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So, Moses Walks into a Bar…The Ancient Origins of Jewish Humor
Friedman, Hershey H.; Friedman, Linda Weiser - 2009
This book reviews, organizes and categorizes the humor of the Hebrew Bible, the Talmud and the Midrash, and presents it to the reader in a clear, readable, accessible manner. These works, replete with many types of humor and wit, have influenced the Jewish people in a major way over the...
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Russian Warriors in the Land of Miltiades and Themistocles : The Colonial Ambitions of Catherine the Great in the Mediterranean
Smilyanskaya, Elena - 2014
The Mediterranean policy of Catherine the Great gave rise to a discussion about how extreme her colonial ambitions in the Mediterranean were. This article argues against the theories that 'the Greek idea' was only a political game for Russia, that Russian activity on the Aegean islands was only...
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Decarbonizing the downturn : addressing climate change in an age of stagnation
Copley, Jack - In: Competition & change : the journal of global business … 27 (2023) 3/4, pp. 429-448
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Reflections on the SARS-Covid-2 pandemic after one year : predictable, preventable but inevitable: an ecologist’s perspective
Harvey, Jeffrey - In: Central European review of economics and management : CEREM 5 (2021) 1, pp. 7-22
-political-economic system across the industrialized world is neoliberal capitalism that focuses on economic growth and profit maximization …Aim: The major aim of the current essay is to argue that neoliberal capitalism, by virtue of its core tenets, has … the precautionary principle, neoliberal capitalism is uniquely ill-equipped to prepare for potential calamities like …
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Blind spots in IPE : marginalized perspectives and neglected trends in contemporary capitalism
LeBaron, Genevieve; Mügge, Daniel; Best, Jacqueline; … - In: Review of international political economy 28 (2021) 2, pp. 283-294
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The Nordhaus racket : how to use capitalization to minimize the cost of climate change and win a nobel for "sustainable growth"
Bikler, Šimšōn; Nitzan, Jonathan - 2018
The LA Times called the bluff: William D. Nordhaus won the Nobel prize in economics for a climate model that minimized the cost of rising global temperatures and undermined the need for urgent action. Unfortunately, though, the article missed the nugget in the racket.
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Keeping 1.5°C alive in the Global South : life or death
Escobar Vargas, Pamela - In: Journal of city climate policy and economy 1 (2022) 1, pp. 82-87
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A look at the world as it is and how it will be - and at our place within it
Major, John - In: CESifo Forum 03 (2002) 2, pp. 41-44
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A Hirsch measure for the quality of research supervision, and an illustration with trade economists
Ruane, Frances P. (contributor);  … - 2008
There is a growing literature measuring research excellence in economics. The h-index is noteworthy in combining quantity and research quality in a single measure of researcher excellence, and its ability to be extended to measure the quantity and quality of the researchers in a department. We...
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