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El gasto en defensa, justicia y seguridad

Posada, Carlos Esteban; González, Francisco - In: Revista de Economía Institucional 2 (2000) January-June, pp. 53-75

kidnapping. In a similar way defense, security and justice spending have grown. This paper will present some reasons that explain …

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A Capitalist Road to Communism

Veen, Robert van der; Parijs, Philippe Van - In: Basic Income Studies 1 (2006) 1, pp. 6-6

This article was originally published in Theory and Society 15 (5), 1986, pp. 635-655. The editors of Basic Income Studies are grateful to Springer Verlag for permission to reprint this article as lead piece in this retrospective. A first draft of this text was written in May 1983 by Van Parijs...

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What We Owe Our Children, They Their Children,...

Roemer, John E.; Veneziani, Roberto - Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University - 2001

Egalitarian theorists, since Rawls, have in the main advocated equalizing some objective measure of individual well-being, such as primary goods, functioning, or resources, rather than subjective welfare. This discussion, however, has assumed, implicitly, a static environment. By analyzing a...

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Estimating the costs of crime in New Zealand in 2003/04

Roper, Tim; Thompson, Andrew - Treasury, Government of New Zealand - 2006

policy analysis around criminal justice operations and settings. However, care needs to be taken when interpreting these …

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Zur Kluft zwischen Verfassungsgebung und Verfassungswirklichkeit im Demokratisierungsprozess Benins

Kohnert, Dirk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1996

The process of democratization in Benin has been praised as a model for the whole of francophone Africa. Initiated by an independent National-Conference the process of democratic renewal started with a bloodless coup of representatives of different groups of the civil society. Declared aims of...

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Double Standards: Social Preferences and Moral Biases

Croson, Rachel; Konow, James - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

A consensus seems to be emerging in economics that at least three motives are at work in many strategic decisions: distributive preferences, reciprocal preferences and self-interest. An important obstacle to this research, however, has been moral biases, i.e., the distortions created by...

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Migration, Mobility and Human Rights at the Eastern Border of the European Union - Space of Freedom and Security

Silasi, Grigore; Simina, Ovidiu Laurian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

justice, and therefore interested in solving correctly all challenges incurred by the complex phenomena of migration and …

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Mixed Feelings: Theories and Evidence of Warm Glow and Altruism

Konow, James - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

This paper presents theoretical and empirical analyses of experiments that test competing theories of altruism, including pure altruism (a preference for the well-being of others), warm glow (a good feeling from giving) and impure altruism (a combination of pure altruism and warm glow). These...

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Transgressing rights: La Via Campesina's call for food sovereignty / Exploring collaborations: Heterodox economics and an economic social rights framework / Workers in the informal...

Patel, Rajeev; Balakrishnan, Radhika; Narayan, Uma - In: Feminist Economics 13 (2007) 1, pp. 87-116

The notion of rights is a powerful one, but the channels through which they have been promoted and enforced since World War II have militated against the more radical promise of rights. These explorations examine the question of economic rights with an international focus. The contributions...

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CAPABILITIES AS FUNDAMENTAL ENTITLEMENTS: SEN AND SOCIAL JUSTICE

Nussbaum, Martha - In: Feminist Economics 9 (2003) 2-3, pp. 33-59

Amartya Sen has made a major contribution to the theory of social justice, and of gender justice, by arguing that … capabilities are the relevant space of comparison when justice-related issues are considered. This article supports Sen's idea … help us to construct a normative conception of social justice, with critical potential for gender issues, only if we …

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