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Abstract As the idea of citizenship has become a token for increasingly exclusionary manifestations of national identity, this article is a call for higher education institutions to honor their commitment to cultivating global citizens, yet with significant caveats. We argue that the...
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Abstract The contribution at hands aims on providing a rough overview on almost 20 years of academic research emerging in the field of so-called motorcycle tourism. From the early beginning of academic contributions when motorcycling was perceived as a “gangs-thing”, as a field of...
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Accelerated by the new internet technologies, the past two decades have been characterised by a globalisation of trade and communications, along with major shifts in the balance between manufacturing and knowledge driven economies. New organisational cultures have grown out of and have...
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both the theoretical and the empirical literature on social policy. The main concern is that social protection could have …
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This paper reviews recent developments in empirical literature analyzing hedge fund performance. Popularity of hedge … benefit from investment managers' prowess in generating superior return. We survey this literature and classify it into …
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Economic organization of the imaginary worlds depicted in popular literary works may be viewed as a mirror to public opinion on the economic organization of life. If a book becomes a best-seller, it is because the book conveys messages, feelings, and events the readers can relate to. In other...
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‘Potterian economics’, the economic ideas, insights and structure, found in Harry Potter books, to assess how the books might … principles of Potterian economics are consistent with economists’ models. Many other principles, however, are distorted and … contain numerous inaccuracies, contradicting professional economists’ views and insights. We conclude that Potterian economics …
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The big picture is unambiguous: humanity is undermining the planetary ecosystem, and the deterioration continues unhindered. According to the 2019 Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, since 1970, the capacity of nature to sustain contributions to good quality of life...
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הדברים הבאים נכתבו ב-2007 כטיוטה שטרם נסתיימה. במקורם, הם היו אמורים להיות ראשיתו של מאמר שיתאר את סופרי "המלחמה הגדולה", מלחמת-העולם הראשונה, אלה שכתבו עליה כחיילים,...
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