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Both Western and Soviet estimates of GNP growth in the USSR indicate that GNP per capita grew in every decade - sometimes rapidly - from 1928 to 1985. While this measure suggests that the standard of living improved in the USSR throughout this period, it is unclear whether this economic growth...
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, norms that appear abstract and universal take into account the bargaining power of the two sides. The strong side bends the … norm in its favor and the weak side agrees: Stated fairness is a compromise with power. Second, in most situations … principles to actions is mainly the fact of individuals who behave more selfishly and who have a stronger bargaining power. The …
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How do individuals shape societies? How do societies shape individuals? This paper develops a framework for studying the connections between micro and macro phenomena. The framework builds on two ingredients widely used in social science − population and variable. Starting with the simplest...
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describing five sociobehavioral processes - comparison (including justice and self-esteem), status, power, identity, and … - comparison, status, and power - each associated with a distinctive mechanism, in particular, a distinctive rate of change of the … outcome with respect to the quantitative characteristic. Each combination of elements - e.g., status-wealth-city - generates a …
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paper presents a model of killing versus enslaving Caesar, based on a new theory which unifies justice, status, and power … of societies – justice-nonmaterialistic, status, and power-nonmaterialistic. Results cover members’ gains, effects of own …
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five in the unification of three fundamental sociobehavioral forces - justice, status, and power - and the subsequent …
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power depend on the configuration of agreements and disagreements; (2) Independence of mind reduces wage inequality, and …
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This paper develops the mathematical foundations of comparison, referential, and relative (CRR) processes. The key ingredients are: (1) three kinds of terms; and (2) two kinds of relations. Combining the three terms - absolute amount, relative amount, and relative rank - with the two kinds of...
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straightforward methods will achieve this; (ii) the main problem in DiD designs with grouped errors is instead low power to detect … real effects; and (iii) feasible GLS estimation combined with robust inference can increase power considerably whilst …
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individuals' bargaining power within a household, hypothesizing that the more generous social welfare system and more egalitarian … social norms in Denmark will mitigate the impact standard economic power measures have upon couples' time use. Further we … posit that leisure time will be more sensitive to power considerations than housework time which may be more influenced by …
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