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defy dogma and undermine the conventional creed; they challenge the dominant ideology and threaten those in power …; occasionally, they cause the entire edifice of power to crumble. For these reasons, the latent purpose of intellectual accumulation …
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this paper is to address this mismatch. Using a broad brush, we outline a new, power theory of capital and accumulation. We … gets accumulated and the specific historical trajectory of twentieth-century capitalism up to the present. …
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This work is a PhD dissertation, written at the Department of Economics, McGill University. The thesis offers a new framework for inflation as a process of restructuring. Contrary to existing theories of inflation, which tend to take structure and institutions as given for the purpose of...
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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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We examine the effects of parental emigration from Sri Lanka on the education of the migrants' children left behind. Using access to foreign-employment agencies at community level as an instrument for migration in two-stage least squares estimations, we do not find parental migration matters on...
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choice and power. However, the study unveiled that the women’s use of mobile phones was largely controlled within the …
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This paper provides facts pertaining to Entrepreneurship in Sri Lanka and existing constraints on entrepreneurial initiatives. Perhaps most notably the author trying to suggest that inventions & innovations happen in Sri Lanka and absolutely it requires a certain support to proliferate...
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This study examines the Micro-level factors associated with household poverty in Sri Lanka using latest Household Income and Expenditure Surveys (HIES) data in 2006/07 employing OLS, quintile and probit regressions. The results of the probit regression indicate that, the major determinants of...
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Migration is the oldest action against poverty. Thus, temporary labour migration from rural to urban areas is a common phenomenon in the developing world. Since 1977, with more open economic policies, there has been a huge trend of young people migrating from rural to urban for industrial...
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