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Abstract Proponents of liberal economic policies in the financial market often refer to the moral and economic authority of Adam Smith, the founder of economics as a science, to add weight to their recommendations. They think, they can do so, because Adam Smith is in these circles considered a...
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Purpose There has been controversy about whether Adam Smith is an economic egalitarian because he expresses at least four distinct views on equality, in two of which, he approves of inequality, and in the other two, he claims otherwise. The purpose of this paper is to isolate and consider these...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to review approaches to Authentic Leadership and Mindfulness and to Global Competencies from the Buddhist perspective of Leadership Rajadhamma. It considers the parallel approach of Adam Smith's Moral Leadership. Design/methodology/approach – The...
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parameterized by monthly violence rates in nine California cities that represented different series features, and randomly inserted … had the best overall performance. We applied each method to the monthly violence rates in nine California cities and …
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Purpose – The aim of this paper is to evaluate the effectiveness of The Leadership Program's Violence Prevention … to promote a range of communication skills associated with violence prevention and alter classroom norms about aggression … and violence. Design/methodology/approach – A multi‐site, quasi‐experimental effectiveness trial examined pre‐ and post …
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Economists of the Public Choice School have argued that compensation payments to victims of crime will increase the crime rate. This proposition is examined by estimating crime supply functions for rape and aggravated assault in which the expected probability and magnitude of compensation...
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between the various dimensions of the welfare cost of crime and violence available in the literature. Design … and violence within this unified framework. This theoretical benchmark is then used as a benchmark to review the empirical … dimensions of welfare cost of crime and violence that have been presented in the literature.  …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the issue of violence with respect to white‐collar criminals. Design … paper fulfills a need to highlight a dangerous trend with white‐collar criminals in that they may be driven to violence …
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are heightened in the context of disabled people as potential victims of targeted violence and hostility. Individual … and in other decisions around combating targeted violence and hostility against them.  …
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