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"As we look over the country today we see two classes of people. The excessively rich and the abject poor, and between them is a gulf ever deepening, ever widening, and the ranks of the poor are continually being recruited from a third class, the well-to-do, which class is rapidly disappearing...
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. But ideas caused the modern world. The point can be made by looking through each of the materialist explanations, from the … capitalism. One is already published (The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce 2006), and this is volume 2. Volume 3 …, Pennsylvania, and the world. Volume 4 explores the balance of interest (Max U) and language in explaining the Industrial Revolution …
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Analyses that gauge the relationship of partisanship to economic outcomes nearly always focus on the level of partisanship, and changes to it, at a time concurrent to the outcomes. However, partisanship at the time an institution was established may correspond more strongly to modern economic...
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How many economic historians are there in the world? In which countries or world regions are they concentrated? Can we … explain differences in the number of economic historians who are participating in world congresses, and which determinants … the world to be around 10,400 scholars. …
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As at today, it is an indisputable fact that the climate is changing and there is a scientific consensus that the world …, biodiversity loss, changing timing of growing seasons, coastal erosion, and ocean acidification as well as shifting ranges for …
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Energy from fossil fuels have become dominant in the industrialised and industrialising economies of the world. However … energy. In The New Global Oil Market: Understanding Energy Issues in the World Economy, ed. S. Shojai, 159-172. Westport …
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international register. Nowadays, about half of the world’s merchant ships were registered with open registries. The aim of the … present paper is to analyze the international registries and their importance on shipping market. …
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preceeding the First World War, were significantly constrained by shipping lines’ capacity considerations. The improvements had … of repeat crossings. Data gathered from transatlantic shipping sources quantify the evolution of travel accommodations …
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has actually been utilized. Using the CenPRIS Ocean Index (COI) shows that Brunei and the Philippines have underutilized …
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The initial main theme of CenPRIS’s ocean research cluster is “connecting oceans” - an allusion to CenPRIS’s eventual …, Malaysia, Singapore - with the larger ocean space, the Indian Ocean. Focusing on the maritime potential of nations represents … the other principal component of CenPRIS’s ocean research cluster. The development of the “CenPRIS Ocean Index” will …
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