...
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    Title: Women and religion in nineteenth-century France  Author(s): SCOTT, Joan W. Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: This paper explores the connections made between religion and women by French secularizers in the nineteenth century as a way of understanding the effects of what Max Weber called "disenchantment." It asks how differences ...
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    Title: The return from the return to narrative  Author(s): DE VRIES, Jan Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: Social scientific history in its various forms developed rapidly and enjoyed great influence in the 1960s and 70s. Around 1980 it was quickly and, in the United States decisively, eclipsed. An influential article predicting ...
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    Title: Viral engagement : fast, cheap, and broad, but good for democracy ?  Author(s): FUNG, Archon; SHKABATUR, Jennifer Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: In 2011 and 2012, several high profile campaigns spread with unexpected speed and potency. These “viral engagements” include the mobilization that scuttled the Stop Online Piracy Act, popular protest against the Susan G. ...
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    Title: Governance, Development, and Foreign Direct Investment  Author(s): DIXIT, Avinash Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: Less-developed countries and transition economies wish to attract foreign direct investment (FDI), but are often handicapped by their weak governance structures, i.e. by insecurity of property rights and contracts. Potential ...
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    Title: Varieties of Capitalism: Trajectories of liberalization and the new politics of solidarity  Author(s): THELEN, Kathleen Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: This essay reviews recent literature on varieties of capitalism, drawing on insights from existing studies to propose a new, more differentiated way of thinking about contemporary changes in the political economies of the ...
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    Title: The Future of Democractic Sovereignty and Transnational Law  Author(s): BENHABIB, Seyla Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: This essay examines the rise of legal cosmopolitanism in the period since the UDHR of 1948 as it gives rise to two very distinct sets of literature and preoccupations. I contrast the mainly negative conclusions drawn by ...
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    Title: Three Stages in the Use of Cost-benefit Analysis as a Tool for Evaluating U.S. Regulatory Policy  Author(s): LIVERMORE, Michael A.; REVESZ, Richard L. Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: Over the last thirty years a three-stage evolution has taken place in American politics with regard to the use of cost-benefit analysis as a tool for evaluating regulation. During that time, the appeal of costbenefit ...
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    Title: Punishment, (Neo)Liberalism and Social Democracy  Author(s): LACEY, Nicola Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: In this lecture, I address recent attempts to understand the relevance of political forces and institutions in shaping the practice and the social meaning of punishment. I focus on one argument about the relevance of the ...
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    Title: Trade and Labor Market Outcomes  Author(s): HELPMAN, Elhanan; ITSKHOKI, Oleg; REDDING, Stephen Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: 2011/03 Abstract: This paper reviews a new framework for analyzing the interrelationship between inequality, unemployment, labor market frictions, and foreign trade. This framework emphasizes firm heterogeneity and search and matching ...
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    Title: The Decline and Fall of the American Republic: Obama's Libyan Intervention  Author(s): ACKERMAN, Bruce Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: The lecture traces a series of political, bureaucratic, and military transformations that have, over the past forty years, transformed the American presidency into a potential platform for charismatic extremism and ...
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    Title: "My brain made me do it" (when neuroscientists think they can do philosophy)  Author(s): DENNETT, Daniel C. Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: Some philosophers and neuroscientists have recently been saying that science shows that we don't have free will, but it turns out that this claim-which would be bad news if true-is due to misrepresentation and misinterpretation. ...
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    Title: Laws and Norms  Author(s): BENABOU, Roland; TIROLE, Jean Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: This paper analyzes how private decisions and public policies are shaped by personal and societal preferences ("values"), material or other explicit incentives ("laws") and social sanctions or rewards ("norms"). It first ...
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    Title: Keeping Government Secrecy Safe: Beyond Whack-a-Mole  Author(s): CURTIN, Deirdre Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: The concept of secrecy as a mechanism for not providing government information, on the one hand, and the commitment to openness of government, on the other, reflect certain historical understandings of the relationship ...
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    Title: Development with Chinese Characteristics? Convergence and Divergence in Long-run and Comparative Perspective  Author(s): POMERANZ, Kenneth Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: Looked at in comparative perspective, among the most striking features of Qing political economy are the combination of highly commercialized agriculture with the strength of peasant land use rights – both through smallholding ...
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    Title: Rethinking Equality in an Age of Inequality  Author(s): ROSANVALLON, Pierre Date: 2011 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: We live in a time of counter-revolution. Since the 1980s, reversing a century-old trend towards fewer inequalities, the richest among us have kept accumulating revenues and possessions. The economic and social roots of ...
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    Title: The Crisis in Context: Democratic capitalism and its contradictions  Author(s): STREECK, Wolfgang Date: 2011 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: The “financial crisis” and its sequel, the current sovereign debt crisis, appear to be the latest permutations of an old conflict between capitalism and democracy that forcefully reasserted itself after the end of the ...
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    Title: Dignity, Rights and Responsibilities  Author(s): WALDRON, Jeremy Date: 2010-10-28 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: Last year (March 23, 2009), the government in the United Kingdom issued a Green Paper entitled “Rights and Responsibilities: Developing our Constitutional Framework.” In it, the authors (Jack Straw, Secretary of State for ...
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    Title: Is Contract Law Necessary?  Author(s): SCHWARTZ, Alan Date: 2010-10-22 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: This Lecture argues that much of the contract law in the cases (the US, the UK and Canada) and in the codes (Europe and Latin America) is unnecessary. To say that a law is unnecessary is to say that it does not perform a ...