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Does emigration affect pro-environmental behaviour back home? A long-term, local-level perspective (2020)
Journal Article
Ivlevs, A. (2021). Does emigration affect pro-environmental behaviour back home? A long-term, local-level perspective. Kyklos, 74(1), 48-76. https://doi.org/10.1111/kykl.12257

This study provides novel evidence on the effects of emigration on pro-environmental behaviour back home. Focusing on the seven successor states of former Yugoslavia, I explore the relationship between people’s present-day pro-environmental action an... Read More about Does emigration affect pro-environmental behaviour back home? A long-term, local-level perspective.

Former Communist party membership and present-day entrepreneurship (2020)
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Ivlevs, A., Nikolova, M., & Popova, O. (2021). Former Communist party membership and present-day entrepreneurship. Small Business Economics, 57, 1783–1800. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-020-00364-6

After the collapse of communism in Central and Eastern Europe, former party members were particularly likely to start businesses and become entrepreneurs. What remains unclear, however, is whether this entrepreneurial activity was driven by the resou... Read More about Former Communist party membership and present-day entrepreneurship.

From mad to mindful: Corporate control through corporate spirituality (2020)
Journal Article
Wrenn, M. V. (2020). From mad to mindful: Corporate control through corporate spirituality. Journal of Economic Issues, 54(2), 503-509. https://doi.org/10.1080/00213624.2020.1756660

Abstract: Capitalism has always and will always depend on a compliant workforce. Maintaining the delicate balance between a worker who is just “not-unhappy” enough or desperate enough to continue working while also cutting costs to the bone presents... Read More about From mad to mindful: Corporate control through corporate spirituality.

Are social costs the outcome of struggles over truth? (2020)
Journal Article
Berger, S. (2020). Are social costs the outcome of struggles over truth?. Journal of Economic Issues, 54(2), 525-534. https://doi.org/10.1080/00213624.2020.1759021

© 2020, © 2020, Journal of Economic Issues / Association for Evolutionary Economics. Abstract: This article critically examines the institutional economics theory of social costs by way of reviewing The Dark Places of Business Enterprise: Reinstating... Read More about Are social costs the outcome of struggles over truth?.

The nature of money in a convertible currency world (2020)
Journal Article
Sissoko, C. (2020). The nature of money in a convertible currency world. Review of Economic Analysis, 12(1),

In a world where the means of exchange is convertible into the numeraire consumption good at a fixed rate, no one wants to hold money over time – and due to convertibility there is no means by which the Friedman rule can generate deflation. This is t... Read More about The nature of money in a convertible currency world.

Veblen, Veblenian social practices, and prosperity theology (2020)
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Wrenn, M. (2020). Veblen, Veblenian social practices, and prosperity theology. Journal of Economic Issues, 54(1), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/00213624.2020.1720560

Abstract: At the turn of the twentieth century (1910), Veblen published an essay which explored the relationship between Christianity and capitalism by focusing on the interaction between the two institutions as they evolved. Veblen’s analysis begins... Read More about Veblen, Veblenian social practices, and prosperity theology.

On Veblenian waste and Polanyian protective responses: Evidence from the US (2020)
Journal Article
Wrenn, M. V. (2020). On Veblenian waste and Polanyian protective responses: Evidence from the US. Panoeconomicus, 67(4), 449-464. https://doi.org/10.2298/PAN170925002W

As capitalism unfolds, continual technological advance in combination with the relentless accumulation imperative serves to amplify material progress. The institutionalization of the market fundamentally changes the structure of society and the inst... Read More about On Veblenian waste and Polanyian protective responses: Evidence from the US.

‘TAMA’ economics under siege in Brazil: The threats of curriculum governance reform (2019)
Journal Article
Guizzo, D., Mearman, A., & Berger, S. (2021). ‘TAMA’ economics under siege in Brazil: The threats of curriculum governance reform. Review of International Political Economy, 28(1), 258-281. https://doi.org/10.1080/09692290.2019.1670716

This article considers the curriculum framework governing economics teaching in Brazilian higher education. We assess economics teaching according to three criteria: its pluralism or monism regarding economic theory and method; its treatment of econo... Read More about ‘TAMA’ economics under siege in Brazil: The threats of curriculum governance reform.

Educational attainment and the Brexit vote (2019)
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Jump, R. C., & Michell, J. (2020). Educational attainment and the Brexit vote. Environment and Planning A, 52(5), 829-832. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X19866465

The Brexit vote is the most significant political event in recent British history. We present bivariate choropleth maps comparing the Leave vote share with age-adjusted secondary educational attainment. This provides an immediate visual representatio... Read More about Educational attainment and the Brexit vote.

Industry concentration and technological progress in U.S. industries (2019)
Working Paper
Gezici, A. (2019). Industry concentration and technological progress in U.S. industries

This paper analyzes the impact of increasing concentration on the pace of technological progress in the U.S. economy. Since the beginning of the 2000s, the U.S. economy has been in a period of slower capital accumulation marked by lower aggregate pro... Read More about Industry concentration and technological progress in U.S. industries.

Consecrating capitalism: The US prosperity gospel and neoliberalism (2019)
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Wrenn, M. V. (2019). Consecrating capitalism: The US prosperity gospel and neoliberalism. Journal of Economic Issues, 53(2), 425-432. https://doi.org/10.1080/00213624.2019.1594528

Neoliberalism relies on optimism. Without faith in meritocracy—unwavering belief that rewards will eventually and justly come to those who work hard enough—support for the capitalist system and belief in neoliberalism would unravel. How that optimism... Read More about Consecrating capitalism: The US prosperity gospel and neoliberalism.

Energy contagion analysis: A new perspective with application to a small petroleum economy (2019)
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Mahadeo, S., Heinlein, R., & Legrenzi, G. D. (2019). Energy contagion analysis: A new perspective with application to a small petroleum economy. Energy Economics, 80, 890-903. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2019.02.007

© 2019 Elsevier B.V. We put forward the novel concept of energy contagion, i.e. a deepening of energy-finance linkages under crisis conditions in energy markets. Further, we show how to construct tests for energy contagion through correlation, co-ske... Read More about Energy contagion analysis: A new perspective with application to a small petroleum economy.

Are African micro- and small enterprises misunderstood? Unpacking the relationship between work organisation, capability development and innovation (2019)
Journal Article
Kraemer-Mbula, E., Lorenz, E., Takala Greenish, L., Jegede, O. O., Garba, T., Mutambala, M., & Esemu, T. (2019). Are African micro- and small enterprises misunderstood? Unpacking the relationship between work organisation, capability development and innovation. International Journal of Technological Learning, Innovation and Development, 11(1), 1-30. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJTLID.2019.10018585

Mainstream studies on innovation consider innovation processes as necessarily driven by expenditures on formal R&D and the input of engineers and scientists with third-level degrees. This bias in the literature has led to the view that micro- and sma... Read More about Are African micro- and small enterprises misunderstood? Unpacking the relationship between work organisation, capability development and innovation.