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Economic growth as the limiting factor for wildlife conservation [PDF]
The concept of limiting factor includes the lack of welfare factors and the presence of decimating factors. Originally applied to populations and species, the concept may also be applied to wildlife in the aggregate.
Czech, Brian
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Sraffa, Wittgenstein and neoclassical economics
Cambridge Journal of Economics, 1988 The intellectual interaction of Piero Sraffa and Ludwig Wittgenstei n in the late 1920s is examined. Sraffa's critical treatment of themes in Wittgenstein's Tractatus is related to the former's 1926 "Laws of Returns" article and argued to have precipitated in part the latter's change in philosophy.
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The Ethics of Climate Policy: A Systematic Literature Review
Accounting &Finance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Climate change as we know it is a significant social, economic, and environmental problem. As such, it must be considered above all an ethical problem, and climate policy initiatives must be considered through an ethical lens. Utilising a systematic literature review of the ethics of climate policy, this paper reveals six distinct areas in the
Damian J. Bridge
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Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract Revised GDP data suggest that Japan was more than one‐third richer in 1874 than suggested by Maddison, and that Meiji period growth built on earlier development. Despite trend GDP per capita growth during the Tokugawa Shogunate, the catching‐up process only started after 1890 with respect to Britain, and after World War I with respect to the ...
Stephen Broadberry +2 more
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Examination of Afghanistan's Development Traps
Regional Science Policy &Practice, EarlyView., 2022 Abstract We examine the factors behind Afghanistan's persistent underdevelopment. Drawing on various theories of development traps operating at the demographic, economic and institutional levels, we seek to assess whether and to what extent their functioning affects Afghanistan's development. To capture the functioning of development traps empirically,
Klemen Knez, Tina G. Lokar
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What Is Neoclassical Economics? The three axioms responsible for its theoretical oeuvre, practical irrelevance and, thus, discursive power [PDF]
This paper offers a precise definition of neoclassical economics based on three axioms which lie at the latters foundations. This definition is all inclusive in that it applies as much to the neoclassical economic models of the late 19th century as it ...
Christian Arnsperger, Yanis Varoufakis
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Credible Liberalization: Beyond the Three Theorems of Neoclassical Welfare Economics [PDF]
, 1993 Peter J. Hammond
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Farmers' pro‐social motivations and willingness‐to‐accept in markets with public goods
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract To explain how some farmers' decisions may diverge from profit‐maximization, we incorporate proactive social preferences for public goods in an expected utility framework, in addition to reactive risk preferences to uncertainty. We offer empirical evidence that proactive preferences influence farmers' decisions alongside reactive preferences ...
Jill Fitzsimmons +2 more
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Resilience in a noisy urban system
Regional Science Policy &Practice, EarlyView., 2023 Abstract The ability of cities to recuperate from disturbances and return to their evolutionary pathways depends, first and foremost, on the type of damage that the shock created. But in addition, it depends on how information is transmitted in the urban system and on how noise filters distort the information that reaches economic agents.
Dani Broitman, Daniel Czamanski
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From outer circle to center stage: The maturation of heterodox economics [PDF]
This is chapter 2 of the book "Future Directions in Heterodox Economics" by John T. Harvey and Robert F. Garnett, Jr., Editors. The inner circle of neoclassical economics has limited its horizons, increasing the scope for heterodox economists to claim ...
Garnett (eds), Rob +2 more
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