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Effect of risk and incentives on contracts: The case of farm operators in Iowa

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract Longitudinal data on Iowa landowner–operator contracts are used to examine how the mean, variance, and skewness of expected farmland returns affected contract terms from 2008 to 2019. To control for unobserved operator risk preferences and ability as a fixed effect, the sample includes operators with multiple contracts.
Jun Yeong Lee
wiley   +1 more source

Sustainable entrepreneurship and legitimacy building in protected areas: Overcoming distinctive barriers through activism

Business Strategy and the Environment, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 72-95, January 2023., 2023
Abstract Sustainable entrepreneurs operating in protected areas face distinctive barriers that place additional emphasis on the need to build legitimacy. To date, how they do this has not been entirely explored. This paper addresses this need through an exploratory study of sustainable entrepreneurs in a transnational protected area.
Hellen Lillian Atieno Dawo, Thomas B. Long, Gjalt de Jong   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

How AI tools can—and cannot—help organizations become more ethical

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 2023
In this paper, we argue that we cannot expect that AI systems—even given more data or better computational resources—will be more ethical than the humans who develop, deploy and use them.
David De Cremer, Devesh Narayanan
doaj   +1 more source

Hiding Behind Machines: When Blame Is Shifted to Artificial Agents [PDF]

arXiv, 2021
The transfer of tasks with sometimes far-reaching moral implications to autonomous systems raises a number of ethical questions. In addition to fundamental questions about the moral agency of these systems, behavioral issues arise. This article focuses on the responsibility of agents who decide on our behalf.
arxiv  

The Problem of the First Belief: Group Agents and Responsibility

Journal of Social Ontology, 2022
Attributing moral responsibility to an agent requires that the agent is a capable member of a moral community. Capable members of a moral community are often thought of as moral reasoners (or moral persons) and, thus, to attribute moral responsibility ...
Onni Hirvonen
doaj  

A Theory of Social Agency for Human-Robot Interaction

Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2021
Motivated by inconsistent, underspecified, or otherwise problematic theories and usages of social agency in the HRI literature, and leveraging philosophical work on moral agency, we present a theory of social agency wherein a social agent (a thing with ...
Ryan Blake Jackson, Tom Williams
doaj   +1 more source

“Who's breaking the law … not us, them!”: Inside immigration detention in Portugal

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract In this paper, we examine immigration detention in Portugal, a system whose daily operations and inherent violence are overlooked in both public and academic discourses. Even within community psychology, discussions on immigration detention have largely remained on the fringes of scholarly debates. Guided by a justice‐centered ecological lens,
Francesca Esposito, Federica de Lellis, Federica De Cordova, Erica Briozzo   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Autonomy, dignity and history in Caranti’s Kant’s political legacy [PDF]

Filozofija i Društvo, 2018
In this paper I discuss some relevant theses of Caranti’s Kant’s Political Legacy, whose aim is to provide a consistent account of how we could develop Kant’s political thought and see to what extent Kant’s insights can help us to critically ...
Filieri Luigi
doaj   +1 more source

The Guilty (Silicon) Mind: Blameworthiness and Liability in Human-Machine Teaming [PDF]

arXiv, 2022
As human science pushes the boundaries towards the development of artificial intelligence (AI), the sweep of progress has caused scholars and policymakers alike to question the legality of applying or utilising AI in various human endeavours. For example, debate has raged in international scholarship about the legitimacy of applying AI to weapon ...
arxiv  

Confronting the Hidden Dimensions of the Moral Life: A Caribbean Catholic Contribution

Religions
This article contributes to the reimagining of Roman Catholic ethics in the twenty-first century, building on the research of Sweeny Block, who argues that the unconscious dimensions of the moral life play a decisive role in moral agency.
Anna Kasafi Perkins
doaj   +1 more source