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Interdisciplinary Approaches to Climate Change for Sustainable Growth
Valaguzza, Sara (ed.); Hughes, Mark Alan (ed.) - 2022 - 1st ed. 2022.
1. Introduction -- 2. The Ideological Trick of Climate Change and Sustainability -- 3. Words Count: the Role of Language in Overcoming Climate Inertia -- 4. Measuring Complex Socio-Economic Phenomena. Conceptual and Methodological Issues -- 5. Glaciers: Vanishing Elements of our Mountains and...
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The Scots may be Brave but They are Neither Healthy Nor Happy
Bell, David - 2006
worse than the rest of Europe. Deaths from chronic liver disease and lung cancer are particularly prevalent in Scotland. The …
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30 Years since the Fall of the Berlin Wall : Turns and Twists in Economies, Politics, and Societies in the Post-Communist Countries
Akimov, Alexandr (ed.); Kazakevitch, Gennadi (ed.) - 2020 - 1st ed. 2020.
1. 30 Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall: Trends and the Current State of Communism and Post-Communism in Europe … Central, Eastern and South-eastern Europe have tied their post-communist transition to deep integration into the West …, including EU accession. Most of the states in Central and Eastern Europe have been able to relatively successfully transform …
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Hobbesian Wars and Separation of Powers
Li, Weijia; Roland, Gérard; Xie, Yang - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper formalizes the principle that persecution power of government may generate violent contests over it. We show that this principle yields a large set of theoretical insights on different separation-of-powers institutions that can help to preempt such contests under different...
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From Itinerant Trade to Moneylending in the Era of Financial Inclusion : Households, Debts and Masculinity among Calon Gypsies of Northeast Brazil
Fotta, Martin - 2018
This book analyses how Calon Gypsies in Brazil have responded to global financial transformations and shifted their economic practices from itinerant trade to moneylending. It also explores their role as ethnic credit providers, offering rare insight into the financial lives of poor and...
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Shifting Punishment on Minorities : Experimental Evidence of Scapegoating
Bauer, Michal; Cahlíková, Jana; Chytilová, Julie; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper provides experimental evidence showing that members of a majority group systematically shift punishment on innocent members of an ethnic minority. We develop a new incentivized task, the Punishing the Scapegoat Game, to measure how injustice affecting a member of one's own group...
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Income inequality, credit and public support for redistribution
Kus, Basak; Fan, Wen - In: Intereconomics : review of European economic policy 50 (2015) 4, pp. 198-205
Credit affects individuals’ perceptions and experiences of inequality. Having access to credit enables those in lower- and middle-income groups to consume an array of products and services that they otherwise would not be able to afford, thereby taking the edge off discontent. Citizens with...
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Socioeconomics of Agriculture
Mann, Stefan - 2018
This open access book applies for the first time emerging concepts of socioeconomics to analyse an economic sector, namely agriculture. It considers the rational choices of all actors in the system (just as agricultural economists do) and their cultural preferences and constraints (just as rural...
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Growth rates vs income growth curves : a step towards the measurement of societal progress
Roberti, Paolo; Calza, Maria Grazia; Mostacci, Franco; … - In: Rivista di politica economica 98 (2008) 9/10, pp. 233-262
Overall growth rates mean different things to different people. Hence, they can easily misrepresent what happens to living standards and "quality of life". This paper focuses on patterns and interrelationships between the size and the distribution of the dividends of growth, not on summary...
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Der bedarfsgewichtete Käse und die neue Armut
Sinn, Hans-Werner - In: Ifo-Schnelldienst 61 (2008) 10, pp. 14-16
Glaubt man dem neuesten Armutsbericht der Bundesregierung, sind 13% der Bevölkerung in Deutschland armutsgefährdet. Sind die derzeit aus den Medien zu hörenden Alarmrufe angebracht, oder leidet die öffentliche Diskussion unter einer Begriffsverwirrung und wird durch ein statistisches...
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