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Asymmetries in economics
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This article is published in Scottish Journal of Political Economy.The article was published on 1978-11-01. It has received 36 citations till now.read more
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The demand for tobacco products in Finland.
TL;DR: The results imply that taxation would seem a powerful instrument for achieving the objectives of restricting consumption of tobacco products and raising government revenue and taxation together with extensive anti-smoking publicity would have a more advantageous effect than either of them used in isolation.
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The demand for cigarettes: alternative specifications of Fujii's model
TL;DR: The demand for cigarettes: alternative specifications of Fujii's model was discussed in this paper, where the model was used to estimate the demand for tobacco. But the model did not consider smoking.
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Rationality is anti-entropic *
TL;DR: The fruitfulness of assuming all economic behavior to be non-rational unless special factors intervene to make it rational is explored in this article, where the definition of rationality applied is that of intentional or calculative rationality.
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Labor as a Quasi-Fixed Factor
TL;DR: In this paper, a short-run theory of employment is proposed based on the assumption that labor is a quasi-fixed factor, and the fixed employment costs arise from investments by firms in hiring and training activities.
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The Determinants of Distribution of the National Income
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated both statistically and analytically the problem of the relative share of manual labour in the national income and found that what statistics give as the total share of labour does not represent correctly the distribution of the product of industry between profits and interest on the one hand and wages and salaries on the other.
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Fixed Costs, Employment and Labour Demand over the Cycle
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the costs associated with the engagement or disengagement of workers and propose a model to explain the firm's demand for labour when it is facing expected cyclical variations in the demand for its product.
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Market Power and Inflation
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an explanation of inflation in terms of the market power of the buyers and sellers whose behaviour determines prices and wages, and they focus on a shortcoming of the Market economy: its inadequate handling of the problem of distribution.