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Are Operating Margin, Markup and Unit Margin Good for Profit? An Approach Based on Microeconomic Theory

Managerial and Decision Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Managers often say that they want to make their company more profitable by increasing the unit margin, operating margin, or margin rate, making these strategic objectives. There is some confusion in their language, as these three metrics seem to be equivalent to maximum profit.
Louis de Mesnard
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The Opportunity Costs of Neoclassical Economics

Journal of Philosophical Economics, 2023
The notion of "opportunity cost" has been neglected in economics. The reason is that any such measure of cost is invisible, unobservable, and untestable. Yet the so-called 'competitive ideal' in neoclassical theory is based on claims of decreasing returns and substitutional tradeoffs in production, consumption and social relations, and therewith an ...
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Administrative checkpoints, burdens, and human‐centered design: Increasing interview access to raise SNAP participation

Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, EarlyView.
Abstract In this study we describe the potential of human‐centered design principles to identify burdens, reducing the effects of administrative checkpoints. Administrative checkpoints—mandatory requirements that must be satisfied in order to progress in an administrative process—have disproportionate negative effects in excluding the public from ...
Jae Yeon Kim, Pamela Herd, Sebastian Jilke, Donald Moynihan, Kerry Rodden   +4 more
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The multiple values of nature show the lack of a coherent theory of value—In any context

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Pathways to sustainability require a broader and fuller representation of the multiple values of nature in policy and practice. In this People and Nature special feature entitled ‘The Multiple Values of Nature’, researchers interpreted all three key words differently: multiple, values and nature.
Kai M. A. Chan, Rachelle K. Gould, Cecily Maller, Robert Fish, Rosemary S. Hails, Kevin J. Gaston   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Come back Marshall, all is forgiven? : Complexity, evolution, mathematics and Marshallian exceptionalism [PDF]

, 2015
Marshall was the great synthesiser of neoclassical economics. Yet with his qualified assumption of self-interest, his emphasis on variation in economic evolution and his cautious attitude to the use of mathematics, Marshall differs fundamentally from ...
Bannister R.C, Black M., Blaug M., Bowler P.J, Bowler P.J, Burkhardt R.W., Capek M., Corning P.A, Cournot A., Currie M., Darwin C.R, de Lamarck J.B., Edgeworth F.Y, Fine B., Fisher I., Foss N. J., Geoffrey M. Hodgson, Groenewegen P.D, Hesse M.B, Hodgson G.M, Hofstadter R., Jevons W.S., Johnson M., Keller E.F., Keynes J.M., Krueger A.O, La Vergata A., Laurent J., Maasen S., Marshall A., Marshall A., Marshall A., Marshall A., Marshall A., Marshall A., Mayr E., Mayr E., Menger C., Metcalfe J.S., Milonakis D., Mirowski P., Moss L.S., Nelson R.R., Peel J.D.Y., Peirce C.S., Peirce C.S., Pigou A.C., Raffaelli T., Schumpeter J.A., Shackle G.L.S., Sober E., Spencer H., Spencer H., Spencer H., Spencer H., Turner J.H., Veblen T.B., Walras L., Waters C.K., Weismann A., Weismann A., Whitaker J.K, Whitaker J.K., Wiltshire D.   +63 more
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Sustainable and Resilient Agrifood Systems (SARAS). A Leibniz Position

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Current agrifood systems fail to provide healthy, affordable food for all while also damaging the environment, contributing to climate change, reducing biodiversity, and increasing inequality. Given these compounding crises, it is crucial to transition towards sustainable and resilient agrifood systems (SARAS).
Claudia Hunecke, Ferike Thom, Julia Helen‐Maria Vogt, Sonoko Dorothea Bellingrath‐Kimura, Tilman Brück, Franziska Gaupp, Frauke Geppert, Tilman Grune, Thomas Herzfeld, Sabine E. Kulling, Shikha Ojha, Annette Piorr, Babette Regierer, Britta Renner, Oliver Schlüter, Monika Schreiner, Marco Springmann, Thomas Weith, Petra Wiedmer   +18 more
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In a Trap of Neoclassical Economics and Marxism [PDF]

Journal of Institutional Studies, 2017
This paper is a reaction to the book "Economic ideas and the world economic environment: a retrospective of interaction". The idea of writing a book with this title is just excellent. Traditional consideration of the development of economic ideas as exclusively intellectual history cannot give understanding of their evolution, since this evolution is ...
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Sustainability Leverage, Customer Orientation and Firm Performance—An Empirical Study of Small Medium Enterprises in Indonesia

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research explores how resource‐based views (RBV) and institutional pressures affect sustainability practices in SMEs and examines the impact of customer orientation on their performance. Evidence linking sustainable practices to enhanced SME performance is limited. A total of 305 SMEs participated in the survey, and the data were analyzed
Clare D'Souza, Marthin Nanere, Malliga Marimuthu, Mokhamad Arwani, Dung Nguyen, Ninh Nguyen   +5 more
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Implications of Deep Meaningfulness for Sustainability: Reimagining the Literature on Vocational Calling

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Decent work is a pivotal aspect of sustainable development. However, recent developments suggest that precarious work is rising. This is particularly true for prosocial workers who exhibit extraordinary self‐sacrifice despite working in detrimental conditions.
Wolfgang Bichler‐Riedl, Stefan Gold
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Working Paper No. 64, Ecological Economics versus Environmental Economics [PDF]

, 2022
This inquiry seeks to establish that the field within the Discipline of Economic Science known as Ecological Economics is based upon assumptions and methodological foundations that differ from the field of Environmental Economics. It shall be argued that
Demeaux, Audrey
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