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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 … contribute and draws conclusions on how the empirical findings influence economic theory and policy. Academic economists …
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Handbook of economics and ethics
Staveren, Irene van (contributor); Peil, Jan (contributor) - 2009
, though distinct, are closely interconnected in a variety of ways. From theory building to data collection, and from modelling …1. Altruism / Jonathan Seglow -- 2. Thomas Aquinas / Odd Langholm -- 3. Aristotle / Ricardo Crespo -- 4. Jeremy Bentham … K. Barker and Darla Schumm -- 23. Freedom / Nicolas Gravel -- 24. Game theory / Ken Binmore -- 25. Globalization …
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Fiscal policy and environmental welfare : modelling interjurisdictional competition
Bayındır-Upmann, Thorsten - 1998 - Revised version of the author's thesis
In this innovative book the author examines the link between environmental, trade and industrial policies within an interregional setting. He models how regional governments, using tax rates on real capital and pollutant emissions, determine policies to favour their residents in terms of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473840
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Contingent valuation and endangered species : methodological issues and applications
Jakobsson, Kristin M.; Dragun, Andrew K. - 1996
Contingent Valuation and Endangered Species provides a comprehensive and rigorous examination of the contingent valuation method as applied to the profound social problem of biodiversity conservation. The contingent valuation method allows the explicit identification and valuation of the non-use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473918
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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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Economic rights and environmental wrongs : property rights for the common good
Devlin, Rose Anne - 1998
The crisis of environmental degradation has createcharemd an immense volume of literature which focuses on controlling environmental problems. Economic Rights and Environmental Wrongs goes one step further to extend and complement the current debates
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851479
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Competition in the provision of local public goods : single function jurisdictions and individual choice
Petermann Reifschneider, Alexandra - 2006
The central purpose of this book is to analyse the optimal allocation of local public goods or services (for example garbage collection, police, fire brigades and medical services) in large urban agglomerations and the allocation consequences of increasing competition in the provision of them....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851526
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The quest for a general theory of leadership
Goethals, George R. (contributor);  … - 2006
theory of leadership. Led by James MacGregor Burns, Pulitzer Prize winning author of the classic Leadership (1978), they tell …A quest for a grand theory of leadership / J. Thomas Wren -- Leadership and the human condition / Michael Harvey -- The … theory and metatheory of leadership : the important but contested nature of theory / Mark C. Walker -- Power / Michael Harvey …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852052
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Darwinism and economics
Hodgson, Geoffrey M. - 2009
J.W. Stoelhorst (2007), 'The Naturalist View of Universal Darwinism: An Application to the Evolutionary Theory of the … Altruism', Science, 250, December, 1665-8 -- Paul A. Samuelson (1993), 'The Economics of Altruism: Altruism as a Problem … Sciences, Evolutionary Theory, and the Origins of Reciprocity, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1-27, references …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852267