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Self‐interest and sympathy in economic behaviour
Hausken, Kjell - In: International Journal of Social Economics 23 (1996) 7, pp. 4-24
Analyses self‐interest and sympathy in game‐theoretic terms. Evaluates the relative weight of self‐interest and sympathy in the theories of Hobbes, Hume and Adam Smith in an economic framework. Demonstrates through game‐theoretic tools that sympathy as an actuating motive in human nature...
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Values, co‐operation and lifetime employment
Arai, Kazuhiro - In: International Journal of Social Economics 25 (1998) 2/3/4, pp. 399-409
factors that affect the outcomes of games played within an organization. Under lifetime employment some values (and beliefs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014806194
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Justice and Mr George: What Henry George knew, what the neoclassicists forgot, and why it matters
Médaille, John C. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 36 (2009) March, pp. 447-461
Purpose – Henry George was acclaimed by the general public and disdained by the professional economists, largely for the same reasons. For the general public, progress, and poverty seemed to go to the heart of the matter, treating economics as a question of justice. But for the professionals,...
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Ideals in sequential bargaining structures
Martins, Ana Paula - In: International Journal of Social Economics 34 (2007) November, pp. 828-882
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to suggest possible extensions of the baseline Rubinstein sequential bargaining structure – applied to the negotiation of stationary infinitely termed contracts – that incorporate a direct reference to the “ideal” utilities of the players. This is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005047647
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An econometric model of the determinants of private investment and a CGE model of the impact of democracy on investment and economic growth in Fiji
Narayan, Paresh Kumar - In: International Journal of Social Economics 35 (2008) October, pp. 1017-1031
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to construct an econometric model of the determinants of private investment with a particular focus on the impact of democracy on investment. Design/methodology/approach – The first step was to econometrically derive the long-run elasticities; then to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005081316
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Moral sentiments and equilibrium moral codes
Lim, Chin - In: International Journal of Social Economics 30 (2003) 9, pp. 985-999
This paper shows that the consistent way of modeling sentiment‐driven moral behaviors in a setting of social interaction is to derive the equilibrium moral code that is mutually consistent with the optimal moral behavior of each player. To do this, it is necessary that moral sentiments be...
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Ideals in sequential bargaining structures
Martins, Ana Paula - In: International Journal of Social Economics 34 (2007) 11, pp. 828-882
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to suggest possible extensions of the baseline Rubinstein sequential bargaining structure – applied to the negotiation of stationary infinitely termed contracts – that incorporate a direct reference to the “ideal” utilities of the players. This is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014805422
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An econometric model of the determinants of private investment and a CGE model of the impact of democracy on investment and economic growth in Fiji
Narayan, Paresh Kumar - In: International Journal of Social Economics 35 (2008) 12, pp. 1017-1031
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to construct an econometric model of the determinants of private investment with a particular focus on the impact of democracy on investment. Design/methodology/approach – The first step was to econometrically derive the long‐run elasticities; then to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014805504
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Justice and Mr George : What Henry George knew, what the neoclassicists forgot, and why it matters
Médaille, John C. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 36 (2009) 4, pp. 447-461
Purpose – Henry George was acclaimed by the general public and disdained by the professional economists, largely for the same reasons. For the general public, progress, and poverty seemed to go to the heart of the matter, treating economics as a question of justice. But for the professionals,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014805528
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Poverty Functions and the Aged Population
Owens, Emiel W. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 17 (1990) 4, pp. 57-65
poverty among the aged population are reviewed. Secondly, analytical models of the severity of poverty are presented and these … models are used to describe techniques that may be employed in attempting to alleviate poverty in one category of the aged … poor where it seems most acute and most intractable, i.e. aged women living alone. Three poverty models are presented: (1 …
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