Sökning: "indeterminacy"

Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 22 avhandlingar innehållade ordet indeterminacy.

1. 11. Essays on the Political Economy of Protection and Industrial Location

   Författare :Magnus Wiberg; Rikard Forslid; Pascalis Raimondos-Møller; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Economic geography; Trade policy; Political economy; Business and economics; Ekonomi;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of three essays in the fields of the political economy of international trade.Location Equilibrium with Endogenous Rent Seeking:This paper analyzes the location of manufacturing activities when regional policy is determined by endogenous rent seeking. LÄS MER

3. 12. The Gothic in contemporary interactive fictions

   Författare :Van Leavenworth; Heidi Hansson; Catherine Spooner; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Gothic; interactive fiction; subjectivity; posthuman; unspeakable; live burial; labyrinth; uncanny; grotesque; vampire; historiographic metafiction; cybergothic; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; Literature; litteraturvetenskap;

   Sammanfattning : This study examines how themes, conventions and concepts in Gothic discourses are remediated or developed in selected works of contemporary interactive fiction. These works, which are wholly text-based and proceed via command line input from a player, include Nevermore, by Nate Cull (2000), Anchorhead, by Michael S. LÄS MER

4. 13. Do the Ends Justify the Means? : On the Justifiability of Statistical Discrimination

   Författare :Viktor Elm-Schulin; Eva Erman; Erik Angner; Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; discrimination; statistical discrimination; profiling; justification; ex-ante; contractualism; consequentialism; demeaning treatment; social meaning; unequal status; statsvetenskap; Political Science;

   Sammanfattning : While statistical discrimination comes with similar objections as other types of discrimination it may also lead to a number of beneficial and important consequences, thereby leaving us with conflicting intuitions regarding the right course of action. This study investigates whether there is any superior account of statistical discrimination that can explain when and why such a practice can be defended; i. LÄS MER

5. 14. Incomparable risks, values and preferences

   Författare :Nicolas Espinoza; Martin Peterson; Erik Carlson; KTH; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Philosophy subjects; Filosofiämnen;

   Sammanfattning : Abstract. Consistent valuation and societal prioritization of risks presupposes comparability among risks, that is, in order to rank risks in order of severity, and allocate risk preventative resources accordingly, we must be able to determine whether one risk is better or worse than another, and by how much. LÄS MER

7. 15. Human Trafficking and Slavery Reconsidered. Conceptual Limits and States' Positive Obligations

   Författare :Vladislava Stoyanova; Juridiska institutionen; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; servitude; slavery; human trafficking; forced labour; Council of Europe Convention on Action against Human Trafficking; European Convention on Human Rights; positive obligations;

   Sammanfattning : The support for the fight against ‘human trafficking’ has evolved rapidly and comprehensively. There has been, however, no overarching critical evaluation of the efforts to make ‘human trafficking’ a focus of international law. LÄS MER