Das bedingungslose Grundeinkommen ist Gegenstand einer stark polarisierten Debatte zwischen ebenso unbedingten Befürwortern wie Gegnern. Das Buch vertritt demgegenüber eine differenzierte These: Demnach entfaltet sich das gesellschaftspolitische Potential des Grundeinkommens als regulativer...

OBJECTIVE: To examine trends in socio-economic differentials in all-cause mortality in Sydney over a 25-year period (1970-94). METHODS: Five measures of single indicators (two for occupation, two for education and one for income) and a composite measure of socio-economic disadvantage based on...

Many products consumed on college campuses such as coffee and chocolate come from developing countries where producers are often paid insufficiently and exploited. Fair Trade certification of products guarantees producers a fair price and other social benefits. The objective of my CE/T project...

The purpose of this study is to identify ideal behaviors and attitudes that are needed by service providers that cater to highly vulnerable populations. While the conceptualization of customer vulnerability has been widely debated in business, marketing, sociology, and psychology scholarly...

Year 2019 marks 100 years since the founding of the International Labour Organization, one of the oldest international organizations. This organization is dedicated to promoting social justice and respect for human rights, especially internationally recognized right to work, advancing the idea...

This paper explores the ethical mandates of Islamic banking and finance (IBF) and then studies the recent performance of IBF on the positive level. The ethical section is divided into four parts: (1) promotion of trade and cooperation, (2) prohibition of ribā and of profiting without risk, (3)...

Die Arbeit gibt einen umfassenden Überblick über die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung des Iran in den vergangenen fünf Jahrzehnten. Dabei steht der Zeitraum nach der Islamischen Revolution des Jahres 1979 im Mittelpunkt der Betrachtung. Es geht vor allem darum, die teilweise ideologisch bedingten...

"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...