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The Swedish agricultural landscape – economic characteristics, valuations and policy options

Drake, Lars - In: International Journal of Social Economics 26 (1999) 7/8/9, pp. 1042-1062

The Swedish agricultural landscape has changed dramatically since 1945. Agricultural land has been abandoned and the general trend has been towards less scenic and biological variety. People express a relatively high willingness to pay for preservation of agricultural landscape in contingent...

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Property rights, “takings” and environmental management

Dragun, Andrew K. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 26 (1999) 7/8/9, pp. 1061-1079

Property rights are often seen to be the cause and the solution of a wide range of social problems especially those affecting the natural environment. But, the property rights box is indeed pandoran, spawning as many questions as it answers as a function of diverse theoretical perspectives. The...

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Reconciling “weak” and “strong” sustainability

Hediger, Werner - In: International Journal of Social Economics 26 (1999) 7/8/9, pp. 1120-1144

A conceptual and analytical approach is presented to reconcile weak and strong sustainability. It involves a reconsideration of the conception of total capital from an ecological‐economic system perspective. In particular, natural capital is classified into non‐renewable resources, renewable...

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Conservation of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture: main actors and the costs to bear

Virchow, Detlef - In: International Journal of Social Economics 26 (1999) 7/8/9, pp. 1144-1161

In the last decade the importance of natural resources for a sustainable agricultural development has been increasingly discussed on international fora and conferences. Only recently the erosion of genetic resources and its consequences for the global welfare in general and for agricultural...

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Morality, economics and life

Armour, Leslie - In: International Journal of Social Economics 26 (1999) 10/11, pp. 1199-1226

A human life seems to have infinite value, and morality appears to demand that no effort be spared to preserve or to maintain it. Yet health care costs could destroy the economy if all available knowledge was applied to every person on the globe. There is no guaranteed solution, but this paper...

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Methodological controversies in economics and political economy

Hall, Thomas W.; Elliott, John E. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 26 (1999) 10/11, pp. 1249-1284

thought in economics and political economy is presented. The development of “orthodox” methodology is traced, and the …, complex mathematical models in contemporary economics as practiced in the USA – especially in light of the relevance and … importance of primarily verbal, interpretive methodologies in the realm of applied and policy‐oriented economics – are examined. …

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Essentialism and epochalism within the context of Irish state‐building

O’Neil, Daniel J. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 26 (1999) 10/11, pp. 1285-1301

epochalism (economics) in the creation of new states. It focuses on the Irish state‐building process, examining the thought of …

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Internal control reporting regulation: a law and economics perspective

Zolnor, Matthew A. - In: Journal of Investment Compliance 10 (2009) 2, pp. 54-66

. Originality/value – By utilizing a law and economics perspective, the paper more clearly demonstrates how Section 404 is an …

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Economics and marketing on pricing: how and why do they differ?

Skouras, Thanos; Avlonitis, George J.; Indounas, Kostis A. - In: Journal of Product & Brand Management 14 (2005) 6, pp. 362-374

pricing by the disciplines of economics and marketing. Design/methodology/approach – It is from three perspectives that the … marketing and economics approaches to pricing are reviewed, namely, buyers' response to price, firm's determination of price …, and industry‐ or economy‐wide role of price. Findings – A comparative review of the relevant marketing and economics …

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Fusion for Profit

Dupree, Jim - In: Journal of Product & Brand Management 18 (2009) 5, pp. 385-385

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