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The Law and Economics of Private Prosecutions in Industrial Revolution England
Koyama, Mark - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
for crime, I examine why this system came under strain during the Industrial Revolution, and how private associations were … of crime in a period when Public Choice considerations precluded the introduction of a professional police force. …
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Understanding the Impact of Immigration on Crime
Spenkuch, Jörg L. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Since the 1960s both crime rates and the share of immigrants among the American population have more than doubled …. Almost three quarters of Americans believe immigration increases crime, yet existing academic research has shown no such … economically meaningful impact of immigration on crime. Consistent with the economic model of crime this effect is strongest for …
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La legalidad en las políticas agrarias: México 1990–2005
Reveles, Acosta; Lorena, Irma - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
In support of public policy, the law anticipates Government projects so as to pave the way for them, or is adjusted along the way in order to adapt the institutional framework to the processes which in fact prevail. A typical case is that of Mexican Agrarian legislation in the late 20th and...
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Property crime and macroeconomic variables in Malaysia: Some empirical evidence from a vector error-correction model
Habibullah, M.S.; Law, Siong-Hook - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
In this study we investigated the long-run relationship between property crime and three macro-financial economic … long-run relationship between property crime and the three macroeconomic variables in Malaysia. Our VECM results, however …, suggest that there is no long-run and short-run causal effect of the three macro-variables on the property crime. Nevertheless …
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Folksonomy: the New Way to Serendipity
Auray, Nicolas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Folksonomy expands the collaborative process by allowing contributors to index content. It rests on three powerful properties: the absence of a prior taxonomy, multi-indexation and the absence of thesaurus. It concerns a more exploratory search than an entry in a search engine. Its original...
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Study on the importance of credit as financial leverage in agricultural development
Stan, Darius - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Romanian agriculture is closely related to Romanian village life and is defined as the creatures and the whole of eternity. To think that there is little work to invest in land fertility, agricultural durability invest without having in mind that in Romania the whole eternity of mankind was born...
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Explicit Evidence of an Implicit Contract
Young, Andrew; Levy, Daniel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
We offer the first direct evidence of an implicit contract in a goods market. The evidence comes from the market for Coca-Cola. We demonstrate that the Coca-Cola Company left a written evidence of its implicit contract with its consumers—a very explicit form of an implicit contract. The...
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Proposition 4, Tax Reduction Mirage: An Exploratory Note on Its Potential Spending and Tax Impacts
Cebula, Richard; Chevlin, Linda - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1980
What would the true government expenditure and tax burden im­pacts of California's Proposition 4 likely be if it (or its equivalent) were enacted in all 50 states? What happened to actual state plus local government expenditures per capita over the period 1970-1976 is examined. Next, we examine...
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Standardizing the fiscal state: cabal tax farming as an Intermediate Institution in early-modern England and France
Noel D., Johnson; Mark, Koyama - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
How did modern and centralized fiscal institutions emerge? We develop a model that explains (i) why pre-industrial states relied on private individuals to collect taxes; (ii) why after 1600 both England and France moved from competitive methods for collecting revenues to allocating the right to...
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Right to water and access to water
Anand, P B - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This paper examines the scope for a rights-based perspective on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by focusing on right to water. The paper adapts Hohfeldian framework of elements of a right developed by Wenar. According to this, a right should be interpreted in terms of powers, privileges,...
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