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Consumers' Environmental Awareness and Firms' Managerial Delegation Contracts Under Emission Tax Policies

open access: yesScottish Journal of Political Economy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study considers consumers' environmental awareness of polluting firms' managerial delegation contracts and compares the effects of committed and time‐consistent emission tax policies. It reveals that when environmental performance (EP) incentives prevail, sales performance (SP) incentives depend on the emission tax type and competition ...
Lili Xu, Yuntong Yin, Sang‐Ho Lee
wiley   +1 more source

Morals, Markets, and Medicine

open access: yesSociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Healthcare in the United States is defined by profit motives and economic inequality, yet medical providers and organizations are also guided by moral values such as a commitment to patient well‐being. How have sociologists made sense of this apparent contradiction?
Guillermina Altomonte, Eliza Brown
wiley   +1 more source

Teaching New Religious Movements Historically: Distance, Empathy, and Cults in the Classroom

open access: yesTeaching Theology &Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Resistance to understanding the beliefs of modern New Religious Movements (NRMs) is well‐known to those who teach in the area. This paper builds on Eugene Gallagher's repurposing of “methodological belief” for college classes on NRMs by suggesting that scholars and teachers in the field of religious studies engage methods and content drawn ...
Douglas FitzHenry Jones
wiley   +1 more source

Learning to Treat Other Ways of Being Generously Through the Biblical Studies Classroom

open access: yesTeaching Theology &Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article outlines an approach to teaching the biblical texts that helps students develop the transferable cognitive skill of understanding the other on their own terms. It appeals to research on threshold concepts, deep and surface approaches to learning, and student centered/conceptual change approaches to teaching to combine the role of ...
John Van Maaren
wiley   +1 more source

Effects of ultraviolet B radiation and cold storage on Ram sperm morphology and physiology. [PDF]

open access: yesInt J Biometeorol
de S Cestaro DS   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Moral Tolerance: The Ethics of Social Punishment in Cases of Moral Disagreement

open access: yesTheoria, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In many practical contemporary contexts, people need to make correct ethical judgements about how to respond to perceived wrongdoing—in particular, whether to punish it or tolerate it. This judgement can be challenging when the wrongdoer does not accept the allegation of wrongdoing at the level of moral principle, holding that the type of ...
Hugh Breakey, Graham Wood
wiley   +1 more source

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