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Information Technology Conceptualization: Respective Contributions of Sociology and Information Systems
de Vaujany, François-Xavier - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2005
This article analyzes the different phases the Information Systems--Sociology relationship has gone through and points … an historical analysis of sociology itself. It shows the great comeback of the Object within the sociological field at … the beginning of the 80s. Different models have been developed from the generalized kinds of sociology to those that have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010734933
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La charité islamique : un levier innovant pour le financement du développement ?
El Sharkawy, Nourhan - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX)
Asia, our study will show that good governance and tax exemption may be significant factors in increasing charitable giving …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011273988
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Around the European Periphery 1870-1913: Globalization, Schooling and Growth
O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj; Williamson, Jeffrey G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996
On average, the poor European periphery converged on the rich industrial core in the four or five decades prior to World War I. Some, like the three Scandinavian economies, used industrialization to achieve a spectacular convergence on the leaders, especially in real wages and living standards....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124320
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After Columbus: Explaining the Global Trade Boom 1500-1800
O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj; Williamson, Jeffrey G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
its cause? The conventional wisdom in the world history literature offers globalization as the answer: it alleges that … European import demand and foreign export supply from Asia and the Americas. The behaviour of the relative price of foreign …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005656143
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Commodity Price Volatility and World Market Integration since 1700
Jacks, David S.; O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
answer is less. Three centuries of history show unambiguously that economic isolation caused by war or autarkic policy has … early 19th century; but it did not do so after the 1970s as the Third World shifted to labor-intensive manufactures. Whether …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005656266
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History, information and sociomateriality: The case of Dauphine University building (1959-2010)
de Vaujany, François-Xavier; Vaast, Emmanuelle - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010707038
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Globalization and Inequality: Historical Trends
O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
?This Paper surveys trends in both international economic integration and inequality over the past 150 years, as well as the links between them. In doing so, it distinguishes between (a) the different dimensions of globalization; and (b) between-country and within-country inequality. Theory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005281302
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The Spread of Manufacturing to the Poor Periphery 1870-2007
Bénétrix, Agustín; O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
Middle East and North Africa, Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa) between 1870 and 2007. We find that although the roots of rapid …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083854
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Education Promoted Secularization
Becker, Sascha O.; Nagler, Markus; Woessmann, Ludger - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
Why did substantial parts of Europe abandon the institutionalized churches around 1900? Empirical studies using modern data mostly contradict the traditional view that education was a leading source of the seismic social phenomenon of secularization. We construct a unique panel dataset of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083914
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Growth, Import Dependence and War
Bonfatti, Roberto; O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
Existing theories of pre-emptive war typically predict that the leading country may choose to launch a war on a follower who is catching up, since the follower cannot credibly commit to not use their increased power in the future. But it was Japan who launched a war against the West in 1941, not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084262