The Choice of Discount Rate for Climate Change Policy Evaluation
... are useful for policy evaluation, and thus both have a prescriptive role. Depending on the objective of the policy analysts involved, one or the other rate will be appropriate. We find that the particular structure of leading numerical optimization models may have helped contribute to the blurring o ...
... are useful for policy evaluation, and thus both have a prescriptive role. Depending on the objective of the policy analysts involved, one or the other rate will be appropriate. We find that the particular structure of leading numerical optimization models may have helped contribute to the blurring o ...
Bushfire Science Strategy - Forest Fire Management Victoria
... mitigating poor policy outcomes. This investment provides evidence to support risk based management decision making frameworks critical in addressing any risk to DEPI policy objectives. This evidence needs to: Identify potential policy conflict that may be a risk to achieving policy objectives. Fo ...
... mitigating poor policy outcomes. This investment provides evidence to support risk based management decision making frameworks critical in addressing any risk to DEPI policy objectives. This evidence needs to: Identify potential policy conflict that may be a risk to achieving policy objectives. Fo ...
SOCIAL WORK MEDIATION/CONFLICT RESOLUTION: THE
... In researching the use of mediation/conflict resolution in social work practice, it is logical to consider that both social work and conflict resolution are linked in that “social workers regularly assume the role of intervener in almost all aspects of social work practice” (Mayer, 2013, p. 419). As ...
... In researching the use of mediation/conflict resolution in social work practice, it is logical to consider that both social work and conflict resolution are linked in that “social workers regularly assume the role of intervener in almost all aspects of social work practice” (Mayer, 2013, p. 419). As ...
John Rawls: Between Two Enlightenments The Harvard community
... also of reflectively refined feeling. This is not to say that every moral and political thinker of the Enlightenment can be easily classified as exclusively rationalist or sentimentalist. Many of the greatest thinkers of the period—most notably Jean-Jacques Rousseau—evade such simple categorization. ...
... also of reflectively refined feeling. This is not to say that every moral and political thinker of the Enlightenment can be easily classified as exclusively rationalist or sentimentalist. Many of the greatest thinkers of the period—most notably Jean-Jacques Rousseau—evade such simple categorization. ...
A Marx for the Left Today: Interview with Marcello
... might have on scholars of Marx, since I can assure you that when I was a PhD student the training periods I did at the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften in Berlin – the academy where the headquarter of this edition is based – and the researches I conducted at the Internationaal Ins ...
... might have on scholars of Marx, since I can assure you that when I was a PhD student the training periods I did at the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften in Berlin – the academy where the headquarter of this edition is based – and the researches I conducted at the Internationaal Ins ...
Between Two Enlightenments - Digital Access to Scholarship at
... also of reflectively refined feeling. This is not to say that every moral and political thinker of the Enlightenment can be easily classified as exclusively rationalist or sentimentalist. Many of the greatest thinkers of the period—most notably Jean-Jacques Rousseau—evade such simple categorization. ...
... also of reflectively refined feeling. This is not to say that every moral and political thinker of the Enlightenment can be easily classified as exclusively rationalist or sentimentalist. Many of the greatest thinkers of the period—most notably Jean-Jacques Rousseau—evade such simple categorization. ...
Report: The Role of Evidence in Policy Formation and Implementation
... For instance, it is possible for the research process to be corrupted by inputs that are not objective, or by the failure to recognise personal biases in bringing forward evidence. Researchers can become impassioned advocates for a cause that their expertise could meaningfully inform dispassionately ...
... For instance, it is possible for the research process to be corrupted by inputs that are not objective, or by the failure to recognise personal biases in bringing forward evidence. Researchers can become impassioned advocates for a cause that their expertise could meaningfully inform dispassionately ...
Jean Baudrillard
... taking as his theme daily customs and subjects borrowed from national history . This quarrel defines an autonomous movement, free from any 'Renaissance' or imitation . Modernity is not yet a way oflife (the term does not then exist) . But it has become an idea (linked to that ofprogress) . It has ta ...
... taking as his theme daily customs and subjects borrowed from national history . This quarrel defines an autonomous movement, free from any 'Renaissance' or imitation . Modernity is not yet a way oflife (the term does not then exist) . But it has become an idea (linked to that ofprogress) . It has ta ...
A Kind Word for Theory X
... classical management practice was hindering rather than helping organizations solve problems, meet goals, and deliver a product in a reliable manner (1960, 62–64; 1966, 29–30). A Theory X management style assumes that people are interested in safety and physiological needs rather than higher needs, ...
... classical management practice was hindering rather than helping organizations solve problems, meet goals, and deliver a product in a reliable manner (1960, 62–64; 1966, 29–30). A Theory X management style assumes that people are interested in safety and physiological needs rather than higher needs, ...
