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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: Simulacrum and Re-enactments: the experience of Pompeii in the nineteeth century  Author(s): BEARD, Mary Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Technical Report Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: This lecture traces the changing experience of visiting Pompeii through the nineteenth century. It argues against the standard idea that there was a shift over the century from a Romantic view of the site to a more ...
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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: 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: 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: Why are Developing Countries so Resistant to the Rule of Law?  Author(s): WEINGAST, Barry R. Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Technical Report Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: This paper draws on my new book (North, Wallis, and Weingast 2009) to provide a new explanation for why it is so difficult to transplant institutions, such as markets and democracy, from developed societies into developing ...
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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: 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: Between Surprise and Social Science  Author(s): MAIER, Charles S. Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: Social scientists and historians have been living in a world of unexpected outcomes. The revival of passionate political ideologies in the l960s, the reversal of predicted secularization in the modern world, the collapse ...
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    Title: The Spirit of Capitalism: the Role of Executive Compensation in the Financial Crisis  Author(s): COOLEY, Thomas F. Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS Abstract: When economic disasters occur it is common to look to the managers of the economy and question the decisions they made and the incentives that drove their decisions. In the financial crisis of 2007-2009 compensation was ...
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    Title: The Rise of Global Legalism  Author(s): POSNER, Eric A Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MW LS Abstract: Global legalism is the view that world government is not a practicable approach to global collective action problems but that these problems are nonetheless susceptible to legal solutions. This position is paradoxical: ...
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    Title: Uncool Passion: Nietzsche Meets the Pentecostals  Author(s): COMAROFF, Jean Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP LS
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    Title: Social Science and the Causes of Happiness and Misery  Author(s): LAYARD, Richard Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MWP 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: 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: Self-Government in Our Times  Author(s): PRZEWORSKI, Adam Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MW LS Abstract: The eighteenth century ideal of self-government of the people was based on an assumption that renders it incoherent and unrealistic, namely, that interests and values are sufficiently harmonious that each individual needs ...
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    Title: Theories of European Integration: a Geoculture  Author(s): ANDERSON, Perry Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI MW LS
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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: “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: Rights of Non-humans? Electronic Agents and Animals as New Actors in Politics and Law  Author(s): TEUBNER, Gunther Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MW LS Abstract: Lecture Delivered January 17th 2007. Personification of non-humans is best understood as a strategy of dealing with the uncertainty about the identity of the other, which moves the attribution scheme from causation ...