This essay contests the view that humanity’s centuries-long experience with clocks is marked by a steady increase in time awareness that culminated in the modern compulsion known as “time discipline”. It argues, in contrast, that modern time discipline emerged during…

Electoral authoritarian regimes represent the modal type of political regimes in the developing world. To control electoral outcomes, such regimes may deploy a broad variety of repressive and manipulative measures. Despite their empirical as well as normative relevance, we possess…

The objective of this research is to elaborate an endogenous growth
model which allows us to examine the mutual interaction between economic
growth, labour market behaviour and population growth. We show how the
introduction of disequilibrium and some nonlinearities give…

The study of natural fluctuations has been of great interest for
economists for decades. Although the earliest formal models of business
cycles, around the 1950s, were endogenous (Hicks, Kaldor, Goodwin), the
dominant strategy during the most of the last century…

Physical orientation was a central philosophical problem for German thinkers in the late eighteenth century. Moses Mendelssohn, for instance, pondered in Morgenstunden, o Vorlesungen uber das Daseyn Gotten (1785) whether one can orient oneself in the metaphysical realm with the…