The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics Essays

  • The Tragedy of the Commons and Collective Action

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    Evolution of Social Norms. The Journal of Economic Perspectives, 14(3), pp. 137-158. Ostrom, E., 2007. Collective Action Theory. In: C. Boix & S. C. Stokes, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 186-208. Ostrom, E., 2008. Tragedy of the Commons. In: S. N. Durlauf & L. E. Blume, eds. The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan. Stoker, G., 2006. Why Politics Matter. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Tierney, J., 2009. The Non-Tragedy

  • To what extent does the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) Explain the Global Financial Crisis?

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    Introduction It was previously assumed that economic investors and regulators (agents) utilised all available information and thus market prices were a reflection of this information with assets representing their fundamental value, encouraging the position that agents’ actions were rational. The 2007-2008 Global Financial Crisis (GFC) is posited to have originated from the notion that all available information was utilised, causing agents to fail to thoroughly investigate and confirm “the true

  • The Battle with Social Class

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    inequality refers to the existence of social inequalities created such as ownership, types of occupation that creates differences in wealth, income and power, while social stratification refers to the existence of social groups. Class can be arranged to economic factors such as income, education, wealth and other factors at work. Poverty remains high and could argue that true poverty cannot exist in a country as rich as the United States. It is clear that poverty has an impact on certain groups of people

  • The Individual or Society

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    of a new social class: the bourgeoisie. Feudal society saw the emergence of the hierarchy of social groups, making people dependent on others. On the shoulders of the common grew an enormous parasitic tree with kings at its summit. This pyramid of social existence determined the rights and duties of its citizens, and the rights were nearly all at the top of the social scale. At the end of the middle ages, history became the scene for the... ... middle of paper ... ...Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

  • The New Labour

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    The New Labour 1. Introduction 1.1 Content: The essay question asks about whether the reforms implemented in the 1990's by Labour are a new phenomenon or a revamp of past policies implemented by other governments in their time. 1.2 Key terms: The idea of New Labour is described by Philip Norton as "A summary label to describe the economic polices devised by the Labour Party in the 1990's to ensure a departure from 'old Labour' economic policy" (Jones 2001, 697). 1.3 Hypothesis/Argument:

  • Corruption Essay

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    It is defined in the online Oxford dictionary as “dishonest or fraudulent conduct by those in power, typically involving bribery”. Another definition of corruption is “the act or effect of giving or receiving a thing of value, in order that a person do or omit to do something, in violation of a formal or implicit rule about what that person ought to do or omit to do, to the benefit of the person who gives the thing of value or a third party”. (Argandona, 2005): These definitions emphasize the following

  • Voices In The Park by Browne, Mortal Engines by Reeve and Little Women by Alcott

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    Park by Browne, Mortal Engines by Reeve and Little Women by Alcott to illustrate different formats, authorial craft and concepts about childhood. For clarity, the page numbers used in Voices In The Park are ordinal (1-30) starting at Voice 1. The dictionary definition of a child is a young human being, an immature person and offspring (Oxford, 1976). This idea is reflected in Mead’s statement ‘that children to adults are representative of something weak and helpless in need of protection, supervision

  • Exploring Social Care Policy and Provision

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    Report 1942 which is the main ideal of the Bri... ... middle of paper ... ...VE Hampshire McLeod, E and Bywaters, P (2000) ‘Social work, Health and Inequality’ published by Routledge London Pierson, J and Thomas, N (ed.)(2002) ‘Collins dictionary of Social work’ HarperCollins publisher Glasgow [Online] Available at: http://www.NHS Care in the Community Act 1990 (accessed on 06 April 2005) [Online] Available at: http: www.labour.org.uk/ourpolicies (accessed on 11 April 2005)

  • The Beatles: A Brief Biography

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    Lyrical content 3 Why were the Beatles so successful? 4 Conclusion 7 Bibliography 8 Introduction During the 1950s when the world was still recuperating from post war despondency, and Britain was in the process of reversing the negative economic impact of the Second World War, there were four men laying the foundation for what would come to be known as the Beatles. The Beatles were a rock and roll band that gained massive success in the early 1960s, which materialised as “Beatlemania”. This

  • Is the EU Democratic?

