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The common good in late medieval political thought
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ISBN: 0198207166 0191677523 0191542695 Year: 1999 Publisher: Oxford Clarendon

The limits of privacy.
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ISBN: 0465040896 046504090X Year: 1999 Publisher: New York Basic Books

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Privacy is perhaps the most hallowed of American rightsand most people are concerned that new technologies available to governments and corporations threaten to erode this most privileged of rights. But in The Limits of Privacy, Amitai Etzioni offers a decidedly different point of view, in which the right to privacy is balanced against concern for public safety and health. Etzioni looks at five flashpoint issues: Megans Laws, HIV testing of infants, deciphering of encrypted messages, national identification cards, and medical records, and concludes that there are times when Amricans insistence on privacy is not in the best interests of society at large. He offers four clear and concise criteria which, when applied jointly, help us to determine when the right to privacy should be overridden for the greater public good. Almost every week headlines warn us that our cell phones are being monitored, our e-mails read, and our medical records traded on the open market. Public opinion polls show that Americans are dismayed about incursions against personal privacy. Congress and state legislatures are considering laws designed to address their concerns. Focusing on five flashpoint issuesMegans Law, mandatory HIV testing of infants, encryption of electronic documents, national identification cards and biometric identifiers, and medical recordsThe Limits of Privacy argues counterintuitively that sometimes major public health and safety concerns should outweigh the individuals right to privacy. Presenting four concise criteria to determine when the right to privacy should be preserved and when it should be overridden in the interests of the wider community, Etzioni argues that, in some cases, we would do well to sacrifice the privacy of the individual in the name of the common good.


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Labor Market Integration in the Presence of Social Capital
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Year: 1999 Publisher: Washington, D.C., The World Bank,

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November 1999 - Social capital raises productivity and falls with labor mobility. Because labor mobility generates a negative externality, integration of labor markets results in too much mobility, too low a level of social capital, and an ambiguous effect on welfare. Trade liberalization is superior to labor market integration because it reduces mobility and the negative externality associated with it. Labor market integration is typically assumed to improve welfare in the absence of distortions, because it allows labor to move to where returns are highest. Schiff examines this result in a simple general equilibrium model in the presence of a common property resource: social capital. Drawing on evidence that social capital raises productivity and falls with labor mobility, Schiff's main findings are that: Labor market integration imposes a negative externality and need not raise welfare; The welfare impact is more beneficial (or less harmful) the greater the difference in endowments is between the integrating regions; Whether positive or negative, the welfare impact is larger the more similar the levels of social capital of the integrating regions are and the lower the migration costs are; Trade liberalization generates an additional benefit-over and above the standard gains from trade - by reducing labor mobility and the negative externality associated with it. Trade liberalization is superior to labor market integration; The creation of new private or public institutions in response to labor market integration may reduce welfare. Schiff shows that the welfare implications depend on two parameters of the model, the curvature of the utility function and the cost of private migration. This paper - a product of Trade, Development Research Group - is part of a larger effort in the group to understand the link between market performance and welfare. The author may be contacted at mschiff@worldbank.org.

Economics for the common good : two centuries of social economic thought in the humanistic tradition
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ISBN: 0415143128 0415143136 9786610195510 0203282159 0203439279 1280195517 113476409X 0429231849 Year: 1999 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,

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This volume provides an introduction to economics in terms of human rather than material welfare. The book recommends a more rational economic order and proposes new principles of economic policy.

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Simonde de Sismondi, Jean Ch. L. --- Hobson, John A. --- Common good. --- Economics - Moral and ethical aspects. --- Economics --- Common good --- Business & Economics --- Economic Theory --- Moral and ethical aspects --- 330 <09> --- 330.1 --- 338.22 --- 304 --- -Common good --- Geschiedenis van de economische leerstelsels --- Economische grondbegrippen. Algemene begrippen in de economie --- Economische organisatieleer. Economisch beleid. Economische politiek --- Sociale politiek. Maatschappelijke opbouw. Sociale problemen, vraagstukken --- Hobson, J. A. --- Sismondi, J.-C.-L. Simonde de --- Good, Common --- Public good --- Political science --- Consensus (Social sciences) --- Justice --- Public interest --- Economic theory --- Political economy --- Social sciences --- Economic man --- 304 Sociale politiek. Maatschappelijke opbouw. Sociale problemen, vraagstukken --- 338.22 Economische organisatieleer. Economisch beleid. Economische politiek --- 330.1 Economische grondbegrippen. Algemene begrippen in de economie --- 330 <09> Geschiedenis van de economische leerstelsels --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Sismondi, I.-C.-L. de --- Hsi-ssu-meng-ti, --- De Sismondi, J.-C.-L. Simonde --- Simond de Sismondi, Zh., --- Simonde, Jean-Charles-Léonard, --- Sismondi, Jean-Charles-Léonard Simonde de, --- Sismondi, Sismondo, --- Simonde de Sismondi, Jean-Charles-Léonard, --- Sismonde, Sismondi J. C. L. --- Gobson, Dzh., --- Hobson, John Atkinson, --- Simonde de Sismondi, Jean Charles Leonard

