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The Social Contract and Collective Action: Grievances, Cleavages, and Protests in the Middle East

open access: yesKyklos, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How do grievances turn into collective action? This article examines how citizens' expectations in social contracts lead them to embark on street protests. It draws on original, nationally representative telephone surveys in Tunisia and Lebanon and unpacks popular preferences about the states' obligations to deliver social service provision ...
Markus Loewe, Holger Albrecht
wiley   +1 more source

Real and Apparent Deviations From Rational Choice

open access: yesKyklos, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper offers a taxonomy of real and apparent deviations from rationality. The taxonomy is based on three axes of divides—whereas the axes are successive refinements. The outermost‐axis divide delineates “anxiety‐based choices” from “anxiety‐free choices.” Anxiety‐based choices are real deviations such as the Allais and Ellsberg paradoxes ...
Elias L. Khalil
wiley   +1 more source

Money Laundering and Illegal Trafficking of Waste: Evidence From Italian Provinces

open access: yesKyklos, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Money laundering and waste‐related crimes are widely studied by the literature. However, little attention has been paid to the connection between the latter and the former. Using Italian data at the provincial level, the analysis presented here shows that waste‐related crimes also generate illegal proceeds that increase the flows of dirty ...
Emanuele Lucca   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tiki lunch [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Kuilima Resort
core  

Too Much Finance: Mechanisms That Harm Growth and Policy Implications

open access: yesThe Manchester School, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The mechanisms for the financial sector to harm growth arise through short‐termism of financial markets. This leads to the misallocation of resources in the private sector, leading to financial crises and damage to growth. However, harm to growth comes not only from financial crises, but also from the failure of short‐termist financial markets
Arup Daripa   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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