Comparative Advantages in Italy: A Long-Run Perspective

The religious transition . A long - run perspective

We use factor analysis to derive a robust measure of religiosity from items reported in five waves of the World Value Survey. Our measure of religiosity is negatively correlated with per capita income. Development apparently causes religiosity to fall to about half its pre-modern level. Most components of the demand for religion are reduced by development. The supply of religion declines once c...

tragic contradictions: a comparative study of characterization in eugene o’neill’s long day’s journey into night and mahmud dowlatabadi’s tangna

در طی چند دهه ی اخیر، مفهوم «تراژدی» و «قهرمان تراژدی» توجهی روزافرون را تقریباً در تمام حوزه های نقد ادبی به خود معطوف کرده است. برخی نظیر ارسطو، نیچه، و آرتور میلر به بازخوانی آن پرداخته و برخی دیگر نظیر سارتر، استریندبرگ، یوجین اُنیل، برتولت برشت، و آنتونین آرتود به افزودن ابعاد نوینی به این مبحث همت گماشته اند. آنچه قهرمان تراژدی مدرن را از مفهوم کلاسیک آن متمایز می کند نه لغزش تراژیک متداول ...

Korea- Italy Workshop on Membranes: A Long Relationship and Friendship between Korea and Italy

The Female Labor Force and Long-run Development: The American Experience in Comparative Perspective∗

∗This paper was prepared for the “Human Capital in History: The American Record” conference in Cambridge, MA, December 2012. I thank Francine Blau, for her insightful discussion of the paper. Comments from Carola Frydman, Robert Margo and two anonymous referees are also gratefully acknowledged. Many thanks to Marric Buessing for her invaluable research assistance and to Sharon D’Souza for her h...

Comparative Advantage and Long-run Growth

Contract Enforcement, Comparative Advantage and Long-Run Growth* The effects of the quality of institutions on economic development and comparative advantage have been so far investigated separately. This paper proposes a theoretical framework in which trade patterns and growth rates are jointly determined by international differences in contract enforcement that affect firms' organizational de...