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Introduction to Economics as a Public Science

open access: yesŒconomia, 2019
This short article introduces readers to the papers published in this issue on the theme of “public reason” in economics. It provides ground to the notion of “public reason” in economics as a two-way process taking place in interstitial spaces between ...
Harro Maas   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Sunstein, Cass R.: Behavioral Science and Public Policy

open access: yesGestión y Análisis de Políticas Públicas, 2021
Recensión del libro de Sunstein, Cass R.: Behavioral Science and Public Policy. Elements in Public Economics, Cambridge University Press.
Guillermo Kreiman Seguer
doaj   +1 more source

King and Cochrane: The technological treadmill and racial inequity in US agriculture

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
Abstract Between 1920 and 1969, the number of Black farmers in the US decreased from 14% of all operators to 4%. Using Martin Luther King Jr.'s critique of agricultural policy and Willard Cochrane's theory of the technological treadmill, we explore how racial discrimination was linked to policies that led to structural change in US agriculture.
Jared Hutchins, Jacopo De Marinis
wiley   +1 more source

Welfare Biology as an Extension of Biology. Interview with Yew-Kwang Ng

open access: yesRelations, 2015
Yew-Kwang Ng is Winsemius professor in economics at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and emeritus professor at Monash University. He has been a member of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia since 1980, and in 2007 received the highest ...
Max Carpendale
doaj   +1 more source

Technological change, capital deepening, and agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) growth: Cross‐country comparison of 18 OECD countries

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper employs the data envelope analysis (DEA) to assess technological progress and its impact on agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) across 18 the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries from 1973 to 2015.
Yu Sheng
wiley   +1 more source

Fiscal Illussion As Public Economy Failure: A Study on the Aegean Region

open access: yesMaliye Çalışmaları Dergisi
With the fiscal illusion, which is seen as a failure of the public economy, individuals cannot fully and accurately perceive their tax burden. As a result, more public good services are demanded and expenditures increase. The excessive increase in public
Ulvi Sandalcı, İnci Sandalcı
doaj   +1 more source

Why is economics so fragile?

open access: yesRevue de la Régulation, 2011
The association between a crisis in economics and the economic crisis, spontaneously drawn by the media and the public, is a fact which calls for explanation. We begin by identifying what the public and the media perceive as “economics”.
José Castro Caldas   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Quantifying the land‐use change due to soybean‐based biodiesel in the United States

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
Abstract We quantify the impact of soybean oil‐based biodiesel production on US cropland, using a method that accounts for the intermediate effect of soybean crushing facilities. Based on U.S. Environmental Protection Agency data for biodiesel production and proprietary data for soybean crushing facilities over 2011–2020, we find that the elasticities ...
Ruiqing Miao   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Behavioral Economics and Government Purchases – Some Insights into the Fiscal Psychology of Public Expenditure

open access: yesInternational Journal of Public Finance, 2020
Behavioral economics have increased acceptance in public finance, thus challenging the neoclassical approach to human decision-making. However, so far, behavioral economics' fundamental results on cognitive heuristics, illusions, and biases with respect
Thomas Döring, Ruven D. Oehmke
doaj   +1 more source

Non‐Tariff Measures and U.S. Agricultural Exports

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
Abstract How much do non‐tariff measures (NTMs) affect U.S. agricultural exports? While countries maintain a large and diverse set of NTMs to safeguard the health of plants, animals, and humans, policymakers and regulatory bodies may neglect the impact these measures have on international trade.
Yunus Emre Karagulle   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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