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BBC NEWS | Europe | Nazi collaborator: I did my duty Papon was by no means unique in thinking that his duty was to remain in his post, for not a single prefect resigned from the civil service. Papon told me that he felt it was his duty to continue serving France during the crisis of wartime. Yet he was unable to explain how he felt it was his duty to participate in the arrest, internment and deportation of 1,560 Jews from July 1942 to June 1944. news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/6372947.stm   (867 words)

Duty (economics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In economics, a duty is a kind of tax, often associated with customs, a payment due to the revenue of a state, levied by force of law. Properly, a duty differs from a tax in being levied on specific commodities, financial transactions, estates, etc., and not on individuals; thus it is right to talk of import duties, excise duties, death or succession duties, etc., but not of income tax as being levied on a person in proportion to his income. Duty Free is the term that is often used to describe goods bought at ports and airports that do not attract the usual government taxes and customs duties. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Duty_(economics)   (215 words)

Blupete's Weekly Commentary. Whether it is the duty of man to defend his ideological position, or not, inherent in my answer, depends on whether the defence is necessary to preserving one's life or protecting one's family and property. However, that said, it is the absolute duty of a person, whether he or she intends to argue any particular point or not, - to always, relentlessly, peruse the truth. Before coming to grips with the question of one's duty to defend his or her beliefs - it is necessary to point out one of the more serious difficulties that we face in society. www.blupete.com /Commentary/DutyJan'98.htm   (490 words)

XXXVIII. THE PLACE OF ECONOMICS IN LEARNING: Economics and the Universities In their opinion, the first duty of the university is to sell the official social philosophy to the rising generation. The duty of the university teacher is not merely to hand down to the students the complex of knowledge developed by other men. If he were to neglect this, he would admit that there are among the teachers of economics two classes--those who themselves have contributed to the advancement of economic thought and those who have not, although they may have done a fine job in other disciplines such as recent economic history. www.mises.org /humanaction/chap38sec4.asp   (1618 words)

[No title] All of these notions are doubtless involved in institutional economics, but they may be said to be metaphors or descriptions, whereas, a science of economic behavior requires analysis into similarities of cause, effect or purpose, and a synthesis in a unified system of principles. Transactions, as derived from a study of economic theories and of the decisions of courts, may be reduced to thee economic activities, distinguishable as bargaining transactions, managerial transactions and rationing transactions. But economic coercion and physical duress are denials of these economic ideals, and nearly every case of economic conflict becomes an assumption or investigation, under its own circumstances, of the negotiational psychology of persuasion and coercion. socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca /~econ/ugcm/3ll3/commons/institutional.txt   (3605 words)

Wikinfo | Duty In economics, a duty is a kind of tax; often associated with customs. Duty in ethics, in a job, or simply after making any agreement about who does what, expresses that which one must do -- an obligation. In the event of default, agents scattered through society stand ready to remind the recalcitrant of their "duty" to monarch, lord, country or church. www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=duty   (161 words)

Addis Ababa University Economics Department   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16) The B.A. course in economics at the AAU has produced about 1000 graduates over the past decade and is the largest supplier of trained economists in Ethiopia. It also means that the Department of Economics at the AAU is eligible for accepting students on CMAP scholarships in support of staff development schemes of universities in the region not yet designated to be of category-B status. The Department of Economics of the AAU is also a member of the collaborative M.A. program with concentration in environmental economics which is coordinated by the Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy in Africa (CEEPA), South Africa. www.aau.edu.et /faculties/fbe/econ/index.htm   (705 words)

SSRN-Rescue Without Law: An Empirical Perspective on the Duty to Rescue by David Hyman Proponents of a duty to rescue have argued that it will decrease the frequency of non-rescue without creating undue distortions or other difficulties. Opponents of a duty to rescue have argued that such statutes are ineffective, infringe on individual liberties, may actually discourage rescue, and are likely to be misused by politically ambitious prosecutors. The results paint a rich and largely reassuring picture of the behavior of ordinary Americans faced with circumstances requiring rescue, and indicate that both more and less is at stake in the debate over the no-duty rule than has been commonly appreciated. papers.ssrn.com /sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=796384   (437 words)

