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This paper aims to enrich the standard toolbox for measuring diversity in economics. In so doing, we compare the … about biodiversity: the diversity of organisms that inhabit a given area. Concepts of species diversity such as alpha … are combined into a single sample) have been developed (Whittaker, 1960). Biodiversity is more complex than just the …
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scarcity, and show that this is not within the scope of economics, but has been a theme of ecology and ecological economics. We …. Against this background, we discuss the roles of economics and ecology for nature conservation. We conclude that the … interdisciplinary integration of ecology and economics requires a philosophical underpinning, and suggest a framework for further …
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We investigate if, and under which conditions, the distinction between dictatorial and incentive-based policy interventions affects the capacity of Instrument Variable (IV) methods to estimate the relevant treatment effect parameter of an outcome equation. The analysis is set in a non-trivial...
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Economics has always had a difficult relationship with literature. Although early economists such as Adam Smith adopted … a literary approach, pressures soon emerged to develop formal theory imitating natural sciences. A key aim was to attain … scientific status and avoid comparison with literary studies, history and the rest of the humanities. By the twentieth century …
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, economics and political science, in addition to the sciences of cognition and communication, have at least something to say …
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matter of course that economics should become a natural science. Such a characterization misses an essential aspect of a …
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matter of course that economics should become a natural science. Such a characterization misses an essential aspect of a …
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This paper studies the transmission mechanism from family culture to economic institutions, by analyzing the impact of the within family organization on the original design of the public pension systems. We build a simple OLG model with families featuring either weak or strong internal ties....
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This paper seeks to identify relationships between human capital and cultural capital, in the context of local labour market productivity. The key constituents of human capital, identified in the literature, are jointly examined in a close-to-reality-model. The main advantage of our model of...
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We compare male and female behavior in Japan and Canada in the context of a threshold public goods game with both a strong free-riding equilibrium and many socially efficient threshold equilibria. Although higher rewards produce higher contributions, neither culture nor gender has any...
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