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Research and Science Today No.3
Gheorghe, Anamaria Elena; Manole, Andrada Ligia; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Research and Science Today Journal is a publication founded in 2011 and it is dedicated to the students of all levels (license, master and doctoral) of faculties in the country and abroad. We want to offer the participants the opportunity to present their scientific works in the following areas:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257754
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You Are <i>How</i> You Eat? Femininity, Normalization, and Veganism as an Ethical Practice of Freedom
Dean, Megan A. - In: Societies 4 (2014) 2, pp. 127-147
In this paper I argue that the practice of veganism is, or can be, a Foucauldian ethical practice of freedom. I begin by sketching out the problematization of alimentary practices within a normalizing patriarchal framework, which some feminists argue is dominant within contemporary North...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011029742
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Replicating Microfinance in the United States: Opportunities and Challenges
Schreiner, Mark; Morduch, Jonathan - EconWPA - 2001
In developing countries, microfinance has been the darling of the development community, and in developed countries …, microfinance fits well with Third Ways ideas. What are the challenges and opportunities for the attempt to replicate microfinance … for microfinance and drive up costs. With costs well above revenues, U.S. programs are far from achieving financial self …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407699
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Fractional Reserve Banking as Economic Parasitism: A Scientific, Mathematical & Historical Expose, Critique, and Manifesto
Nuri, Vladimir Z. - EconWPA - 2002
This paper looks at the history of money and its modern form from a scientific and mathematical point of view. The approach here is to emphasize simplicity. A straightforward model and algebraic formula for a large economy analogous to the ideal gas law of thermodynamics is proposed. It may be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126382
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PERESTROIKA AND RUBLE CONVERTIBILITY
Feige, Edgar L. - EconWPA - 2004
This paper examines the role of money in market and centrally planned economies. It then proposes a program and sequence of institutional, macroeconomic and monetary reform aimed at achieving a stable transition. An egalitarian redistribution of the state's custodial assets to its citizens is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407703
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The Transition to a Market Economy in Russia: Property Rights, Mass Privatization and Stabilization
Feige, Edgar L. - EconWPA - 2003
The Soviet Union and the nations of Eastern Europe are undergoing a historically unprecedented restructuring as they move inexorably from centrally planned economies toward market economies. This historic transition must be guided by a coherent set of stabilization policies to reduce the threat...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118685
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PERESTROIKA AND SOCIALIST PRIVATIZATION: WHAT IS TO BE DONE? AND HOW?
Feige, Edgar L. - EconWPA - 2003
This paper examines the question of whether a communist nation, characterized by state ownership of the means of production and a centrally planned command system of allocation can be transformed into an efficient market oriented economy without fully compromising the socialist ideals of an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118763
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HDR 2011 - Sustainability and Equity: A Better Future for All
UNDP - Human Development Report Office, United Nations …
The 2011 Human Development Report argues that the urgent global challenges of sustainability and equity must be addressed together – and identifies policies on the national and global level that could spur mutually reinforcing progress towards these interlinked goals. Bold action is needed on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010843563
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Being rich in energy resources – a blessing or a curse
Schubert, Samuel R. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
“Being rich in energy resources – a blessing or a curse” finds that an energy resource curse plagues many EU supplier states. This in turn directly affects Europe’s energy supply security and threatens to engulf Europe in unwanted hostilities at home and abroad. The study addresses seven...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835694
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HDR 2003 - Millennium Development Goals: A Compact Among Nations to End Human Poverty
UNDP - Human Development Report Office, United Nations …
The new century opened with an unprecedented declaration of solidarity and determination to rid the world of poverty. In 2000 the UN Millennium Declaration, adopted at the largest-ever gathering of heads of state, committed countries — rich and poor — to doing all they can to eradicate...
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