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Performativity, economics and politics: an overview

Cochoy, Franck; Giraudeau, Martin; McFall, Liz - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

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Burial sites, informal rights and lost kingdoms: the contesting of land claims in Mpumalanga, South Africa

James, Deborah - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

In the new South Africa, the promise of land restitution raised millennial-style expectations amongst dispossessed and dispersed former landholders. Partly prompted by emerging policy discourses, iconic tropes of localised cultural experience such as grave sites, initiation lodges and cattle...

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Impersonal efficiency and the dangers of a fully automated securities exchange

Pardo-Guerra, Juan Pablo; Beunza, Daniel; Millo, Yuval; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

This report identifies impersonal efficiency as a driver of market automation during the past four decades, and speculates about the future problems it might pose. The ideology of impersonal efficiency is rooted in a mistrust of financial intermediaries such as floor brokers and specialists....

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American idol – 65 years of admiration

Manning, Alan; Shanghavi, Amar - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

Since the 1940s Gallup has, every December, asked Americans about the living man and woman they most admire. This paper documents the way in which the types of people who are admired has changed and argues that the responses to this question tells us something about the way in which society has...

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Vertical transmission of overweight: evidence from English adoptees

Costa-Font, Joan; Jofre-Bonet, Mireia; Le Grand, Julian - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015

We examine the vertical transmission of overweight drawing upon a sample of English children, both adopted and non-adopted, and their families. Our results suggest strong evidence of an intergenerational association of overweight among adoptees, indicating transmission through cultural factors....

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Land markets and land market regulation : progress towards understanding

Cheshire, P. C.; Sheppard, Stephen Charles - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

We introduce the papers in this volume and put them into the context of the literature on land use regulation. We then synthesise and draw some conclusions from existing research on land use regulation and interpret the evidence currently available. In the light of this review we then identify...

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The broadening spectrum of reputation risk in organizations: banking on risk and trust relationships

Scott, Susan V.; Walsham, Geoff - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

Globalizing knowledge economies foster conditions that intensify the role and value of organizational reputation risk … reputation risk. Having noted the ambivalence that surrounds ‘risk positions’, we present a re-definition of reputation risk that … encompasses the dynamics of contemporary risk and trust relationships. We explore the capacity of different trust forms to reduce …

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Perceptions of risk : an experimental approach using internet questionnaires

Cowell, Frank; Cruces, Guillermo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

Building on previous studies on perceptions of inequality, welfare and risk we investigate the structure of individuals …' rankings of uncertain prospects in terms of risk and their relationship to individual preferences. We examine three interlinked … propositions that are fundamental to the standard economic approach to risk: (i) that rankings by risk are simply the reverse of …

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The role of perceived costs and perceived benefits in the relationship between personality and risk-related choices

Soane, Emma; Dewberry, Chris; Narendran, Sunitha - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

recreational risk-taking). In addition, perceived costs and benefits mediated the relations between personality and risk-taking in … the five domains (social, ethical, gambling, recreational and investment risk-taking). Evidence for a mechanism that …

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Risk-adjusted poverty in Argentina: measurement and determinants

Cruces, Guillermo; Wodon, Quentin - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

Relying on a Constant Relative Risk Aversion utility function, we use panel data for Argentina to compute risk …-adjusted income and poverty measures and to analyze their determinants. Taking risk into account increases poverty. The regression …

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