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Political consumerism and public policy: Good complements against market failures?

Delacote, Philippe; Montagné-Huck, Claire - In: Ecological Economics 73 (2012) C, pp. 188-193

Political consumerism has become over the past years an ever growing phenomenon, by which citizens express through their consumption their political, environmental and ethical opinions. This paper discusses political consumerism from an economic science perspective, focusing on the link between...

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The willingness to pay–willingness to accept gap revisited: The role of emotions and moral satisfaction

Biel, Anders; Johansson-Stenman, Olof; Nilsson, Andreas - In: Journal of Economic Psychology 32 (2011) 6, pp. 908-917

While many earlier studies have found that people’s maximum willingness to pay for having a good is often substantially lower than their minimum willingness to accept not having it, more recent experimental evidence suggests that this discrepancy vanishes for standard consumption goods when an...

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Multi-criteria analysis and the resolution of sustainable development dilemmas: A stakeholder management approach

De Brucker, Klaas; Macharis, Cathy; Verbeke, Alain - In: European Journal of Operational Research 224 (2013) 1, pp. 122-131

We demonstrate that stakeholder-oriented multi-criteria analysis (MCA) can adequately address a variety of sustainable development dilemmas in decision-making, especially when applied to complex project evaluations involving multiple objectives and multiple stakeholder groups. Such evaluations...

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Responsible innovation: bringing together technology assessment, applied ethics, and STS research

Grunwald, Armin - In: Enterprise and Work Innovation Studies 7 (2011) November, pp. 9-31

experiences on assessment procedures, actor involvement, foresight and evaluation with ethics, in particular under the framework … knowledge provided by the three mentioned fields of research: ethics, technology assessment, and STS respective STIS studies. To … assessment complemented by ethics and STS (Sec. 4). As an illustration, the field of Synthetic Biology is introduced (Sec. 5). …

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Disability and dignity-enabling home environments

Gibson, Barbara E.; Secker, Barbara; Rolfe, Debbie; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 74 (2012) 2, pp. 211-219

makers, program administrators and discharge planners. Data were analyzed using a critical disability ethics approach and …

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Ethics and the Classical Liberal Tradition in Economics

Evensky, Jerry - In: History of Political Economy 24 (1992) 1, pp. 61-77

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The Ethics of Growth in Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations

Prasch, Robert E. - In: History of Political Economy 23 (1991) 2, pp. 337-351

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Moral firmness

Shalvi, Shaul; Leiser, David - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 93 (2013) C, pp. 400-407

Firm moral judgment deems dishonest acts as categorically wrong, and considers any self-serving justification for them as further dishonesty. People, however, commonly use self-serving justifications in order to feel honest even as they behave dishonestly, indicating reduced moral firmness. We...

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The heritability of moral standards for everyday dishonesty

Loewen, Peter J.; Dawes, Christopher T.; Mazar, Nina; … - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 93 (2013) C, pp. 363-366

Previous research on the acceptability of dishonest actions has focused on the role of social norms and internal reward mechanisms. Using a sample of over 2000 Swedish adult twins, this manuscript examines whether there exists another source that is driving differences in perceptions of the...

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How luck and performance affect stealing

Gravert, Christina - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 93 (2013) C, pp. 301-304

This paper investigates how the way of earning payoff affects the probability of stealing. The participants who earned their payoff according to performance were three times more likely to take the (undeserved) maximum payoff than participants with randomly allocated payoff. Conditional on...

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