Archive for August 9th, 2008
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Vor 70 Jahren beschloss eine internationale Gruppe liberaler Intellektueller auf einem Treffen in Paris, die Welt zu ihrem Glauben zu bekehren. Es war die Geburtsstunde des Neoliberalismus
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This column analyses microeconomic evidence from France, showing that fewer firms now export, but those that do export more products to more destinations in Europe.
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The study appears in a new book, Women And Employment; Changing Lives And New Challenges, which Professor [Jacqueline] Scott also edited. The majority of the contributors form part of an ongoing research network on Gender Inequalities funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).
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A study conducted by sociologists from Cambridge University seems to suggest that the support for working mothers [in the US and the UK] is weakening.
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In capitalist economies, firms pay higher wages to motivate workers who fear unemployment. In Soviet Russia, Stalin used the Gulag to discipline workers. The economic rationale of the ‘efficiency wage’ model helps explain the cruel brutality of Stalin’s prison camps.
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Yet any dictator needs some popular support; the difference is that he can trim his constituency, eliminating those who do not support him.