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    Title: “Bourgeois Towns: How Capitalism Became Virtuous, 1600-1776”  Author(s): MCCLOSKEY, Deirdre Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MW LS
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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: 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: 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: 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: Does Trust have a History?  Author(s): FREVERT, Ute Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: Authors like Francis Fukuyama or Robert Putnam claim that modern societies suffer from a decline of trust. On the other hand political scientists like Margaret Levi or Susan Stokes and sociologists like Karen Cook contend ...
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    Title: The European Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution, and Modern Economic Growth  Author(s): MOKYR, Joel Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MW LS
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    Title: The European Public Sphere  Author(s): KAELBLE, Hartmut Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MW LS
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    Title: Fear Reverence Terror. Reading Hobbes Today  Author(s): GINZBURG, Carlo Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MW LS Abstract: Lecture Delivered February 13th 2008
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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: 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 ...