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    [Online] Available at: http://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/fss_papers/ [Accessed 3 May 2014] Thomassen, J. 2009. The Legitimacy of the European Union after Enlargement. In: Thomassen, J. Eds. The Legitimacy of the European Union after Enlargement. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 67-86. Thomassen, J. & Schmitt, H. 2004. Democracy and Legitimacy in the European Union. Tidsskrift for Samfunnsforskning, 45 (2), pp. 377-410. Ungreanu, G. I. 2006. Is There a Democratic Deficit in the European Union

  • What is State Formation and How Does It Occur?

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    In order to answer the question concerning the formation of states, it is necessary to clarify what constitutes a state; the Oxford English Dictionary defines a state as ‘a nation or territory considered as an organized political community under one government’. There are a number of ways and processes in which to analyse what state formation is, why they have formed and the way in which this has occurred. State emergence can be traced back to the creation of territorial boundaries in medieval Europe

  • Philosophy of Money

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    thereby providing an investigation of its social value. This approach has been used by many of the great philosophers and economists of the past, but not today. Modern economics is a policy oriented theoretical discipline and concentrates its efforts on solving practical tasks. I hope to contribute a philosophical approach to economic research. Money is a reality, a permanent feature of our everyday lives. It gives our lives a particular rhythm, a particular «charm», a particular perception of the

  • The Origins of Fascism

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    advocates a cooperative society (Kallis, 2000). There are several definitions of the word Fascism and it is defined by The Merriam-Webster on-line dictionary (2013) as "a political philosophy, movement, or regime that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralised autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition”. When Fascism is mentioned it is usually in reference to certain regimes

  • PMCN Case Study

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    The theory of economics does not furnish a body of settled conclusions immediately applicable to policy. It is a method rather than a doctrine, an apparatus of the mind, a technique for thinking, which helps the possessor to draw correct conclusions. The ideas of economists and politicians, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual

  • Steven Lukes Theory Of Power Essay

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    User-Driven Political Website to Reveal Media Bias -- re> SAN FRANCISCO, March 12 /PRNewswire/ --. [online] Available at: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/skewzcom-launches-user-driven-political-website-to-reveal-media-bias-59277647.html [Accessed: 11 Feb 2014]. Robertson ,D. 1993. Dictionary of Politics.2nd ed. London :Penguin. Scruton, R. 1982. A Dictionary of Political Thought. London: The Macmillan Press. Tocqueville, A. D. and Reeve, H. 1835. Democracy in America. London: Saunders and Otley

  • Is Interpersonal Attraction an Evolutionary Phenomena?

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    Interpersonal attraction is an inherent element of social interaction. The definition says that attraction is the 'mutual interest and liking between two or more individuals.' (Psychology Dictionary, 2013). This essay will provide consideration whether or not attraction is an evolutionary phenomena. The first part critically introduces the evolutionary approach towards attraction in accordance to methods used to support it. The second part describes alternative, social theories to the phenomena with

  • Milton Friedman

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    different achievements, including being one of the most effective advocates of economic freedoms and free enterprise, being the greatest economist to ever walk the face of the earth, and proving every single word that Lord Maynard Keynes ever said to be wrong. Why these may or may not all be true, it is obvious that Friedman was a brilliant man of many accomplishments. Milton Friedman was born on July 15th, 1912 in New York City. His parents were poor immigrants and his father died when he was a

  • Making Ghana a Good Society

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    wrong turn at some point hence placing them miles away from getting their picture to look slightly like the good society. Several pieces are considered by different people as the vital units of a good society including justice, equity, rule of law, economic opportunity, prosperity, ethical standards and good citizenship just to mention a few (Ethics Forum, 2010). Meanwhile all these units have been broken down and linked together by James O’toole in his book “The executive compass”. O’toole represents

  • Too Big To Fail Case Study

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    into financial troubled waters irrespective of the cause and source of the problem. Simply put such institutions are favoured and helped directly and indirectly by the government and its agencies via financial dole outs, sympathetic monetary and economic policies At times it is in form of direct cash injection while at times it is loan guarantees. Before a bank can be described as too big to fail, the criticality of the roles played by such bank, its complexity, leverage, interconnectedness and size

  • Politics: The Concept of Domesticated Opposition

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    of “domesticated opposition”: Will measure it by how much the legal secular opposition in Egypt during Mubarak’s era was: weak, loyal, coopted, coerced and permit/agree to state clientalism. Conceptualization of Autocracy: According to Palgrave MacMillan dictionary of political thought, Autocracy literally means “self-rule”. “It is the rule by an agent who holds all power himself, and who exercises that power in an arbitrary manner.” The presence of constitution and laws which limit his power can