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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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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 nation’s economic performance. But GNH can also be...
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There is substantial empirical evidence and increasing recognition that not only outcomes, but also the procedures leading to them, can affect people' s utility from, and their reactions to, those decisions. However, there is still a large gap between numerous studies by non-economists (e.g.,...
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Eine Vielzahl von Ökonomen untersucht mit Hilfe verschiedener theoretischer Modelle, inwiefern Steuern Einfluss auf wirtschaftliche Entscheidungen haben. Eine grundlegende Annahme in diesen Modellen ist dabei die Abwesenheit von Fehlwahrnehmungen. Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es, systematische...
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still regarded as very positive. Today consumers demand more social and ecological responsibility from companies. In Germany … people´s sense of responsibility remains high beyond the ecological dimension. Companies are slowly beginning to be …
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Frequent criticism in dynamic decision making research pertains to the overly complex nature of the decision tasks used in experimentation. To address such concerns we study dynamic decision making with respect to the simple race game Hog, which has a computable optimal decision strategy. In the...
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In this paper, we estimate the costs of state failure, both for the failing state itself and for its neighbours. In our analysis, the cost of failure arises from two distinct sources: organized violence due to the incapacity of the state to ensure its own citizens’ security and low quality of...
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Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is increasingly becoming a popular business concept in developed economies. As …) underpinnings of the concept of responsibility. Except where corporate control and or corporate grouping exist, it identifies the … use of power as a critical factor to be considered in allocating responsibility in firm-supplier relationship; and …
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Both the individuals and groups or the large organizations increasingly focus on responsibility: be it the … responsibility in everyday actions or about the responsibility towards business partners, the environment, animals etc. the idea of … assuming responsibility is becoming more and more present in the personal life and in the professional life and also in the …
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