The Economics of Criminal Law   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16) The law might enlist his aid in deterring crime and apprehending criminals by imposing a duty on him to intervene in the crime or to report his knowledge of the crime or criminal to the authorities. At first blush one might think that these duties would be efficient: witnesses would be induced to come forward, making the successful prosecution of criminals easier, and, possibly, criminals, knowing that witnesses had a duty to come forward, might be marginally deterred from committing crimes. Recall that the economic theory of the decision to commit a crime imagines that criminals compare the expected costs and expected benefits of crime and commit a crime if the expected benefits exceed the expected costs and refrain from crime if the reverse is true. www.cooter-ulen.com /crime.htm   (10451 words)

Home Page of Roger N. Folsom, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Economics Before coming to San Jose, I taught macro and micro economics and mathematical economics, including applications to military defense, at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California. Courses emphasized macro and microeconomic theory and policy, including mathematical economics, national income analysis, cycles and growth, monetary theory, public finance, industrial organization, labor economics, and statistics and econometrics. Economic Policy: U.S. foreign trade deficits; The dollar’s international value; Macroeconomic effects of the 1970’s “oil shock”; Military personnel policy, and conscription; Capital gains taxation; Misleading aggregation (of purchases and transfer payments) in the federal government budget; A generalized median voter model, and its estimated voter perception of property tax incidence. www2.sjsu.edu /depts/economics/faculty/folsom/index.html   (504 words)

Restaurant economics / Economics - Economy-point.org Economics of running a restaurant / Tireless chefs do double duty... The nation's current economic expansion, which began in early 1991, is the third-longest since the end of World War II, according to National Restaurant... Grindy oversees the National Restaurant Association's economic analysis of the restaurant industry on the national, state and local levels. www.economy-point.org /restaurant-economics-1343   (147 words)

duty - OneLook Dictionary Search Duty, duty : LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info] Phrases that include duty: duty free, heavy duty, stamp duty, duty cycle, import duty, more... Words similar to duty: duties, obligation, responsibility, tariff, assignment, tax, more... www.onelook.com /?w=duty   (380 words)

Amazon.fr : No Duty to Retreat: Violence and Values in American History and Society: Livres en anglais: Richard ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16) No Duty to Retreat offers an engrossing account of how this idea of self-defense emerged, focusing in particular on the gunfights of the frontier and their impact on our legal traditions. He also looks at such lesser-known battles as the Mussel Slough war, in which resisting farmers, imbued with the no-retreat ethic, fought for their independent lifestyle against encroaching rail barons. The frontier days are long past, but Brown shows how the ethic of no retreat continues to shape everything from our entertainment to our foreign policy (including President Bush's "line drawn in the sand") to our politics to cases like that of Bernhard Goetz. www.amazon.fr /No-Duty-Retreat-Violence-American/dp/0195045106   (634 words)

Stonehill College Economics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16) The Department of Economics offers major concentrations in Economics and Managerial Economics, and a minor concentration in Economics. The mission of the academic program of the Department of Economics is to provide a curriculum and learning experience that educates students both in the core theoretical and quantitative methods of modern economics and in the application of those methods to contemporary economic questions, problems, and issues, in order to enhance their ability: The Department further recognizes an intellectual, cultural, and social duty to the community and pledges its resources to that end whenever appropriate and feasible. www.stonehill.edu /economics/mission.htm   (132 words)

Economics of running a restaurant / Tireless chefs do double duty as bean counters Of every dollar a full-service restaurant brings in, it spends roughly a third on food and alcohol; another third on salaries, wages and benefits; up to 10 cents on rent; and up to 20 cents on other costs such as marketing, according to studies by restaurant associations. The move is driven by their creative spirit, but it also has an economic rationale. Most restaurants of this size hire a kitchen manager, a full-time salaried position, to do just that, but that's an area where they're economizing. www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/08/22/BUGCL8BS221.DTL   (1905 words)

US Swine Economics Report The duty is composed of a 58 cent duty for dumping (selling below cost of production) and a $1.07 duty for countervail (governmental subsidies). This new duty is likely to have a minimal affect on U.S. corn prices, but a major impact on Canadian corn prices. At $1.65 per bushel, this new duty is likely to stop the movement of unprocessed corn from the U.S. to Canada. www.thepigsite.com /swinenews/10636/us-swine-economics-report   (544 words)

First-time buyers hindered by threshold of stamp duty - Times Online Total stamp duty payments have increased nine-fold since 1993, the last time the starting point for the tax was changed. This means that they must find £1,310 in stamp duty, equivalent to 5 per cent of their deposit or two weeks of their gross annual salary. The starting point for stamp duty — levied at 1 per cent of the value of the property — has remained static at £60,000 since March 1993 when the Conservative Government doubled it. business.timesonline.co.uk /article/0,,16849-1460739,00.html   (873 words)

