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The April 21, 2005 issue of the LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS carried a lead article titled ‘Blood for Oil?’ The paper is attributed to a group of writers and activists – Iain Boal, T.J. Clark, Joseph Matthews and Michael Watts – who identify themselves by the collective name ‘Retort.’ In...
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The monography considers laws and mechanisms of social development from positions of positivism, dialectic materialism and the theory of systems. The methodology of the author is based on causality in relations of a society and social institutes. Social development is considered as result of...
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Dutch noble families have held more elite positions than high bourgeois families during the 20th century, and this … from public elite positions towards more elite positions in the cultural and business sector. Although this move into elite … position in other sectors does not fully compensate for the decline of elite positions in the public sector, it highlights an …
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Over the past century, the institution of capital and the process of its accumulation have been fundamentally transformed. By contrast, the theories that explain this institution and process have remained largely unchanged. The purpose of this paper is to address this mismatch. Using a broad...
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Improvement in the living conditions of workers is an important objective of development planners and India is no exception. The crux of this lies in returns from work, or wage level. While non-wage aspects are important, wage level is the most pertinent indicator of condition of workers and...
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social classes. This is primarily between commoners and non-resident slaves. Also males of the elite and petty elite classes …
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This paper is focused on the notion of wealth as used by different authors in different periods of time. The paper … deals with the contrast between the notion of wealth shared by all major classical economists, particularly by Adam Smith … subsequently held by Irving Fisher and other Neoclassical economists(whereby the wealth of an individual is brought to centre stage …
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's peculiar way of developing by such a statement his crucial distinction between the wealth of an individual and the wealth of a …
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The modern economic theory implemented today is inherently flawed. Unfortunately these flaws are not apparent in contemporary economic theory which is built on the idea that scarcity is an ever present condition; an approach referred to as scarce resource theory (SRT) in operating level...
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The paper examines marketing patterns when interest and storage loss rates are greater in rural zones, representing informal sector storage usually on-farm, than in urban zones, representing formal sector storage off-farm. Empirical results indicate that divergences in interest and storage loss...
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