Ethical considerations in an era of financial scarcity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4256124 |
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| Authors | Raymond L Calabrese (The University of Texas at San Antonio), Sheldon Marcu, Sheldon Marcus (Fordham University) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 83-88 |
| Publication date | 1994-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Theory Into Practice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0040-5841 • E-ISSN: 1527-2532 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00405849409543622 |
| OpenAlex | W2122496478 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
Americans live, work, and learn. It is no longer a question of how long resources will be limited. It is a question of how to manage the resources that remain. As Coombs (1990) states, Today change is more rapid and more all-pervading than in the times when those institutions were developed. From the economic point of view the most important contemporary change is ... the to scarcity (p. 2). The return to scarcity is applicable to all components of contemporary society: federal and state governments, businesses, and social agencies. As a result, the competition for remaining resources is often marked by acrimonious debate with little, if any, agreement on resource distribution. Instead, the debate is frequently settled at the macro level through the ballot box, the courtroom, or legislative settings. Examples abound: Proposition 13 in California, Proposition 2 1/2 in Massachusetts, and court cases in more than half of the states (Odden & Picus, 1992). This behavior has sent two strong messages to legislators: one, the taxpayer refuses to be an unlimited source of revenue, and two, traditionally disfranchised groups are demanding the restructuring of how resources have previously been distributed
Argument (complex analysis · Ballot · Business · Competition (biology · Economics · Legislature · Market economy · Political science · Politics · Restructuring · Revenue · Scarcity · State (computer science · Taxpayer · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Economic Theory and Institutions · Finance · Law · Legal and Constitutional Studies · Public Administration
| Highly cited | No |
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