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Möllering, Guido - 2013

The paper calls for research on 'trusting' as a process instead of 'trust' as an outcome. It highlights mental and social processes of trusting and outlines five process views of trusting as (1) continuing, (2) processing, (3) learning, (4) becoming, and (5) constituting. Methodological...

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The Social Question in a Transnational Context

Somek, Alexander - 2014

The social question has come down upon us in two different understandings. Modestly understood, it is about helping the needy and creating opportunities for disadvantaged members of society. More ambitiously conceived, by contrast, it is about extricating human life generally from the false...

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From the Rule of Law to the Constitutionalist Makeover : Changing European Conceptions of Public International Law

Somek, Alexander - 2009

The article identifies major characteristics of how public international law has been endorsed by European legal scholars. Prominent among these is the repeated effort to pinpoint the deficiency of public international law as it stands and to suggest improvements. The article tries to identify a...

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The Argument From Transnational Effects II : Establishing Transnational Democracy

Somek, Alexander - 2010

This article continues with a discussion of what the author calls the argument from transnational effects. It says that supranational or transnational forms of integration, in particular market integration, are desirable on account of democracy itself. National democracies find themselves...

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Bitcoin Myths and Facts

Harvey, Campbell R. - 2017

I will address eight common claims about bitcoin: 1. Physical bitcoins exist; 2. The founder of bitcoin is a person called Satoshi Nakamoto; 3. Bitcoin is mainly used for criminal activity; 4. A lack of security plagues bitcoin; 5. Mining is a waste of energy; 6. Bitcoin too small today to be an...

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Foreign Language Learning : An Econometric Analysis

Ginsburgh, Victor A. - 2014

The paper is devoted to an econometric analysis of learning foreign languages in all parts of the world. Our sample … learning while the world population of speakers of the native language generally discourages it. Trade with speakers of a … other three key variables (literacy rate, linguistic distance, and world population of native speakers) because its …

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Understanding Putin's Foreign and Economic Policy Correlation

Maitra, Sumantra - 2014

Understanding Putin's Foreign and Economic policy correlation. How Russia uses oil as a weapon.From Russian gestures towards Washington right after 9/11, which almost bordered on an alliance formation, to the Russian tanks rolling into Georgia in the summer of 2008, the timeframe between 2001...

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Stretching from Punch Card/Programming to Business Data Processing (BDP) to Business Information Systems (BIS)

Shim, J.P. - 2015

The world's oldest undergraduate degree program in data processing and information systems at Mississippi State …

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Taming Global Finance in an Age of Capital? Wage-Setting Institutions' Mitigating Effects on Housing Bubbles

Johnston, Alison - 2015

Analyses in international political economy (IPE) identify interest rate convergence, magnified in the process of European monetary integration, and financial market liberalization as causal factors behind the rise of house prices. Despite these common credit supply shocks, developed economies...

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Plastic Beach Utopia : Gorillaz' Multimedia Concept Project in the Context of Contemporary Popular Music Culture

Samutina, Natalia - 2014

The paper aims to provide analysis of the most general problems of the music industry in the digital age. It poses a question about the possibility of innovation and conceptual development in contemporary popular music, overflowed with retromania. A growing popularity of such form as a "concept...

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