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Is Novelty always a good thing? Towards an Evolutionary Welfare Economics
Schubert, Christian - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2009
notion of creative learning agents who bring about novelty. We argue that apart from the challenges it poses for positive … theorizing, novelty (be it technological, institutional or commercial) also has a complex normative dimension that standard … welfare economics is unsuited to deal with. We show that welfare economics has to be reconstructed on the basis of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005258478
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Is novelty always a good thing? Towards an evolutionary welfare economics
Schubert, Christian - In: Journal of Evolutionary Economics 22 (2012) 3, pp. 585-619
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010849037
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Role Models that Make You Unhappy: Light Paternalism, Social Learning and Welfare
Cordes, Christian; Schubert, Christian - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2011
appear to be “wasteful” in terms of well-being or welfare. Within settings displaying preference endogeneity, it is however …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008805390
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Extending the informational basis of welfare economics: The case of preference dynamics
Witt, Ulrich; Schubert, Christian - 2010
Normative reasoning in welfare economics and social contract theory usually presumes invariable, context … show that on this basis it is possible to complement social welfare assessments by a differential weighing of different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281845
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Role models that make you unhappy: Light paternalism, social learning and welfare
Cordes, Christian; Schubert, Christian - 2010
appear to be wasteful in terms of well-being or welfare. Within settings displaying preference endogeneity, it is however …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286756
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Extending the Informational Basis of Welfare Economics: The Case of Preference Dynamics
Witt, Ulrich; Schubert, Christian - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2010
Normative reasoning in welfare economics and social contract theory usually presumes invariable, context … show that on this basis it is possible to complement social welfare assessments by a differential weighing of different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008560415
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Mandated political representation and crimes against the low castes
Girard, Victoire - 2016
Mandated political representation over the last twenty years has had a different impact on the reporting of crime by the low castes than what is observed for the reporting of crime by women. I exploit the timing of the implementation of mandated political representation of the low castes to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011532406
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Mandated political representation and crimes against the low castes
Girard, Victoire - 2016
Mandated political representation over the last twenty years has had a different impact on the reporting of crime by the low castes than what is observed for the reporting of crime by women. I exploit the timing of the implementation of mandated political representation of the low castes to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011485316
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Chapter 6 Reciprocity: Its Scope, Rationales, and Consequences
Kolm, Serge-Christophe - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 371-541). 2006
Reciprocity is one of the main basic social relations that constitute societies. It consists of being favourable to others because others are favourable to you (and not from an exchange in the strict sense). It rests on three possible rationales: (1) balance (comparison, matching), often related...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023677
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Village Fairness Norms and Land Rental Markets
Krah, Kwabena; Maertens, Annemie; Mhango, Wezi; … - 2021
This paper documents the role of village fairness norms in land markets. We establish a strong and robust relationship between experimentally elicited village-level fairness norms and land rental markets across 250 villages in Malawi. Stronger fairness norms correlate with a tighter range in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013211856