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Railway regulation in 19th Century Britain: the economic rationale and legacy of Gladstone and Chadwick

Bailey, Mark F. - EconWPA - 2003

This paper examines the economic rationale of the ideas of Gladstone & Chadwick on railway regulation and the legacy of their ideas. In 1844 Gladstone proposed and implemented what we would now call price and quantity regulation whereas in 1859 Chadwick proposed competition "for the field", i.e....

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The Impartial Observer Theorem of Social Ethics

Mongin, Philippe - EconWPA - 2005

judgments, especially in matters of distributive justice. This broad ethical tradition was revived in welfare economics by …

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Utilitarian Aggregation of Beliefs and Tastes

Gilboa, Itzhak; Samet, Dov; Schmeidler, David - EconWPA - 2001

Several authors have indicated a contradiction between consistent aggregation of subjective beliefs and tastes, and a Pareto condition. We argue that the Pareto condition that implies the contradiction is not compelling. Society should not necessarily endorse a unanimous choice when it is based...

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Asset measurement in the costing of government services

EconWPA; Steering Committee for the Review of … - 2001

Differences in asset measurement techniques can have a major impact on reported capital costs. Their influence on total unit cost depends on the importance of capital costs as a proportion of total costs for the particular service area being studied. In the areas of corrective services, police...

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Exploring the Social and Economic Costs of Abuse in Later lIfe

Spencer, Charmaine - EconWPA - 2000

in health, community, and justice services, as well as private industry (banking, housing, insurance) and government …

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L’expert-comptable judiciaire : un pair de la cour ?

CHARRIER, Emmanuel - EconWPA - 2005

il doit apporter un éclairage strictement limité à sa technique afin que la décision de justice soit prise en toute … Justice. …

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Shared Legacies, Disparate Outcomes: Why American South Border Cities Turned the Tables on Crime and Their Mexican Sisters Did Not

Albuquerque, Pedro H. - EconWPA - 2005

The article evaluates crime trends in south border American and Mexican sister cities using panel data analysis. The region offers a unique assessment opportunity since cities are characterized by shared cultural and historical legacies, institutional heterogeneity, and disparate crime outcomes....

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A normative framework of justice in climate change

Grasso, Marco - EconWPA - 2004

attainable. That is the reason why justice plays a major role in favouring collective action against global warming. In this … article I spell out the dominant notions of justice and the consequent criteria of equity for the main domains of global … factor which takes into account all undeserved inequalities, as suggested by Rawls’ theory of justice. With regard to the …

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