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The slow emergence of the rational investor: Grain markets and grain storage of rural estates in western Germany, eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract We develop new datasets of monthly grain prices in 14 urban markets and of the storage and marketing of grain by 5 rural estates located in western Germany between the late seventeenth century and c. 1860. We explore whether observed patterns of monthly prices, sales, and storage of grain are consistent with the rational competitive storage ...
Matthias Hartermann   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Serial Anachronism: Re-Assembling Romanian Forest Commons [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The ongoing global renaissance of the commons thrives on an implicit temporal hyphen: old and new commons are different and yet alike. Premised on untimeliness, commons oscillate between the deep past, the present and the distant, potentially utopian ...
Mateescu, Oana
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The commercialization of labour markets: Evidence from wage inequality in the Middle Ages

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper moves beyond the focus on ‘average’ wage trends in pre‐industrial economies by examining the broad diversity of pay rates and forms of remuneration across occupations and regions in medieval England. We find that whilst some workers enjoyed substantial growth in wage rates after the Black Death, there was a large group who ...
Jordan Claridge   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Ontographic Turn: From Cubism to the Surrealist Object

open access: yesOpen Philosophy, 2019
The practice of Ontography deployed by OOO, clarified and expanded in this essay, produces a highly productive framework for analyzing Salvador Dalí’s ontological project between 1928 and 1935. Through the careful analysis of paintings and original texts
Weir Simon, Dibbs Jason Anthony
doaj   +1 more source

Caring organizational cultures and the future of work

open access: yesEuropean Management Review, EarlyView.
Abstract There is substantial evidence that workplaces of the future will be dominated by an increase in advanced technology. This trend might lead to the objectification and dehumanization of employees and other stakeholders who interact with organizations as impersonal operations and procedures become normative and employees are subordinated to ...
Alan M. Saks, Jamie A. Gruman
wiley   +1 more source

Introduction: The historical interpretation of mathematical texts and the problem of anachronism

open access: yes, 2021
I provide a definition of “anachronism” aswell as an overview of the different positions concerning anachronism taken by historians of mathematics, since the important debate on the “algebra” of the Babylonians and the “geometrical algebra” of Euclid and
Niccolò Guicciardini Corsi Salviati
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To Grandmother's House We Go: Informal Childcare and Female Labor Mobility

open access: yesInternational Economic Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We document how childcare costs and the location of extended family influence the labor supply and mobility of US women. Women return to their home locations immediately before fertility events, suggesting that informal childcare needs may motivate home migration. Women who live near their parents have lower child earnings penalties.
Garrett Anstreicher, Joanna Venator
wiley   +1 more source

Conceptual anachronism and social construction of knowledge in organization studies: an analysis based on conceptual history

open access: yes, 2018
With this study, we propose the use of Koselleck's Conceptual History theoretical and methodological assumptions as a basis for critical analysis of conceptual anachronism in the Social Sciences and Organization Studies.
Fabio Vizeu (10425432)   +1 more
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Palamism Does Not Disfigure the Gospel: A Reply to Thomas Weinandy

open access: yesInternational Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract In a 2024 article in the IJST, Fr. Thomas Weinandy argues that the theological system of Gregory Palamas is in grave error, especially with respect to its commitment to an objective ontological distinction between God's essence and His energies. In his concluding paragraph Fr.
Travis Dumsday
wiley   +1 more source

Attribution of concepts and problems with anachronism

open access: yes, 2011
Many long‐standing debates about anachronistic concept‐attributions derive from an essentialist understanding of concepts that is often difficult to sustain for metaphysical or epistemological reasons.
Mitrović, Branko
core   +1 more source

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