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Buchanan and the Social Contract: Coordination Failures and the Atrophy of Property Rights

open access: yesSouthern Economic Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT James Buchanan advocated that societies should be based on a social contract. He rejected anarchy, seeing it as a “Hobbesian jungle” that calls for government intervention to maintain social order. He also opposed theories of spontaneous order. These views led to debates about the compatibility of Buchanan's works with classical liberalism and
Stefano Dughera, Alain Marciano
wiley   +1 more source

Beggars as Rational Choosers

open access: yesSouthern Economic Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT American municipalities increasingly regulate panhandling. That regulation is controversial. The determinants of panhandling activeness are unknown, and it is doubted whether panhandling activity responds rationally to incentives. To shed light on these issues, we collect data on hundreds of panhandlers and the passersby they solicit at ...
Peter T. Leeson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Expanding the Prenatal Phenotypic Spectrum of TRPV6 Variants With Ocular Anomalies

open access: yes
Prenatal Diagnosis, EarlyView.
Edouard Leyne   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Renal cell carcinoma with atypical omental metastasis: A case report and literature review

open access: yesUroPrecision, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is the most common type of kidney cancer in adults, with common metastatic sites including the lungs, bones, liver, and brain. Omental metastasis is exceedingly rare and usually occurs postoperatively. Fumarate hydratase‐deficient (FH‐deficient) RCC, a recently classified and highly aggressive subtype of ...
Andrew Jing   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Challenges of Effective Wildlife Law Enforcement in Oyo and Lagos States, Nigeria 尼日利亚奥约州与拉各斯州野生动物执法有效实施所面临的挑战

open access: yesWildlife Letters, EarlyView.
Effective wildlife law enforcement is important in the drive for biodiversity conservation. This study examined the challenges of wildlife law enforcement in Oyo and Lagos States of Nigeria across four security outfits (Nigerian Police Force [NPF], Nigerian Customs Service [NCS], National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency ...
Oluwatosin Mercy Dada   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The contribution of the humanities to the theory and practice of public administration in the 21st century

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract This Forum Article integrates a range of four contributions which are all underpinned by the conviction that the rediscovery of the humanities may be beneficial to the field of public administration. The first piece examines the contribution that philosophy, as a key discipline of the humanities, can provide to the field of public ...
Edoardo Ongaro   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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