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Social Responsibility in India: International Arena and Social Development -- Chapter 4: Politics of Corporate Social … international governance framework pertaining to CSR, that is primarily based on soft law attributes. Such international soft law … research work on assessing the Regulatory and Governance aspects of the Indian case of Corporate Social Responsibility. She has …
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preference evolution? We show that it is in a couple's common interest to obey a rule requiring them to give specified amounts of …
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usefulness for counterfactual projections. The objective of this paper is to offer a historical overview of its evolution from an …
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leads to clustering, is crucial for the survival of the Pareto dominant actions. The evolution of leader and crowd …
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This paper reviews the literature concerning the evolution of cultural traits in general and preferences in particular … effectively the clone of an existing one (either a parent or anyone else), there may be evolution only in the demographic sense … that the share of the population who hold a certain trait increases or decreases. Evolution in the strict sense of new …
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This research explores the origins of the distribution of time preference across regions. It advances the hypothesis, and establishes empirically that geographical variations in the natural return to agricultural investment have had a persistent effect on the distribution of time preference...
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It is a well known fact that economic development and distance to the equator are positively correlated variables in … particular, we develop a dynamic model of economic and physiological development in which households decide upon the number and … economic development during pre-industrial times, yet allow for an early onset of sustained growth. As a result, the theory …
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The paper offers a proof that expected utility maximisation with logarithmic utility is a dominant preference in the biological selection process in the sense that a population following any other preference for decision-making under risk will, with a probability that approaches certainty,...
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This paper shows that price rigidity evolves in an economy populated by imperfectly rational agents who experiment with alternative rules of thumb. In the model, firms must set their prices in face of aggregate demand shocks. Their payoff depends on the level of aggregate demand, as well as on...
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That individuals contribute in social dilemma interactions even when contributing is costly is a well-established observation in the experimental literature. Since a contributor is always strictly worse off than a non-contributor the question is raised if an intrinsic motivation to contribute...
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