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Economic efficiency and the quest for a more just world

Tarko, Vlad - 2022

This paper revisits the debates about the meaning of economic efficiency, and the moral dilemmas associated with using … Kaldor-Hicks efficiency or Pareto efficiency for policy analysis. I lay out the best case for efficiency as meta-value, and … argue that Pareto efficiency is a poor normative criterion, while, nonetheless, offering a valuable tool for positive …

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The Global Reporting Initiative : 1997-2009

Gehman, Joel - 2014

In this research note, I briefly summarize the history of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), from its earliest gestation in 1997, to its initial realization in 1999 and 2000, to its current status circa 2009. Included are descriptive analyses of (a) the sustainability topics and indicators...

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Carmaker in Crisis

Nolte, Heike; Wondra, Ellen - 2011

In September 2009 General Motors' board of directors announces it would sell the majority of its European subsidiary Opel to a group led by Magna International Inc. But two months later it decides to keep Opel, upsetting German officials and workers and harming its reputation in Germany. Why did...

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Measurement of Economic Inequality

Krishnamoorthy, Prakash - 2008

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Emergent Extremism in a Multi-Agent Model of Religious Clubs

Makowsky, Michael D. - 2010

Over the past few decades, it has become increasingly common for terrorists to frame their objectives in religious terms and organize their activities within religious movements. This paper extends previous models of religious extremism to better account for observed patterns of extremism and...

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The Pathologies of Institutional Review Boards

Hyman, David A. - 2014

Federal regulations require all research funded by the federal government and involving human subjects to be overseen by an institutional review board (IRB) that evaluates whether the risks to subjects are minimized; whether those risks are reasonable in light of expected benefits; and whether...

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Global Software Users' Co-op

Latham, Mark - 2012

Software users can get a better deal on some software by organizing into a large buying group. Creating a consumer cooperative is a promising way to do this. Large group purchases can help solve problems in the software business, including monopoly power, the costs of intellectual "property"...

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The Varieties of Comparative Institutional Analysis

Cole, Daniel H. - 2013

This paper, written as a contribution to a festchrift in honor of Neil Komesar, subjects his "comparative institutional analysis" (CIA) to a comparative analysis with various other social-scientific approaches to CIA. Neil Komesar is among the very few legal scholars who has taken to heart...

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ISCTE-IUL 2019 International Conference : Social Solidarity Economy and the Commons - Contributions to the Deepening of Democracy

Piccoli, Alessandra; Sforzi, Jacopo - 2020

The international conference “Social Solidarity Economy and the Commons - Contributions to the Deepening of Democracy” was held on November 6th-8th 2019 at the Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL) in Lisbon (Portugal). Its aim was to promote dialogue and exchanges of knowledge and...

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Why People Fear Banks and Why They Are Needed : Banks as Institutions of Caching and as Religious Symbols

Caldararo, Niccolo Leo - 2015

Banks are generally considered by most people to be utilities that allow for the transmission of value on a daily basis in modern society, but they also seem to create devastating events like credit crises by the manufacture of credit. How this power originated in human society is of interest....

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