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The anthropometric history of Native Americans, c. 1820 - 1890
Komlos, John; Carlson, Leonard - 2012
The trend of the height of Indian scouts in the U.S. Army born between ca. 1825 and 1875 is analyzed. Their average height of ca. 170 cm (67 in.) confirms that natives were tall compared to Europeans but were nearly the shortest among the rural populations in the New World. The trend in their...
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Property rights, standards of living, and economic growth: Western Canadian Cree
Carlos, Ann M.; Lewis, Frank - 2010
The Great Divergence in standards of living for populations around the world occurred in the late 18th century. Prior to that date evidence suggests that real wages of most Europeans, many living in China and India were similar. Some a little higher and some a little lower but with a low...
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Resources, trade, and the aboriginal population: Lessons from the 1780s smallpox epidemic in the Hudson Bay Region
Carlos, Ann; Lewis, Frank - 2009
We explore the impact of one of the earlier epidemics to hit natives living in the Hudson Bay drainage basin: the smallpox outbreak of 1780-82. We review contemporary descriptions of the epidemic and how Europeans at the time viewed its impact on the native population of the region. We then...
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Minority voting and long-term decisions
Gersbach, Hans; Fahrenberger, Theresa - 2008
In this paper we propose minority voting as a scheme that can partially protect individuals from the risk of repeated …: voting winners, voting losers, and absentees. Under minority voting only voting losers keep the voting right in the second … period. We show that as soon as absolute risk aversion exceeds a threshold value minority voting is superior to repeated …
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Storable Votes: Giving Voice to Minority Preferences without Sacrificing Efficiency
Casella, Alessandra; Palfrey, Thomas; Riezman, Raymond - In: CESifo DICE Report 05 (2007) 3, pp. 17-22
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Minority Voting and Long-term Decisions
Fahrenberger, Theresa; Gersbach, Hans - 2007
In this paper we propose minority voting as a scheme that can partially protect individuals from the risk of repeated …: voting winners, voting losers, and absentees. Under minority voting only voting losers keep the voting right in the second … period. We show that as soon as absolute risk aversion exceeds a threshold value minority voting is superior to repeated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011753134
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Traditional excluding forces: A review of the quantitative literature on the economic situation of indigenous peoples, afro-descendants, and people living with disability
Gandelman, Néstor; Ñopo, Hugo; Ripani, Laura - 2007
Unequal income distribution in Latin America and the Caribbean is linked to unequal distributions of (human and physical) assets and differential access to markets and services. These circumstances, and the accompanying social tensions, need to be understood in terms of traditional fragmenting...
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Ensuring respect for indigenous cultures: A moral rights approach
Vézina, Brigitte - 2020
From commercials to movies to fashion, Indigenous artworks have been misused in ways that are offensive to the artists who created them and disrespectful of the cultures that inspired them. Using Indigenous traditional cultural expressions (TCEs) without acknowledging their sources or providing...
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Majority-minority constellations: Towards a group-differentiated approach
Koopmans, Ruud; Orgad, Liav - 2020
changing reality calls for a new majority-minority theory and argue that the moral justifications for cultural minority rights … the argument is rooted in a unique framework to address majority-minority constellations. This "intergroup differentiation …
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Bolivia's New Constitution: Towards Participatory Democracy and Political Pluralism?
Schilling-Vacaflor, Almut - 2010
In Bolivia, rights to increased political participation and the recognition of indigenous political systems are interrelated. The new constitution of 2009, a prime example of the 'new Andean constitutionalism', defines Bolivia as a representative, participatory and communitarian democracy. It...
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