Should the death tax die? And should it leave an inheritance?

In this paper we examine the possibility of earmarking inheritance taxes to the financing of a transfer to the poor, aimed at reducing the payoff from small crime and at fostering the fulfillment of basic social responsibilities. A simple model of a society in which there are two types of agents either supplying legal labor or participating in criminal activity is presented. The effects of the transfer are examined with reference to two policy designs and to attitudes toward risk\ of the agents. Financing the transfer through inheritance taxation may be advisable as a way of collecting the needed revenue from agents who are likely to maintain strong enough incentives to good.Inheritance Tax, Crime, Wealth Transfers

The Simple Economics of Class Action: Private Provision of Club and Public Goods

This article uses economic categories to show how the reorganisation of civil procedure in the case of class action is not merely aimed at providing a more efficient litigation technology, as hierarchies (and company law) might do for other productive activities, but that it also serves to create a well defined economic organization ultimately aimed at producing a set of goods, first and foremost among which are justice and efficiency. Class action has the potential to recreate, in the judicial domain, the same effects that individual interests and motivations, governed by the perfect competition paradigm, bring to the market. Moreover, through economic analysis it is possible to rediscover not only the productive function of this legal machinery, but also that partial compensation of victims and large profits for the class counsel, far from being a side-effect, are actually a necessary condition for reallocation of the costs and risks associated with the legal action.class action, collective litigation, mass tort, club, liability, deterrence

The Simple Economics of Class Action: Private Provision of Club and Public Goods

This article uses economic categories to show how the reorganisation of civil procedure in the case of class action is not merely aimed at providing a more efficient litigation technology, as hierarchies (and company law) might do for other productive activities, but that it also serves to create a well defined economic organization ultimately aimed at producing a set of goods, first and foremost among which are justice and efficiency. Class action has the potential to recreate, in the judicial domain, the same effects that individual interests and motivations, governed by the perfect competition paradigm, bring to the market. Moreover, through economic analysis it is possible to rediscover not only the productive function of this legal machinery, but also that partial compensation of victims and large profits for the class counsel, far from being a side-effect, are actually a necessary condition for reallocation of the costs and risks associated with the legal action.class action, collective litigation, mass tort, club, liability, deterrence

Risk Attitudes and the Shift of Liability from the Principal to the Agent.

This paper studies the problem of illegal behavior within a principal-agent framework. The agent performs an illegal activity which benefits the principal, and can exert an effort that negatively affects the likelihood of detection of the violation.Two opposite legal regimes are considered: in the first, only the risk neutral principal is strictly liable; in the second, only the risk averse agent is The monetary sanction and the probability of detection function are the same in both cases. Our models shows that shifting the liability upon the risk averse agent reduces the principal net benefit, thus favoring deterrence of wrongdoing; however, it can also either increase or reduce the agent effort in cheating. For a specific model we are able to characterize cases in which a reduction in cheating prevails, and shifting the liability upon the agent has clear-cut beneficial effects on compliance.

Historia de la cirugía en Mendoza

Fil: Cassone, Eduardo. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de Ciencias Médicas. Departamento de Medicina Quirúrgic

Gotta face ‘em all: Pokémon, Japanese animated characters, and the emergence of playful visual animism

As a result of technological innovations and new cultural practices, the contemporary mediasphere is increasingly populated by digital(ized) faces. The phenomenon is not limited to human faces, but includes a vast universe of fictional animated faces, variously called ‘characters’, ‘mascots’ or ‘kyara’. In Japan, while certainly not new, kyara have been spreading thanks to globalization, digitalization and media-mix strategies. Through the connection between visual design, fictional narratives and socio-cultural consumption, kyara can be considered semiotic figures of in-betweenness, key symbolic mediators in the Japanese mediascape. Their anthropomorphic face design mediates the cultural boundaries between the human and the non-human, the animate and the inanimate, nature and culture. Furthermore, their post-modern narratives mix inspiration from the past and the present, from myths to science fiction. Lastly, they involve an encyclopedic reworking between fiction and reality, mythical references and secularization, between the domains of seriousness and playful make-believe. The article aims to explore the semiotic dimensions of kyara in contemporary Japan, with emphasis on their logic of representation and cultural outcomes. These will be investigated through the analysis of the Pokémon franchise, which will make it possible to describe the emergence of new semiotic patterns of ‘playful visual animism’ in the process of media facialization of everyday life.    &nbsp

una experiencia editorial

La campaña ideológica de la Editorial Claridad se encuadra dentro del movimiento socialista que se desarrolló en la Argentina en el panorama de las primeras décadas del siglo XX. Este estudio está centrado en Los Pensadores (Primera Epoca 1922-1924), y en la revista del mismo nombre, cuyo subtítulo era Revista de selección ilustrada, arte, crítica y literatura. Suplemento de Editorial Claridad (Segunda Epoca 1924-1926). Los tres ejes sobre los cuales se articula el proyecto editorial son la literatura, el escritor y el público, en el marco de la tradición de lecturas. Se trataba de una publicación dedicada a la literatura, artes plásticas, filosofía, ideas, historia, política, sindicalismo y comentarios sociales, con artículos originales y traducciones especiales. El hecho de elegir una revista como tema de investigación, responde a nuestro propósito de vincular la actividad política con un aspecto de la vida cultural argentina en el siglo XX. Esta publicación ofreció a escritores argentinos y americanos la oportunidad de expresar sus ideas en forma de comentarios, noticias y críticas, o bien en cuentos, poemas y ensayos.Fil: Ferreira de Cassone, Florencia. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Instituto de Filosofía Argentina y American

Claridad y la construcción de una izquierda americana

Fil: Ferreira de Cassone, Florencia. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociale

Philosophy and politics in Angélica Mendoza

El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar las ideas filosóficas con el cruce de lo político–institucional en la obra intelectual de Angélica Mendoza (1889–1960), docente mendocina doctorada en Filosofía en la Universidad de Columbia. Tuvo una destacada actuación en la política argentina en la década de 1920, y en la defensa de la situación de la mujer en el continente americano. La hipótesis de nuestro trabajo es verificar los postulados filosóficos de la autora a la luz de las condiciones de producción del mismo y las ideas políticas que influyeron en la conducta de las mujeres en la sociedad de su tiempo.The aim of this research is to analyze the philosophical ideas crossing politics and institutions in Angelica Mendoza´s intellectual work (1889–1960), she was born in Mendoza and was PhD in Philosophy by Columbia University. She had an outstanding performance in Argentine politic during 1920 and defending women situation in Latin American Continent. The hypothesis of this work is to verify her philosophical basis according to the circumstances of its production and the political ideas that influenced women conditions in the society of that time.Fil: Ferreira de Cassone, Florencia. CONICET (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas) - Universidad Nacional de Cuy

Roberto Arlt y Claridad

Por la índole de su obra periodística y literaria Roberto Arlt estuvo vinculado a la revista Claridad (1926-1941), órgano del pensamiento Socialista argentino y americano. Tanto la revista como la editorial Claridad fueron creadas y dirigidas por Antonio Zamora junto a un grupo de escritores, periodistas y militantes políticos, dentro de una gama amplia de tendencias de izquierda. Arlt perteneció al estilo intelectual que caracterizó al grupo Claridad y le interesó llegar a su público de lectores. En la revista se publicaron textos de Arlt y la editorial Claridad fue la encargada de la difusión popular de sus novelas y cuentos cuando estos no habían alcanzado la dimensión que lograrían en años posteriores.Fil: Ferreira de Cassone, Florencia. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de Filosofía y Letra