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The Logic of Value and the Value of Logic
Kakarot-Handtke, Egmont - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Jevons composed his value theory of nonenties. These creatures are elusive. Subsequent formal refinements did not eliminate the fundamental flaw but made it only harder to detect. A vacuous formal structure is one that cannot be interpreted in some domain. For want of any correspondence in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260793
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Systematic Approach to the Allocation of Budgets for humanitarian Aid Programs: A Practical Tool for International NGOs
Malki, Elli - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This article presents a model for budgetary allocation that was used by an international NGO for its aid program. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005260205
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Modelling water resource allocation: a case study on agriculture versus hydropower production
Bielsa, Jorge; Duarte, Rosa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
In this paper we propose an economic model for the optimum allocation of water within a given area with the following … for achieving improvements in water allocation from the former administrative-based rules to new flexible and tradable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009650672
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Análisis del Gasto Público Social en el Presupuesto Nacional 2010
Cogliandro, Gisell; Ariel, Melamud - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The National Budget has a key role as an instrument of funds allocation for different social priorities and resources … funds to the various social programs, priorities and allocation criteria used to provinces in the National Budget 2010 … more relevant with the new Universal Child Allocation for Social Protection program, as well as programs for education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008526958
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George Orwell as a Public Choice Economist
Makovi, Michael - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
George Orwell is famous for his two final fictions, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. These two works are sometimes understood to defend capitalism against socialism. But as Orwell was a committed socialist, this could not have been his intention. Orwell's criticisms were directed not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011274383
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The two social philosophies of Ostroms' institutionalism
Boettke, Peter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The article argues that Ostroms’ institutionalism has a dimension that is complex and profound enough to deserve to be considered a “social theory” or a “social philosophy”. The paper pivots around the thesis that the “social philosophy” behind the Bloomington School’s research...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009294913
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The rhetoric of economics
Estrada, Fernando - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This article offers an approach to the general structure of the rhetoric in economy. In our case we adopted a perspective to study a particular aspect of the rhetoric that comes from the context of a particular controversy: the controversy on the advantages of the free commerce between Daly and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009372536
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Costos de transacción en biotecnología
Estrada, Fernando; Diaz, Natalia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper aims to relate the principles of Ronald Coase Theorem with negative impacts of biotechnology, taking cases of specific research groups and medium-sized companies in biotechnology. We consider an application of economic theory on transaction costs (TEC) provides a good foundation for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009395480
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The transaction costs in biotechnology
Estrada, Fernando; Diaz, Natalia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper aims to relate the principles of Ronald Coase Theorem with negative impacts of biotechnology, taking cases of specific research groups and medium-sized companies in biotechnology. We consider an application of economic theory on transaction costs (TTC) provides a good foundation for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009395487
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The constitution of economic growth: Testing the prosperity effects of a Madisonian model on a panel of countries 1980‐2000
Justesen, Mogens K.; Kurrild-Klitgaard, Peter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Political scientists and economists increasingly agree that institutions may influence economic growth, but there is little general agreement on what institutions tend to produce what consequences. We apply public choice insights for a theoretical analysis that may be termed “Madisonian”:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009421987