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Philosophers and Economists Can Agree on the Intergenerational Discount Rate and Climate Policy Paths

Nesje, Frikk; Drupp, Moritz A.; Freeman, Mark C.; Groom, Ben - 2022

The estimated values to society from long-term public projects, including climate change mitigation and infrastructure construction, are highly sensitive to the social discount rate (SDR) employed. Governmental guidance on social discounting has predominantly been based on input from expert...

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Relative and absolute scarcity of nature: Assessing the roles of economics and ecology for biodiversity conservation

Baumgärtner, Stefan; Becker, Christian; Faber, Malte; … - 2004

definition of economics which is based on the concept of scarcity. Taking a closer look at this notion, we find that economics … 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 …

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Ethics, morality, and game theory

Alfano, Mark; Rusch, Hannes; Uhl, Matthias - In: Games 9 (2018) 2, pp. 1-4

Ethics is a field in which the gap between words and actions looms large. Game theory and the empirical methods it inspires look at behavior instead of the lip service people sometimes pay to norms. We believe that this special issue comprises several illustrations of the fruitful application of...

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New Perspectives on Games and Interaction

van Rooij, Robert (contributor); … - 2008

This volume is a collection of papers presented at the 2007 colloquium on new perspectives on games and interaction at the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences in Amsterdam. The purpose of the colloquium was to clarify the uses of the concepts of game theory, and to identify promising new directions....

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What can economists learn from Deleuze?

Belabes, Abderrazak - In: Economic Thought 9 (2020) 2, pp. 55-67

Listening, seeing and reading Gilles Deleuze has had an influence on my thinking more than most of the economic writings I have consulted over the past quarter of a century. This discovery and furtherance of knowledge enriched my reflection and also allowed me to go beyond the general...

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The Relationship Between Politics, Legal System and Financial Reporting on Fraud

Singh, Kishore; Boolaky, Pran; Omoteso, Kamil - In: Journal of Accounting and Management Information … 21 (2022) 3, pp. 397-430

Motivation - Fraud is a challenging problem. Its economic effects are clear – worse public services, less financially stable and profitable companies, charities deprived of resources needed for charitable purposes and diminished levels of disposable income of everyone. In every sector...

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Law, Democracy and the Quality of Government in Africa

Asongu, Simplice A. - 2011

This paper examines the big questions of African comparative politics. It assesses the interaction of three crucial … components in the development of the continent: law, democracy and quality of government. Political regimes of democracy, polity …-stability, regulation quality and rule of law. Findings indicate democracy has an edge over autocracy while the later and polity overlap. A …

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A Structural Topic Model of the Features and the Cultural Origins of the Baconian Program

Grajzl, Peter; Murrell, Peter - 2017

We use machine-learning methods to study the features and origins of the Baconian program, a cultural and methodological paradigm viewed as providing the intellectual roots for modern economic growth. After building a machine-readable corpus of Bacon's works, we estimate a structural topic...

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Law, Politics and the Quality of Government in Africa

Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2016

This paper examines interconnections between law, politics and the quality of government in Africa. We investigate …-control, government-effectiveness, voice and accountability, political-stability, regulation quality and the rule of law. Findings show …

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A Sales Tax for Alberta: Why and How

Ascah, Robert L. (contributor) - 2022

The days of buoyant capital investment, jobs, and wealth are passing Alberta by as the boom-and-bust cycle runs its course and the global climate crisis becomes more acute. As the province scrambles to boost the dying oil economy and curb spending, one solution is all but ignored—a sales tax....

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