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Liberal principles for social welfare relations in infinitely-lived societies
Lombardi, Michele; Veneziani, Roberto - 2009
This paper extends the analysis of liberal principles in social choice recently proposed by Mariotti and Veneziani (2009a) to infinitely-lived societies. First, a novel characterisation of the inegalitarian leximax social welfare relation is provided based on the Individual Benefit Principle,...
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The paradoxes of the liberal ethics of non-interference
Mariotti, Marco; Veneziani, Roberto - 2009
raise important issues for liberal approaches in social choice and political philosophy. -- Liberalism ; Noninterference …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003933903
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Shooting a moving target : choosing targeting tools for social programs
Beuermann, Diether W.; Hoffmann, Bridget; Stampini, Marco; … - 2024
A key challenge for policymakers is how to design methods to select beneficiaries of social programs when income is volatile and the target population is dynamic. We evaluate a traditional static proxy-means test (PMT) and three policy-relevant alternatives. We use a unique panel dataset of a...
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A comparison between shale gas in China and unconventional fuel development in the United States : health, water and environmental risks
Farah, Paolo D.; Tremolada, Riccardo - 2013
China is appraised to have the world's largest exploitable reserves of shale gas, although several legal, regulatory, environmental and investment-related issues will likely restrain its scope. China's capacity to successfully face these hurdles and produce commercial shale gas will have a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010203405
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Civic capital and the size distribution of plants : short-run dynamics and long-run equilibrium
Bürker, Matthias; Minerva, G. Alfredo - 2012
We characterize how the size distribution of plants, within narrowly defined industries, changed in Italy over a ten-year time span, and relate this to the stock of civic capital at the provincial level. Data on plant size come from the 1991 and 2001 Italian censuses. Civic capital turns out to...
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Awards are career catalysts for young talents in highly competitive job markets
Bünning, Florian; Chan, Ben; Schmidt, Sascha Leonard; … - 2021 - This version: January 01, 2021
Despite the potential importance of awards as a possible career catalyst, the theoretical and empirical research on awards is still in its infancy. Here, we address this notable shortcoming in the economic literature by exploring data from German youth football. Analyzing whether an early career...
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Liberal egalitarianism and the harm principle
Lombardi, Michele; Veneziani, Roberto - 2009
This paper analyses Rawls's celebrated difference principle, and its lexicographic extension, in societies with a finite and an infinite number of agents. A unified framework of analysis is set up, which allows one to characterise Rawlsian egalitarian principles by means of a weaker version of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003877121
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Credit search and credit cycles
Dong, Feng; Wang, Pengfei; Wen, Yi - 2015 - This version: August 2015
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Strong subjectivism in the Marxian theory of exploitation : a critique
Veneziani, Roberto; Yoshihara, Naoki - 2009
This paper critically analyses the strongly subjectivist approach to exploitation theory recently proposed by Matsuo … exploitation index can be constructed. It is argued that a minimal objectivism is necessary in exploitation theory, whereby … related to the 'New Interpretation' ([1]; [3]). It is argued that it captures the core intuitions of exploitation theory and …
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