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Governing structural change and externalities in agriculture: toward a normative institutional economics of rural development
Petrick, Martin - Leibniz-Institut für Agrarentwicklung in … - 2004
The paper aims at a conceptual contribution to the normative economic analysis of rural de-velopment (RD) policies. RD is regarded as a problem of interaction between individuals; (lacking) structural change or the (missing) integration of externalities are therefore recon-structed as...
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Consumer Surplus with Apology: A Historical Perspective on Nonmarket Valuation and Recreation Demand
Banzhaf, H. Spencer - In: Annual Review of Resource Economics 2 (2010) 1, pp. 183-207
they were shaped by received theory. At the same time, by coming to these notions in the context of political debates, they …
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Microtheory: Applications and Origins
Baumol, William J. - The MIT Press
This volume of seventeen previously published essays by William J. Baumol brings together work on the theory of … contestable markets, welfare theory, antitrust, pricing, and the history of economic thought. Written between 1971 and 1983, they … have sparked productive extensions and criticism in microeconomic theory and provide an engaging intellectual history of …
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Rise and decline of economic policy as an autonomous discipline: a critical survey
Acocella, Nicola - Dipartimento di Metodi e modelli per l'economia, il …
foundations indicating market failures and a theory about conditions for policy effectiveness and design had been developed. This …
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Common welfare versus the spirit of private enterprise: the experience of Italian municipalization from 1880 to 1930
Bini, Piero; Parisi, Daniela - In: The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought 17 (2010) 4, pp. 933-956
This paper investigates the Italian debate on municipalization between the 1880s and the 1920s and is divided into two parts. The first deals with the emergence of the municipalization in the late nineteenth century as a component in the birth of the Social State. The second part concerns the...
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"Non-market failures" : Imperfecties in de budgetsector
Daems, A.J. - Tilburg University, School of Economics and Management - 1990
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Income-contingent user preferences in policy evaluation: application and discussion based on multi-agent transport simulations
Kickhöfer, Benjamin; Grether, Dominik; Nagel, Kai - In: Transportation 38 (2011) 6, pp. 849-870
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The Economics of Biofuels
Lundgren, Tommy; Marklund, Per-Olov; Brannlund, Runar; … - In: International Review of Environmental and Resource Economics 2 (2008) 3, pp. 237-280
Biofuels are increasingly regarded as energy sources with the potential to solve diverse problems related to serious concerns, including climate change, environmental degradation, energy supply, and energy security. Here we examine biofuels, primarily biofuels used for transportation (e.g.,...
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Behavioral Economics and New Paternalism. Part II
R. Kapeliushnikov. - In: VOPROSY ECONOMIKI 10 (2013)
The paper provides a critical appraisal of the normative program of behavioral economics known as new paternalism. Part II of the paper discusses main empirical and conceptual drawbacks of this approach and provides arguments for the alternative non-welfarist normative tradition based on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010860814
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Behavioral Economics and New Paternalism. Part I
R. Kapeliushnikov. - In: VOPROSY ECONOMIKI 9 (2013)
The paper provides a critical appraisal of the normative program of behavioral economics known as new paternalism. Part I of the paper explores its theoretical foundations, describes major behavioral anomalies associated with bounded rationality of economic agents, discusses normative principles...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010860857