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Sustainable consumption and happiness
Veenhoven, Ruut - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
One of the reasons for promoting sustainable consumption is that it may give rise to greater happiness of a greater number, at least in the long run. In this paper I explore the strength of that moral account. I take stock of the assumed effects of sustainable consumption on happiness and next...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837346
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Liberal Egalitarianism and the Harm Principle
Lombardi, Michele; Miyagishima, Kaname; Veneziani, Roberto - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper analyses the implications of classical liberal and libertarian approaches for distributive justice in the context of social welfare orderings. An axiom capturing a liberal non-interfering view of society, named the Weak Harm Principle, is studied, whose roots can be traced back to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107417
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The Problem of Internalisation of Social Costs and the Ideas of Ronald Coase
Enrico, Baffi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This work examines the influence of Coasian thought on the analysis of externalities as used by economists and legal economists. Ronald Coase, a Chicago scholar, advanced a series of critiques of the Pigovian tax system; the theorem that bears his name is merely the best known. In his 1960 work,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005620187
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La demografia in Europa e in Us. Uno sguardo alle proiezioni a medio-lungo termine
SALERNO, Nicola Carmine - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The demographic database of Eurostat and of Us Census of Bureau are explored and the main facts are extracted and described. This paper is completely self-standing but is also part of a more general analysis dedicated to the functioning and sustainability of pay-as-you-go to finance the welfare...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110362
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Un Test sulle Ipotesi delle Proiezioni a Medio-Lungo Termine della Spesa Farmaceutica
SALERNO, Nicola Carmine - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
We use the same methodology, that Ecofin-Oecd apply for projecting expenditure in the medium-long term, to reconstruct expenditure in the medium-long past. It is possible to compare the effective expenditure with the reconstructed one. The effective expenditure is of course influenced by policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114476
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Environmentally Unfriendly Consumption Behaviour: Theoretical and Empirical Evidence from Private Motorists in Mexico City
González, Alva; Ángel, Miguel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This dissertation treats the topic of environmentally unfriendly consumption behaviour in relation to air pollution and the use of automobiles in Mexico City by analyzing three related aspects: i) relevant factors of driving patterns, ii) differences in the extent of pollution arising from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008578221
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Inclusive human development in pre-crisis times of globalisation-driven debts
Asongu, Simplice; EFOBI, Uchenna; BEECROFT, Ibukun - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
inequality in OECD nations. We assess the effects of four debt dynamics on inequality adjusted human development. Instrumental …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011264818
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Investment and inequality in Africa: which financial channels are good for the poor?
Simplice A., Asongu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper examines how domestic, foreign, private and public investments affect income-inequality through financial … channels of depth and activity are good for the poor as they diminish estimated household income-inequality. Financial size … provide new insights into the two contrasting theories in the finance-inequality nexus. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009372548
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Finance and inequality: exploring pro-poor investment channels in Africa
Simplice A., Asongu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Hitherto very few studies on the inequality-finance(investment) nexus have focused on the African continent owing to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009372610
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Social equality and state welfare effort: More income-equality, no more equality in quality of life
Veenhoven, Ruut - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1992
spread in happiness in the nation, also called ‘inequality in happiness’. Inequality in happiness in nations can be measured … artifact of variation in level of happiness and appear quite constant through time. Inequality in happiness appears to be … nations. Contrary to expectation, inequality in happiness appears to be more closely linked to social equality among rich …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021986