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Kautilya on institutions, governance, knowledge, ethics and prosperity

Sihag, Balbir S. - In: Humanomics 23 (2007) 1, pp. 5-28

Purpose – Both researchers and policy makers have increasingly focused their energies in exploring the sources of economic growth. The purpose of this paper is to explore the very first ideas on the sources of economic growth of Kautilya during the fourth century BCE....

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A legal and economic analysis of graffiti

D’Amico, Daniel J.; Block, Walter - In: Humanomics 23 (2007) 1, pp. 29-38

Purpose – To analyze the legal, ethical, and economic implications of governmentally criminalized graffiti. Design/methodology/approach – First the paper presents the act of graffiti as a minor form of rebellion against an unjust government according to the criteria of just war theory. Once...

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Disclosure regulation, situational risk, situational ethics, and earnings management

Gélinas, Patrice - In: Humanomics 23 (2007) 1, pp. 58-65

that deception (e.g. earnings management) bears relatively low‐situational‐ethics and high‐situational‐risk. Research … agency model with a situational ethics component and by relaxing its risk‐aversion assumption. Practical implications …

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Problems of interaction between state and economy under the post‐communist transition : The perspective of Islamic political economy

Aliyev, Fuad B. - In: Humanomics 23 (2007) 2, pp. 73-82

flexible in time and applicable in different given conditions. The main finding is about placing ethics in the core of whole …

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Capitalism, democracy and natural environment

Kaskarelis, Ioannis A. - In: Humanomics 23 (2007) 4, pp. 221-229

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss the mentality of our civilization, the structure of human life nowadays and to attempt to prove that under these the continual and progressive environmental deterioration is inevitable. Design/methodology/approach – The paper investigates the...

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Corporate governance and the global performance of Islamic banks

Ghayad, Racha - In: Humanomics 24 (2008) 3, pp. 207-216

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study the operation of Islamic banks and the elements which determine their performance. Design/methodology/approach – In order to ensure the respect of Shari’a , religious committee of monitoring exists within the Islamic bank to take care of the...

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Kautilya on law, economics and ethics

Sihag, Balbir S. - In: Humanomics 25 (2009) 1, pp. 75-94

limitations/implications – Current approaches ignore the role of ethics in designing legal rules for promoting economic efficiency …

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Strategies to contain the high and rising costs of health : Will they increase existing health care disparities and are they ethical?

Hosseini, Hengameh - In: Humanomics 26 (2010) 2, pp. 112-123

Purpose – After discussing the high and rising health care costs in the USA, its disparities, and the suggested demand, supply, and managed competition‐side strategies to contain health care costs and their ethical implications, this paper seeks to explore whether or not these strategies...

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Reproductivity, capital theory, and objectivist ethics

Touchstone, Kathleen - In: Humanomics 26 (2010) 3, pp. 224-240

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss how reproductivity (child‐rearing) fits into ethics. It aims to use … objectivist ethics (OE) specifically as the framework for considering this. Design/methodology/approach – The approach is … Objectivist Ethics . In that work, reproductivity is linked to human capital replacement, depreciation, the sinking fund, and …

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Islamic microfinance: an ethical alternative to poverty alleviation

Rahim Abdul Rahman, Abdul - In: Humanomics 26 (2010) 4, pp. 284-295

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assess the potential of Islamic financing schemes for microfinancing purposes. Design/methodology/approach – The paper contends that Islamic finance has an important role to contribute for furthering socio‐economic development of the poor and small...

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