With the change in legal status, marijuana is not really being legalized or even just decriminalized. It is being made regulatable or, to coin a phrase, regulatabilized. Markets in illegal goods — along with the goods’ creation, cultivation, distribution, taxation, sale, etc. — are...

La pratique qui consiste a recourir a des conseils scientifiques dans le monde politique semble etre dans une situation paradoxale : d'un cote, on considere ces conseils comme figes ideologiquement et peu informatifs, mais de l'autre, on y a regulierement et frequemment recours.

"Exit, Voice, and Loyalty" (A.O. Hirschman 1970) is a theoretical concept derived from the work of Albert O. Hirschman (1970) which is focused on two essential options in organizatios and products decline, being "exit" and "voice".The basis concept is as follows: members of an organization,...

By starting with the statement of Alfred Marshall: "The most valuable of all capital is invested in being human" we can consider the quality of human resources in general and quality of educational resources, especially as a decisive factor for economic growth together. The specialists...

This exploratory study seeks to identify factors that systematically influence interstate living-cost differentials. Living costs refer to the average cost of living for a four-person family in each of the 50 states. For the year 1977, the living cost level is found to be an increasing function...

This study examines the nexus among production diversity, market participation, and consumption diversity in smallholder households. It identifies the main factors that influence smallholder farm households' decision to diversify production and evaluates the effect of production diversity and...

This study examines the nexus among production diversity, market participation, and consumption diversity in smallholder households. It identifies the main factors that influence smallholder farm households' decision to diversify production and evaluates the effect of production diversity and...

In a contribution to the sparse literature on the impacts on consumers of quarantine restrictions, an innovative approach to analyzing the effects of these policies on the prices and quality of imported products is proposed. Specifically, various index number decompositions at different...

Environmental credit markets have been established to offset impacts to wetlands, endangered species habitat, water quality, and the global climate system. As these markets mature, participants are exploring the concept of credit stacking, whereby a conservation project or parcel produces...