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A critical perspective on economy, modernity and temporality in contemporary Greece through the prism of energy practice

Knight, Daniel M. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

-modernity, and pre-Europeanization. Energy practice provides a prism through which to discuss increased social suffering and reassess …During the Greek economic crisis a focus on energy practice highlights the temporal complexities of local coping … strategies. Re-launched in 2011, the European Union supported solar energy initiative encourages installation of futuristic, high …

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The Expulsion of the Jews from France in 1306: a Modern Fiscal Analysis

Mechoulan, Stéphane F - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2006

In 1306, at the peak of a severe financial and monetary crisis, Philippe the Fair expelled the Jews from his kingdom, declared himself creditor of their debts, seized their property and auctioned it off. Was this a clever move, financially speaking? Did Philippe gain more, by killing the goose...

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NAMA: A Tool of Development or De-industrialization?

Shafaeddin, Mehdi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

The author argues that although the collapse of the Doha “Development” Round in early summer of 2006 was triggered by the refusal of the United States to agree to the reduction of the ceiling on the amount of domestic subsidies paid to the US farmers, there were some fundamental reasons...

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When Nyen became St. Petersburg: Patterns of specialization in Dutch shipping in the eastern Gulf of Finland in the first half of the eighteenth cntury

Scheltjens, Werner - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

This article is in the first place an attempt to provide evidence of specialization on the basis of a number of Dutch maritime shipping sources. Related topics such as employment, the question of demand and supply, the characteristics of good streams or the everlasting “homeport of the ship or...

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SULLA NECESSITA DI RICONSIDERARE A FONDO L’ECONOMIA QUALE SCIENZA SOCIALE

Rangone, Egidio - In: Annals of Faculty of Economics 2 (2009) 1, pp. 323-327

Sul fatto che l’Economia sia una scienza sociale penso che non vi abbiano piu ad essere contestazioni. Eppure sotto l’influenza del secolo dei lumi, ed altre ancora successivamente, si sono perpetuati pesanti disastri sul piano pratico. Vediamolo

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MILESTONES THEORETICAL AND CONCEPTUAL MIGRATION STUDY IN INTERNATIONAL

Floare, Chipea - In: Annals of Faculty of Economics 1 (2009) 1, pp. 275-281

The article presents some theoretical benchmarks used in explaining the behaviors specific to the international migration, invoking the concepts, widely used in the analysis of the phenomenon: the migration flows, areas of origin and destination; differe

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String of defaults: Spanish financial crises through the years

Shachmurove, Tomer; Shachmurove, Yochanan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Like many countries, Spain has gone through a series of financial crises, both before and after its industrialization. There are many underlying causes for these crises, as well as for the current Spanish downturn. It is worth noting that there are similarities between recessions throughout the...

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Globalisation revisited

Herrmann, Peter - In: Society and Economy 32 (2010) December, pp. 255-275

The article refers to a definition of globalisation in three perspectives, namely the development of territorial boarders and in particular the redefinition of regions, the development of the division of labour and distribution of power, and the changed role of culture. The latter is thereby not...

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LEARNING-BY-PRODUCING AND THE GEOGRAPHIC LINKS BETWEEN INVENTION AND PRODUCTION: EXPERIENCE FROM THE SECOND INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

Sutthiphisal, Dhanoos - Department of Economics, McGill University - 2006

This paper investigates the impact of “learning-by-producing” on inventive activity and shows that, in both emerging (electrical equipment and supplies) and maturing (shoes and textiles) industries, the geographic association between invention andproduction was rather weak during the Second...

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Locating a chronology for the great divergence: a critical survey of published data deployed for the measurement of nominal wages for Ming and Qing China

O'Brien, Patrick; Deng, Kent - Department of Economic History, London School of … - 2015

Since the publication of Kenneth Pomeranz’s seminal book The Great Divergence, the landscape of world and global history has changed dramatically. For the first time, living standards, instead of labour, land and capital productivities, have become the prime concern among historians in various...

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