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An economic and ethical analysis of the Katrina disaster
McGee, Robert W. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 35 (2008) July, pp. 546-557
combines economic and ethical analysis and includes discussions from the perspectives of both utilitarian ethics and rights …-based ethics, which is not usually done in the economics literature. …
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Business ethics & common sense
McGee, Robert W. (contributor) - 1992
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Why Do Voters Dismantle Checks and Balances?
Torvik, Ragnar; Acemoglu, Daron; Robinson, James A. - Institutt for Samfunnsøkonomi, Norges … - 2013
Voters often dismantle constitutional checks and balances on the executive. If such checks and balances limit presidential abuses of power and rents, why do voters support their removal? We argue that by reducing politician rents, checks and balances also make it cheaper to bribe or infuence...
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Why Do Voters Dismantle Checks and Balances?
Acemoglu, Daron; Robinson, James Alan; Torvik, Ragnar - Centre for Applied Macro- and Petroleum economics … - 2013
Voters often dismantle constitutional checks and balances on the executive. If such checks and balances limit presidential abuses of power and rents, why do voters support their removal? We argue that by reducing politician rents, checks and balances also make it cheaper to bribe or in?uence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010606913
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Property Rights, Corruption and the Allocation of Talent: A General Equilibrium Approach
Acemoglu, Daron; Verdier, Thierry - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996
We consider an economy where property rights are necessary to ensure sufficient rewards to ex-ante investments. Because … enforcement of property rights influences the ex-post distribution of rents, there is room for corruption. We characterize the … optimal organization of society and the optimal degree of property rights enforcement subject to incentive constraints of the …
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The Power of the Street: Evidence from Egypt's Arab Spring
Acemoglu, Daron; Hassan, Tarek; Tahoun, Ahmed - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
During Egypt's Arab Spring, unprecedented popular mobilization and protests brought down Hosni Mubarak's government and ushered in an era of competition between three groups: elites associated with Mubarak's National Democratic Party (NDP), the military, and the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood....
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