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Nyborg, Karine - 2015

International climate negotiations have been troubled by mutual mistrust. At the same time, a hope seems to prevail that once enough countries moved forward, others would follow suit. If the abatement game faced by climate negotiators is a Prisoners' Dilemma, and countries are narrowly...

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Re-Orient? MNC Penetration and Contemporary Shifts in the Global Political Economy

Tausch, Arno - 2009

This article analyses IMF estimates of economic growth in 180 countries (IMF, 2009), and inks the results to the Re-orient approach, put forward by Frank, 1998. With global economic gravitation shifting to the Indian Ocean/Pacific region, the article also analyses the role of MNC (foreign...

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Equity and Equality

Duclos, Jean-Yves - 2006

as is usually thought and that it requires advanced notions of justice and well-being. The most likely ethical basis for …

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Mandatory Volunteer Work as Fair Reciprocity for Unemployment and Social Benefits?

Veldboer, Lex - 2015

Modern welfare policies are increasingly based on notions of reciprocity. Citizens on welfare benefits have to do something in return, e.g. volunteer work. Notwithstanding general public support, social philosophers have been critical on 'mandatory' activities in community programmes. So far,...

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(In)Equality and (In)Justice

Jasso, Guillermina - 2016

Understanding the exact connection between inequality and justice is important because justice is classically regarded … justice, the sense of justice would not awaken to exert its moral suasion, no matter how great the inequality or how fast its … increase. We obtain exact links between economic inequality and three parameters of the justice evaluation distribution …

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Theoretical Unification in Justice and Beyond

Jasso, Guillermina - 2021

examines a series of twenty-one unification surprises in the study of justice and beyond, sixteen in the study of justice and … five in the unification of three fundamental sociobehavioral forces - justice, status, and power - and the subsequent …

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Global Climate Change and the Resurgence of Tropical Disease : An Economic Approach

Gollin, Douglas - 2014

We study the impact of global climate change on the prevalence of tropical diseases using a heterogeneous agent dynamic general equilibrium model. In our framework, households can take actions (e.g., purchasing bednets or other goods) that provide partial protection from disease. However, these...

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Climatic Roots of Loss Aversion

Galor, Oded - 2018

This research explores the origins of loss aversion and the variation in its prevalence across regions, nations and ethnic group. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that the evolution of loss aversion in the course of human history can be traced to the adaptation of...

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Climate Change, Migration and Voice : An Explanation for the Immobility Paradox

Beine, Michel A. R. - 2019

This paper sheds light on the apparent paradox, wherein populations adversely affected by climatic conditions fail to migrate as much as would otherwise be expected. Drawing on Hirschman's treatise on Exit, Voice and Loyalty, we develop a simple model, which highlights the theoretical case for a...

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Climate Change and Diet

Bose, Neha - 2020

Though many in the general public are concerned about climate change, most are unaware that agriculture and food production accounts for about one quarter of aggregate green house emissions and therefore, diet change is one of the most effective ways that individuals can reduce their climate...

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