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Harrington paradox is a notion in the environmental and ecological economics describing the compliance of firms to the environmental regulations. The paradox was first described in Winston Harrington's paper in 1988 and was based on the research over monitoring, realization and compliance to ecological standards in the USA from the end of the 1970s to the beginning of the 1980s. According to the paradox, the firms in general comply with ecological standards in spite of the fact that: * Frequency of ecological monitoring of firms is low * In case of detection of violations, the violator-firm is rarely punished * The expected fine is low in comparison to the cost of compliance ==Explanation== Firms' compliance at such level is contrary to the rational crime theory of Gary Becker〔http://www.ww.uni-magdeburg.de/bizecon/material/becker.1968.pdf〕 which describes the behavior of profit maximizing entities. The rational firms will comply to the standards only in case the expected fine is higher than the cost of compliance. In order to explain the paradox it was suggested that firms exhibit altruism or self-image concern. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Harrington paradox」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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