scholarly journals The Theory and Practice of Citations Analysis, with Special Reference to Law and Economics

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard A. Posner
Keyword(s):  
Special Reference ◽  
Law And Economics ◽  
Theory And Practice

Widows' Funds: Some Notes on Theory and Practice

1951 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 145-191
Author(s):  
D. A. B. Scrimgeour
Keyword(s):  
Special Reference ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Mortality Experience ◽  
Collective Method

SynopsisThe Paper deals with some of the problems which arise in the valuation of Widows' Funds with special reference to the Widows' Funds of certain professional bodies in Scotland.An analysis is made of data derived from the Scottish Bankers' Marriage and Mortality Experience 1923–1943 (T.F.A., 19, p. 149) with a view to determining the applicability of the Collective Method to a valuation of the “existing” at the close of that Experience.The various factors entering into a Widows' Fund valuation are examined in relation to a particular Fund and the importance of the valuation rate of interest illustrated.The Paper concludes with a discussion of the “reserve for loss on future entrants” often met with in the valuations of such Funds, and of the arguments for and against proposals which have been made for its elimination.

scholarly journals BECCARIA TRA DIRITTO PENALE ED ECONOMIA PUBBLICA

2011 ◽  
pp. 295-402
Author(s):  
Gian Paolo Massetto
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Law ◽  
Public Economics ◽  
Law And Economics ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Solid Part ◽  
Empirical Investigations

Beccaria between criminal law and public economics. As Mario Romani wrote in 1966: ‘the most mature and solid part of Beccaria’s work as system builder, that is, his lectures on economia pubblica delivered between 1769 and 1772, and the empirical investigations or consulte stemming from inquiries undertaken in his capacity as a member of government bodies, was for a long time wholly or partly overlooked, or entrusted to unreliable editors, who were ready to print manuscripts the Author himself had not deemed worthy of publication’. This discomfort is no longer justified. The Elementi di economia pubblica will soon be published, while the Atti di Governo have recently appeared in print. We now know the details of Beccaria’s activity in the Supremo Consiglio d’Economia, as Head of the First and then of the Second Department, and as a member of the Consiglio di Governo. We can evaluate his contribution to both theory and practice in the fields of criminal law and economics. The aim of this essay is to assess the consistency between Beccaria’s theoretical writings and his field work, with particular reference to freedom of trade (of grains in particular), free bakery, hunting, forest and mines, the Pizzighettone prison, and the Milan house of correction.

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