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Towards an Economics of Happiness
Norberg-Hodge, Helena; Gorelick, Steven - 2004
The authors have studied the effects of global economic development on individuals and cultures for the last three decades and have concluded that the most strategic and effective way of building a more positive future is through economic localisation. Fundamentally, localisation is about...
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Grundeinkommen: Idee und Vorschläge zu seiner Realisierung
Presse, André - 2010
Die Mehrwertsteuer (Umsatzsteuer) ist die Steuer mit dem größten Steueraufkommen. Für sie gibt es noch keinen Steuerfreibetrag. Ein "Mehrwertsteuerfreibetrag" ließe sich auf dem Wege einer "Negativen Mehrwertsteuer" realisieren. Diese orientiert sich an dem Konzept der "Negativen...
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Die Wirtschafts- und Finanzkrise - Teil II : Präsentationen
Voß, Stefan; Müller, Alfred - 2011
Präsentationen zu <a href="http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:960-opus-3379">Die Wirtschafts- und Finanzkrise mit Blick auf Marx und Keynes – Teil I</a>. Stefan Voß über Hyman P. Minsky, Alfred Müller über Karl Marx.
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Improving Unsustainable Western Economic Systems
Dixon, Frank - 2004
To help guide development of the Gross National Happiness (GNH), this paper analyzes Western economic systems. Drivers of environmental and social problems will be discussed with the goal of helping Bhutan avoid these pitfalls. The paper then suggests a strategy for developing the GNH as well as...
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Measures of environmental and sustainable socioeconomic welfare and the political economy of capitalism - theoretical reconstruction, technical specification, and critical analysis...
Brennan, Andrew John - 2009
an inadequate measure of social and ecological waste in the economic system. Good measures with solid theory (or theories … welfare: many authors provide no major good or detailed advancement in theory and no one provides a strong socio …
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Distributing the Benefits from the Commons
Silvestre, Joaquim - 1993
"The common-property literature has often focused on the question of efficiency. Here we consider distributional issues instead. How should the benefits of the commons (say, a fishery) be distributed? We approach the question from the viewpoint of ownership rather than income redistribution. "A...
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Foundations for Cooperation in Social Dilemmas
Ahn, Toh-Kyeong - 2001
"Institutional approaches to social dilemmas have so far focused on how to create incentive structures that channel individuals' behavior into socially desirable outcomes assuming that everyone is selfish. However, the presumption of universal selfishness is not only empirically invalid but may...
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Appropriation Externalities in the Commons: Theory and Experimental Evidence
Herr, Andrew - 1996
of the commons.' This dissertation combines the tools of game theory and experimental methods to gain a broader …
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Essays on Individual Behavior in Social Dilemma Environments: An Experimental Analysis
Dudley, Dean - 1993
"In this study, individual level behavior is investigated in the context of computer assisted voluntary contribution mechanism public good (VCM) provision experiments and common pool resource (CPR) appropriation experiments. Previous studies of these environments have concentrated on aggregate...
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Salience and Its Implications for Common-Pool Resource Management in Scotland: A Tragedy of a Different Kind?
Brown, Katrina Myrvang; Slee, Bill - 2002
"In past contributions to CPR theory, the issue of salience/dependence on a resource has been flagged up as a one of a … high. However, cases do exist of CPRs in which this assumption does not hold, and consequently, related theory proves to be … into question the possibility and utility of constructing a coherent CPR meta-theory." …
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