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... also of reflectively refined feeling. This is not to say that every moral and political thinker of the Enlightenment can be easily classified as exclusively rationalist or sentimentalist. Many of the greatest thinkers of the period—most notably Jean-Jacques Rousseau—evade such simple categorization. ...
... also of reflectively refined feeling. This is not to say that every moral and political thinker of the Enlightenment can be easily classified as exclusively rationalist or sentimentalist. Many of the greatest thinkers of the period—most notably Jean-Jacques Rousseau—evade such simple categorization. ...
Doing it for ourselves: The Pirate Bay as strategic
... It is true that such theories constitute a kind of ‘fringe’ discourse within the field of economics at large, and one that lacks the legitimacy that is usually granted to more academic work. Published mostly on the Internet, and then also occasionally translated into paperback publications for the m ...
... It is true that such theories constitute a kind of ‘fringe’ discourse within the field of economics at large, and one that lacks the legitimacy that is usually granted to more academic work. Published mostly on the Internet, and then also occasionally translated into paperback publications for the m ...
The Blackwell Companion to Social Theory
... The second edition has four new chapters that address lacunae that had been retrospectively evident in the first edition. There was an obvious gap in terms of social anthropology, given the fact that anthropological theory and fieldwork have contributed so richly to the growth of social theory in th ...
... The second edition has four new chapters that address lacunae that had been retrospectively evident in the first edition. There was an obvious gap in terms of social anthropology, given the fact that anthropological theory and fieldwork have contributed so richly to the growth of social theory in th ...
The Choice of Discount Rate for Climate Change Policy Evaluation
... The disagreements about the discount rate are not merely arguments about empirical matters; there are major debates about conceptual issues as well. For example, Stern (2008) and Sterner and Persson (2008) argue that the choice of consumption discount rate should be based almost entirely on ethical ...
... The disagreements about the discount rate are not merely arguments about empirical matters; there are major debates about conceptual issues as well. For example, Stern (2008) and Sterner and Persson (2008) argue that the choice of consumption discount rate should be based almost entirely on ethical ...
THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF AESTHETICS: A CROSS
... aesthetics in Distinction (1984), his often-referred-to work concerning taste and class distinction in French society. Bourdieu demonstrates that disinterested appreciation is neither universal nor even wholly Western, but the product of the existence of an elite class accustomed to the luxury of ha ...
... aesthetics in Distinction (1984), his often-referred-to work concerning taste and class distinction in French society. Bourdieu demonstrates that disinterested appreciation is neither universal nor even wholly Western, but the product of the existence of an elite class accustomed to the luxury of ha ...
Joe Painter
... about our responsibilities to others who are distant from us in space and time. In an essay on ‘Geographies of responsibility’, Doreen took issue with a tendency (especially on the left) towards the ‘exoneration of the local’, in which local problems are blamed on external ‘global’ forces, ‘local pl ...
... about our responsibilities to others who are distant from us in space and time. In an essay on ‘Geographies of responsibility’, Doreen took issue with a tendency (especially on the left) towards the ‘exoneration of the local’, in which local problems are blamed on external ‘global’ forces, ‘local pl ...
Reciprocity, Self-interest, and the Welfare State Christina M. Fong
... say that poverty is the result of the laziness support less government redistribution and are less concerned about unemployment, poverty, and inequality than those who do not. The data are from a Eurobarometer survey conducted in 1989 (Reif and Melich 1993), representative of the population aged fif ...
... say that poverty is the result of the laziness support less government redistribution and are less concerned about unemployment, poverty, and inequality than those who do not. The data are from a Eurobarometer survey conducted in 1989 (Reif and Melich 1993), representative of the population aged fif ...
Equality of Capacity
... But if we do answer question (2), do we still need to address question (i)? If we have successfully argued in favor of equality of x (whatever that x is-some outcome, some right, some freedom, some respect, or some something else), then we have already argued for equality in that form, with x as the ...
... But if we do answer question (2), do we still need to address question (i)? If we have successfully argued in favor of equality of x (whatever that x is-some outcome, some right, some freedom, some respect, or some something else), then we have already argued for equality in that form, with x as the ...
A Sociology of Modernity
... basic belief that human beings under modern conditions are not only enabled, but obliged to self-create their rules of life. The historicity of human social life is the general form and context of self-rule. Nobody ever creates rules from nothing, in an empty space. As Karl Marx once put it: ‘Human ...
... basic belief that human beings under modern conditions are not only enabled, but obliged to self-create their rules of life. The historicity of human social life is the general form and context of self-rule. Nobody ever creates rules from nothing, in an empty space. As Karl Marx once put it: ‘Human ...