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Insights from the Presidential Addresses to the Agricultural Economics Society
ABSTRACT The Society's published presidential addresses have embraced a wide range of subject matter, reflecting a ‘road well travelled’ in agricultural economics. The areas covered include the development and use of data and statistics, lessons from history, sectoral analysis, land economics, international trade and international development.
David Blandford
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Five Principles for a New Economic Consensus
ABSTRACT This paper puts forward five principles for a new economic consensus, which could serve as a modern alternative to the Washington Consensus of 35 years ago. They are built on new ideas that have gained currency in economics over the past three decades. We also provide examples of the policies that could follow from these principles.
Timothy Besley, Andrés Velasco
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Self-interest and greed: Is the homo economicus unethical? [PDF]
The central question of the article is whether it is self-interest, which has become a technical term of economy, nothing but a renamed and justified quondam deadly sin of greed, or is it engender and announces a new and different understanding of man ...
Krstić Predrag
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ABSTRACT This article argues that if the aspiration is to enhance regulatory and governance responses to white‐collar and corporate crimes, consideration of the organization of these offending behaviors must be central to the scholarly, practice, and policy discussion.
Nicholas Lord, Michael Levi
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ABSTRACT Consuming luxury products and services has received little systematic attention as a potential pathway to consumer well‐being, despite sporadic evidence suggesting that luxury experiences may catalyse self‐transformational processes and happiness‐related outcomes.
Solon Magrizos +2 more
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2. Institutional Design and Human Motivation: The Role of Homo Economicus Assumptions
What kinds of behavioral or motivational assumptions are appropriate if “legislators” want to design “good” social institutions or constitutions? David Hume’s famous advice has been to follow the maxim “that every man must be supposed a knave: Though at ...
T. Voss
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“THE NORMAL EXCEPTION”: EDOARDO GRENDI, MICROANALYSIS, AND GENERALIZATIONS*
ABSTRACT “The normal exception” has long been a slogan of microhistory. This oxymoronic phrase is the iconic rendering of an incidental sentence that appeared in a 1977 article by Edoardo Grendi. His article, titled “Micro‐analisi e storia sociale” (Microanalysis and Social History), is cited more often than it is read.
FRANCESCA TRIVELLATO
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Are Terrorists Model Citizens? An Account of Political Culture Through Ecological Psychology
ABSTRACT The aim of this paper is to provide a novel as well as radical perspective that helps to elucidate the fundamental function civic values fulfil within society through an embodied model that provides a framework, both theoretical and practical, for the shaping of the subject's political culture and habits.
David Sanchez +2 more
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Del homo economicus al Homo Sapiens
En este trabajo, Thaler hace diez predicciones sobre el futuro de la Economía. Futuro en el que, nos dice el autor, se hace cada vez más claro aquello que quizás siempre supimos: los hombres no somos completamente racionales, nuestra especie no es la del
Richard Thaler
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Goal Hierarchies: Understanding Sub‐Goal and Primary Goal Interdependency
Abstract There is increased research on how organizations respond to performance feedback on multiple goals. Most of it considers goals that have ambiguous ranking and thus differs from goal hierarchies with sub‐goals that are instrumental for accomplishing a primary goal.
Xavier Sobrepere, Henrich R. Greve
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