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/monetary sector, as opposed to the real sector, may prove inadequate for development and poverty alleviation. This paper explores some …Islamic economics [IE] emerged with a new vision and aspiration of a better path to development. Unfortunately, IE has … evolved mostly as an intellectual/academic shell, in which poverty eradication, except in rhetoric, is a peripheral concern …
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In Fairness versus Welfare (2003), Louis Kaplow and Steven Shavell provide a manifesto for normative law and economics … a preferentialist account of welfare. We argue in this paper that this normative program faces serious challenges from … recent behavioral insights that push back against a core assumption of a preferentialist welfare analysis, i. e., that people …
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In this paper we analyze how Poverty and social sciences research, dedicated to poverty, are worked in journalism … studies related to poverty has an important role of educating people about situations of poverty and possible ways of reducing … agency Reuters and United Press International. It seems evident that it is increasingly necessary to see Poverty released by …
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The antidepressant pill is an important modern commodity. Its growing role in the world has been largely ignored by researchers in economics departments and business schools. Scholars may be unaware how many citizens and employees now take these pills. Here we review some of the social-science...
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units, and argue that vouchers not only cause less distortion for social welfare compared to public housing, but may also … improve overall welfare …
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We present the first fully closed general equilibrium model of hierarchical and local public goods economies with the following features: (i) multiple agent types who are endowed with both some amount of private good (income) and a house, who are mobile between houses and jurisdictions, and who...
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This paper asks, under what conditions can the Fundamental Theorem of Welfare Economics be extended to economies with … redistributions) . Just as the Fundamental Theorem of Welfare Economics does not adequately reflect the vices and virtues of …
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