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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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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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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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. Even the currencies of poor nations are galloping upward in $ parity, because they are linked to Euro. This is due to USA …'s approach to control other nations in the world,through unilateral Army power,tie up of domestic markets towards USA, and … Pumping wealth from developed nations. A Notional Balance sheet of USA, balances only with a Loss to the Assets(Debit). This …
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This paper studies the relation between aggregate stock returns and contemporaneous and future cross-sectional earnings dispersion. We hypothesize that increases in expected earnings dispersion signal increases in uncertainty and increases in unemployment, thereby causing expected returns to...
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barriers and persistence in postsecondary education, mainly in the USA and in Canada. We find that students' financial …
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This paper reports the findings of a formative study that examined knowledge, readiness, and perceptions of healthcare providers in safety-net clinics about electronic medical records (EMR) and e-prescribing. It was conducted in six safety net clinics in southeast Georgia that serve a...
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The USA and France are often perceived as having different, if not antipodal, legal and political systems. At first … sight the treatment of the Muslim veil at school confirms this impression, for this piece of clothing is seen in the USA as … angle. By adopting a comparative perspective, it looks at the treatment of the Muslim veil in France and the USA before 2004 …
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