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Degrowth and sustainable public finance
Pasche, Markus - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013459233
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Do Sufficient Institutions Alter the Relationship between Natural Resources and Economic Growth?
Zeynalov, Ayaz - 2014
The purpose of this paper is to test whether institutional governance and its performance is a main driving force to achieve a positive relationship between natural resources and economic growth in the long run. The main objective is to ascertain what kind of institutional governance would be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013056564
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Do University Rankings Matter for Growth?
Tan Kuan Lu, Clifford - 2014
I investigate the relationship between university rankings and economic growth and found that the relationship is statistically significant. The more the number of universities that a country has in international university rankings, the higher its GDP per capita. What is more surprising is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013061096
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Economic Growth Dynamics Across Countries
Lechman, Ewa - 2014
The main purpose of the paper is to analyze GDP PPP per capita growth rates across countries in the period 1980-2008, as well as to identify top and bottom country performers. In addition, the author verifies the statistical relationship between GDP PPP per capita and some arbitrary selected...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014147300
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The evolution of environmental thinking in economics
Halkos, George - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper discusses the development of environmental economics from the Industrial Revolution in Europe to today. Specifically, it comments on the general similarities and differences between the representatives of the schools of economic thought concerning the environment. Among others, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009404620
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Modelling the Costs of Climate Change and its Costs of Mitigation: A Scientific Approach
Douglas, Niall Edward - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
A thorough review is made of Climate Change Science, going into much greater detail than is typical of papers in Economics and specifically emphasising the hard thermodynamic limits of biological and physical processes. This theme is then continued in a historical review of theory relevant to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005620150
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Environment and Growth
Horii, Ryo; Ikefuji, Masako - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
environment. This link also threatens the sustainability of the world's economic growth, particularly when the emission of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112947
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Achieving sustainable development: the Integrative Improvement Institutes Project
Douglas, Graham - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
The challenges we face in our economies and societies in our divided unsustainable world are perhaps greater than at …, governed and acted as though our world is comprised of parts that can be separately exploited by humans and managed by us from … one stable state to another. We have forgotten we are just one species in a complex natural world. We have tended to act …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005622133
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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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Developing Corporate Strategic Framework to Enhance Sustainability through CSR
Sapovadia, Vrajlal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
CSR activities as applicable under the new company law in India may be used as sustainability strategy by the business … critical stakeholders. This strategic framework propose sustainability model over triple bottom line by addressing holistic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011251889