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Learning unethical practices from a co-worker: the peer effect of Jose Canseco
Gould, Eric D.; Kaplan, Todd R. - 2008
This paper examines the issue of whether workers learn productive skills from their co-workers, even if those skills are unethical. Specifically, we estimate whether Jose Canseco, one of the best baseball players in the last few decades, affected the performance of his teammates. In his...
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An Environmental-Economic Assessment of Genetic Modification of Agricultural Crops
van den Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M.; Holley, Justin M. - 2001
The advantages and disadvantages of genetic modification of organisms in agriculture are reviewed. These relate to the environment, human health, socio-economic effects, population growth, and differential consequences for developed and developing countries. An overall evaluation requires that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324896
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Genetic technology and the evolution of property rights: The case of decode Genetics
Eggertson, Thráinn - 2008
Recent advances in biology and genetics have raised the value of life samples, health records and genetically modified micro-organisms, and, as Demsetz (1967) predicts, rising values increase the demand for well-defined exclusive ownership rights. But greater expected value of resources also...
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Mögliche Auswirkungen einer Ausweitung der Gentechnik-Kennzeichnungspflicht auf Lebensmittel tierischen Ursprungs
Peter, Günter; Krug, Oliver; Bendiek, Joachim; Stolz, … - 2014
Lebensmittel müssen auf Grundlage bestehender EU-Vorschriften gekennzeichnet werden, wenn das Lebensmittel oder einer der verwendeten Inhaltsstoffe gentechnisch verändert oder aus einem gentechnisch veränderten Organismus hergestellt ist. Dabei ist es unerheblich, ob die gentechnische...
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Science vs. profit in research: Lessons from the human genome project
Carraro, Carlo; Pomè, Alessandra; Siniscalco, Domenico - 2001
This paper elaborates on the recent race to sequence the human genome. Starting from the debate on public vs. private research arising from the genome case, the paper shows that in some fundamental research areas, where knowledge externalities play an important role, market and non-market...
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Chancen und Risiken der Gentechnik im Lichte ethischer Überlegungen: Eine kurze Standortbestimmung
Mittendorf, Thomas; Hemstedt, Felix - 2003
undifferenziert diskutiert wie in der Gentechnik. Unter diesem Sammel-begriff sind jedoch verschiedene Forschungsansätze wie z.B. das …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317623
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The market economy, and the scientific commons
Nelson, Richard R. - 2003
progress of science, is greatly facilitated when basic scientific knowledge is public and open. The paper explores the various …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328541
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Preserving the epistemic authority of science in world politics
Haas, Peter M. - 2018
Governments rely extensively on expertise, and arguably many of the major accomplishments over the last 50 years reflect the ideas and involvement of experts. Yet expertise in world politics is increasingly contested. What are the factors which influence the future of state to defer to expertise...
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Viele Wahrheiten in der Planung? Anmerkungen zu Ideen der Postmoderne in der Planungstheorie
Lintz, Gerd - In: Raumforschung und Raumordnung / Spatial Research and … 82 (2024) 1, pp. 1-4
, der Abwertung der Wissenschaft sowie der zunehmenden Distanz der Wissenschaft zur Mitteder Gesellschaft. Der Kommentar … the danger of making inter- and transdisciplinary research more difficult, of depreciating science and of increasing the … distance between science and the centre of society. The commentary pleads for a faster, stronger focus on the very big …
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The Scientist and the Church
Bichler, Shimshon; Nitzan, Jonathan - 2015
the oft-misunderstood role of crime and punishment in the capitalist mode of power and articulate a new theory and history …
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