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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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Contesting Democracy: Science Popularisation and Public Choice

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

During the same period in which political decisions became increasingly indistinguishable from decisions about science … and technology, science and technology became increasingly incomprehensible to all but a few specialists. Maintaining a … healthy participatory democracy under such conditions meant keeping the voting public involved – and science popularisation …

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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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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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Piece rates and learning: understanding work and production in the New England textile industry a century ago.

Leunig, Timothy - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2003

New data on individual worker’s outputs show that New England ring spinners exhibited substantial on the job learning c. 1905. Despite this, variable capital-labour ratios meant high labour turnover reduced aggregate labour productivity only fractionally. The combination of variable...

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Careers for the unskilled in the Great Eastern Railway Company, 1870-1913

Howlett, Peter - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2001

One of the most significant changes in the labour market in the twentieth century was the rise of the internal labour market. Its origins can be found in the nineteenth century, particularly in the large service companies such as banks and the railway companies. By studying the internal labour...

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State-Building, The Original Push For Institutional Changes In Modern China, 1840-1950

Deng, Kent G. 171897390 - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004

The period of 1840 (when the Opium War broken out) till now is commonly regarded as China’s modern era, ‘modern’ in terms of China’s departure from its original growth and developmental path. In this context, the term modern has been intimately associated with something alien to the...

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