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A case study in the globalization of jobs in Ireland
Charles Jobs, David ButlerThe paper sets out to identify the challenges and potential responses Ireland has related to the potential loss of jobs due to offshoring in a key Irish employment sector. The…
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Human agency and free will: choice and determinism in economics
Morris AltmanThe assumption of free will in contemporary economics is an important starting point for socio‐economic analysis in contrast to methodologies which assume that human action is…
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GDP per capita and its challengers as measures of happiness
William R. Dipietro, Emmanuel AnoruoThe paper attempts to empirically assess whether GDP per capita or the human capital index is a better measure of happiness.
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A hermeneutic of Amartya Sen's concept of capability
Nebel Mathias, Herrera Rendon TeresaSen's notion of capability is often referred to by its standard definition “the various combinations of beings and doings that a person can achieve and value”. But do economists…
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- Professor Terence Garrett