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Language Rights - A Welfare-Economics Approach
Wickström, Bengt-Arne - 2015
Distributions of language rights in multilingual settings are analyzed from a normative viewpoint in this chapter. If the cost structure of providing rights is concave in the number of beneficiaries, then a critical-mass criterion for the determination of an optimal rights structure results. It...
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A Nozickian Case for Compulsory Employment Injury Insurance: The Example of Sweatshops
Bäumlisberger, Damian - In: Journal of Business Ethics 173 (2020) 1, pp. 13-27
Production in sweatshops entails an elevated risk of occupational injury and sickness due to accidents and exposure to dangerous working conditions. As most sweatshop locations lack basic social security systems, health problems have severe consequences for affected workers. Against this...
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Rationale Irrationalität oder "Warum lehnen die Intellektuellen den Kapitalismus ab?" - Mises und Nozick als Impulsgeber für die ordonomische Rational-Choice-Analyse von Sozialstru...
Beckmann, Markus - 2009
Ludwig von Mises hat Zeit seines Lebens die intellektuelle Auseinandersetzung mit antiliberalen und antikapitalistischen Ressentiments gesucht. Der vorliegende Beitrag greift die bereits durch Mises gestellte Frage nach möglichen Gründen für die antikapitalistischen Ressentiments der...
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The death of welfare economics: History of a controversy
Igersheim, Herrade - 2017
The death of welfare economics has been declared several times. One of the reasons cited for these plural obituaries is that Kenneth Arrow's impossibility theorem, as set out in his path-breaking Social Choice and Individual Values in 1951, has shown that the social welfare function - one of the...
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Cycles in team tennis and other paired-element contests
Sanders, Shane; Ehrlich, Justin; Boudreau, James - In: Games 8 (2017) 3, pp. 1-14
Team Tennis competitions produce aggregate scores for teams, and thus team rankings, based on head-to-head matchups of individual team members. Similar scoring rules can be used to rank any two groups that must be compared on the basis of paired elements. We explore such rules in terms of their...
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Választókörzetek igazságosan?
Biró, Péter; Sziklai, Balázs; Kóczy, László Á. - 2012
One of the aims of the new electoral law of Hungary has been to define a fairer apportionment into voting districts. This is ensured by a set of rules slightly more premissive than those laid out in the Code of Good Practice in Electoral Matters of the Venice Commission. These rules fix the...
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Social choice and information: A note on the calculus of mappings from utility spaces
Coram, Alex - 2008
Social choice is studied in this paper as a mapping from information on utilities over states of the world to an ordering of those states of the world. The idea of using this type of information originates in the work of Sen and Roberts. This paper differs in that it uses theorems from analysis...
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Social Choice Theory: A Neglected Path to Possibility
Ville, Korpela - 2016
Often preferences of agents are such that any sensible goal of the collective must admit a tie between all alternatives. The standard formulation in mechanism design demand that in this case all alternatives are equilibrium outcomes of the social choice mechanism. However, as far as the idea of...
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The European Social Welfare Function Shaped on a Difference Principle: A Normative Rawlsian Approach in Favour of Fiscal Union
Klaser, Klaudijo - 2018
Why might the European member states seek for Fiscal Union? Coordination, macro-stability purposes and provision of (European) public goods are certainly goals of paramount importance for the implementation of Fiscal Union at European level. However, there is an equally important component of...
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When Voicelessness Meets Speechlessness – Struggling for Equity in Chinese-Ghanaian Employment Relations
Giese, Karsten; Thiel, Alena - 2012
contract, equity, and cross-cultural communication. Based on a qualitative study conducted in Accra, Ghana, we discuss the … perceive their psychological contracts as being violated and Chinese employers regard the equity of exchange relations as … equity and in some cases ultimately terminate employment relations when inadequate cross-cultural communication results in a …
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