Perhaps non-pecuniary aid like food would deliver safer returns with a lower risk of unintended side-effects?
Manufacturing jobs are still often treated as "better"—in some vague, non-pecuniary way than paper-pushing is.
"The finding of a violation constitutes in itself sufficient just satisfaction for any non-pecuniary damage sustained by the applicant," it said.
Do we even extend that to offering newly appointed colleagues a choice of employment packages, where they can choose between different pecuniary and non-pecuniary benefits?
They found that when you carefully control for other things, more money actually does make people a bit happier -- but its influence is swamped by non-pecuniary factors.
Here there may be a happy congruence of society's need for more volunteers and the non-pecuniary benefits for individuals who step forward.
It added: "The finding of a violation constitutes in itself sufficient just satisfaction for any non-pecuniary damage sustained by the applicants …".
I would likely need to save and sacrifice diligently for a retirement, and not advance to levels of leadership that I can accomplish, but there would be other intangible, non-pecuniary benefits.
Monday evening's letter said the humanitarian aid would be fiscally neutral, not affecting the budget, that aid to the poor would be "non-pecuniary", for example by issuing food stamps.
Thus, neither a proposal to codify the general provisions of criminal law nor reforms to the law regarding non-pecuniary loss in cases of personal injury have been implemented.
The fact that Jonathan Aitken, a former cabinet minister, is now facing charges of perjury and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice, shows that suing for libel also carries non-pecuniary risks.
