Jacob Christensen

• Zeitgeschichte: Die Geburt des Neoliberalismus | Nachrichten auf ZEIT ONLINE
  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
  (tags: ideology philosophy liberalism libertarianism)
• The microeconomic impacts of the euro: Evidence from French firms | vox – Research-based policy analysis and commentary from leading economists
  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.
  (tags: economics trade europe france research)
• Gender equality on the slide?
  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).
  (tags: sociology gender feminism usa uk research)
• Ingrid Robeyns – "Working women hurt their families" — Crooked Timber
  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.
  (tags: sociology feminism gender uk usa polls)
• Stalin’s ‘no shirking condition’ | vox – Research-based policy analysis and commentary from leading economists
  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.
  (tags: russia economics economicpolicy labourmarket research management history)
• Konstantin Sonin – Stalin, mass murder and elections | vox – Research-based policy analysis and commentary from leading economists
  Yet any dictator needs some popular support; the difference is that he can trim his constituency, eliminating those who do not support him.
  (tags: politicalscience russia communism dictatorship)

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