The Mimetic Principle in the Underground Economy
There has been in the recent years an increased preoccupation at international level for the research of the mechanism of development of the underground economy. The numerous vain attempts to measure the dimension of the underground economy persuaded us to embark on a qualitative research of this ec...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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General Association of Economists from Romania
2009-08-01
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| Series: | Theoretical and Applied Economics |
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http://store.ectap.ro/articole/405.pdf
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| Summary: | There has been in the recent years an increased preoccupation
at international level for the research of the mechanism of development of the
underground economy. The numerous vain attempts to measure the dimension
of the underground economy persuaded us to embark on a qualitative research
of this economic phenomenon. In our investigation on the roots of the underground
economy we drew very close to the psychological and sociological
aspects of the phenomenon itself. The process of humanizing that has at its
origin components of the mimetic principle, like acquisitive mimesis, prompt us
to ponder over J.M. Keynes’ words: „The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual
ambition that one feels rewarded for.” |
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| ISSN: | 1841-8678 1844-0029 |