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Food, Affluence and the Consumption Basket*

Economic Papers: A journal of applied economics and policy, EarlyView.
There are significant disparities across nations in incomes and spending. For example, consumers in the poorest countries spend more than half of their income on food, while in the richest, this is one‐tenth or less. We use data from the International Comparison Program for 176 countries to estimate cross‐country demand equations focusing on food and ...
Hai Long Vo, Kenneth W. Clements
wiley   +1 more source

How Can Accountants Enhance (or Save) Natural and Cultural Capital Valuation? Engaging Academics: A Collaboration with CPA Canada and the Canadian Commission for UNESCO*

Accounting Perspectives, Volume 24, Issue 1, Page 21-46, March 2025.
ABSTRACT Accountants should engage more with natural and cultural capital accounting to make tools more accessible and to ensure critical information is provided to decision‐makers. While ecological economists have continued to innovate and design tools, corporate‐level accounting has seemingly lagged behind.
S. Leanne Keddie, Ellena Damini, Pavlo Kalyta   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cost–benefit analysis of landfill emergency securing: Two applications in Southern Italy

Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract The systematic use of landfills as a method of waste disposal is leaving a heavy legacy in terms of environmental pollution, especially in the case of illegal or non‐compliant disposal sites. When no environmental precaution is adopted, harmful substances' release imposes relevant health risk to the surrounding population.
Nicola Comincioli, Ilenia Gaia Romani, Sergio Vergalli   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Measurement of Income with Time Use with Applications to Hedonic Indicators of Happiness and Misery [PDF]

The present paper examines several issues involved in expanding national economic accounts and quantitative social indicators to include the "consumption" of time.
William D. Nordhaus
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Avoiding Corporate Greenwashing? Sustainability Silence Narratives in the Agri‐Food Industry

Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The aim of this article is to shed more light on the reasons underlying companies' under‐communication or lack of communication to stakeholders about sustainability achievements in the agri‐food sector. A qualitative study based on 34 semi‐structured interviews with respondents from this sector shows the predominance of a rationale of ...
Olivier Boiral, Marie‐Christine Brotherton, David Talbot, Laurence Guillaumie   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Faster, Smaller, Cheaper: An Hedonic Price Analysis of PDAs [PDF]

We compute quality-adjusted price indexes for Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) for the period 1999-2004, using data on prices and characteristics of 203 models sold by 12 manufacturers.
Ernst R. Berndt, Iain M. Cockburn, Paul D. Chwelos   +2 more
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Are we hallucinating or can psychedelic drugs modulate the immune system to control inflammation?

British Journal of Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Psychedelic drugs that activate 5‐HT2A receptors have been long used for cultural, medicinal and recreational purposes. Interest in psychedelics for treating psychiatric disorders has resurged recently and is well documented; less well recognised are their anti‐inflammatory properties. Growing evidence now demonstrates that psychedelics modulate immune
Omar Qureshi, Jamie Cowley, Ashley Pegg, Alison J. Cooper, John Gordon, Catherine A. Brady, Antonio Belli, Sam Butterworth, Rachel Upthegrove, Nick Andrews, Nicholas M. Barnes   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Psychedelics as pharmacotherapeutics for substance use disorders: A scoping review on clinical trials and perspectives on underlying neurobiology

British Journal of Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Theorized mechanism of dopamine homeostasis restoration in the nucleus accumbens core induced by a psychedelic intervention. Abstract Psychedelics have garnered great attention in recent years as treatments for major depressive disorder (MDD) and treatment‐resistant depression because of their ability to alter consciousness and afflicted cognitive ...
Lucas Wittenkeller, Gary Gudelsky, T. John Winhusen, Davide Amato   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Psychological determinants of participation in the sharing economy: a cross-cultural study of the U.S. and China. [PDF]

Front Psychol
Song J, Kajalo S.
europepmc   +1 more source

CONSUMER'S SPECIE KNOWLEDGE AND THE VALUES OF NATURAL CHRISTMAS TREE CHARACTERISTICS [PDF]

Consumers' willingness to pay for natural Christmas tree characteristics are estimated. Differences in willingness to pay for characteristics by specie knowledge and lack of specie knowledge are tested.
Davis, George C.
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