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The Cost of a Nutritious Diet in Cafeterias: Evidence From US Military Dining Facilities
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Providing nutritious meals in institutional settings with financial constraints, such as military dining facilities, is challenging. The US Department of War (DoW) and US Department of Agriculture (USDA) collaborated to modernize the Basic Daily Food Allowance (BDFA) using an optimization model that incorporates service members' consumption ...
Linlin Fan +8 more
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How political donations are creating a happy hunting ground for dirty fossil fuels
, 2016 Ever heard the one about the political process that was corrupted by donations from corporations? Oh, sorry. Of course you have. Fair enough too, as it’s a simple premise. We all donate to things that we have a personal stake or interest in.
Market Forces
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Inventing the market. Smith, Hegel and political theory
, 2011 This thesis analyses the constructions of the market in the thought of Adam Smith and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and their relevance for contemporary political philosophy.
Herzog, Lisa
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On the Economics of US Agricultural Policy
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper presents an economic analysis of US agricultural policy, building on a modified version of Gardner's efficient redistribution. We argue that agricultural policy is motivated as an attempt to implement an efficient redistribution scheme that redistributes income toward farmers who, as a group, have been adversely affected by ...
Jean‐Paul Chavas
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Market and Money: Economic Instruments of Political Europe [PDF]
Theoretical and Applied Economics, 2006 By the creation of the unique currency, the European construction advanced, in the late twenty years, more in economic terms than in political ones.
Florina Pînzaru, Iulian Brasoveanu
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Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences, 2007 Political parties are torn between the Scylla of their over-incorporation into the State mechanism with the ensuing possible impairment of their independence from the State and the Charybdis of their under-regulation, resulting in legal and/or ...
Mik STRMECKI
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Drivers of Precision Agriculture Adoption in Italian Viticulture
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the main drivers influencing the adoption of two types of precision farming technologies in the viticultural sector: Decision Support Systems (DSSs) and Variable Rate Technologies (VRTs). We apply a partial proportional odds model and find that socio‐demographic characteristics are not significant determinants of adoption ...
Olimpia Fontana +3 more
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Democracy, Market Liberalization and Political Preferences [PDF]
This paper questions the conventional wisdom concerning the sequencing of political and economic reforms in developing countries. We exploit the specific situation of frontier-zones as well as the considerable regional variations in culture and economic ...
Pauline Grosjean, Claudia Senik
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Cursed Resources? Political Conditions and Oil Market Outcomes [PDF]
We analyze how a country’s political institutions affect oil production within its borders. We find a pronounced negative relationship between political openness and volatility in oil production, with democratic regimes exhibiting less volatility than ...
Catherine Wolfram, Gilbert E. Metcalf
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From market concentration to political corruption
Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community DevelopmentFirst paragraph: The government and the press in the United States tend to define corruption narrowly as the misbehavior of individual politicians.
Leland Glenna
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