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Generative AI—the Transgression of Technology

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article offers a systems‐theoretical analysis of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) grounded in Niklas Luhmann's sociology of technology. It addresses a central conceptual problem: How GenAI can be understood within a theoretical framework that has traditionally defined technology as a means of stabilising action through causal ...
Jesper Tække
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Structures of Ideological Systems Programming. The Case of Sustainability in Prices

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper aims to demonstrate Niklas Luhmann's systems theory and its concept of ideologies as a general framework for analysing the actual implementation of normative ideas in modern society. Using the example of sustainable pricing within the economic system, it shows how values can be established at the programmatic level of function ...
Kristoffer Klement
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Did Processing Quota Damage Alaska Red King Crab Harvesters? Empirical Evidence [PDF]

The Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands (BSAI) red king crab fisheries are managed with a controversial, market-based policy design, in which both individual transferable fishing and processing quotas are used.
Matulich, Scott C.
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An Outline of a Theory of Play

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
Play is often dismissed as trivial, yet it is a fundamental and adaptive aspect of human and mammalian life. This paper develops a sociological theory of play, treating it as a total social fact that spans biological, psychological, and social dimensions.
Seth Abrutyn
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The Earnings Premium to a Bachelor's Degree in Australia

Australian Economic Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction The income returns to a bachelor's degree in Australia declined in the period from 2001 to 2016. We attempt to uncover the drivers of this decline. Methods Our analysis investigates the income premium to a bachelor's degree through two lenses: (1) the effects of the demand for and supply of skill in the economy and (2) the effect ...
Michael Coelli, Jeff Borland
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U.S. GRAIN HANDLING AND TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM: FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO THE DYNAMIC CHANGES IN THE 1980S AND 1990S [PDF]

This paper describes the important changes that occurred in the U.S. grain handling and transportation system in the period following deregulation in 1980.
Wilson, William W.
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Including Harvested Grain Biogenic CO2 to Address a Critical Flaw in Climate Accounting

Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The international climate accounting system excludes both the biogenic CO2 sequestered in harvested crops and the biogenic CO2 emissions that occur when grain is digested or burned as biofuel. Despite being described in the literature as a critical flaw in climate accounting all parties within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate
Richard S. Gray
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The Canada-U.S. Auto Pact of 1965: An Experiment in Selective Trade Liberalization [PDF]

In this paper we analyse the Canada-U.S. Auto Pact, a selective trade liberalization agreement which created a duty-free North American market for the major U.S.
Leonard Waverman, Melvyn Fuss
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Collaborating in future states—Contextual instability, paradigmatic remaking, and public policy

Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract Collaboration is ubiquitous in public policy life, with its presence and profile determined by prevailing governance conditions. Commitments to globalisation and marketisation in the latter part of the 20th century marked the onset of an era defined by collaboration, between and across tiers and spheres of government, with non‐state actors ...
Helen Sullivan
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Comparing the success and failure of the Murray–Darling Basin Plan's water recovery programs

Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract The Murray–Darling Basin (MDB) Plan is held up by some as an exemplar for world‐leading water policy, whilst others have called it a failure. Total proposed recovery was to return 3200 GL of consumptive (e.g. namely irrigation) water use to non‐consumptive (e.g.
Sarah Ann Wheeler
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