Polanyi and foucault on the issue of market in classical political economy: Complementary approaches to the radical theory of social control (2015)
Journal Article

© 2016 Union for Radical Political Economics. Studies have pointed out that the value of markets is related to their impact on the character of a society. Karl Polanyi’s thesis about social disembeddedness attributed to 19th century economic liberali... Read More about Polanyi and foucault on the issue of market in classical political economy: Complementary approaches to the radical theory of social control.

Gerschenkron revisited: The new corporate Russia (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015, Journal of Economic Issues / Association for Evolutionary Economics. Our analysis is based on firm-specific data compiled from the Russian Trading System stock exchange and SKRIN (CKP-H in Russian) database. We seek to identify the factors be... Read More about Gerschenkron revisited: The new corporate Russia.

A new ecological macroeconomic model: Analysing the interactions between the ecosystem, the financial system and the macroeconomy (2015)
Journal Article

Our economy, environment and financial system cannot be viewed in isolation: each interacts with the other. However, the current models that inform policy making lack a clear understanding of the links between these systems. This is a significant gap... Read More about A new ecological macroeconomic model: Analysing the interactions between the ecosystem, the financial system and the macroeconomy.

Six degrees of cultural diversity and R&D output efficiency: Cultural percolation of new ideas: an illustrative analysis of Europe (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015, The Author(s). This paper seeks to highlight the efficiency of R&D output as a function of a cultural treatment (i.e. exposure) effect. The focus of our research is on the percolation of new R&D ideas from the immaterial world of creative ide... Read More about Six degrees of cultural diversity and R&D output efficiency: Cultural percolation of new ideas: an illustrative analysis of Europe.

Women processing cashew nut: Reflections on work, investment and gender in the province of Cabo Delgado (2015)
Book Chapter

The book chapter explores the revival of the cashew nut processing industry in northern Mozambique.

Kuznets’ swings and intangible investments in forecast: the case of Greece (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015 Taylor & Francis. This article offers an analysis of the relationship between intangible investments and the pattern of local economic productivity in Greece. There are two main objectives in the article: (i) to explore the pattern of econom... Read More about Kuznets’ swings and intangible investments in forecast: the case of Greece.

Endogenous intangible resources and their place in the institutional hierarchy (2015)
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© 2015, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. This paper seeks to find evidence for the impact of local culture on the share of intangible investments and the results for productivity per worker in the EU15 countries at the NUTS2 level during the period... Read More about Endogenous intangible resources and their place in the institutional hierarchy.

Foucault's contributions for understanding power relations in British classical political economy (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015 National Association of Postgraduate Centers in Economics, ANPEC This paper analyzes the strategic role played by British classical political economy in constructing new technologies of power. Michel Foucault drew attention to a change that po... Read More about Foucault's contributions for understanding power relations in British classical political economy.

University entrepreneurship education experiences: Enhancing the entrepreneurial ecosystems in a UK city-region (2015)
Journal Article

The recognition of a strong association between education and economic prosperity has enthused higher education institutions (HEIs) to amplify their initiatives to stimulate entrepreneurship within their local economies and beyond. However, the actua... Read More about University entrepreneurship education experiences: Enhancing the entrepreneurial ecosystems in a UK city-region.

Cultural impact on regional development: application of a PLS-PM model to Greece (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015, The Author(s). This paper seeks to find evidence for the impact of local culture—living culture and cultural heritage—on regional socio-economic development in Greece. The main aim of the paper is to operationalize the culture-based developme... Read More about Cultural impact on regional development: application of a PLS-PM model to Greece.

Is temporary employment a cause or consequence of poor mental health? A panel data analysis (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. Mental health status has an association with labour market outcomes. If people in temporary employment have poorer mental health than those in permanent employment then it is consistent with two mutually inclusive possibilities:... Read More about Is temporary employment a cause or consequence of poor mental health? A panel data analysis.

The ‘other half’ of the public debt-economic growth relationship: A note on reinhart and rogoff (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015 Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. Reinhart/Rogoff (2010) and Reinhart et al. (2012) document a negative relationship between public debt and economic growth. However, by classifying the observations of their data set into public debt categories and... Read More about The ‘other half’ of the public debt-economic growth relationship: A note on reinhart and rogoff.

Towards a political economy of the use of research assistants: reflections from fieldwork in Tanzania and Mozambique (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015, © The Author(s) 2015. Research assistants play a vital role in the research process, often acting as more than just translators or interpreters. However, their contributions to and impacts on the research process and outcomes often remain una... Read More about Towards a political economy of the use of research assistants: reflections from fieldwork in Tanzania and Mozambique.

The biopolitics of the female: Constituting gendered subjects through technology (2015)
Book Chapter

This chapter discusses the role played by technological artifacts in reinforcing biopolitical forms of control and regulation that have the female body and gender as their main targets.

The measurement of apprentice pay: Interim report (2015)
Report

This is the Interim Report on the LPC's project to review the measurement of Apprentice Pay. It concentrates largely on methodological issues, including a detailed analysis of the 2012 Apprentive Pay Survey; most of the issues raised were addressed i... Read More about The measurement of apprentice pay: Interim report.

Cultural gravity effects among migrants: A comparative analysis of the EU15 (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015 Clark University. This article introduces cultural gravity as a concept that serves to better disentangle the direction and magnitude of the effects from migration, which is controversial in recent literature. The aim is to test for cultural g... Read More about Cultural gravity effects among migrants: A comparative analysis of the EU15.

Quality of work environment and quitting intention: A dilemma (2015)
Journal Article

A substantial body of research has linked job satisfaction with employees’ quitting intentions. That research predominantly analyses individual-level determinants rather than organisational-level or work environment antecedents of quitting. This stud... Read More about Quality of work environment and quitting intention: A dilemma.

An Archaeology of Adam Smith‘s Epistemic Context (2015)
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© 2015 Taylor & Francis. Adam Smith played a key role in Foucault‘s archaeology of political economy. This archaeology, which Foucault accomplished in The Order of Things, is the focus of this article. Foucault may have disagreed with the writings... Read More about An Archaeology of Adam Smith‘s Epistemic Context.

Culture based development: Measuring an invisible resource using the PLS-PM method (2015)
Journal Article

© Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to conduct an in-depth exploratory test of the innovative culture-based development (CBD) concept and to evaluate its potential for empirical research. Design/methodology/appr... Read More about Culture based development: Measuring an invisible resource using the PLS-PM method.