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The siting of public facilities, such as prisons, airports or incinerators for hazardous waste typically faces social rejection by local populations (the "NIMBY" syndrome, for Not In My BackYard). These public goods exhibit a private bad aspect which creates an asymmetry: all involved...
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Business leaders and voting citizens as well as policy makers are influenced in their decision-making by the idea that a “perfectly free” market can produce a social optimum (a “best of all possible worlds”). Because this idea is so influential, it is important to understand the...
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itself. Internationalization is a powerful means to fulfill a university’s central task “Bildung of individuals” as it …
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account of social benefits of education. Our short note extends his paper on the social returns to accumulation of human … capital, with particular emphasis on the social returns to education which are given by the sum of the private and external … marginal benefits of a unit of human capital. In other words, we study the problem of human capital externalities which comes …
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account the social benefits of education. Our note extends his paper on the social returns to accumulation of human capital …, with particular emphasis on the social returns to education which are given by the sum of the private and external marginal … benefits of a unit of human capital. In other words, we study the problem of human capital externalities which comes from …
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account of technological change, the accumulation of knowledge and externalities. At the same time they highlight the …
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We present an endogenous growth model with technological externalities emitted the presence of the foreign direct …
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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights promises free elementary education and free choice of schools to children and … allows parents almost no choice at all in basic education. …
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2000, we find that although improvements in education and health care outcomes account for a sizable portion of the total …
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in the Caribbean. The purpose of this paper is to assess the efficacy of public spending on health care and education by …
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