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Hawala, Or The Bank That Never Was
I. OVERVIEW In the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks on the USA, attention was drawn to the age-old, secretive, and globe-spanning banking system developed in Asia and known as "Hawala" (t......
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Lessons In Transition
Q: What have been the most successful approaches to attracting direct foreign investments: offering prospective investors tax breaks and similar benefits, or improving the overall investment climate ......
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Financial Crises, Global Capital Flows And The International Financial Architecture
The recent upheavals in the world financial markets were quelled by the immediate intervention of both international financial institutions such as the IMF and of domestic ones in the developed count......
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The Predicament Of The Newly Rich
They are the object of thinly disguised envy. They are the raw materials of vulgar jokes and the targets of popular aggression. They are the Newly Rich. Perhaps they should be dealt with more appropr......
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The Criminality Of Transition
Lecture given at the Netherlands Economic Institute (NEI) on 18/4/2001 Human vice is the most certain thing after death and taxes, to paraphrase Benjamin Franklin. The only variety of economic activi......
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Immortality And Mortality In The Economic Sciences
Roberto Calvo Macias, a young author and thinker from Spain, once wrote to me that it is impossible to design a coherent philosophy of Economy without accounting for the (sad?) fact that we are morta......
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The Distributive Justice Of The Market
"(1) Each person is to have an equal right to the most extensive total system of equal basic liberties compatible with a similar system of liberty for all. (2) Social and economic inequalities are ......
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The Fabric Of Economic Trust
Economy is called the dismal science because it pretends to be one, disguising its uncertainties and shifting fashions with mathematical formulae. Economy describes the aggregate behaviour of humans ......
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The Blessings Of The Black Economy
Some call it the "unofficial" or "informal" economy, others call it the "grey economy" but the old name fits it best: the "black economy". In the USA "black" means "profitable, healthy" and this is w......
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The Ifs And VATs Of Taxation In Macedonia - Should VAT Be Applied In Macedonia?
To be justified, taxes should satisfy a few conditions: Above all, they should encourage economic activity by providing incentives to save and to invest. Savings - transformed into investments- enha......
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The Good, The Bad And The Ugly: Employee And Management Owned Firms
Margaret Thatcher started a world trend during her tenure as Prime Minister is Downing Street. It is called: Privatization. It consisted of the transfer of control of a state-owned enterprise to the ......
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Why Is The Macedonian Stock Exchange Unsuccessful?
The Macedonian Stock Exchange (MSE) is not operating successfully. True, some of the parameters which we use to measure the success of a stock exchange have lately improved in the MSE. For instance, ......
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The Dismal Mind - Economics As A Pretension To Science
It is impossible to describe any human action if one does not refer to the meaning the actor sees in the stimulus as well as in the end his response is aiming at. Ludwig von Mises I. INTRODUCTION ......
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A Remedial Course In Investing
Or, How We Discovered the Real Y2K By Carol Clark (ARA) - Was it really just a year ago that we were all running around trying to prevent computers from coming to a grinding halt on the first of Janu......
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Whats With All This Fraud On The Internet?
I’ve got faith in humanity, but what’s with all this fraud and theft on the Internet? My friends in the web hosting business have recently informed me that the big problem this year (2004) is securit......
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