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Fin de vie : la France à l'heure des choix : mandature 2015-2020 - séance du mardi 10 avril 2018
Gailly, Pierre-Antoine - 2018
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Angst, Sorge, Tod : über eine "Ökonomie der Sorge" in der Corona-Krise
Priddat, Birger P. - 2021
Angst, Sorge und Tod sind die verdeckten Existenzial der Pandemie. Für die Angstund die Sorge sind die Gastwirte und … Händler zuständig, deren Existenzenökonomisch bedroht sind. Und die Künstler. Für den Tod sind die Krankenhäuserzuständig, die …
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The Impact of Fear on Police Behavior and Public Safety
Cho, Sungwoo; Gonçalves, Felipe; Weisburst, Emily - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We examine how changes in the salience of workplace risk affect police behavior and public safety. Specifically, we investigate cases of police officer deaths while on duty. Officers respond to a peer death by decreasing arrest activity for one to two months, consistent with heightened fear....
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Fin de vie : faire évoluer la loi ?
Joseph, Dominique - 2023
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Global power shifts and the future of democracy : an evolutionary approach, with special attention to China
Owen, John M. - 2016
general questions concerning the regional and global waxing and waning of domestic regime types. Evolution's claims about the … co-evolution and niche construction are crucial: an agent may modify its environment such that one or more traits of that … agent enjoy a greater reproductive advantage. Agency, then, may be not an escape from evolution but a participation in co-evolution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011590640
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Weber's law and the biological evolution of risk preferences : the selective dominance of the logarithmic utility function
Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2002
The paper offers a proof that expected utility maximisation with logarithmic utility is a dominant preference in the biological selection process in the sense that a population following any other preference for decision-making under risk will, with a probability that approaches certainty,...
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Some evolutionary foundations for price level rigidity
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2002
This paper shows that price rigidity evolves in an economy populated by imperfectly rational agents who experiment with alternative rules of thumb. In the model, firms must set their prices in face of aggregate demand shocks. Their payoff depends on the level of aggregate demand, as well as on...
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On market forces and human evolution
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2002
This paper studies how an institution such as markets affects the evolution of mankind. My key point is that the forces …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011414433
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Pre-industrial and post-war economic development : is there a link?
Burkett, John P.; Humblet, Catherine; Putterman, Louis G. - 1997
What became the post-War era's "less developed countries" (LDCs) varied enormously in their pre- modern or pre-industrial economic conditions. We hypothesize that if these countries are arrayed on a continuum of pre-industrial development such as that of the demographer Ester Boserup, countries...
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Employment industry and occupational continuity in Germany : from the Nazi regime to the post-war Economic Miracle
Puhani, Patrick A. - 2014
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