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Persona rights for user-generated content: a normative framework for privacy and intellectual property regulation

Shepherd, Tamara - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

This article introduces the term “persona rights” as a normative conceptual framework for analyzing the language of … persona rights to interrogate and critique the current limitations of regulatory discourses in protecting user rights online …, the legal implications of persona rights law are translated into more conceptual terms. As a normative framework, persona …

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Prioritizing health care: is “health” always an appropriate maximand?

Oliver, Adam - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

In recent years, a few health economists have begun to question the ethical underpinnings of the standard practice of QALY maximisation as a ubiquitous decision rule in the allocation of health care resources. Prominent among these is Erik Nord, who conjectures that QALY maximisation...

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Life satisfaction, ethnicity and neighbourhoods: is there an effect of neighbourhood ethnic composition on life satisfaction?

Knies, Gundi; Nandi, Alita; Platt, Lucinda - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

Using a rich, nationally representative data set with a large sample of minorities and matched small area characteristics, we explore differences in life satisfaction for ethnic groups living in UK. We test the hypothesis that minorities will be less satisfied, which will in part be explained by...

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Assessing the impact of illness, caring and ethnicity on social activity

Platt, Lucinda - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

It has long been accepted that lack of social participation in wider society is one aspect or one definition of poverty. Current concerns with the extent and distribution of social capital as both a measure of a good society and as means to upward mobility also emphasise the importance of social...

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Cooperative environmental governance and waste-to-energy technologies in Asia

Forsyth, Tim - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

the Philippines and India, and especially the choice between the technologies of incineration, pyrolysis and …

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Tenancy in Palanpur

Tyagi, Ashish; Himanshu, Himanshu - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

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Credit in rural India: a case study

Dreze, Jean; Lanjouw, Peter; Sharma, Naresh - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1997

studies of credit in rural India. …

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Investigating rationality in wage-setting

Bhalotra, Sonia - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1998

This paper investigates the efficiency wage hypothesis and derives a tractable expression for the profit loss incurred by deviations from the efficiency wage. The extent of the wage deviation can be inferred from production function parameters. The resulting profit loss shown to depend upon the...

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Minority representation and policy choices: the significance of legislator identity

Pande, Rohini - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1999

law in India to test this prediction empirically. The principal finding is that minority representation has increased …

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Building deliberative public–private partnerships for waste management in Asia

Forsyth, Tim - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

–private partnerships in waste-to-energy projects in the Philippines and India to identify how principles of institutional design may …

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