Maimonides' political thought : studies in ethics, law, and the human ideal.
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ISBN: 0791441903 Year: 1999 Volume: *2 Publisher: Albany State university of New York press

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Algemeen welzijn --- Bien commun --- Bonum commune --- Common good --- Dieu (Judaïsme) --- Ethics [Jewish ] --- Ethiek [Joodse ] --- Ethique juive --- Filosofie [Joodse ] --- Filosofie [Middeleeuwse ] --- Gemenebest --- God (Jodendom) --- God (Judaism) --- Good [Common ] --- Jewish philosophy --- Joodse filosofie --- Medieval philosophy --- Middeleeuwse filosofie --- Philosophie juive --- Philosophie médiévale --- Philosophy [Jewish ] --- Philosophy [Medieval ] --- Intellect --- Jewish ethics --- Perfection --- Philosophy, Medieval --- Political science --- Scholasticism --- Flawlessness --- Perfection (Philosophy) --- Perfectionism (Philosophy) --- Virtuosity --- Wholeness --- Mysticism --- Philosophy --- Excellence --- Imperfection --- Jews --- Philosophy, Jewish --- Philosophy, Israeli --- Ethics, Jewish --- Religious ethics --- Good, Common --- Public good --- Consensus (Social sciences) --- Justice --- Public interest --- Human intelligence --- Intelligence --- Mind --- Ability --- Psychology --- Thought and thinking --- Judaism --- Political philosophy --- Religious aspects&delete& --- Ethics --- Maimonides, Moses, --- Maïmonide, Moïse, --- Májmúni, Móse, --- Maimonides, --- Maimonid, --- Rambam, --- Mûsâ Maimûnî, --- Maimûnî, Mûsâ, --- Ibn Maymūn, Mūsá, --- Mosche ben Maimun, --- Maimonide, Mosè, --- Moses ben Maimon, --- Mosheh ben Maimon, --- Maymūn, Mūsá ibn, --- Maimon, Moses ben, --- Maimon, Mosheh ben, --- Mūsá ibn Maimūn, --- Maimun, Mosche ben, --- Moshe ben Maimon, --- Maimon, Moshe ben, --- Mosheh bar Maimon, --- Maimon, Mosheh bar, --- Mose ben Maimon, --- Maimon, Mose ben, --- Qurṭubī, Mūsá ibn Maymūn, --- Andalusī, Mūsá ibn Maymūn, --- Ram, --- Ram Bam, --- Mozes ben Maimon, --- Maimonides, Mozes, --- Maimoides, --- Mosheh, --- Maimoni, Mosheh, --- א. חיים --- בן מיימון, משה, --- בן מימון, משה --- בן מימון, משה, --- בן־מיימון, משה --- הרמב״ם --- הרמב״ם, --- יונה מגירונדי --- כ״ץ, אלי --- מושה בן מיימון, --- מיימון --- מיימון, משה --- מיימון, משה בר, --- מיימון, משה, --- מיימון, צשה בן --- מיימוני --- מיימוני, משה --- מימון, גד --- מימון, משה --- מימון, משה בן, --- מימון, משה, --- מימונידס, משה --- ממימון, משה --- משה בו מימון --- משה בון מימון, --- משה במן מימון --- משה בן מיימון --- משה בן מיימון, רמב״ם, 1135־1204 --- משה בן מיימון, רמב״ם, --- משה בן מיימון, --- משה בן מימון --- משה בן מימון־־משנה תורה־־הלכות תשובה־־פירושים --- משה בן מימון, --- משה בן מימון--משנה תורה--הלכות דעות--פירושים --- משה בן מימון.משנה תורה --- משה בן מימון.משנה תורה־־באורים --- משה בן מימין, --- משה בן מימן --- משה בן מימן, --- משה בר מיימון --- משה בר מיימון, --- משה בר מימון --- משה בר מימון, --- משה בר מײמון רמב״ם, --- משה ברבי מיימון --- משה נן מיימוני, --- משה נן מימון --- משה קן מימון, --- משה, המיימוני --- פרנקל, שבתי, --- רבמ״ם --- רבנו משה בן מיימון, --- רמב"ם --- רמב״ם, --- ר״מ --- ابن ميمون، موسى --- ابن ميمون، موسى، --- Maimonides, Moses --- Religious aspects

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