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Efficiency invites divide and coercion in the age of increasing returns to scale

Xu, Yongsheng; Yoshihara, Naoki - 2019

In the presence of (at least locally) increasing returns to scale tech- nologies, the paper asks the question: does there exist an economic system which implements Pareto efficient allocations and respects the voluntary participation principle? To answer this question, the paper formulates an...

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China in between varieties of capitalism and communism

Csanadi, Maria - 2016

of capitalism. Based on a comparative analytical model (Csanádi, 1997, 2006) I will demonstrate that in China the general … of operation and transformation. Mainstream concepts of Chinese developmental state, state capitalism, socialist market … economy, emerging system, hybrid system variegated capitalism, polymorphous state, centralized developmental autocracy …

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Innovation and dynamism: Interaction between systems and technical progress

Kornai, János - 2010

there have also been important changes in the field of technical advance in the last 20 years. One of capitalism's main … the usual syllabus of microeconomics does not enlighten students on this important virtue of capitalism, which is not …

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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...

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Beyond Techno-Utopia: Critical Approaches to Digital Health Technologies

Lupton, Deborah - In: Societies 4 (2014) 4, pp. 706-711

This editorial presents an overview of digital health technologies, discusses previous research and introduces the contributions to the special issue “Beyond Techno-Utopia: Critical Approaches to Digital Health Technologies”. It is argued that thus far, few critical analyses of digital...

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Transmitting Health Philosophies through the Traditionalist Chinese Martial Arts in the UK

Jennings, George - In: Societies 4 (2014) 4, pp. 712-736

The dynamic relationships between “martial arts”, society and health remain unclear, particularly due to research that typically views health in a purely biomedical and compartmentalized way. Martial arts and combat sports (MACS) offer a diversity of disciplines with their own intended...

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The Best of Both Worlds? Online Ties and the Alternating Use of Social Network Sites in the Context of Migration

Binder, Jens F.; Sutcliffe, Alistair G. - In: Societies 4 (2014) 4, pp. 753-769

While an ever-growing body of research is concerned with user behavior on individual social network sites (SNSs)—mostly Facebook—studies addressing an alternating use of two or more SNS are rare. Here, we investigate the relationship between alternating SNS use and social capital in the...

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Eating Animals to Build Rapport: Conducting Research as Vegans or Vegetarians

MacDonald, Katie; Montford, Kelly Struthers - In: Societies 4 (2014) 4, pp. 737-752

Notions of hospitality, community, and the fostering of rapport and connection are foundational concerns for conducting research across difference. Drawing on methodological literature, this paper considers how access to various communities and “good” data is structured by the notion that in...

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Trust into Collective Privacy? The Role of Subjective Theories for Self-Disclosure in Online Communication

Moll, Ricarda; Pieschl, Stephanie; Bromme, Rainer - In: Societies 4 (2014) 4, pp. 770-784

In order to build and maintain social capital in their Online Social Networks, users need to disclose personal information, a behavior that at the same time leads to a lower level of privacy. In this conceptual paper, we offer a new theoretical perspective on the question of why people might...

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Let the Weakest Link Go! Empirical Explorations on the Relative Importance of Weak and Strong Ties on Social Networking Sites

Krämer, Nicole C.; Rösner, Leonie; Eimler, Sabrina C.; … - In: Societies 4 (2014) 4, pp. 785-809

Theoretical approaches as well as empirical results in the area of social capital accumulation on social networking sites suggest that weak ties/bridging<i> versus</i> strong ties/bonding social capital should be distinguished and that while bonding social capital is connected to emotional support,...

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