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Managerial economics
About: Managerial economics is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1524 publications have been published within this topic receiving 83965 citations.
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TL;DR: Peer-to-peer lending has advantages of ease of access to finance, timely and efficient delivery of funding, and is particularly beneficial at a specific time in the life cycle of the firm as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Peer to peer lending has advantages of ease of access to finance, timely and efficient delivery of funding, and is particularly beneficial at a specific time in the life cycle of the firm.
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TL;DR: The authors argue that mainstream economics does have real tendencies conducive to expansion and that it has also been engaged in a process of eliminating alternatives within economics that have traditionally emphasised a broad pluralist/pragmatist philosophical position.
Abstract: The basic thesis of this paper is that Ben Fine and Grahame Thompson's 1999 exchange on economics imperialism illustrates two positions that talk across each other. Fine's approach to understanding the field of mainstream economics combines methodological analysis of theoretical innovation and a broad critical sociology. Thompson's response to Fine combines methodological analysis of practical and theoretical problems that currently inhibit the mainstream with a broad pluralist/pragmatist philosophical position. Analysing each position provides a useful way to develop the issues at stake in the debate – specifically, what are the potentials and ramifications of mainstream economics? We argue that mainstream economics does have real tendencies conducive to expansion. Its discursive constitution is dualistic (defining its limits but with an insignificant outside) and knows no genuine boundary. It has also been engaged in a process of eliminating alternatives within economics that have traditionally emphasiz...
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