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Unionism vs self-interest: would MPs support proportional representation? [PDF]
, 2018 In light of the electoral divergence between the UK's constituent nations, and the real danger of a break-up of the Union, Klaus Stolz makes the case for Proportional Representation.
Stolz, Klaus
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(Why) do selfish people self-select in economics?
Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, 2008 Several game-theoretical lab experiments helped establish the belief that economists are more selfish than non-economists. Since differences in behaviour between experiment participants who are students of economics and those who are not may be observed
Alessandro Lanteri
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Self-interest and greed: Is the homo economicus unethical? [PDF]
Sociološki Pregled, 2017 The central question of the article is whether it is self-interest, which has become a technical term of economy, nothing but a renamed and justified quondam deadly sin of greed, or is it engender and announces a new and different understanding of man ...
Krstić Predrag
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Sexual & reproductive health self-care measurement tool [PDF]
, 2023 The Sexual and Reproductive Health Self-Care Measurement Tool aims to provide a global standard approach to practical and accurate measurement of sexual and reproductive (SRH) self-care interventions, with a focus on three specific interventions: self ...
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Representation of Duty as an Object of Manipulation in The Bone Clocks and The Buried Giant
Critical Literary Studies, 2023 Deontological ethics emphasizes the connection between duty and the morality of human conduct; nevertheless, Mitchell and Ishiguro touch on a different form of duty, which disagrees with the deontological theory and demonstrates that it is in one’s ...
Hamideh Vesalifallah, Roya Yaghoubi
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HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2019 The purpose of this article is to explore new research on Adam Smith (1723–1790), the author of the classic economic text An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776) and his often-disregarded earlier work The Theory of Moral ...
Mark Rathbone
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 How can we effectively promote the public’s prevention of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection? Jordan et al. (2020) found with United States samples that emphasizing either self-interest or collective-interest of prevention behaviors could ...
Takeru Miyajima, Fumio Murakami
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Self-interest, deregulation and trust
Etikk i Praksis: Nordic Journal of Applied Ethics, 2009 In this paper I will discuss Milton Friedman’s thesis that the social responsibilityof business is to maximize the shareholders’ profit. I examine the underlyingassumption of self-interest and argue, contrary to the neoliberal thesis ofderegulation, that
Salvör Nordal
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Party Regulation as a Self-Legitimizing System
Partecipazione e Conflitto, 2015 The aim of this article is to contribute to a reflection on the endogenous nature of party regulation and on the ways in which law making can be used by political actors to foster a privileged legal environment. The article first provides a review of the
Daniela Piccio
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Buchanan and Pro-Social Behaviors: Why Ethics is Necessary
Œconomia, 2015 In this paper, we analyze the role of ethics and self-interest in Buchanan's explanation for pro-social behaviors. Our main argument is that, to Buchanan, ethics matters and is even necessary to explain pro-social behaviors—narrowly self-interested ...
Alain Marciano
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