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Introduction to social choice and welfare [PDF]

Social choice theory is concerned with the evaluation of alternative methods of collective decision-making, as well as with the logical foundations of welfare economics.
Kotaro Suzumura
core  

Food Tastes in the United States: Convergence or Divergence?

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how food consumption tastes have changed in recent decades across the United States. Using NielsenIQ data for over 77 million transactions, there is evidence of divergence in food tastes across regions from 2007 to 2016 and across households of different income, education, and race/ethnicity groups.
Michael DeDad
wiley   +1 more source

Charting the Path to Increased Oil Palm Output in Ghana Beyond Area Expansion: Technology or Managerial Capacity — Which Leads the Way?

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study sets out to investigate the prospects for raising oil palm output in sub‐Saharan Africa, particularly Ghana, without further expansion of cropland. Given global concerns about oil palm's role in deforestation and land use change, the focus is on enhancing productivity on existing farmlands.
Jacob Asravor, Francis Tsiboe, Ayobami Adetoyinbo, Jacob Ankamah   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

On the role of sunk costs and transaction costs in utsourcing decisions. [PDF]

In this paper we report the results of two experiments examining the influence of sunk historical investments for internal production on the outsourcing decision.
Roodhooft, Filip, Warlop, Luk
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Vendor Types, Attendance, Experience and Sales 2019–2021: Evidence From Five Rural Oregon Farmers Markets

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Farmers markets provide a direct‐to‐consumer marketing path for farmers and small businesses, facilitating customer discovery and product refinement. This paper explores farmers markets as a business incubator, with a focus on beginning vendors and resilience to a shock, namely, COVID‐19 market restrictions.
Mallory L. Rahe, Juo‐Han Tsay, Sarah A. Low   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Education as an upstream social security intervention: constructing a competency-based talent development framework in health economics. [PDF]

Front Public Health
Luo H, Li A, Hua H.
europepmc   +1 more source

Economics in Relation to Sociology: Dualisms and Vilfredo Pareto's Pluralistic Methodology [PDF]

Many economists remember the masters of Lausanne for their important contributions to general equilibrium and welfare economics, but Leon Walras and Vilfredo Pareto both pursued much broader social research agendas.
Michael McLure
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Who Are the Consumers of European Farmers' Markets? A Cross‐Country Analysis

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT With substantial growth in the number of farmers' markets (FMs) in developed countries, the number of consumers visiting FMs is also increasing. This study comparatively assesses the consumers of FMs in three European countries where FMs traditionally play a distinctive role in food supply chains.
Áron Török, Gréta Maró, Zsófia Jámbor, Zalán Márk Maró, Barbara Tocco, Péter Balogh, Péter Czine   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Permanent health education for health economics in Brazil: a forgotten facet? [PDF]

Front Public Health
Romão MH, de Lima Paiva JC, de Macêdo Silva L, de Oliveira Junior EB, da Costa JMM, Dos Santos Felipe IJ, de Campos RP, de Moura Santos Lima TGF, Rêgo MCFD, Reis MKS, Bonfim MAA, da Silva Valentim JLR, Coutinho KD, de Pinho Dias A, de Oliveira CAP, Coutinho KMD, do Nascimento Batista NA, Da Rocha MA, de Aragão ES, de Medeiros Guimarães JM, Henriques S, Veloso CM, de Medeiros Valentim RA, Quintas-Mendes AM.   +23 more
europepmc   +1 more source

SPARC partners with Theoretical Economics

, 2006
SPARC, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition issued a press release about its new partnership with Theoretical Economics. The first issue of the Open Access journal, published by the Society for Economic Theory, was released in early March.
openaire   +1 more source