Econometrics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16) Duty: Solving problems to students, Grading homework assignments. Spring 2004: TA for Introduction to Economics (Eco108) with instructor, William Dawes. Fall 2003: TA for Introduction to Economics (Eco108) with instructor, Debra Dwyer. www.ic.sunysb.edu /Stu/dokim/CV.htm   (263 words)

Economics of Emission Reduction For Heavy Duty Trucks While engine manufacturers and OEMs can apply early compliance credits to other non-compliant diesel engines, operators of existing diesel trucks who voluntarily reduce emissions can be eligible to a State Implementation Plan (SIP) credit, an economic incentive to recover the costs of the pollution control device within the NOx SIP region. Most of the economic incentives for diesel truck operators are likely to be centered in the ozone non-attainment regions. These regions are most likely to make voluntary compliance as economically attractive for fleet owners as possible, given the severe ozone non-attainment levels in the region. www.dieselnet.com /papers/0501krishnan   (1813 words)

Truck and Barter: Economics of Duty Free Shops Duty Free is the biggest sucker deal in retail. Do you know how much duty is? Kramer: Duty. Do you know how much duty is? Kramer: No, I dunno how much duty is. George: Duty is *nothing*. truckandbarter.com /mt/archives/2006/09/economics_of_du.html   (164 words)

Economics - Exporting Duty Free To The United States Economics - Exporting Duty Free To The United States materials, the product is subject to the usual duties. subject to a high duty in the importing country and the component costs www.cnmi-guide.com /info/essays/economics/27.html   (1903 words)

Collection of Classics in Political Economy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16) First Book on the Duty of Man and Citizen, by Samuel von Pufendorf 1673 The New Theories of Economics, by Vilfredo Pareto, 1890 Political Economy - Economics - Theory of Marginal Utility - Labour Theory of Value - Value - Critique - Theories of Value www.marxists.org /reference/subject/economics/index.htm   (236 words)

[No title] He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the from the University of Florida in 2003. Before coming to Dartmouth, he taught at the U.S. Air Force Academy for two years and served as the Senior Economist for Public Finance and Labor on the staff of the President's Council of Economic Advisers during the summer of 2004. He specializes in the fields of labor economics, economics of education, and public economics. www.dartmouth.edu /~scottcarrell   (291 words)

U.S. Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Database and Links This following are links to firm-specific data and documentation on U.S. antidumping and countervailing duty cases since 1980, collected by the author of this page, Bruce Blonigen, Department of Economics, University of Oregon, with the help of numerous student research assistants. Case-specific data on U.S. antidumping and countervailing duty activity (as well as that for many other countries) are now available at Chad Bown's Global Antidumping Database. NBER Paper 7404: "On the Spread and Impact of Antidumping" by Thomas Prusa, October 1999. www.uoregon.edu /~bruceb/adpage.html   (2067 words)

new economics foundation Homepage We believe in economics as if people and the planet mattered. UK 21st in European league of carbon efficiency and well-being 16/07/07 New Europe-wide research using an innovative measure of carbon efficiency and real economic progress reveals that Europe is less efficient now at delivering human well-being than it was 40 years ago. www.neweconomics.org   (197 words)

McMaster University - Department of Economics To learn more about the history of our department, please click here. The Department will offer Economics 3F03 in spring term, 2007, and Economics 4A03 in summer term, 2007, both in the evening and subject to sufficient demand. McMaster University Archive for the History of Economic Thought www.mcmaster.ca /economics   (94 words)

Duty and Responsibility: The Dangers Posed to Liberty by Democratic Governance Duty and Responsibility: The Dangers Posed to Liberty by Democratic Governance Democracy undermines conscience by making men prefer what others think best to what they think best themselves. It relieves men from the sense of responsibility and the duty of effort.” www.acton.org /publicat/books/duty   (164 words)

Duty-free shop - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For the British situation comedy, see Duty Free (TV series) Duty-free shops (or stores) are retail outlets that do not apply local or national taxes and duties. They are often found in the customs zones of international airports, ports or other international means of transport. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Duty_free   (213 words)

The Economics of Duty-Free Shopping We review, and dismiss, various arguments that might conceivably support a role for duty-free in promoting global economic welfare. The existence of duty-free trade is explained as a phenomenon that individual countries find in their national self interest as seen both from the arrival and the departure end, i.e. Department of Economics, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Connecticut using ideas.repec.org /p/ces/ceswps/_595.html   (354 words)

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