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An empirical study of the limits and perspectives of institutional transfers
Möller, Marie - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Westfälische … - 2012
The aim of this paper is to determine which country-specific characteristics promote and which impede the adoption of institutions. On the basis of a broad panel of 183 countries for the period between 1996 and 2010, we test whether there are tendencies towards a general improvement and towards...
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Information, organization, and freedom: Explaining the great reversal
Rosa, Jean-Jacques; Vanssay, Xavier - In: The Review of Austrian Economics 25 (2012) 4, pp. 329-350
We suggest, in a Coase-Demsetz perspective, that the social demand for individual rights—or freedoms (whether civil, political or economic)—is derived from, because complementary to, the changing size of hierarchical organizations. The general downsizing and decentralization process observed...
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Using Sartre’s Critique of Dialectical Reason for Managerial Decision-Making
Kleist, Chad - In: Journal of Business Ethics 112 (2013) 2, pp. 341-352
Dialectical Reason rather than simply Being and Nothingness. I will begin with a brief explanation of Sartre’s account of freedom … freedom from Being and Nothingness for a managerial decision-making model. In the third section, I will explore a more robust … account of freedom from Sartre’s Critique of Dialectical Reason. I will attempt to show that freedom is not simply a matter of …
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Subjective Wellbeing: Telling Only Half the Story
Eckersley, Richard - In: Social Indicators Research 112 (2013) 3, pp. 529-534
personal freedom. This commentary argues that SWB, like other conventional indicators, is measuring Westernization or …
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‘Freedom From’ and ‘Freedom To’ Across Countries
Okulicz-Kozaryn, Adam - In: Social Indicators Research 118 (2014) 3, pp. 1009-1029
It has been over 70 years since Erich Fromm wrote “Escape From Freedom.” He defined two types of freedom: <Emphasis … Type="SmallCaps">freedom from (negative) and <Emphasis Type="SmallCaps">freedom to (positive). Fromm’s masterpiece, however …, does not measure the two types of freedom, and this is not surprising—there were no freedom data at the time. Now, there …
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Buchanan on Freedom
Brennan, Geoffrey; Brooks, Michael - Condorcet Center for Political Economy, Centre de … - 2012
Our object is to explicate Buchanan's conception of individual liberty and to trace its connection to the 'working themes' in his corpus-anarchy, contract, constitution, Pareto optimality, 'public choice' and so on. In doing so, we investigate a number of tensions in Buchanan's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010854404
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Prince or Pariah? The Place of Freedom of Religion in a System of International Human Rights
Zucca, Lorenzo - Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS), … - 2013
The human right to freedom of religion (HRFR) at the international level is a deeply contested concept and is … Declaration of Rights. The question that emerges from this simple starting point is: what is the place of freedom of religion in a … goes to the very core of disagreement about the nature of the human rights to freedom of religion. Lacking agreement as to …
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The Open Society, Institutions and Economic Performance
SOCOLIUC, Oana - Ramona - In: EuroEconomica (2013) 2(32), pp. 151-157
freedom and democracy are the proper way to achieve such performances in an open society but in conditions of risk, high … spontaneous discipline in order to emphasize that order might be compatible with freedom but also with the idea of economic …
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Fighting African corruption when existing corruption-control levels matter in a dynamic cultural setting
Asongu, Asongu Simplice - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2013
Abstract Purpose – This paper assesses the determinants of corruption-control with freedom dynamics (economic … the legal origin fundamental characteristic, the following findings have been established. (1) While political freedom … countries but fails to exert the same effect in middle quantiles of French civil law countries. (3) Economic freedom ameliorates …
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Akwa Ibom State Journalists’ Reaction to the Freedom of Information Act
Nnadi, Eunice Chioma; Obot, Charles - In: International Journal of Asian Social Science 4 (2014) 4, pp. 544-561
enactment of the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act in 2011 has paved the way for everyone hopefully, to get access to information … Ibom State Journalists as regards the Freedom of Information Act. A total of 166 copies of the questionnaire were … government institutions. It also shows that the benefits of the FOI Act is that of freedom of expression, press freedom and right …
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