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Determinants of height and biological inequality in Mediterranean Spain, 1859–1967

Ayuda, María-Isabel; Puche-Gil, Javier - In: Economics & Human Biology 15 (2014) C, pp. 101-119

also the influence that social inequality had upon biological well-being. The height data of 82,039 conscripts constitute … Mediterranean Spain. During the period under study, the average height of conscripts increased by 7.5cm, while the coefficient of …This article analyses not only the determinants of the height of Spain's male populations between 1859 and 1960 but …

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A Malthusian Episode Revisited: The Height of British and Irish Servants in Colonial America

Komlos, John - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, …

Examines the height of runaway indentured and convict servants in Colonial America. Finds that heights decreased …

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Height and Social Status in Eighteenth-Century Germany

Komlos, John - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, …

Examines the height of German youth in the late eighteenth century, and documents the very large differences in height … between the lower and upper classes. Shows that the height of the upper class did not decline at the end of the 18th century …

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What type of crisis is this? The coronavirus crisis as a crisis of the economicised society

Ötsch, Walter - 2020

The paper addresses the following questions: what type of crisis is this? How can we put the events together in our minds so that we have a coherent, complete picture of the crisis? How can we put this crisis in its historical context and what are the consequences for the future of our society?...

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Wissenschaftstheoretische Aspekte der Ökonomik: Überblick und Positionsbestimmung

Helmedag, Fritz - 2020

Ausgehend von der Erläuterung, welche Bedeutungen und Charakteristika der Begriff "Wissenschaft" im Allgemeinen umfasst, wird im Besonderen die konkrete Eigenart der Wissenschaft von der Wirtschaft bestimmt. Zunächst wird auf die Sprachgebundenheit menschlichen Denkens und Erkennens verwiesen,...

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Öffentliche vs. Private Blockchains in der Finanzwirtschaft

Thießen, Friedrich - 2020

Blockchains gelten als zukunftsträchtige Datenbanktechnologien. In dieser Studie werden Public und Private Blockchain-Konzepte hinsichtlich ihrer Stärken und Schwächen miteinander verglichen. Dazu werden die Konzepte in einen strategischen und einen operativen Teil getrennt. Es zeigt sich,...

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The sound of silence: On the (in)visibility of economists in the media

Wehrheim, Lino - 2021

One way for economists to influence economic policy and society as a whole is to shape what Robert Shiller has called "economic narratives". This, in turn, puts the media in their role as professional storytellers in a central position. In this paper, I investigate how economists have been...

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The Monetary Structure of Economic Activity

Desan, Christine A. - 2020

The modern approach to the market as a place with autonomy depends on a certain view of money. According to that view, money is a neutral technology that expresses individual choices made about real goods and services. But the controversies over money that regularly arise in political...

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Patent Networks, Collaboration Patterns, and National Innovation Systems. Sweden and Spain during the Second Industrial Revolution

Andersson, David - 2019

Sweden and Spain have developed very distinct systems of innovation over the long term. The former has a highly innovative economy while the latter drags serious problems in science and technology. However, during the first half of the nineteenth century both countries were latecomers to the...

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On the Architecture of the Rings of Saturn : An 'Identity' Theory of the Distribution of Gaps within Rings

Albers, Scott A. - 2014

In the physical world the "identity" of something is taken generally as a given; an apple is an apple; this apple is this apple. When dealing with planetary structure and extension into space, however, the problem of the planet's "identity" in the surrounding cosmos is writ large. What does a...

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