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What is Law & Economics and How Could It Have Contributed to Preventing the Global Crisis?
Objective: The main goal of the article is to investigate the underpinnings and research apparatus of law & economics, as well as to expose its relevance to economists and lawyers in the context of the recent global financial crisis and preventing future
Jacek Lewkowicz
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The so-called neurorights are emerging human rights, or rather reconfigurations of already existing human rights, seeking to address the impact of the possible misuse of neurotechnologies, which have the potential to become more invasive and harmful in ...
María Isabel Cornejo-Plaza +1 more
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Empowering the ‘Unempowerable’.Behavioural Insights into Informing Consumersabout Internet Access Services in the European Unionunder Regulation 2015/2120 [PDF]
The European consumer policy relies on the ideal of consumer empowerment, which involves providing all consumers with detailed information on the goods on offer.
Andrzej Nałęcz
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Looking for a psychology for the inner rational agent [PDF]
Research in psychology and behavioural economics shows that individuals’ choices often depend on ‘irrelevant’ contextual factors. This presents problems for normative economics, which has traditionally used preference-satisfaction as its criterion.
Sugden, Robert
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The Relationship Between Sociodemographics and Environmental Values Across Seven European Countries
Given the importance of environmental values (altruistic, biospheric, and egoistic) to pro-environmental behavior, it would be useful to segment the population – an approach known as market segmentation – to tailor pro-environmental messages more ...
Rebecca J. Sargisson +3 more
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Despite the many benefits of club-organized sports participation for children, sports participation is lower among children from low-income families than among those from middle- or high-income families.
Lonneke van Leeuwen +4 more
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The Proper Scope of Behavioural Law and Economics [PDF]
Abstract Behavioural law and economics applies the conceptual tools of behavioural economics to the analysis of legal problems and legal intervention. These models, and the experiments to test them, assume an institution-free state of nature. In modern societies, the law’s subjects never see this state of nature.
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Empirical studies of public opinion on environmental protection have typically been grounded in Inglehart’s post-materialism thesis, proposing that societal affluence encourages materially-sated publics to look beyond their interests and value the ...
Karen Stenner, Zim Nwokora
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This study examined the relationship between family wealth and school dropout among vocational education students (n = 1,231; mean age=17.81). It investigated whether (1) family affluence and adolescents’ own perceptions and experiences of their family ...
Catrin Finkenauer +6 more
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Rethinking Nudge: Not One But Three Concepts [PDF]
Nudge is a concept of policy intervention that originates in Thaler and Sunstein's (2008) popular eponymous book. Following their own hints, we distinguish three properties of nudge interventions: they redirect individual choices by only slightly ...
Cozic, Mikael, Mongin, Philippe
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