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The celebritization of society and culture: understanding the structural dynamics of celebrity culture

Driessens, Olivier - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

celebritization are driven by three separate but interacting moulding forces: mediatization, personalization and commodification. …

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Deep uncertainty in long-term hurricane risk: scenario generation and implications for future climate experiments

Ranger, Nicola; Niehörster, Falk - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

Current projections of long-term trends in Atlantic hurricane activity due to climate change are deeply uncertain, both in magnitude and sign. This creates challenges for adaptation planning in exposed coastal communities. We present a framework to support the interpretation of current long-term...

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Unique equilibrium in a dynamic model of crises with frictions

Guimaraes, Bernardo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

This paper studies a dynamic model of crises with timing frictions that combines the main aspects of Morris and Shin …

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Ideology and economic activity

Morishima, Michio - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1986

In considering ideology and economic activity, ideology is defined as a system of beliefs which binds people together into a social grouping. This is synonymous with religion as defined by Durkheim (1912) and, as a definition of religion, it may be too wide; but if this definition is adopted, both...

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Dynamics of indirect land-use change: empirical evidence from Brazil

Palmer, Charles; Di Falco, Salvatore - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

The expansion of a given land use may affect deforestation directly if forests are cleared to free land for this use, or indirectly, via the displacement of other land-use activities from non-forest areas towards the forest frontier. Unlike direct land conversion, indirect land-use changes...

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Institutional Change in Greek Industrial Relations in an Era of Fiscal Crisis

Voskeritsian, Horen; Kornelakis, Andreas - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

system and to evaluate the direction of change, using insights from the varieties of capitalism literature. In this strand of …

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Institutional change in Greek industrial relations in an era of fiscal crisis

Voskeritsian, Horen; Kornelakis, Andreas - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

system and to evaluate the direction of change, using insights from the varieties of capitalism literature. In this strand of …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744857

(When) does austerity work? On the conditional link between fiscal austerity and debt sustainability

Monastiriotis, Vassilis - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

consolidation policies (austerity). Fuelled by the huge contraction experienced by some ‘bailout countries’, and especially Greece …, a new consensus seems to have emerged, that “austerity doesn’t work”. Yet, many Eurozone countries have seen a … adverse growth effects of austerity being very short-lived. The literature has only recently shifted its attention to the …

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Capitalist divination: popularist-speculators and technologies of imagination on the Hooghly River

Bear, Laura - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015

-term unstable forms of capital accumulation. Drawing on this case, we can potentially develop comparative critical approaches to the …

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Rage and Protest: The case of the Greek Indignant movement

Simiti, Marilena - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

In Greece a mass movement known as the Aganaktismeni (the Indignant) became the main agent of social resistance to the memorandum signed by the Greek government, the European Union and the International Monetary Fund. The Greek movement did not take the form of a social movement sharing a...

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