This paper examines the authors 35 year path through U.S. higher education. Personal experience combined with scholarly work combines to shed light on the academic profession and colleges and universities. Being a student in 4 different decades in many different institutions of higher education...

The concept of providing all households with some level of guaranteed income have become a part of the Democratic political initiative. Although the presumptive nominee for the Democratic Party does not seem to support the Universal Basic Income (UBI), it seems that his alliance with Senators...

After marijuana is legalized, the costs of producing and selling it will collapse and a windfall economic gain will be up for grabs. Policymakers might allow that gain to go to consumers (encouraging consumption) or to cannabusinesses (encouraging production). Or, through revenue measures, they...

After marijuana is legalized, the costs of producing and selling it will collapse. What will happen to prices? A windfall economic gain will be up for grabs. Policymakers might allow that gain to go to consumers (encouraging consumption) or to cannabusinesses (encouraging production). Or,...

The social security system is the main and most important social protection system. It typically covers all citizens of the Republic of Moldova, paying social security contributions and benefits. In addition, the instrument of accumulation and redistribution of financial resources is the State...

Recent macroeconomic trends primarily but not exclusively in Europe suggest that the welfare state is not conducive to growth and prosperity. European welfare-state economies have experienced a long-term decline in GDP growth, private consumption and domestic absorption; and a long-term increase...

The logic of people's capitalism is explained from the giant contradiction between the assumptions of economics and those of non-ego based behavior. Current social scientific research provides enough of the theory, facts, and figures necessary for various methods, many inter-related, by which...

This paper provides decision-makers with a framework for prioritising different economic, social and environmental goals and analysing the options available to achieve them. To this end, it develops three stylised COVID-19 recovery pathways (“Rebound”, “Decoupling” and “Wider...

Colorado imposes a wholesale level marijuana tax. But it requires, in most cases, vertical integration of marijuana businesses – a requirement that eliminates any market based, arm's-length wholesale price to base its tax on. This unknowable tax base makes for uncertainty if not chaos in tax...

Policies and explicit private incentives designed for self-regarding individuals sometimes are less effective or even counterproductive when they diminish altruism, ethical norms and other social preferences. Evidence from 51 experimental studies indicates that this crowding out effect is...