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Understanding Farmer Behaviour for Successful Climate Change Mitigation in Voluntary Initiatives

Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Private and voluntary initiatives, such as voluntary carbon markets, can support public policies aimed at reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in agriculture. This study investigates the impact of behavioural factors (reluctance to change) and social dynamics (peer imitation) on the adoption of two mitigation practices on Swiss dairy and ...
Marta Tarruella, Robert Huber, Nadja El Benni, Gabriele Mack, David Schäfer, Robert Finger   +5 more
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Income and Substitution Effects: A Rejoinder to Professor Joseph Salerno

Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, 2020
Professor Joseph Salerno (2019) has commented on my recent reconstruction of the income effect from a causal-realist perspective (Israel, 2018b). In this rejoinder, I clarify my position and show that the main points of criticism in Salerno’s response ...
Karl-Friedrich Israel
doaj   +1 more source

Why growth equals power - and why it shouldn't : constructing visions of China [PDF]

, 2008
When discussing the success of China's transition from socialism, there is a tendency to focus on growth figures as an indication of performance. Whilst these figures are indeed impressive, we should not confuse growth with development and assume that ...
Babbin J., Bacani C., Bahl R., Baumol J., Bernstein R., Breslin S., Brown M., Chang G., Christensen T., Croll E., Gertz W., Gertz W., Goldstein A., Kagan R., Lasswell H., Menges C., Minxin Pei, Minxin Pei, Mosher S., Murray G., Naím M., Overholt W., Rose G., Schweller R., Shaoguang Wang, Shaoguang Wang, Shaun Breslin, Shirk S., Thomas G., Timperlake E., Triplett W., Triplett W., Vidal J., Watts J., Weidenbaum M., Wohlforth W., Yongding Yu, Zakaria F.   +37 more
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Policy Evaluation for Climate Mitigations in the European Agricultural Sector—A Comparison of Policy Options at Micro and Macro Level

Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The purpose of this paper is to discuss the micro‐ and macro‐outcomes for the standard neoclassical carbon tax (whose burden falls on the producers) versus the implication of a budget neutral, performance‐based EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) focusing on non‐CO2 emission (N2O and CH4, measured in CO2eq) reduction, especially in the ...
John Helming, Elisa Bardazzi, David Schaefer, Hugo Scherer, Zuzana Smeets Kristkova   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict through an Integrated Framework of Neorealism and Neoclassical Realism

Halyk̦aralyk̦ k̦atynastar ža̋ne halyk̦aralyk̦ k̦u̇k̦yk̦ seriâsì
This article explains why the Israeli-Palestinian conflict persists despite intense international attention in the face of immense human suffering and repeated diplomatic efforts.
Г.Ш. Айдын
doaj   +1 more source

Causal Depth contra Humean Empiricism: Aspects of a Scientific Realist Approach to Explanation [PDF]

The purpose of this note is to clarify how the idea of "causal depth" can play a role in finding the more "approximately true" explanation through causal comparisons.
Khan, Haider
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ORCHESTRATING DIFFERENCE AND SIMILARITY: Black Fungibility, and the Spatial Redrawing of Racial Categories in Spanish Colonial Morocco, Sahara and Guinea

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article I dissect the spatial strategies through which the Spanish attempted to orchestrate both racial difference and similarity in the African colonies of Morocco, Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea during the first half of the twentieth century.
Pol Fité Matamoros
wiley   +1 more source

Miscalculation in Proxy War: The United States and Russia in Syrian Civil War from the Neoclassical Realist Perspective

Gazi Akademik Bakış, 2020
This article aims to puzzle why the leading military power of the world, namely the United States, was pushed back from the negotiating table in the Syrian Civil War, and conversely, how and why the world’s declining power, namely Russia, became the sole
Osman ŞEN, Mehmet ŞAHİN
doaj  

THE URBANOLOGISTS COME TO TOWN: Professional Life and Work in the Urban Solutions Industry

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article charts the upsurge of an eclectic global community of professionals new to the field of urban policy and governance, animated by playful and celebratory attitudes towards cities and urbanization: the urbanologists. It contributes to debates in critical urban theory and critical ethnographies of technology to problematize ...
Rachel Bok
wiley   +1 more source

Evidence and Ideology in Macroeconomics: The Case of Investment Cycles [PDF]

, 2005
The paper reports the principal findings of a long term research project on the description and explanation of business cycles. The research strongly confirmed the older view that business cycles have large systematic components that take the form of ...
, Alan D Entine, Alan P Kirman, Alan S Blinder, Alessandro , Andrew Harvey, Assar Lindbeck, B Pashigian, Bernd S�ssmuth, C Kindleberger, C W Granger, Claude Hillinger, Claude Hillinger, Claude Hillinger, Claude Hillinger, Claude Hillinger, Claude Hillinger, Clifford R Wymer, Cl�mont Juglar, Donald G Childers, Edmund S Phelps, Eugen Slutsky, Forrest H Capie, Franklin M Fisher, Gottfried Haberler, Henry W Spiegel, Hugo A Keuzenkamp, Jerome R Ravetz, Jesus Felipe, John Eatwell, John Keynes, John P Burg, Joseph A Schumpeter, Lloyd A Metzler, Louis J Maccini, M Heintel, Michael Reiter, Michal Kalecki, Milton Friedman, Milton Friedman, Paul A Samuelson, Peter B Sorensen, Philipp Frank, Phillip Cagan, R C O Matthews, Ragnar Frisch, Robert A Gordon, Robert E Lucas, Robert J Gordon, Robert J Gordon, Robert Leeson, Robert Strotz, Stephen Mason, Tad J Ulrych, Thilo Weser, Thomas J Sargent, Thomas Malthus, Ulrich Woitek, Victor Zarnowitz, William A Barnett, William Petty   +60 more
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