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Does Environmental Economics Produce Aeroplanes Without Engines? On the Need for an Environmental Social Science
Folmer, Henk; Johansson-Stenman, Olof - In: Environmental & Resource Economics 48 (2011) 3, pp. 337-361
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008926330
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Religions, secularity and democracy in Europe: for a new Kelsenian pact
Ferrari, Alessandro - Jean Monnet Chair - 2005
Abstract: In Europe the public role of the religions appears to be directly proportional to the fall in trust in the procedural mechanisms at the basis of the liberal democracies. Compared to the strong identities attributed to the United States and to the Islamic world Europe is accused of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008611136
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CITIZENSHIP OF THE UNION: TOWARDS POST-NATIONAL MEMBERSHIP?
Shaw, Josephine - Jean Monnet Chair - 1997
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009019531
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Citizenship Under Regime Competition: The Case of the ,,European Works Councils"
Streeck, Wolfgang - Jean Monnet Chair - 1997
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021840
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Family Planning as ‘Liberation’: The Ambiguities of ‘Emancipation From Biology’ in Keralam
Devika, J - eSocialSciences - 2010
The overall effort of the paper is to highlight the ambiguities of ‘liberation’ in 20th century Keralam and to problematise the tradition/modernity binary that too often organises the writing of the history of 20th century Malayalee society. [WP 335].
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008489196
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History and Anthropology: A Marriage Made in Heaven
Mintz, Sidney W. - eSocialSciences - 2007
; archaeology; linguistics; and cultural anthropology or ethnography. Each one of these subfields has a historical component …Anthropology is a science of inquiries about the origins and continuities of the patterned differentiation of human … beings into distinguishable groups. During the last hundred years, most such inquiries in academic anthropology could be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005699206
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De l'anthropologie au développement et retour
Baré, Jean-François - In: Revue Tiers-Monde n° 191 (2007) 3, pp. 591-610
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The Economy of Obligation: Incomplete Contracts and the Cost of the Welfare State
Offer, Avner - In: Economic Policy (2013) 2, pp. 109-126
Western governments usually are sent about 30% of GDP for social purposes. Financing is carried out due to tax payments through the system of taxes from current revenue (hereinafter - PAYGO, pay-as-you-go). How effective such transfers, and whether the market or other mechanisms to improve this...
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On the emergence of parliamentary government: the role of private information
Green, Edward J. - In: Quarterly Review (1993) Win, pp. 2-16
The way many dictators have been deposed in the 20th century resembles the way a parliamentary form of government emerged in 13th-century England. This medieval example is worth examining because the features that led to its political reform are particularly clear. Despite what many think, that...
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Partisan impacts on the economy: evidence from prediction markets and close elections
Snowberg, Erik; Wolfers, Justin; Zitzewitz, Eric - Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco - 2006
Political economists interested in discerning the effects of election outcomes on the economy have been hampered by the problem that economic outcomes also influence elections. We sidestep these problems by analyzing movements in economic indicators caused by clearly exogenous changes in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005361495