26 research outputs found
Make-in-India: Moving from a Monocentric to a Polycentric Response to the COVID-19 Crisis!
No full textThe final publication is available at www.degruyter.com.The paper will look at the initial and subsequent Indian government’s response to the COVID-19 focusing event. The strategy used to tackle the initial Covid-19 wave in India was copied from resource-rich countries and authoritarian countries and due to centralization bias in India’s institutions, a monocentric response to the crisis was the default instead of cooperative solutions. However, the response to the pandemic should have been by multiple decision centers and based on local and institutional knowledge, considering India’s institutions, culture, and state capacity, for a “Make-in-India” polycentric response. Solving large-scale health externalities requires coproduction to deal with nested externalities more effectively instead of monocentric global responses. I propose policy considering previous epidemic responses focusing on polycentric governance where civil society is incentivized
Entrepreneurs and firm growth under guilt vs shame cultures
Full text linkFor more information on the deposit licenses, please see deposit information: https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/our-services/authors/author-policies/author-rights#deposit“To try and understand under what cultural conditions entrepreneurship will thrive and prosper. Whether under shame cultures or guilt cultures.
We use basic game theory to model the conditions under which entrepreneurship will thrive. We anticipate that guilt cultures allow for the development of a rules-based culture that allows for the development of impersonal exchange, whereas, shame cultures, which are relationship-oriented, the focus is on strong ties and hence lack the means to expand firms from small and medium family/clan-based businesses.
Empirical results are completed to see whether guilt-dominating cultures are more conducive to having larger firms and whether guilt-dominating cultures have less informality. We find support for the latter but lack the right data to test the former.
We use a new measure of culture to see how it impacts entrepreneurship.
Time Preferences as Partisan Politics: What do Party Manifestos Show in Twenty-Two OECD Countries?
No full textThe Version of Record of this manuscript has been published and is available in European Politics and Society.This study examines the correlation between economic freedom and sexual freedom in the twenty-two OECD nations included in the 2020 Comparative Welfare States Dataset (Brady and Stephens, 2020. Comparative welfare states data set. University of North Carolina and WZB Berlin Social Science Center). Our research builds on prior work by Unwin (1934. Sex and culture. Oxford University Press, 1935. Sexual regulations and cultural behaviour. Oxford University Press, 1940. HOPOUSIA or the sexual and economic foundations of a new society. Oskar Piest) and Bose (2013). License to Sin: The Politics and Opportunity Cost of Sexual Freedom. SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2039060 or http://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2039060. who suggest that economic freedom and sexual freedom are negatively related. We develop an economic and sexual freedom score from the Manifesto Project (Volkens et al., 2020. The manifesto data collection. In M. P. (MRG/CMP/MARPOR) (Ed.), Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB)) and take the difference between the two and track the difference since primarily the end of World War II. Our hypothesis is that right parties will emphasize more economic freedom in their party platforms than sexual freedom, whereas left parties will have more to say about sexual freedom in their party platforms than economic freedom. The difference is because the parties are attracting different types of voters based on their time preferences
Does the New World Order Worship Satan? Using Rational Choice to Understand QAnon
No full textThis Article originally appeared in Journal for the Study of Radicalism Vol. 18, Iss. 1, 2024, pp. 149-180.The economics and sociology literature that deals with churches and sects can provide a valuable framework when considering certain conspiracy theories. This article looks at two aspects of the so-called “QAnon” conspiracy theory: first, Q’s theory on the elites; and second, Q’s followers—the Anons—and their social structure. For the first, I examine the historical precedent for Q’s theory and show how Iannaccone’s “sacrifice and stigma” model can help frame the ideas in the theory.1 Concerning the second, I look to Iannaccone’s church–sect model to explain how rational individuals can join and be involved in conspiratorial social network groups at both the church and sectarian levels
Application of modified Laffer Curve in the Marriage Market using Exit Costs
No full text Application of modified Laffer Curve in the Marriage Market using Exit CostsThe economics literature that deals with the exit costs of marriage has considered primarily the shift from mutual consent divorce to unilateral divorce and has not provided a larger, overall picture of the marriage market under various exit conditions. This paper proposes that a modified Laffer Curve macro model of marriage and divorce provides the best overall picture of the marriage market under various exit scenarios. Application of modified Laffer Curve in the Marriage Market using Exit CostsThe economics literature that deals with the exit costs of marriage has considered primarily the shift from mutual consent divorce to unilateral divorce and has not provided a larger, overall picture of the marriage market under various exit conditions. This paper proposes that a modified Laffer Curve macro model of marriage and divorce provides the best overall picture of the marriage market under various exit scenarios
Parliament vs. Supreme court: a veto player framework of the Indian constitutional experiment in the area of economic and civil rights
No full textIndian constitution, Property rights, Civil rights, Basic structure doctrine, Public interest litigation, Veto bargaining model, Veto player framework, Supreme Court, Parliament, D-74, K-11, K-40,
Evolutionary Impulses in Law
Full text linkThis dissertation is composed of three different essays. Each essay discusses how laws change over time. The first essay focuses on marriage in the United States. It starts with the Beckerian model and then develops the relational contract model to analyze the role religion plays in marriage. The second essay focuses on abortion law and how it had changed over the centuries in the United States. A model of social entrepreneurship is developed and incorporated with other theories from Public Choice. From this, one can understand social movements from the left and the right and how they work differently. The final essay is on the Indian constitution and how it has evolved in the area of civil and economic rights. Two Public Choice models (Congleton Model an
The Effect of Shutting Down Pioneering Drug Addiction Treatment Centers
No full textAuthor's ManuscriptThe number of confirmed cases of unintentional opioid overdose deaths has increased dramatically in recent years. There are several ways of treating addiction. Conventional medicine has a 5 to 20% sobriety rate after treating persons with substance use disorder for a year. An alternative model, known as the Massachusetts Model, developed by Dr. Punyamurtula Kishore of Preventive Medicine Associates, Inc. (PMAI), built upon the use of extended-release naltrexone claimed to have achieved a sobriety rate close to 60% at the one-year mark. The clinics were closed in 2011. In this paper, we use panel data collected at the county level from 2000 to 2014 to test whether there was an association between increased opioid overdose deaths and the shutdown of the PMAI clinics in Massachusetts. In our baseline model using dynamic panel data estimation, we find that while per capita opioid prescriptions increased opioid deaths per 100-thousand in the range of 10 to 15, PMAI clinics reduced the fatalities by 2 to 3. We also find that while measures of opioid prescriptions are not statistically significant in explaining heroin fatalities, PMAI clinics have a negative effect on those as well
Lecture, Leisure, Learning: Teaching Economic Development Abroad In India
Full text linkNearly every college and university has a travel abroad program that students are encouraged to take advantage. There is a great deal of literature regarding studying abroad, but very little information on how to design an undergraduate study-travel economic course. This paper attempts to bridge this divide by tying insights from the travel abroad literature to my experience teaching economic development in India. The development course taught in India can be seen as a course with a lab component. This article describes what was done during a recent economic development course in India and reflects on what could be done in the future. 
