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The volume From Periphery to Centre. The Image of Europe at the Eastern Border of Europe gathers the papers presented … distances between centre and periphery and their common traits as well, as they are revealed in the various images of Europe and … propose a double perspective: on the one hand periphery viewed from the centre and on the other periphery as it sees itself …
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Since its origin, ecotourism development has been at the centre of controversial and heated debates within the …
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, and largely concerned with scientific evidence of harm to human health and the environment. This contrasts with the public …
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The paper confronts different aspects of decentralization: fiscal decentralization, post-constitutional regulatory decentralization, and constitutional decentralization – using a single dataset from Russian Federation of the Yeltsin period as a politically asymmetric country. It finds...
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Afin de préparer la renégociation de la convention d'exploitation avec la Région Centre, l'Activité TER Centre (SNCF) a …
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This paper is aimed at filling the gap between the already well structured literature on the 'car regime' and the … of the car regime: 1) the car regime was established thanks to the ability of purposeful private actors to use the …-dependence phenomena lock the society into the car regime. For the future, the dominant scenario appears to be the internal transformation …
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We model in an endogenous growth set-up the hypotheses that the expansion of market activities weakens social capital formation, and that firms can invest in formal mechanisms of control and enforcement to substitute for social capital (trust, work ethics, honesty). The model shows that the...
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discusses the interaction among economic globalization, economic development, and marketization reform in China, so as to …
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We analyze a problem of maximization of expected terminal wealth and consumption under constraints in a general framework including financial models with constrained portfolios, labor income and large investor models. By using general optional decomposition under constraints in a multiplicative...
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This paper examines the nature and role of maximization postulates concerning profit and utility in the mainstream price theory formation from a methodological perspective. Mainstream economics retains these postulates, despite much criticism, mainly for two reasons. Firstly, they help establish...
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