Urknall – Wie alles begann und dann weiterging -- Die Erde – Als unser Planet Prügel bezog -- Pflanzen – Die unterschätzten Eroberer -- Tiere – Ein Albtraum aus Giften, Klauen und Stacheln -- Menschenarten – Wir waren mal viele, jetzt sind wir allein -- Kommunikation – Vom Homo...

Using hand-collected data on CEOs’ personal assets, we find that CEOs prioritize corporate investment projects that increase the value of CEOs’ private assets. Such pet projects are implemented sooner, receive more capital, and are less likely to be dropped. This investment strategy delivers...

This paper reports results of two experiments designed to measure how addicted rats (i.e. laboratory rats with previous ethanol exposure via a variant of the Samson ethanol fading technique) respond to changes in the price of ethanol. For both experiments, rats facing a budget constraint choose...

Species-based inequality is embedded in our institutions of law, government, and property. Legal distinctions between people and animals drive biodiversity loss. Recent environmental movements—including the rights of nature, animal rights, and wildlife property ownership—seek to lessen the...

Urknall – Wie alles begann und dann weiterging -- Die Erde – Als unser Planet Prügel bezog -- Pflanzen – Die unterschätzten Eroberer -- Tiere – Ein Albtraum aus Giften, Klauen und Stacheln -- Menschenarten – Wir waren mal viele, jetzt sind wir allein -- Kommunikation – Vom Homo...

This paper uses three decades of studies with Rhesus monkeys to investigate the intergenerational effects of early life advantage. Monkeys and their offspring were both randomly assigned to be reared together or apart from their mothers. We document significant intergenerational effects of...

This paper uses three decades of studies with Rhesus monkeys to investigate the intergenerational effects of early life advantage. Monkeys and their offspring were both randomly assigned to be reared together or apart from their mothers. We document significant intergenerational effects of...

Despite increasing concerns about animal welfare and the general prevalence of meat-eating practices, little attention has been paid in the consumer behavior literature to understanding consumer guilt around meat consumption. This research fills this void by exploring how consumers behave when...

The fiftieth anniversary of the Animal Welfare Act (“AWA”) was 2016. Most fiftieth anniversaries are cause for great celebration, but this one shouldn't' be because the AWA has caused more harm than good. In previous decades a wide range of sources have praised the Animal Welfare Act as a...

This work provides the reader with the fundamentals of data collection, model construction, analyses, and interpretation across a wide repertoire of demographic techniques and protocols, clearly guided throughout with fully reproducible R scripts.

Recently, the size of the animal pedigree is increasing. In particular, there are many cases of animal pedigree without trace. In this study, we propose a used blockchain ledger that guarantees reliability in respect to animal traceability by using smart contracts. The public blockchain is used...

While animal suffering and abuse have taken place throughout history, the alienation of humanity from nature caused by the development of capitalism - by the logic of capital and its system of generalized commodity production - accelerated and increased the depredations in scope and scale. The...

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1 Introduction: Working for the (hu)man in the tourism industry -- Part 1: Theoretical considerations -- 2 Conceptualizing non-human animals as “workers” within the tourism industry -- 3 Redefining the work of working animals in the tourism...

This volume offers analysis regarding the historical transformations in the material conditions and ideological conceptions of nonhuman animals, alienated speciesism, the ecological crisis that is undermining the conditions of life for all species, and the capitalist commodification of animals...

This book examines trades in animals and animal products in the history of the Indian Ocean World (IOW). An international array of established and emerging scholars investigate how the roles of equines, ungulates, sub-ungulates, mollusks, and avians expand our understandings of commerce, human...

2019 debattierten in Berlin Naturschutz-Experten das Thema "Fauna, Flora und Finanzen - Welchen Wert hat die Natur?" Die Inwertsetzung der Ökosystemleistungen ist derzeit ein lebhaft diskutiertes Mittel, um Naturschutzmaßnahmen gerade auch in der Landwirtschaft besser steuern zu können und um...

This brief is the first to address the particular challenges faced by pet owners experiencing homelessness, particularly as they relate to treatment by society at large, law enforcement practices, and access to housing and services. Researchers estimate that up to 25 percent of people...

This Article presents a theory of the economic value of companion animal life. Under the existing United States torts regime, the standard damages award available to an owner for an action arising from a companion animal death is its fair market value. This approach implicitly assumes that pet...

Wild Life trade is the biggest threat to wild life preservation. The rampant poaching, in wild life and its products are primarily driven by demands in the international markets. One of the most powerful motives for the exploitation of plant and animal species is income production through trade,...

Laws criminalizing animal abuse should apply to the agricultural industry. When we exempt the agricultural industry from these laws, factory farms increase production to unnaturally high levels. This increased production causes devastating environmental effects, such as climate change, water...

This paper exploits a unique ongoing experiment to analyze the effects of early rearing conditions on physical and mental health in a sample of rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta). We analyze the health records of 231 monkeys which were randomly allocated at birth across three rearing conditions:...

Climate change is already having adverse effects on animal life, and those effects are likely to prove devastating in the future. Nonetheless, the relevant harms to animals have yet to become a serious part of the analysis of climate change policy. Even if animals and species are valued solely...

Dogs, cats, parrots, and other pet animals play extremely significant roles in the lives of many individuals. People own pets for a variety of reasons – they love animals, they enjoy engaging in physical activity with the animal such as playing ball or going for walks, and they enjoy the...

This paper examines whether abortion legalization in the United States during the early 1970s influenced women’s demand for pets later in life. We compare women who were granted early access to legal abortion during their peak childbearing years to women who were not in order to estimate their...

Recently, economists and behavioral scientists have studied the pattern of human well-being over the lifespan. In dozens of countries, and for a large range of well-being measures, including happiness and mental health, well-being is high in youth, falls to a nadir in midlife, and rises again in...