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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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Subjective Wellbeing: Telling Only Half the Story
Eckersley, Richard - In: Social Indicators Research 112 (2013) 3, pp. 529-534
A new paper presents a strong case for life satisfaction scales (Diener et al. in Soc Indic Res, <CitationRef …: the contrast between individual satisfaction and social discontent; and the contradictory evidence on the benefits of … personal freedom. This commentary argues that SWB, like other conventional indicators, is measuring Westernization or …
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What is the capability approach?: its core, rationale, partners and dangers
Gasper, Gasper, D.R. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010730803
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Risk, wellbeing and public policy
Banerjee, Subho; Ewing, Robert - In: Economic Roundup (2004) 2, pp. 21-44
This article explores the relationship between risk and wellbeing, and the implications for public policy. Risk is an important dimension of wellbeing in its own right. People have different risk preferences, so policies to improve the match between preferences and risk actually borne have the...
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What is the capability approach?: its core, rationale, partners and dangers
Gasper, D.R. - International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus … - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008683869
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What is the capability approach?: its core, rationale, partners and dangers
GASPER, D. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2006
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Did the Market Depress Happiness in the US?
Ott, Jan - In: Journal of Happiness Studies 2 (2001) 4, pp. 433-443
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Freedom and Rationality as Predictors of Cross-National Happiness Patterns: The Role of Income as a Mediating Variable
Welsch, Heinz - In: Journal of Happiness Studies 4 (2003) 3, pp. 295-321
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Happiness, Adaptation, and Decreasing Marginal Utility of Income
Lee, Dwight R. - In: Journal of Private Enterprise 27 (2011) Fall 2011, pp. 63-73
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On Responsibility in China: Understanding and Practice
Lu, Xiaohe; Koehn, Daryl - In: Journal of Business Ethics 127 (2015) 3, pp. 607-622
deal with the separation of freedom from responsibility, right from obligation, and duty from power, particularly within … China? The first part of the paper investigates the understanding of responsibility and concepts of duty, obligation, right … of rights and powers in today’s China. The concluding part explores agents’ responsibilities on different levels and …
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