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Accounting for Tastes.
Eric M. Leifer,Gary S. Becker +1 more
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Social Theory of International Politics
TL;DR: Wendt as discussed by the authors describes four factors which can drive structural change from one culture to another - interdependence, common fate, homogenization, and self-restraint - and examines the effects of capitalism and democracy in the emergence of a Kantian culture in the West.
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Service logic revisited: who creates value? And who co‐creates?
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze the meaning of a service logic as a logic for consumption and provision, respectively, and explore the consequences for value creation and marketing, and conclude that value-in-exchange in essence concerns resources used as a value foundation which are aimed at facilitating customers' fulfilment of value in use.
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The Endogenous Determination of Time Preference
Gary S. Becker,Casey B. Mulligan +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors model a consumer's efforts to reduce the discount on future utilities and show how wealth, mortality, addictions, uncertainty, and other variables affect the degree of time preference.
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The Unfolding Story of the Second Demographic Transition
TL;DR: It is shown that the current positive relationship between SDT and TFR levels is not a violation of the SDT theory, but the outcome of a "split correlation" with different sub-narratives concerning the onset of fertility postponement and the degree of subsequent recuperation in two parts of Europe.
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The Approach of Institutional Economics
TL;DR: The authors assesses the "old" institutional economics and emphasizes the importance of key institutionalist themes concerning the necessity of habits and rules, and the role of institutions in the alternative theoretical program of the "new" institutionalism.