This paper considers the social welfare implications of having a public rating agency in-stead of private sector credit rating agencies. The public rating agency is assumed to pay a fix compensation rather than a performance sensitive compensation and is assumed to dismiss its employee in case of "misconduct." The model predicts that the public rating agency may be socially beneficial if invest...

Justice is one of the most basic and potentially important social psychological areas of inquiry. The assumption that others will be fair is what makes social cooperation possible. This article provides a brief review of trends, both historical and current, in the social psychological study of justice, and provides an introduction for a special issue of Personality and Social Psychology Review ...

Calls from the psychological literature have highlighted a need for the integration of social justice training in both didactic and fieldwork practicum experiences in professional psychology. This article presents concrete strategies for practicum instructors and applied fieldwork training site staff to integrate social justice work into practicum experiences. The authors review current scholar...

generally. j j Social Welfare, like Social Medicine, will fix its own standards, have its own objectives and develop its own techniques *n achieving the objectives. It cannot follow the Western standards, objectives and techniques. Asia in general and India in particular have an outlook different from the outlook of European cultures. It is different but not inferior by any means. The general i...

held in Paris in July, quickly dispels that illusion, for there it was shown that in many other countries a similar experiment is, in a greater or lesser degree, being worked out, even though the stage of development reached is nowhere so advanced as in Britain. All the 1,500 representatives of the forty nations present were concerned with the same problems and asking the same questions. How is...

We study antitrust enforcement in which the fine must obey four legal principles: punishments should fit the crime, proportionality, bankruptcy considerations, and minimum fines. We integrate these legal principles into an infinitely-repeated oligopoly model. Bankruptcy considerations ensure abnormal cartel profits. We derive the optimal fine schedule that achieves maximal social welfare under ...

the aim of this study was investigation of effect organizational justice on the psychological capital by social capital (survey of department of youth and sport of esfahan province). this research was descriptive correlation. the study population includes all the employees' offices youth and sports of isfahan province that thire number was equal to 405 people. according to specified target...