1. Morale objective et loi naturelle

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1 Tax Morale

Standard economic models of tax compliance have focused on enforcement-driven compliance. Notably, tax administrators also tend to place a great deal of emphasis on the importance of improving “tax morale” by encouraging voluntary compliance, creating a culture of compliance, and changing social norms. Tax morale does indeed appear to be an important component of compliance decisions, and there...

Médecine et morale dans l'antiquité. Dix exposés suivis de discussions

detailed study, Ferrari re-evaluates Benedetti's contribution. Benedetti was at once a physician and a dedicated humanist, describing himself as "physicus et orator clarissimus", and author of several other non-medical works. His project for the refounding of anatomy, according to Ferrari, can be broken down into four elements: a literary strategy (his use of language and style), a physical spa...

Five Minute LOI Test

Loss-on-ignition (LOI) is an important thermo-chemical property test for many foundry materials. Applications include new sands, green sand systems, chemically bonded cores and molds, sand additives, and reclaimed sands. LOI has been an important quality control measure carried out off-line. The AFS-defined LOI test uses a muffle furnace that is time consuming, often requiring three hours; a mo...

Morale hazard

We interpret workers’ confidence in their own skills as their morale, and investigate the implication of worker overconfidence on the firm’s optimal wage-setting policies. In our model, wage contracts both provide incentives and affect worker morale, by revealing private information of the firm about worker skills. We provide conditions for the non-differentiation wage policy to be profit-maxim...