“Economics” is often called the Dismal Science – it studies the trade-offs between making choices. The purpose of economics is to look at the different incentives, assets, and choices facing people, businesses, schools, and governments, and see if there is any way to improve outcomes. This...
Growth, Income Inequality, and Fiscal Policy: What Are the Relevant Trade‐offs?[J] . Journal of Money, Credit and Banking . 2007 (2‐3)Garcia-Penalosa, C. and Turnovsky, S. J. (2007). Growth, Income Inequality and Fiscal Policy: What are the Relevant Tradeoffs? Journal of Money, ...
“My major in economics taught me how to think about social systems and the trade-offs that must be dealt with in devising a better world. Economics, for me, is about looking at the margins. It’s about understanding how and why people act the way they do under certain constraints, lik...
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) aim to develop healthy societies aligned with collective well-being. Although commendable effort
How are measurable impacts constructed as proxies for real-world harms (Metcalf et al. 2021)? 4. Lack of guidance on trade-offs and tensions in AI governance. Navigating the inevitable trade-offs and tensions of AI governance (Whittlestone et al. 2019) while exceeding the minimum level of...
The decision of the German federal government to cease lignite mining until 2038 or—if possible—already earlier until 2030, will cause manifold transition processes in the remaining lignite mining districts of Germany. The two largest districts are located in geographically opposite regions: The Rhine...
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Several trade-offs are required in the process of transitioning to the circular economy (Pitkanen et al., 2016). Alignment of multiple goals and negotiation with various stakeholders represent challenges and may generate tensions in the process of migration to a circular business model, as do guara...
(here, the potential barriers or enabling factors) with different levels. Through the choices made by respondents, information can be obtained on the relative weight of the different aspects on respondents’ utility and the trade-offs that individuals are prepared to make between the different ...
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