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welfare properties. Here, we concentrate on welfare criteria and define properties of utility function which are causal for …
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) efficiency in the use of instruments of justice implies that there is rivalry between the two justices and the opportunity cost … indispensable) for assessing the trade-off between intergenerational and intragenerational justice. Economic analysis can delineate … the opportunity set of politics with respect to the two normative objectives of inter- and intragenerational justice, i …
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This paper reports the results of an experimental investigation which allows a deeper insight into the nature of social preferences amongst organized criminals and how these differ from "ordinary" criminals on the one hand and from the non‐criminal population in the same geographical area on...
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development, welfare, and justice. … backdrop of considerations about the meaning of justice in the context of sustainability. We argue that the preservation of the … natural basis of life is by itself a requirement of justice. However, the crucial role of the ecological dimension of …
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Schumpeter's and Hayek's view of market coordination as being not about efficiency, but about endogenous change and … welfare economics is unsuited to deal with. We show that welfare economics has to be reconstructed on the basis of …
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trucks cartel (1997-2011). Overall, we estimate a net welfare loss of approximately €0.7 bn. and an overcharge below 1% (€1 …
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individual welfare would be directly affected by policy measures designed to make consumption sustainable. Such policy measures … are likely to also trigger indirect welfare losses by negative employment effects. The policy debate therefore needs to … pay attention to both direct and indirect welfare effects. As a concrete proposal a redesign of consumption taxes is …
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Strong growth in disposable income has driven, and is still driving, consumption to unprecedented, but not sustainable levels. To explain the dynamic interplay of needs, need satisfaction, and innovation underlying that growth a behavioral theory of consumption is suggested and discussed with...
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welfare properties of the mechanism, interpreting noise as a policy instrument, and we use logit dynamic simulations to …
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This article aims to summarize the existing body of literature on social interactions and their effect on individual unemployment status. Two directions of the ongoing research are analyzed: the impact of social norms on unemployment and the importance of social networks in the job search...
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