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The endogenous nature of the measurement of social preferences

Smith, John - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Measures of preferences are primarily useful in that they are helpful in predicting behavior. We perform an experiment which demonstrates that the timing of the measurement of social preferences can affect such a measure. Researchers often measure social preferences by posing a series of...

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Financial instruments for human development

Chichilnisky, Graciela - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1998

Economics often provides the wrong incentives to those who control the assets, such as people in developing countries where most forests are located and who could potentially benefit most from conservation . There is increasing unease about this situation, and an emerging view is that standard...

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Geld

Freeman, Alan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004

This is a prepublication version of the German language version of the entry on ‘Money’ (‘Geld’) in the ‘Historisch Kritisch Wörterbuch des Marxismus’, a comprehensive dictionary of Marxist terminology being produced as an accompaniment to the Marx-Engels-Gesamt-Arbeite (Marx-Engels...

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The Material Roots of Western Racism

Freeman, Alan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1998

This article assesses the US discussion on the material roots of racism in which writers such as Malcolm X have been … relation between racism and imperialism, itself arising from a division of the nations of the world which I define as ‘World … this view is that political power is of secondary importance to economic equality. Racism can therefore be overcome by the …

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The Nigerian Wars, Regional Crises and Ethnic Disturbances: Policy Responses and Democratic Implications

Nwaobi, Godwin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

Nigeria was incorporated in 1914 when Frederick Lugard(First Governor-General) amalgamated the two British protectorates of Northern and Southern Nigeria and the Crown colony of Lagos into a single entity. The primary reason for almalgamation was economic rather than political. It is therefore,...

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Ausgrenzung und Entfremdung statt Integration: Afrikas Neuer Nationalismus in Zeiten der Globalisierung

Kohnert, Dirk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

The New Nationalism in Africa and elsewhere shows remarkable differences both in its roots and its impact, compared with that of national independence movements of the early 1960s. Contrary to the first nationalism, the second is less prone to include than to exclude populations; alienation,...

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Ethnicity, Caste and Religion: Implications for Poverty Outcomes

Thorat, Amit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

In the factors that affect income and poverty outcomes, there are some features unique to India. Caste, ethnicity …

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Căsătoria în nord-vestul Transilvaniei (a doua jumătate a secolului XIX - începutul secolului XX). Condiţionări exterioare şi strategii maritale

Brie, Mircea - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

documents we have do not allow us to exactly establish the ethnicity of the inhabitants in the area. Even if we want to stress …, marriage is approached from the confessional perspective and by connection from that of ethnicity. The actual analysis on … Hungarian) the RC-CH marriages were the next preference expressed at the time (655 cases representing 7.82%). Ethnicity also …

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Does longer compulsory education equalize educational attainment by gender, ethnicity, and socioeconomic background?

Kirdar, Murat G.; Dayioglu, Meltem; Koc, Ismet - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This study examines the effects of the extension of compulsory schooling from 5 to 8 years in Turkey—which substantially increased the grade completion rates not only during the new compulsory years but also during the high school years—on the equality of educational outcomes among various...

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Ethnicity, Confession and Intercultural Dialogue at the European Union’s East Border

Brie, Mircea; Horga, Ioan; Şipoş, Sorin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This present volume contains the papers of the international conference Ethnicity, Confession and Intercultural … Programme of the European Commission n. 176197-LLP-1-2010-1-RO-AJM-MO. CONTENTS INTRODUCTORY STUDIES Mircea BRIE Ethnicity …, Religion and Intercultural Dialogue in the European Border Space; Ioan HORGA Ethnicity, Religion and Intercultural Education in …

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