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A Good Time for Gross National Happiness

Bakshi, Rajni - 2004

This essay will examine just some signs of change in economic and social thought in the North-South relations. It does not attempt to offer a comprehensive overview of the creative possibilities for positive change that are now visible on the world stage. The basic premise of this exploration is...

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Gross National Happiness: Towards a New Paradigm in Economics

Tideman, Sander G. - 2004

The notion of Gross National Happiness (GNH) presents a radical paradigm shift in development economics and social theory. GNH can be regarded as the Buddhist equivalent to Gross National Product (GNP), which is the conventional indicator for a nations economic performance. But GNH can also be...

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Sozialversicherung als Umverteilungsinstrument bei asymmetrischer Information

Scheuer, Florian - 2005

Die vorliegende Arbeit geht der Frage nach, unter welchen Bedingungen die Sozialversicherung in Gegenwart eines optimal … gestalteten Steuersystems zu Umverteilungszwecken geeignet ist. Ausgangspunkt sind die Wohlfahrtseffekte der Sozialversicherung … Sozialversicherung und Steuerpolitik hergeleitet, wenn der private Versicherungsmarkt durch adverse Selektion gekennzeichnet ist. Dabei …

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Risk, Behavior and Evolution

Netzer, Nick - 2007

optimalen Wirtschaftspolitik, und hier insbesondere nach optimaler Besteuerung und Sozialversicherung. Die Beiträge in den …

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Innovation at the State Level: Initial Effects of Welfare Reform in Iowa

Keng, Shao-Hsun; Garasky, Steven B.; Jensen, Helen H. - 1999

In 1993, the State of Iowa, through waivers, implemented reforms to its welfare program creating the Family Investment program (FIP), a program similar to the Federal Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) program created in 1996. This paper examines the experiences of individuals and...

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Social Approval, Values, and AFDC: A Reexamination of the Illegitimacy Debate

Nechyba, Thomas J. - 2001

This paper models the fertility decision of individuals who differ in their wage rate and their intensity of preferences for rearing children, and whose utility of having a child out of wedlock depends on the level of “social approval” associated with doing so. This social approval in turn...

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How Immigrants and Students Respond to Public Policies: Evidence from Welfare Reform, the Minimum Wage and Stafford Loans.

Cadena, Brian C. - 2008

The first two essays of this dissertation use policy experiments to show that low-skilled newly arriving immigrants help keep the economy in geographic equilibrium by differentially selecting destinations that provide better labor market prospects. The first essay finds that immigrants choose...

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Small-scale Business Inspired by Timeless Simplicity: A Contribution Towards Gross National Happiness

Kuntiranont, Wallapa - 2004

The paper explains how Suan Nguen Mee Ma Co., Ltd. (Suan Company) emerged from the NGO movement guided by Sulak Sivaraksa in Thailand. Suan Company is one example of the growing number of experiments in 'alternative business'. In addition to 'fair trade' efforts to bring rural producers and...

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"Inrterest will not lie"

Brodbeck, Karl-Heinz - 2003

Zur impliziten Ethik der Zinstheorie

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Die Verantwortung der Unternehmung. Eine wirtschaftsethische Rekonstruktion

Fetzer, Joachim - 2004

Folgen eines komplexen Ph?nomens.Ausgezeichnet mit dem Max-Weber-Preis f?r Wirtschaftsethik 2004.? …

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