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Unlimited Growth and Innovation : Paradise or Paradox?
Sutter, Andrew J. - 2010
Ever since the dire predictions of The Limits to Growth (Meadows & al. 1972) failed to come true on time, it's been all too easy to ridicule environmentally-based arguments against economic growth as pessimistic and "Malthusian." In contrast, this paper accepts, for the sake of argument, the...
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Towards a Theory and Policy of Eco-Innovation - Neoclassical and (Co-)Evolutionary Perspectives
Rennings, Klaus - 1998
potentially beneficial effects of a specific eco-innovation policy (especially in the invention phase) may lead to excessive …Innovation processes toward sustainable development (eco-innovations) have received increasing attention during the … need can be identified to improve our understanding of innovation processes toward sustainability in their different …
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Towards a theory and policy of eco-innovation : neoclassical and (co-)evolutionary perspectives
Rennings, Klaus - 1998
potentially beneficial effects of a specific eco-innovation policy (especially in the invention phase) may lead to excessive …Innovation processes toward sustainable development (eco-innovations) have received increasing attention during the … need can be identified to improve our understanding of innovation processes toward sustainability in their different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011441633
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Are "flow of ideas" and "research productivity" in secular decline?
Cauwels, Peter; Sornette, Didier - 2020
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Trapped in the "zero-risk" society and how to break free
Sornette, Didier; Cauwels, Peter - 2020
We live in a ‘zero-risk society', characterized by a culture that is obsessed with controlling and removing any possible risks. Obviously, one of the fundamental objectives of any civilization is to improve the safety and security of its citizens. However, we should not let the cozy comfort...
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Ökonomische Analyse des Rechts
Kirstein, Roland; Schmidtchen, Dieter - 2003
Ökonomische Analyse des Rechts (ÖAR) beschäftigt sich mit den Wirkungen von Rechtsnormen, gerichtlichen Entscheidungen und Verwaltungsakten in der Lebenswirklichkeit. Sie bewertet diese Folgen mit Hilfe des Kriteriums der ökonomischen Effizienz und macht Vorschläge, wie Recht zu gestalten...
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Ökonomische Analyse des Rechts
Kirstein, Roland - 2003
Die Ökonomische Analyse des Rechts umweht in Deutschland immer noch der Hauch des Exotischen. In diesem Beitrag soll begründet werden, warum das ökonomische Entscheidungsmodell ganz hervorragend dazu geeignet ist, die Verhaltensfolgen von Gesetzen zu prognostizieren. Deshalb kann die ÖAR...
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Die unterschiedlichen Sichtweisen von Malthus und Wordsworth auf Mensch, Natur und Wirtschaft
Becker, Christian; Faber, Malte; Hertel, Kirsten; … - 2004
Dieser Aufsatz reflektiert das Verständnis von Mensch und Natur, welches dem Denken von Malthus zugrunde liegt und kontrastiert es mit dem völlig anderen Verständnis seines Zeitgenossen William Wordsworth. Wir zeigen, dass die ökonomischen Überlegungen beider entscheidend durch diese...
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Malthus vs. Wordsworth: Perspectives on humankind, nature and economy
Becker, Christian; Faber, Malte; Hertel, Kirsten; … - 2004
In this paper the view of humankind and nature upon which the thinking of Malthus is founded will be reflected on and contrasted with the opposed understanding of his contemporary Wordsworth. We show that the economic considerations of both are based decidedly on the premise of these views, and...
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A generalized unification theorem for choice theoretic foundations : avoiding the necessity of pairs and triplets
He, Junnan - 2012
This paper is concerned with the axiomatic foundation of the revealed preference theory. Many well-known results in literature rest upon the ability to choose over budget sets that contains only 2 or 3 elements, the situations which are not observable in real life. In order to give a more...
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