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    Title: Global Warming and Climate Policies  Author(s): GUESNERIE, Roger Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MW LS Abstract: The paper starts reviewing some basics of the climate science and economics of the greeenhouse effect. It stresses the nature and extent of uncertainty on both sides as well as the political background of present climate ...
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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: 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: Governing America: the Emergence of Behavioral Law and Economics  Author(s): JOLLS, Christine Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: Bounded rationality is an important and pervasive characteristic of much human behavior. Legal policy under American President Barack Obama has been strongly influenced by behavioral economics' understanding of boundedly ...
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    Title: Government Without Trust  Author(s): HARDIN, Russell Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MW LS
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    Title: The Great Moderation, the Great Panic and the Great Contraction  Author(s): BEAN, Charles Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Technical Report Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: This lecture examines the causes of the recent financial crisis and subsequent recession. On the macroeconomic side, the Great Moderation encouraged an overly optimistic assessment of risk. Combined with low interest rates, ...
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    Title: Is Behavioral Economics Doomed? The Ordinary versus the Extraordinary  Author(s): LEVINE, David K. Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: Behavioral economics is an effort to bring psychological and emotional aspects of human behavior into economic theory. Critics of existing theory, including many psychologists and behavioral economists, poorly understand ...
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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 ...
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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: 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: The Lure of Authority  Author(s): FEHR, Ernst Date: 2010-01-01 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS; Abstract: Power and authority permeate political, social and economic life but still little is known empirically about the origins and consequences of authority. In this paper we tackle this question experimentally by implementing ...
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    Title: Macroeconomic Policy, Evolution, and Self-Confirming Equilibrium  Author(s): SARGENT, Thomas J. Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: This paper uses policy disputes about centuries of experience with commodity money systems and US monetary policy in the 1970s and 1980s to illustrate macroeconomists' enduring struggles with Hume's induction problem 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: Natural Law and Personhood: Samuel Pufendorf on Social Explanation  Author(s): HAAKONSSEN, Knud Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: Today the idea of natural law is generally considered a subject in ethics, politics and jurisprudence and concerned with the status of basic norms. During the last one and a half centuries natural law has come to be seen ...
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    Title: “NOT EXCEPTING THE IROQUOIS THEMSELVES...” Machiavelli, Pufendorf and the Prehistory of International Law  Author(s): KOSKENNIEMI, Martti Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MW LS
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    Title: Ordering Pluralism  Author(s): DELMAS-MARTY, Mireille Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: In the traditional legal culture, the expression of “ordering pluralism” is rather unusual. Pluralism implies differences, dispersion and fragmentation, whereas “legal order” leads us to think in terms of a unified structure. ...
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    Title: Political Institutions and Financial Development: Evidence from New World Economies  Author(s): HABER, Stephen Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MW LS Abstract: There is a consensus among economists that the development of banking systems plays a causal role in economic growth. What remains unresolved is why some countries have large banking systems that allocate credit broadly, ...
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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: 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 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 ...