Sökning: "self interest"

Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 565 avhandlingar innehållade orden self interest.

  1. 16. The strategy of assistance : Swedish environmental support to the Baltic states 1991-1996

    Författare :Björn Hassler; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; environmental cooperation; game theory; Baltic States; self-interest; rational choice; Sida; foreign aid; unitary actor; political science; modeling; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS; TVÄRVETENSKAPLIGA FORSKNINGSOMRÅDEN; Political science; NATURAL SCIENCES;

    Sammanfattning : Sweden has provided considerable amounts of environmental assistance to the Baltic States since their regained independence. To explain the existence and character of this support program, the rationales behind the Swedish policy have to be analyzed. LÄS MER

  3. 17. Wrist osteoarthritis - Impact on daily life, self-management and outcome

    Författare :Sara Larsson; Malmö Handkirurgi; []
    Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Wrist osteoarthritis; Impact on daily life; Total wrist fusion; Total wrist arthroplasty; Patient-reported outcome measure; self-management; Exercise therapy; Neuromuscular control;

    Sammanfattning : For individuals with symptomatic wrist osteoarthritis (OA), pain is the central problem negatively affecting all aspects of life. Despite the recommendations that all OA patients should be offered self-management treatment options, this approach is often lacking for patients with wrist OA. LÄS MER

  4. 18. Modell, människa eller människosyn? : En analys av kritiska perspektiv på bilden av människan i neoklassisk ekonomisk teori

    Författare :Malin Löfstedt; Carl-Henric Grenholm; Elisabet Gerle; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Ethics; Neoclassical economics; view of humans; description of humans; model of humans; rationality; self interest; individualism; context; interpretation; dissonance; institutional perspective; feminist perspective; African perspective; communitarian perspective; Etik; Philosophy subjects; Filosofiämnen;

    Sammanfattning : This study deals with the picture of human being in neoclassical economic theory. Most often this picture is described as an individual agent acting rationally to maximize his own self-interest. LÄS MER

  5. 19. Social-Policy Attitudes and the Great Recession : Changes in Perceptions of Unemployment Insurance, Forced and Unforced Immigration, and Taxation

    Författare :Ariel E. Young; Joakim Palme; Karl-Oskar Lindgren; Che-Yuan Liang; Moira Nelson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; economic crisis; public opinion; human motives; welfare policy; unemployment insurance; taxation; immigration; self-interest; behavioral science; other-regarding preferences; deservingness heuristic; quantitative methods; quasi-natural experiment; Statskunskap; Political Science; Economics; Nationalekonomi;

    Sammanfattning : Welfare policies have long been met with both scorn and support among voters. Yet, studies reveal that in the presence of declining economic conditions the division between those that support and those that oppose welfare policies appears to diminish. LÄS MER

  7. 20. Back to the Woods or Into Ourselves? : Kant, Rousseau and the Search for the Essence of Human Nature

    Författare :Annika Wennersten; Pauliina Remes; Marcel Quarfood; Ina Goy; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Kant; Rousseau; Moral Anthropology; Human Nature; Radical Evil; Sociability; Gesinnung; Character; Denkungsart; Propensity; Compassion; Self-Love; Self-Conceit; Ambition; Humility; History; Philosophy; with specialization in history of philosophy; Filosofi med filosofihistorisk inriktning;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis contributes to a field of Kant’s practical philosophy that has received renewed attention, namely his moral anthropology. While it is true that Kant, in some of his best-known writings, literally says that the fundamental ground of morality must be pure and thus entirely free from admixture with anthropological principles, he nevertheless admits that these “subjective conditions” in human nature that “either hinder or help people in fulfilling the laws of the metaphysics of morals” make up the foundation of all applied ethics. LÄS MER