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Combination of equilibrium models and hybrid life cycle-input-output analysis to predict the environmental impacts of energy policy scenarios
Igos, Elorri; Rugani, Benedetto; Rege, Sameer; Benetto, … - 2015
Nowadays, many countries adopt an active agenda to mitigate the impact of greenhouse gas emissions by moving towards less polluting energy generation technologies. The environmental costs, directly or indirectly generated to achieve such a challenging objective, remain however largely...
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Ends versus means: Kantians, utilitarians, and moral decisions
Bénabou, Roland; Falk, Armin; Henkel, Luca - 2024
Consequentialist view - or on the conformity of the means involved with some overarching notion of duty - the Deontological view. Using … a series of experiments, we investigate the overall prevalence and the consistency of consequentialist and deontological … supplemented with six classical self-versus-other choice tasks, allowing us to relate consequential/deontological behavior to …
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Reflecting on Reflections on COVID-19
Van Dam, Ynte K.; Webbink, Joke F. - In: The Central European Review of Economics and Management … 4 (2020) 2, pp. 7-19
Aim: This paper is an invited reaction to Platje, Harvey & Rayman-Bacchus, March 2020, 'COVID-19 - reflections on the surprise of both an expected and an unexpected event' in CEREM 4(1). In the tradition of critical science this paper starts from a discussion of the assumptions underlying the...
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Auf dem Weg zur weltanschaulichen Bekenntnisschule: Das wirtschaftspolitische Leitbild der Hochschule Pforzheim
Maurer, Rainer - 2015
Dieses Diskussionspapier beleuchtet die PRME-Verpflichtung der Hochschule Pforzheim und die daraus resultierenden Probleme (Abschnitt 2) aus vier Perspektiven: der erkenntnistheoretischen (Abschnitt 3), der erfahrungswissenschaftlichen (Abschnitt 4), der juristischen (Abschnitt 5) und einer...
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Microfinance 3.0: Reconciling Sustainability with Social Outreach and Responsible Delivery
Köhn, Doris (contributor) - 2013
This book focuses on the achievements, current trends and further potential of microfinance to scale-up and serve many more clients with financial services that enable them to improve their living conditions. The book asks what it takes to achieve sustainable impact: to know your clients and to...
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Mapping meanings of corporate social responsibility: An Australian case study
Fordham, Anne Elizabeth; Robinson, Guy Martin - In: International Journal of Corporate Social … 3 (2018) 14, pp. 1-20
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is an evolving concept that reflects various views and approaches regarding corporate relationships with broader society. This study examines the meanings and values attached to CSR within the Australian resource sector where various interests shape the...
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The ethics of sustainable AI: Why animals (should) matter for a sustainable use of AI
Bossert, Leonie N.; Hagendorff, Thilo - In: Sustainable Development 31 (2023) 5, pp. 3459-3467
anthropocentric. In this article, we argue from the perspective of applied ethics that such anthropocentric outlook falls short. We …
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A multi-religious consensus on the ethics of sustainable development: Reflections of the Ethics in Action initiative
Annett, Anthony M.; Sachs, Jeffrey; Sánchez Sorondo, … - 2017
the recently-formed Ethics in Action initiative, the authors therefore propose a sequence of measures designed to better …
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Lucas, Keynes, and the crisis
Laidler, David - 2009
, not so much its speculations about the role of psychology and social conventions in the economic decisions of individual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292008
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Groupthink: Collective delusions in organizations and markets
Bénabou, Roland - 2013
This paper investigates collective denial and willful blindness in groups, organizations and markets. Agents with anticipatory preferences, linked through an interaction structure, choose how to interpret and recall public signals about future prospects. Wishful thinking (denial of bad news) is...
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