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Transforming Uncertainties into Risks and Poverty Alleviation: Lessons Learnt from the Successful Rescuing of Miners in Chile

Driouchi, Ahmed; Malki, Karim - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Abstract: The objective of this paper is to suggest how the Chilean model used to rescue the 33 miners trapped …

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Industrial energy from water-mills in the European economy, 5th to 18th Centuries: the limitations of power,

Munro, John H. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002

natural energy into mechanical power. The classic study, as a monograph in technological and engineering history, is Terry S …. Reynolds, Stronger than a Hundred Men: A History of the Vertical Water Wheel (Baltimore and London, 1983). Indeed he has … the application of water-mills, their impact on European economic history up to the Industrial Revolution era, in those …

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Naxal problem in India an economic analysis

Pradhan, Raj Kishor - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

India, having one of the fastest growing economies in the world, and being the most populous democratic country, has great potential to become a future superpower. However, in this increasingly globalised environment, India faces several threats to its security. The Naxalites has been identified...

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Copper and Foreign Investment: The development of the mining industry in Cyprus during the great depression

Apostolides, Alexander - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This paper evaluates the impact of the rapid growth of mining on the Cypriot economy during the period 1921-1938, with … special focus on the expansion of copper sulphate mining. During this period the industry was transformed by companies such as … the Cyprus Mining Corporation (CMC) and this affected the whole economy and society. The island was for the first time …

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Measuring Ancient Inequality

Milanovic, Branko; Lindert, Peter; Williamson, Jeffrey - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

Is inequality largely the result of the Industrial Revolution? Or, were pre-industrial incomes and life expectancies as unequal as they are today? For want of sufficient data, these questions have not yet been answered. This paper infers inequality for 14 ancient, pre-industrial societies using...

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Hermeneutics and Dialectics: (Hegel, Husserl, Heidegger and) Hans-Georg Gadamer

Khan, Haider - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

The purpose of this paper is to explore briefly the role that a more phenomenological conception of dialectical development of consciousness plays in Hans-Georg Gadamer's work on hermeneutics. This is done with both an implicit understanding of the dialectical development of consciousness and...

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Research and Science Today No.1

DRĂGHICI, Alex andra; DAMIAN, Irina; DAN, Andreea Maria; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Research and Science Today Journal is a publication founded in 2011 and it is dedicated to the students of all levels (license, master and doctoral) of faculties in the country and abroad. We want to offer the participants the opportunity to present their scientific works in the following areas:...

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The international mercury cartel, 1928-1949

López-Morell, Miguel A.; Segreto, Luciano - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Mercury has been one of the most persistent cases in contemporary history of international market regulations and this …

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Causes of Financial Crises Past and Present: The Role of the This Time is Different Syndrome

Reinhart, Carmen; Rogoff, Kenneth - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

In this note, we attempt to place the question of how we got to the global financial crisis that began as the US Subprime debacle in the summer of 2007 in the context of an international and historical comparative setting. It is of some poignancy that the “we” here refers to the wealthiest...

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Engineering Change in Mexico: The Adoption of Computer Technology at Grupo ICA (1965-1971)

Batiz-Lazo, Bernardo; Haigh, Thomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

This article documents the adoption of computer technology by a civil engineering services and construction company in Mexico at the time that it became the first Mexican multinational enterprise. Computerization took place independently of cross border growth. The challenges, failures and...

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