This strikingly original work challenges a familiar assumption within cultural studies: that cultural practices happen in an everyday realm that is potentially open-ended, involving everyone; whereas economics, by contrast, is alien, a force field determined by international financial interests...

The use of water presents a contradiction. The economically rational use does not match up the rational-common sense use of the agricultures. This is due to the fact that they have an incentive to use a greater amount of water than the technically recommended. The aim of this paper is to analyze...

We compute the correlations of the annual stock returns (1989-2008) of the Dow Jones companies with a) Rm; and with b) Rm; and find that the second correlation (assuming beta = 1 for all companies) is higher than the first one, on average, and for all companies except Caterpillar and General...