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

Southern 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

Local Hire Laws: Alaska’s Futile Attempts at Preferential Treatment [PDF]

, 1987
Hardgrove, Sandra J.
core   +1 more source

Beggars as Rational Choosers

Southern 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, R. August Hardy, Paola A. Suarez   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Psychological dynamics among Chinese and British negotiators and translators: A text-analytical study of translation manipulation in the English - Chinese translation of the Treaty of Nanking. [PDF]

PLoS One
Li M, Tian X.
europepmc   +1 more source

Metaverse and Artificial Intelligence as Web 4.0: The Next Generation of the Internet

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study utilizes systems thinking to explore and entwine an evolving metaverse scholarship to a relatively underexplored phenomenon of Web 4.0. We adopt a soft systems thinking framework to guide the interpretation of complex and evolving metaverse scholarship, using bibliometric mapping of 5587 publications sourced from Scopus.
Anton Klarin, Elena Gorenskaia, Qijie Xiao, Pi‐Shen Seet   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Information Revolutions and Information Transitions: Counting, Sealing, Writing in Iran 10,000-300 BC. [PDF]

J Anc Near East Hist
Matthews R, Richardson A, Fazeli Nashli H, de Groene D.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Lifecycle‐Based Governance to Build Reliable Ethical AI Systems

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Artificial intelligence (AI) systems represent a paradigm shift in technological capabilities, offering transformative potential across industries while introducing novel governance and implementation challenges. This paper presents a comprehensive framework for understanding AI systems through three critical dimensions: trustworthiness ...
Maikel Leon
wiley   +1 more source

Can continental transboundary compacts hold water? [PDF]

Nat Commun
Gronewold A, Bednar J, Cort M, Rueda V, Moore M, Allan J.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Advances in Selenium‐Based Materials for Supercapacitors: Chemistry, Interaction Mechanisms, and Practical Applications

Small Structures, EarlyView.
Selenium‐based materials exhibit unique redox activity, tunable conductivity, and structural versatility, making them promising for advanced supercapacitor applications. Their integration with carbon, polymers, and transition metal compounds enhances electrochemical performance, stability, and energy density.
Murugan Madhubalan, Selvan Sathish, Minda Mahivardhan, Prabhakaran Thandapani, Kannan Karthika Abimanyu, Ramesh Kumar, Jong‐Hyun Seo, Bon‐Woo Gu, Subbaiah Muthu Prabhu, Byong‐Hun Jeon   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Directions for improving the financial support of forensic expert forensic activity in Ukraine with account of positive foreign experience. [PDF]

Forensic Sci Int Synerg
Martynenko N.
europepmc   +1 more source