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Why Tank Systems Need to be Revitalized: Kaveripakkam Tank in Tamil Nadu
Sivasubramaniyan, K - eSocialSciences - 2008
In the past tank systems of water storage and use played an important role in the region’s prosperity. In recent times these tanks are being neglected. A case in point is the Kaveripakkam tank in Tamil Nadu.. .
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Elementary Education: Rising Expenditure, Poor Quality: Book Review
Rani, P. Geetha - eSocialSciences - 2006
Review of 'The Economics of Elementary Education in India: The Challenge of Public Finance, Private Provision and …
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Performance Analysis of Fisherwomen Self-help Groups in Tamil Nadu
Jayaraman, R. - eSocialSciences - 2006
The present study attempted to assess the performance of Fisherwomen's self help groups (SHGs) in Tamil Nadu . Primary data required for the study were collected from 725 fisherwomen SHG members representing 41 SHGs from five coastal villages - Tharuvaikulam, Pazhayakayal and Therespuram in...
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An analysis on the behavioural traits of salaried class investors in Tamil Nadu
Kasilingam, R.; Jayabal, G. - In: International Journal of Services, Economics and Management 2 (2010) 2, pp. 180-196
Investors exhibit different types of behavioural traits when they are involved in the investment activities like information search, evaluating investment avenues and reviewing the investment made. These behavioural traits might vary from individual to individual. To identify these behavioural...
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Economics, the Structures of Knowledge, and the Quest for a More Substantively Rational World
Lee, Richard E. - In: The Journal of Philosophical Economics 1 (2007) 1, pp. 9-22
modern discipline of economics emerged from a medium-term restructuring of the structures of knowledge in the late nineteenth … economics in this “far-from-equilibrium” world should be well placed to contribute to an understanding of the alternative …
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Exemplarische Integration raumrelevanter Indikatoren auf Basis von "Fernerkundungsdaten" in das Sozio-oekonomische Panel (SOEP)
Goebel, Jan; Wagner, Gert G.; Wurm, Michael - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010
This paper demonstrates spatial evaluation methods on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study using geo-coordinates and spatially relevant indicators from remote sensing data. By geocoding the addresses of private households (while not identifying them by name and while...
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Epistemic transfers in economics from social sciences
NERĂU, Vlad - In: Theoretical and Applied Economics XXII(2015) (2015) 1(602), Spring, pp. 251-258
The great challenge Economics is currently faced with consist in the release from the chains of mechanistic … (Mathematics, Physics) to the requirements of Economics while moving the stake to epistemic transfers from the Social Sciences. The … legitimacy of this approach is given by the very object of study of Economics, namely man. …
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Interdisciplinarity : building bridges, and nurturing a complex ecology of ideas
Gasper, Gasper, D.R. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2001
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Introduction to John von Neuman and Oskar Morgenstern's <i>Theory of Games and Economic Behavior</i>
Kuhn, Harold W. - Princeton University Press
economics, but the entirely new field of scientific inquiry it yielded--game theory--has since been widely used to analyze a …
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Mathematics and the social sciences at the time of the modern beginnings of the social sciences
Senn, Peter - In: Journal of Economic Studies 27 (2000) September, pp. 271-292
Surveys the use of mathematics in what are now commonly called the social sciences up to the time of the earliest use of the term “social science” in the late 1700s. Explains the rationale for the organization and structure of the paper and proceeds to reason for the broad definition of...
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