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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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Strategy, profits & ethics: Beyond the work of miles
Galbreath, Jeremy - 2006
A prominent feature of the management ? and increasingly marketing ? literature is offering normative prescriptions to corporate strategists for maximizing profits. However, with few exceptions, the ethicality of various profit making strategies has not been analysed or debated. Building upon...
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Austrian Economics as a Basis for a General Marketing Theory
Broeckelmann, Philipp - 2004
Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Marktprozesstheorie (Österreichische Schule der Nationalökonomie) - eine Theorie, die die Rolle der …" - which emphasises the coordinating role of information (mostly via price-signals) in dynamic markets - as a general marketing-theory …. At first, this thesis describes different concepts and problems toward marketing and marketing-theory. Then …
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The Use of Knowledge in Comparative Economics
Martin, Adam G. - 2009
The application of rational choice to non-market decision making has revolutionizedcomparative economics. A fruitful methodological symmetry now prevails in theanalysis of economic systems, emphasizing how their underlying institutions affectindividual incentives. Most importantly, comparative...
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Booms, Bubbles, and Busts: Three Essays in Business Cycles and the Housing Crisis of 2008
Lea, Geoffrey S. - 2010
elds of growth anddevelopment may in fact serve as a guide for the remaking of business cycle theory.Drawing on a Kohn …'Driscoll (1977) and Leijonhufvud (1981), primarily with respect to discoordinationbusiness cycle theory and their explanation of … methodologically and theoretically better grounded. The rst essay traces the historyof growth theory and development up to the recent …
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Essays on social values in finance
Kumar, Alok (contributor) - 2011
This dissertation consists of three essays on the role of social values in financial markets. Chapter 1 uses geographic variation in religious concentration to identify the effect of people's gambling behavior in financial market settings. We argue that religious background predicts people's...
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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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