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The economics of evaluation in public programs

Link, Albert N. - 2011

. Weisbrod (1981), 'Benefit-Cost Analysis of a Controlled Experiment: Treating the Mentally Ill', Journal of Human Resources, XVI …

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The economics of non-selfish behaviour : decisions to contribute money to public goods

Meier, Stephan - 2006

In standard economic theory human beings are portrayed as selfish money-maximizing actors. This book investigates the conditions under which people deviate from this prediction and when they are prepared to contribute to the common good in a more altruistic fashion. Based on field experiments...

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Behavioural macroeconomics

McDonald, Ian M. - 2012

', Economic Journal, 117 (516), January, 146-73 -- George A. Akerlof (2007), 'The Missing Motivation in Macroeconomics', American …

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Handbook of economics and ethics

Staveren, Irene van (contributor); Peil, Jan (contributor) - 2009

1. Altruism / Jonathan Seglow -- 2. Thomas Aquinas / Odd Langholm -- 3. Aristotle / Ricardo Crespo -- 4. Jeremy Bentham …

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Darwinism and economics

Hodgson, Geoffrey Martin - 2009

Altruism', Science, 250, December, 1665-8 -- Paul A. Samuelson (1993), 'The Economics of Altruism: Altruism as a Problem …. Field (2001), 'Prologue: The World's First Prisoner's Dilemma Experiment', in Altruistically Inclined? The Behavioral …), 'Darwinism, Altruism and Economics', in Kurt Dopfer (ed) (ed.), The Evolutionary Foundations of Economics, Chapter 4, Cambridge …

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Public goods, redistribution and rent seeking

Tullock, Gordon - 2005

1. Some difficulties in the existing theory of externalities -- 2. Coase and all that -- 3. More on why government? -- 4. The poor -- 5. The legacy of Bismarck -- 6. Some biological problems -- 7. The rich -- 8. The survey of the existing system -- 9. Rent seeking -- 10. War -- 11. Monarchies...

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Advancing public goods

Touffut, Jean-Philippe (contributor) - Cournot Centre for Economic Studies <Paris, France)> / … - 2006

The studies cover topics in the conceptualization, classification and stratification of public goods. Also examined are public institutional design, global economic institutions and partnership typologies. Individual papers address the financing, regulatory, organizational and legal aspects...

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Modelling the composition of government expenditure

Creedy, John - 2011

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Integrated assessment and management of public resources

Perali, Federico (contributor); … - 2006

This multidisciplinary work explores ways of making environmental policy decisions in managing public goods and natural parks with the goal of maximizing economic benefits to society. The contributors to the volume seek the best strategies for improving the environmental sustainability and...

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Recent developments in public finance

Tanzi, Vito - 2011

This authoritative collection presents seminal papers from leading academics charting recent developments in public finance. The two-volume set encompasses numerous sections including the public sector in a market economy, market imperfections, growth implications of public policies and...

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