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Contesting Democracy: Science Popularisation and Public Choice

Adams, Jon - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007

and technology, science and technology became increasingly incomprehensible to all but a few specialists. Maintaining a … policies relevant to science and technology. But could popularisations really supply sufficient information to validate those …During the same period in which political decisions became increasingly indistinguishable from decisions about science …

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Agri-Technologies and Travelling Facts: A Case Study of Extension Education in Tamil Nadu, India

Howlett, Peter; Velkar, Aashish - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2008

education program inTamil Nadu, south India. The paper explores the extent to whichfertigation technologies (drip irrigation … relativelyexpensive technology, but also fostering cooperative behaviour andimproving individual bargaining power through the formation of … localfarmers associations. This model of an extension education had anstrong demonstration effect that encouraged the travel of …

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Pirates, Polities and Companies: Global Politics on the Konkan Littoral, c.1690-1756

Elliott, Derek L. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2010

This paper examines pre-colonial interaction among polities along the Konkan coast, from Surat to Goa, during the long half-century c.1680-1756. Specifically it uses the dynasty of the Angrias, who were deemed pirates by the European powers but were actually an integral part of the Maratha...

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‘Voice’ and the Facts and Observations of Experience

Morgan, Mary S. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2008

both “engagement” and“understanding” as a way to characterize public participation insocial science – as opposed to natural … science – knowledgediscussions.[...] …

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Measuring Instruments in Economics and the Velocity of Money

Morgan, Mary S. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2006

systems. Ideas from metrology, and from the philosophy and sociology of science, are used to analyse various attempts to …

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How The Mind Worked: Some Obstacles And Developments In The Popularisation Of Psychology

Adams, Jon - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2006

Chronicling the history of science and health popularisation in the United States, John C. Burnham sees a decline from … the Victorian “men of science” to a situation in the mid-1980s where what passed as the popularisation of science …

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Experimental Farming and Ricardo’s Political Arithmetic of Distribution

Morgan, Mary S. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005

and experience, theexperimental accounts from agricultural science. The content of hisarguments, and his derivation of the …

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The New Political Economy

Besley, Timothy - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004

This lecture is not in any sense a survey of the field. It is a highlyselective and personal view of the motivation behind the field and some ofthe key themes that link the literature. Thus, it represents a manifestopresented in the hope that somebody who encounters these ideas for the...

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Technological Trends Affecting the Manufacturing Sector of New York City

Moss, Mitchell L. - New York University / Department of Economics; London … - 1997

[...]The loss of manufacturing jobs has created a widespreadsense that manufacturing in New York City has nofuture, that the decline is unstoppable and “largely inevitableand foreordained” (Fitch 1993, p. 107). Even theoptimistic report of the Commission on the Year 2000,New York Ascendant,...

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Time and Productivity Growth in Services: How Motion Pictures Industrialized Entertainment

Bakker, Gerben - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2009

constituted the first technology that industrialized a labour-intensive service. Measuring output in time spent consuming them …

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