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Economic development and environmental protection: The need for more equal income distribution for achieving sustainable development from an economic and fairness perspective [PDF]
, 2013 In this paper, the relation between the equality of income distribution and sustainable development is discussed. This issue is elaborated using theories of justice of John Stuart Mill, John Roemer, John Rawls and Amartya ...
Platje, Joost
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Assessing Risk Thresholds in Controlled Human Infection Models (CHIM)
Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Controlled Human Infection Models (CHIMs) are a type of clinical trial involving deliberately exposing human volunteers to an infectious agent. Compared to studies of natural infection, CHIMs offers distinctive benefits, from the ability to study presymptomatic infection to a direct assessment of the efficacy of vaccines and therapeutics in a ...
Alexa Nord‐Bronzyk +4 more
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Out There No One Has a Right to Die
Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The eventual goal of space exploration is to colonize exoplanets and their moons outside our solar system. This is a dangerous and immoral endeavour. The extraterrestrial life forms encountered would be hostile, vulnerable or both, and the descendants of the original pioneers would be involuntarily exposed to hazardous conditions and ...
Matti Häyry
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Dementia, Advance Directives, and Second‐Order Volitions
Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper contributes to the ongoing debate over the authority of advance directives in cases where patients with dementia express desires that conflict with their earlier wishes. Drawing on Harry Frankfurt's concept of second‐order volitions, I argue that the preferences of the pre‐dementia self (the “then‐self”) should, in most cases, take ...
Rand Hirmiz
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Competition and payments to African chiefs on the Gold Coast during the slave trade, 1679‒1704
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract The manuscript records of the Royal African Company show that the Company paid African chiefs for access to trade along the caravan routes on the Gold Coast in the seventeenth century. This paper documents and examines these payments. Using an event study, I establish that after the Glorious Revolution in 1688 when the Company's monopoly in ...
Jose Rowell Corpuz
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John Stuart Mill's view on Hume's problem: The justification of inductive inference and the nature of the principle of induction [PDF]
, 2016 Indexación: Scopus; Scielo.El presente artículo tiene como objetivo analizar y reconstruir la postura de John Stuart Mill respecto del problema de la inducción.
León M., Ana Pía
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Irish regional GDP since independence
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract This paper constructs the first long‐run estimates of Irish regional gross domestic product (GDP) over the twentieth century and traces the relative economic performance of Ireland's regions since independence. Using an array of data sources available at a county level, output in agriculture, industry, and services in benchmark census years is
Alan de Bromhead, Seán Kenny
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International Journal of Management Reviews, EarlyView.Abstract Rebound effects describe how efficiency improvements in energy or resource use can increase demand, thereby partially or fully offsetting expected environmental savings. This dynamic complicates win–win strategies that aim to improve environmental and financial performance.
Jozef Cossey, Aurélien Acquier
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Revista Opinião Filosófica, 2017 MILL, John Stuart. Sobre a liberdade. Tradução e prefácio de Alberto da Rocha Barros; Apresentação de Celso Lafer. 2ª ed. Petrópolis, RJ: Vozes, 1991.
Paulo Roberto Konzen +1 more
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Bentham and Mill on the "Quality" of Pleasures [PDF]
, 2011 John Stuart Mill and Jeremy Bentham are often said to have held opposed views concerning the way “the value” of different pleasures should be estimated. Mill is accused of being an inconsistent utilitarian because he thought
Vergara, Francisco
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