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Freedom of choice: John Stuart Mill and the tree of life
(Springer-Verlag, 2012)
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This essay deals with the notion and content of freedom of choice proposing a new set up and a new family of measures for this concept which is, indeed, an ethical value of paramount importance in a well ordered and open ...
Commons and the legacy of the past. Regulation and uses of common lands in twentieth century Spain
(Uopen Journals, 2015)
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The authors explore the transformation of common lands in Spain in the second half of the 20th Century, when the nation experienced significant structural and political changes. If the 19th Century was defined by privatisation ...
Non-anonymous ballot aggregation: an axiomatic generalization of Approval Voting
(Elsevier, 2013)
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We study axiomatically situations in which the society agrees to treat voters with different characteristics distinctly. In this setting, we propose a set of intuitive axioms and show that they jointly characterize a new ...
Ranking opportunity profiles through dependent evaluation of policies
(Springer US, 2012)
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Rankings to evaluate opportunity distributions present in most of the literature judge a policy (change from one distribution of opportunities to another) on the basis of the changes created and, thus, independently ...
Sharing the costs of cleaning a river: the Upstream Responsibility rule
(Elsevier, 2015)
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The cleaning up of waste present in transboundary rivers, which requires the cooperation of different authorities, is a problematic issue, especially when responsibility for the discharge of the waste is not well-defined. ...
Exchange of indivisible goods and indifferences: The Top Trading Absorbing Sets mechanisms
(Elsevier, 2011)
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There is a wide range of economic problems that involve the exchange of indivisible goods with no monetary transfers, starting from the housing market model of the seminal paper by Shapley and Scarf (1974) to problems such ...
Uncertainty with ordinal likelihood information
(Springer-Verlag, 2013)
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We present a model that is closely related to the so-called models of choice under complete uncertainty, in which the agent has no information about the probability of the outcomes. There are two approaches within the said ...
Measuring the cohesiveness of preferences: an axiomatic analysis
(Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013)
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In this paper, we axiomatically study how to measure the similarity of preferences in a group of individuals. For simplicity, we refer to this as the cohesiveness. First, we provide axioms that characterize a family of ...
Energy as an indicator of modernization in Latin America, 1890-1925
(Wiley, 2010)
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In the absence of comparable macroeconomic indicators for most of the Latin American economies before
the 1930s, the apparent consumption of energy is used in this paper as a proxy of the degree of
modernization of Latin ...
Perceived performance effects of ICT in manufacturing SMEs
(Emerald, 2013)
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Purpose. We aim to investigate whether ICT resources, including investment and use of specific types of ICT as well as innovative work practices, have a positive impact on several dimensions of firm performance, taking ...