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Recoupling economic and social prosperity
Lima de Miranda, Katharina; Snower, Dennis J. - 2020
-being - solidarity (S) and agency (A) - to be considered alongside the standard indexes of material gain (G) and environmental … sustainability (E). The four indexes - SAGE - form a balanced dashboard for evaluating well-being. The solidarity index covers the … conventionally measured through GDP per capita, "social prosperity" can be measured through our solidarity and agency indexes …
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Does forced solidarity hamper investment in small and micro enterprises?
Grimm, Michael; Hartwig, Renate; Lay, Jann - 2013
solidarity ; informal insurance ; investment ; micro and small enterprises ; sharing ; Sub-Saharan Africa …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009717131
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Generational accounting, solidarity and pension losses
Teulings, Coen N. (contributor);  … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Why is child labor illegal?
Dessy, Sylvain Eloi (contributor); Knowles, John (contributor) - 2007
"We present a theory of the emergence of laws restricting child labor or imposing mandatory education that is …
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Laws and norms
Bénabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - 2012
, particularly when the descriptive and prescriptive norms conflict. The next main question is the expressive role of law. The … "community standards" are also what shapes social judgements and moral sentiments. Setting law thus means both imposing material … expressive law, determining in particular when a weakening or a strengthening of incentives is called for. Pushing further this …
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Where to look for the morals in markets?
Sutter, Matthias; Huber, Jürgen; Kirchler, Michael; … - 2016
Markets are ubiquitous in our daily life and, despite many imperfections, they are a great source of human welfare. Nevertheless, there is a heated recent debate on whether markets erode social responsibility and moral behavior. In fact, competitive pressure on markets may create strong...
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The economics of assisted reproduction
Kossoudji, Sherrie A. (contributor) - 2005
Typically, when two people decide to become parents, they procreate by copulation and produce a child. What do people do if, for some reason, they can't produce their own children but want to be parents? Today, a prospective parent can go to the web, drop a vial of sperm from a donor with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002549126
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A soul's view of the optimal population problem
De la Croix, David; Doepke, Matthias - 2021
A long-standing challenge for welfare economics is to develop welfare criteria that can be applied to allocations with different population levels. Such a criterion is essential to resolve the optimal population problem, i.e., the tradeoff between population size and the welfare of each person...
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Facing yourself : a note on self-image
Falk, Armin - 2017
Numerous signaling models in economics assume image concerns. These take two forms, as relating either to social image or self-image. While empirical work has identified the behavioral importance of the former, little is known about the role of self-image concerns. We exogenously vary self-image...
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Why variable-population social orderings cannot escape the repugnant conclusion : proofs and implications
Spears, Dean; Budolfson, Mark - 2019
conclusion. Therefore, the repugnant conclusion provides no methodological guidance for theory or policymaking, because it cannot …
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