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Contract theory and agricultural policy analysis: a discussion and survey of recent developments
Wu, Steven Y. - In: Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 50 (2006) 4
This paper surveys some recent developments in contract theory and illustrates how this theory might be useful for … surveying contract theory to identify key economic distortions that can potentially justify government involvement. Next, the …, controversial aspects of real-world agricultural contracts are highlighted and lessons from the theory are used to determine whether …
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Water rights: a comparison of the impacts of urban and irrigation reforms in Australia
Crase, Lin; Dollery, Brian - In: Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 50 (2006) 3
Although there has been a policy thrust towards making all Australians more cognisant of the relative scarcity of water resources, the approach adopted for urban dwellers differs markedly from that applied to irrigators. These differences are examined from a property-rights perspective focussing...
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Australasian environmental economics: contributions, conflicts and ‘cop-outs’
Bennett, Jeffrey W. - In: Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 49 (2005) 3
Australian and New Zealand environmental economists have played a significant role in the development of concepts and their application across three fields within their subdiscipline: non-market valuation, institutional economics and bioeconomic modelling. These contributions have been spurred...
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A consolidated economic model based on a new concept of biased equilibrium
Zaman, Monowaruz - In: International Journal of Green Economics 6 (2012) 1, pp. 55-72
The fundamental theorems of welfare economics are not designed to represent the real world. Instead, they tell us about certain conditions under which general equilibrium will be efficient. This paper introduces a new concept 'biased equilibrium' based on information economics and consolidates...
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Hegel’s “Objective Spirit” and its Contemporary Relevance for the Philosophy of Economics
Boldyrev, Ivan; Herrmann-Pillath, Carsten - National Research University Higher School of Economics - 2012
that Hegel’s theory of Objective Spirit anticipates many elements of modern approaches in cognitive sciences and of the … recognition in an intersubjective domain. We demonstrate the implications for economic theory in sketching an externalist approach …
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Why do we need green economics when we have ecological economics? A proposal for 'pulling people together' at the crossroad of environmental and social sustainability
Douai, Ali - In: International Journal of Green Economics 4 (2010) 1, pp. 43-62
This paper argues that the epistemological and intellectual space of green economics is or should be located where ecological economics, even in its socio-economic perspective, still fails to provide a coherent conceptual framework such that environmental problems could be analysed in a holistic...
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The institutional analysis of the market
Hermann, Arturo - In: International Journal of Green Economics 2 (2008) 4, pp. 379-391
The analysis of the market constitutes perhaps one of the most controversial aspects in the study of economic systems. In fact, such analysis lies at the juncture of significant aspects of economic and social structure: in particular, public action and private initiative, forms of competition,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005225810
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The institutional analysis of the market
Hermann, Arturo - In: International Journal of Green Economics 2 (2008) 4, pp. 379-391
The analysis of the market constitutes perhaps one of the most controversial aspects in the study of economic systems. In fact, such analysis lies at the juncture of significant aspects of economic and social structure: in particular, public action and private initiative, forms of competition,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008563514
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Cultural history: disciplinary borderlands in the time of border-scrapping
Savelieva, Irina - National Research University Higher School of Economics - 2013
The paper analyzes the objects, concepts and methods of cultural history / histoire culturelle / Kulturgeschichte / kulturnaya istoriya, a modern historical subdiscipline that exists in different national historiographical traditions. This subdiscipline’s objects of study, such as social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010726948
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Two-Faced Status Of History: Between The Humanities And Social Sciences
Savelieva, Irina - National Research University Higher School of Economics - 2015
aspired to this. Two-faced status of history is problematized as a conflict between social theory and historical method when …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011133087