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Managing household debts : social service provision in the EU ; Workshop report - Brussels, 25 June 2010

European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and … - 2010

Overall, household debt levels have risen sharply over the past decades in EU Member States. While certain levels of … household debts can be beneficial, they can become problematic especially with a sudden, unexpected decrease of incomes or …

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Rethinking Economy for Regional Development: Ontology, Performativity, and Enabling Frameworks for Participatory Vision and Action

Miller, Ethan L - 2011

The stories we tell about "the economy" in discourses of regional economic development play an active role in shaping our economic realities. The construction of more equitable, democratic and ecologically-sound economies must involve an interrogation of our assumptions about what “the...

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Man with net (Mystic menhaden steamboat Leander Wilcox).

Clarner, Frederick.

View of man apparently handling a net on board a vessel. Identified as taken by Frederick Clarner of Somerset, Massachusetts while aboard the Noank-built menhaden steamer Leander Wilcox under Captain Roland (or Rowland) Wilcox out of Mystic.

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Office of H.O. Company, 686 Main Street, Hartford.

J.C. Dexter Photo Co. - 1909

Men and women sit at desks and tables in an office interior. Most work at typewriters. A woman at the left operates a duplicating machine, possibly a mimeograph machine. A woman in the background talks on the telephone. A boy in the right background wears a uniform including a cap that reads:...

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Employees at work in woodworking area inside Hickman Sea Sled Company shop, West Mystic.

Rosenfeld and Sons. - 1926

View of the woodworking area inside the Hickman Sea Sled Company shop, West Mystic, October 5, 1926. Planks are being cut in a large plain-saw with a complex pulley system. The ventilation system is visible, with metal ducts pulling sawdust from each machine. A worker is using a table saw in the...

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Employees at work inside Hickman Sea Sled Company shop, West Mystic.

Rosenfeld and Sons. - 1926

Interior view of the Hickman Sea Sled Company shop, West Mystic, October 5, 1926. Workers are preparing to install the windshield on an incomplete hull, and two other workers are fitting a piece to the front end of the hull. Shop workers with both power and hand tools can be seen; the man in the...

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Employees at work inside Hickman Sea Sled Company shop, West Mystic.

Rosenfeld and Sons. - 1926

Interior view, taken from the center of the Hickman Sea Sled Company shop, West Mystic, March 10, 1926. Workers are assembling vessels with both hand and power tools. Various stages of construction are evident in the work under way on the hulls depicted. Workers are seen in heavy work clothes,...

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Inequality and psychological well-being in times of COVID-19: evidence from Spain

Martínez-Bravo, Mónica; Sanz Alonso, Carlos

pandemic on Spanish households. We document a large and negative effect on household income. By May 2020 the average individual … lived in a household that had lost 16% of their pre-pandemic monthly income. Furthermore, this drop was highly unequal …

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Agricultural Arbitrage, Adjustment Costs, and the Intensive Margin

Tack, Jesse B.; LaFrance, Jeffrey T. - 2010

Farmland and capital are an important and rapidly expanding component of the agriculturaleconomy, and empirical … interest in the rate of return for investing in farmland suggests that an important consideration is the effect of adjustment … costs on this return. A novel theoretical modelis developed that ties together contributions from the farmland pricing and …

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Three Blind Men and the Elephant

Long, J S - 2008

Just like the blind men in the popular story of perceiving the elephant, the three major constituencies participating in the energy debate have greatly different perceptions of the problem. The constituency that is worried about climate change believes the energy problem is caused by profligate...

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