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Les enjeux de la fondation d’une science économique dite islamique

open access: yesRevue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée, 2018
After the 1970s, some political-religious activists aim at founding scientifically an economic discipline in compliance with what would be the homo islamicus.
Frédéric Coste
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A Normative Model For Strategic Planning [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The thesis proposes a normative model for strategic planning using stakeholder theory as the primary theoretical framework. Development of the normative model is achieved by analysis of the literature and corroborative engagement with local government ...
Gillespie, Wendy
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Redistributive land reforms, agricultural productivity, and structural change: New cross‐national evidence

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Large‐scale land reforms constitute a substantial redistribution of wealth and reallocation of agricultural land, which is a major form of asset and production input in developing countries. While land redistribution (from the rich to the poor) remains a highly controversial issue, extensive evidence on its effect is limited.
Devashish Mitra   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

L’invisibilisation du commun

open access: yesDroit et Cultures
This paper describes from an analytical and normative perspective how economics reduces what’s common to its individual components only. The ignorance by welfare economics of its normative challenge results from “welfarism”, the framework according to ...
Antoinette Baujard
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Choice experiments on land managers' participation in environmental programs: A systematic review and meta‐analysis of estimate validity

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Discrete choice experiments are increasingly being used to estimate land managers' willingness to accept participation in incentive‐based environmental programs. This is a specific application of discrete choice experiments: the estimation of willingness to accept for a private good (program participation) where respondents have to make trade ...
Anastasio J. Villanueva   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The essential but often misunderstood role of economics in groundwater sustainability research

open access: yesEnvironmental Research Letters
To promote better groundwater policymaking, hydrologists and economists need to work together. The importance of hydrology is self-evident, but we posit that questions about the causes of and potential solutions for groundwater problems, and pathways to ...
William K Jaeger   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Ethics in economics

open access: yesErasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, 2012
Many economists, it is said, "are inclined to deny that moral philosophy has anything to do with economics" (Hausman and McPherson 2006, 291). In this paper I challenge such inclinations by drawing an analogy between economic interventions and human ...
Megan Blomfield
doaj   +1 more source

Social Norms and Economic Incentives in Firms [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2010
This paper studies the interplay between economic incentives and social norms in firms. We introduce a general framework to model social norms arguing that norms stem from agents’ desire for, or peer pressure towards, social efficiency. In a simple model of teamproduction we examine the interplay of three types of contracts with social norms.
Kübler, Dorothea   +2 more
openaire   +4 more sources

Firm turnover under asymmetric information: Tanzania's agro‐dealer sector

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract We study firm turnover (i.e., entry and exit) and its consumer implications in a market characterized by asymmetric information. Using a three‐round census of agro‐dealers in Tanzania's Morogoro Region, we document annual firm entry and exit rates of 33% and 17%, respectively.
Alix Naugler   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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