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    • Deontologiczne zasady dobrej administracji w dokumentach UE. Uwagi o ich wdrażaniu w Polsce 

      Walenia, Alina (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)
      The proper functioning of local-government administration means not only improving legal and organisational solutions, but mainly officials abiding by ethical principles. Therefore, an important role in the process is ...
    • Ekonomiczne i społeczne aspekty korupcji 

      Walczak, Waldemar (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)
      The aim of the article is to present multidimensional analyses and deliberations that bring us closer to better understanding the corrupt practices that commonly occur in everyday economic reality. Particular attention was ...
    • Marriage, divorce and economic growth 

      Baranowski, Paweł; Sztaudynger, Jan Jacek (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)
      The aim of the study is to estimate the impact of the so-called family social capital (family ties capital) on economic growth. We hypothesise that marital dissolution expresses decrease in the capacity for cooperation, ...
    • Ekonomia neoklasyczna versus ekonomia behawioralna. Libertariański paternalizm a reforma emerytalna 

      Ostapiuk, Aleksander (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)
      The goal of the article is to criticise neoclassical economics from the behavioural economics perspective on the example of Poland’s reform of the retirement system (the possibility of earlier retirement). The creators of ...
    • Is there a growing social acceptance of earnings inequalities in Poland? 

      Kumor, Paweł (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)
      In our studies, we deal with the estimating of the optimal ranges of earnings – the optimal Gini indexes which are favourable to the maximisation of GDP growth in Poland. We suspect that the optimal Gini coefficients ...
    • Family and economic growth in Poland. New estimation results 

      Sztaudynger, Jan Jacek (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)
      Economic growth is mostly explained by investments and employment growth. Since the mid-1990s various social categories have been introduced into the economic growth analysis, such as trust, crime and income inequality, ...
    • Economic growth and the optimal inequality of income 

      Sztaudynger, Jan Jacek (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)
      Inequality of income is one of the significant factors forming social capital. Two views dominate among economists dealing with the influence of income inequality on economic growth. On the one hand, a too low level of ...
    • Ethical problems at work in the opinion of employees of selected banks 

      Rogowski, Robert (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)
      The paper presents ethical problems faced by the employees of selected banks in Poland. The theoretical section of the paper describes the codes of ethics in banking, especially those concerning the moral aspects of working ...
    • Statistics and ethics 

      Wyżnikiewicz, Bohdan (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)
      The article concerns ethical rules compiled by both public statistics and users of public statistics. Ethical rules in statistics are partly codified in the European Statistics Code of Practice published by Eurostat, the ...
    • Unfair practices in the insurance market: describing unfair clauses 

      Wieteska, Stanisław (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)
      In a market economy, the protection of consumer rights is an extremely important issue. This also applies to the insurance market where these issues are generally understood as ones related to the conclusion and execution ...
    • Ethical aspects of normative theories of accounting 

      Rogowska, Beata (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)
      The aim of this article is to show ethical aspects of the so-called normative accounting theory (NT), with particular emphasis on the ethical and normative theory (ENT), important for the development of accounting as a ...
    • The influence of religious principles on the formation of the accounting system 

      Czerny, Małgorzata (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)
      Factors such as different cultural determinants undoubtedly affect “the shape” of the economy. Mueller, Hofstede and Gray, among others, have studied the impact of the cultural factors on an economy, especially in fields ...
    • Ethical issues in the early works of accounting 

      Garstka, Małgorzata (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)
      Accountants in Poland have recently had the opportunity to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the introduction of the Accounting Act. The act was passed by the Polish Parliament in 1994. 500 years earlier, a treaty on ...
    • Javier Sicilia: Advocate of deliberative democracy in the Americas 

      Rathbun, Lyon (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)
      When Javier Sicilia’s son was killed by cartel assassins in 2011, he transformed into a civic activist, with a mass following sufficiently large for Time Magazine to recognize him in 2011 as one of its “Protestors of the ...
    • Editorial 

      Rehman, Sharaf N. (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)
    • An analysis of U.S. Custom and Border Protection’s tripartite Mexico border security policy 

      Garrett, Terence M. (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)
      The Custom and Border Protection (CBP) border security policy was explicitly presented by former Acting Commissioner of CBP, David Aguilar, in testimony before the United States Senate Homeland Security and Governmental ...
    • U.S. Supreme Court in the civil rights era: Deliberative Democracy and its educative institutional role, 1950s–1970s 

      Figueroa, Carlos (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)
      This article examines the U.S. Supreme Court’s lesser-known educative role as an egalitarian institution within a broader deliberative democratic process. Scholars have argued that the Court’s long asserted power of judicial ...
    • A camera never told the truth: An exploration of objectivity in photojournalism 

      Rehman, Sharaf N. (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)
      Several cases have surfaced in the past two decades where the photojournalists associated with some of the most respected and trusted news organizations have been accused of altering the news photos. During the same time, ...
    • The effectiveness of celebrity endorsements in Polish magazines 

      Kowalewska, Kinga (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)
      Due to several cognitive processes, celebrity endorsements are effective in increasing sales. The presence of a famous person in an advertisement can command extra attention which may translate into an increase in sales. ...
    • Traditional and emerging ethical concerns in advertising 

      Lemanski, Jennifer L. (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)
      Ethical issues surrounding advertising have been well-discussed. However, over time and alongside societal and media changes, different questions have moved to the forefront in the discussion on advertising ethics. This ...