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Corporate manslaughter, regulation and 'seeking to profit' [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
One of the concepts included in current draft legislation on corporate manslaughter is that of seeking to profit. The paper seeks to examine this concept and whether the assumptions underlying it are valid.
Kelsey, J
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Coreness of Cooperative Games with Truncated Submodular Profit Functions

open access: yes, 2018
Coreness represents solution concepts related to core in cooperative games, which captures the stability of players. Motivated by the scale effect in social networks, economics and other scenario, we study the coreness of cooperative game with truncated ...
AC Bemmaor   +8 more
core   +1 more source

Tax Policy and Farm Organization

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) introduced substantial changes to the tax code, affecting farms' organizational incentives. This study examines farms' responses to the TCJA along extensive and intensive margins, focusing on organizational and labor expense adjustments.
Tia M. McDonald, Katherine Lacy
wiley   +1 more source

Competition Policy and Agribusiness in the Biden Administration

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Biden Administration pursued a set of ambitious competition policy initiatives in agriculture and agribusiness, primarily aimed at livestock and poultry supply chains, farm inputs, and food retailing. The initiatives included expanded antitrust enforcement; new US Department of Agriculture (USDA) contract regulations requiring poultry ...
James M. MacDonald
wiley   +1 more source

Profit and Economic Growth

open access: yesBusiness and Economic Research, 2012
Many facts attest to the existence of close ties between producer profits and economic growth. In the first place, in periods of economic growth, an overwhelming number of enterprises have fairly high profits. The markets are dominated by general confidence and optimism. A wholly different picture can be seen when economic growth is absent.
openaire   +3 more sources

Consumer Valuation of Meat Alternatives and Labeling Policies: A Comparative Perspective

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates and compares US consumer perceptions and the impact of environmental, human health, and animal welfare information related to conventional meat on preferences for meat alternatives and labeling policies. Using the best–worst scaling method across 10 different burger alternatives, our results show that the meat burger is
Daniele Asioli   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Psychopathology of Walrasian Marxism [PDF]

open access: yes
This text comprises chapter 1 of Marx and non-equilibrium Economics[1]. It specifies a non-equilibrium (temporal) interpretation of Marx’s theory of value which demonstrates a fully consistent transformation of values into prices and reproduces Marx’s ...
Freeman, Alan
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Big Publishers, Bigger Profits: How the Scholarly Community Lost the Control of its Journals

open access: yesMediaTropes, 2016
Despite holding the potential to liberate scholarly information, the digital era has, to the contrary, increased the control of a few for-profit publishers. While most journals in the print era were owned by academic institutions and scientific societies,
Vincent Larivière   +2 more
doaj  

Sustainable Productivity Growth in Agriculture: The Role of Shifts in R&D Investments and Technology

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The objective of the paper is to evaluate the long‐term prospects of sustainable productivity growth linked to plausible assumptions on public agricultural R&D investments as the key productivity driver. Second, it investigates the role of changing R&D focus from yield maximization to input saving technologies (fertilizers and pesticides). The
Zuzana Smeets Křístková   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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