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How do individuals shape societies? How do societies shape individuals? This paper develops a framework for studying the connections between micro and macro phenomena. The framework builds on two ingredients widely used in social science − population and variable. Starting with the simplest...
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This essay explores the future potential for Social Economics. Since the beginning of modern economics, the mainstream has been steered by what might be called a material progress vision, whereby the generally unacknowledged pesumption is that economic growth will make the good life possible....
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a policy. Core to the issue of the minimum wage are questions of justice and the type of society we would like to create … conception of justice, one predicted on liberal neutrality. A different conception of justice would enable us to view the minimum … wage as but one tool for achieving other social objectives. Moreover, a justice approach to the minimum wage would enable …
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describing five sociobehavioral processes - comparison (including justice and self-esteem), status, power, identity, and …
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In this paper we provide a new methodology to measure opportunity inequality and to decompose overall inequality in an "ethically offensive" and an "ethically acceptable" part. Moreover, we provide some empirical applications of these new evaluation tools: in the first exercise, we compare the...
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of this study, distributive justice, procedural justice, and cooperativeness influence tacit knowledge sharing indirectly … study indicate that tacit knowledge sharing is affected by distributive justice, procedural justice, and cooperativeness … indirectly via organizational commitment. Additionally, tacit knowledge sharing is also affected by distributive justice …
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Today’s sweatshops violate our notions of justice, yet they continue to flourish. This is so because we have not … literature on justice and virtue ethics. We conclude that fixing on definitions is pointless and misleading and that we are …
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paper presents a model of killing versus enslaving Caesar, based on a new theory which unifies justice, status, and power … of societies – justice-nonmaterialistic, status, and power-nonmaterialistic. Results cover members’ gains, effects of own … killed only in a justice-nonmaterialistic society, and from the noblest of motives – to achieve equal gains for members. …
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