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Malaysia/Singapore as Immigrant Societies
Reid, Anthony - 2011
This paper, originally the 15th James C. Jackson Memorial Lecture, argues the case for considering Malaysia and Singapore as immigrant societies, and analyzing their dynamic by comparison with New World countries such as Australia rather than with Asian neighbours. The historical demography of...
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Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Diamond, Jared M. - 2005 - 1. publ.
What caused some of the great civilizations of the past to collapse into ruin, and what can we learn from their fates? Diamond weaves an all-encompassing global thesis through a series of historical-cultural narratives. Moving from the prehistoric Polynesian culture of Easter Island to the...
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Die Produktion der Konsumgesellschaft : eine kulturökonomische Grundlegung der feinen Unterschiede
Mohr, Ernst - 2020
, Skinhead, Hipster, Pop – mit jenen des »Mainstreams« in einem stilistischen Gesamtsystem der Gesellschaft und analysiert deren … Konsumgüterindustrie und bahnt damit der Soziologie, den Kulturwissenschaften sowie der Semiotik und Ökonomik einen gemeinsamen Zugang zu …
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The christian economy in the early medieval west : towards a temple society
Wood, Ian - 2022
The establishment of Christianity in the late- and post-Roman world caused an economic as well as a religious revolution, but, while a great deal of attention has been paid to the religious developments of the period, the impact of the establishment of the Church on the economy has attracted...
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Gifts, goods and money : comparing currency and circulation systems in past societies
Brandherm, Dirk (ed.); Heymans, Elon (ed.);  … - Premonetary Currency Systems in Past Societies …; … - 2018
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Modernisierungsprozesse in Japan
Vogt, Gabriele (ed.); Holdgrün, Phoebe (ed.) - 2013
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Best Ager - der silberne Markt : Trends und Handlungsempfehlungen für ihr Unternehmen
Wenzel, Eike; Rauch, Christian - 2008 - 2. Aufl.
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Wirtschaftliche und gesellschaftliche Effekte von Universitäten
Janger, Jürgen; Firgo, Matthias; Hofmann, Kathrin; … - Österreichisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2017
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Economic and political transitions from premodern to modern states in the Meiji Restoration and Xinhai Revolution : a strategic approach
Aoki, Masahiko - 2014
some extent in Japan until well into the mid-20th century. Were extractive political regimes, commonly regarded as the … and Japan. It then describes how endogenous strategic forces evolved from among the intermediate organizations in each …
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Making reform and stability compatible with each other : elite redeployment in Meiji Japan
Yamada, Makio - In: Journal of institutional economics 18 (2022) 5, pp. 861-875
Nineteenth-century Japan remains a void in the literature on institutions and growth. Developmental institutions … evolved in Japan after the Meiji Restoration despite the absence of political participation. Authoritarian change agents …, but such buying-off inevitably compromises institutional improvement. How did Meiji Japan overcome this dilemma and …
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