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pure distributive social systems to general social systems that combine competitive market exchange with the non …
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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...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316339
This is a Review of Guido Calabresi’s fascinating and thought-provoking new book, The Future of Law and Economics (presented in a book symposium held at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in December 2016). The Review proposes to break the notion of commodification, as used by Calabresi, into...
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, nor for gifts, inheritance and many other services exchanged within families. Such behavior can be derived from three main … transfer. In a second model, altruism is impure as the parents want the child to behave in a certain way: exchange and … from being entirely motivated by direct exchange considerations. …
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transfers from parents to children are gifts, and not temporary help to overcome liquidity constraints. Second, inter vivos … gifts are compensatory in the sense that life-time poorer children will receive higher transfers than their life-time richer … siblings. Third, inter vivos gifts do not, however, make up the entire difference in life-time incomes. …
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The novel part of this paper is a model of the principle of proportionality, as the cornerstone of the doctrine of fundamental rights. German law, and with some modifications also the law of the European Community and the European Convention on Human Rights, do not categorically outlaw...
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In private enforcement systems such as the one for patents, remedies perform the “public” function of determining the optimal amount of protection and deterrence. If every patent were properly granted and had just the right scope to incentivize innovation, then strict enforcement and harsh...
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preference. Finally, unlike mainstream neoclassicists, most institutionalists believed that market exchange is only one of many … and market exchange as the only efficient movers of resources, he reduced the problem of resource movement to one of …
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The FTC has explicit antitrust authority to enforce the Clayton Act, although not the Sherman Act. More than a half century ago, however, the Supreme Court held that the FTC Act’s prohibition of “unfair methods of competition” reaches everything the Sherman Act reaches and also a...
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