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Towards a Responsible Liberalism
ABSTRACT Liberalism has many faces, ranging from that which emphasises the laissez‐faire approach of freedom from interference to the interventionist perspective on providing the conditions for people to exercise their liberty. In this essay, after summarising the arguments made by four prominent liberal scholars (namely, Keynes, Hayek, Buchanan and ...
Adam Oliver
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A teatrise on the family de Gary Becker
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Javier Alvarado
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Pensar al individuo como un objeto con los atributos de una marca comercial responde a un proceso teórica e históricamente complejo. Respecto a ese proceso, la identificación entre individuo y capital que sistematizaron las teorías del capital humano ...
Iker Jauregui Giráldez
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Thinking and feeling about novelty: How cognition and emotion shape investment in novel ideas
Abstract While prior research on the strategic framing of innovation highlights the cognitive mechanisms underlying novelty evaluation, we know little about the corresponding emotional mechanisms. Drawing on appraisal theory, construal level theory, and the literature on emotions, we theorize two distinct appraisal‐emotion pathways through which the ...
Matthew P. Mount +3 more
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GARY BECKER’S LEGACY ON INTERGENERATIONAL MOBILITY [PDF]
How well do parents’ education, earnings, income, and wealth predict the same outcomes for their children? Scientists have been trying to answer this question for a long time. Francis Galton (1822–1911) was the first to apply statistical methods to tackle this question. Centuries earlier, the great Arab scholar Ibn Khaldun (1332–1406) famously observed
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Further Findings on the Intergenerational Transmission of Alcohol Consumption
ABSTRACT Using 43,817 parent–child pairs from 23 waves of the HILDA Survey, I study the intergenerational transmission of alcohol use within a rational model of trait transmission. Transmission is predominantly same‐sex: the mother–daughter elasticity is 0.10 and the father–son elasticity is 0.09; there is no father–daughter effect.
Sergey Alexeev
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This essay commemorates Nobel Laureate Gary Becker, one of the most prominent and iconoclastic economists of the 20th century. At the same time, it is written with the utmost gratitude felt by a student for her teacher. Becker served as the chairman of my dissertation committee at the University of Chicago Law School in the years 1995-2000.
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The End of Self‐Regulation: Will the Football Governance Act 2025 Fix the National Game?
The Football Governance Act 2025 is a watershed. It upends the model of self‐regulation that has defined how the game has been run in England and Wales for over a century‐and‐a‐half. The newly created Independent Football Regulator will exercise control over clubs, owners, and competition organisers.
Jan Zglinski
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Gary Becker on the Quantity and Quality of Children [PDF]
Before Gary Becker, fertility choice was widely considered to be outside the realm of economic analysis. Apart from intellectual tradition, one reason for this was that the data on fertility did not immediately suggest an economic mechanism. In industrialized countries, fertility had declined strongly over time, even though family incomes were rising ...
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Background and Purpose Serotonergic psychedelic drugs are under investigation as therapies for various psychiatric disorders, including major depression. Although serotonergic psychedelic drugs are 5‐HT2A receptor agonists, some such agonists are not psychedelic, potentially due to differences in 5‐HT2A receptor ligand bias or signalling efficacy. Here,
Aurelija Ippolito +6 more
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