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China inside out: Explaining silver flows in the triangular trade, c. 1820s‒70s

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper analyses a new large dataset of silver prices, as well as silver and merchandise trade flows in and out of China in the crucial decades of the mid‐nineteenth century when the Empire was opened to world trade. Silver flows were associated with the interaction between heterogeneous monetary preferences and availability of specific ...
Alejandra Irigoin, Atsushi Kobayashi, David Chilosi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Wealth inequality and epidemics in the Republic of Venice (1400–1800)

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This article analyses wealth inequality in the Republic of Venice during 1400–1800. The availability of a large database of homogeneous inequality measurements allows us to produce the most in‐depth study of the factors affecting inequality at the local level available thus far for any preindustrial society.
Guido Alfani, Matteo Di Tullio, Mattia Fochesato   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Experimental Investigation of Colonel Blotto Games [PDF]

This article examines behavior in the two-player, constant-sum Colonel Blotto game with asymmetric resources in which players maximize the expected number of battlefields won. The experimental results support all major theoretical predictions.
Dan Kovenock J., Roman M. Sheremeta, Subhasish M. Chowdhury   +2 more
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Compassionate Digital Innovation: A Pluralistic Perspective and Research Agenda

Information Systems Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Digital innovation offers significant societal, economic and environmental benefits but is also a source of profound harms. Prior information systems (IS) research has often overlooked the ethical tensions involved, framing harms as ‘unintended consequences’ rather than symptoms of deeper systemic problems.
Raffaele F. Ciriello, Lars Mathiassen, Marten Risius, Marc Cheong, Helana Scheepers, Emmanuelle Vaast   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

ASYMMETRIC WARFARE AS A CHALLENGE FOR INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW?

Iustinianus Primus Law Review, 2015
The Conflict in Syria has brought asymmetrical warfare back to the attention of the wider public - at the same time is the outside view on the conflict no longer limited to what the media chose to report as Youtube has become a propaganda tool in this ...
Stefan Kirchner
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Strategic Mass Killings [PDF]

Since World War II there have been about fifty episodes of large-scale mass killings of civilians and massive forced displacements. They were usually meticulously planned and independent of military goals.
Dominic Rohner, Joan Esteban, Massimo Morelli   +2 more
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Asymmetric warfare in African conflicts

Scientia Militaria: South African Journal of Military Studies, 2010
Irregular wars have erupted in African states since colonial independencefrom Western European countries in the 1960s. The end of the Cold War in 1989 and the changing nature of international politics did not bring about political stability in African states either. These intrastate wars were by-products of historic disputes kept hidden during the Cold
openaire   +1 more source

How Eurocrats Negotiate the Path From Crisis to Routine: Tracing the Micro‐Foundations of Routinisation After the Greek Crisis

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Whilst institutional change following the eurozone crisis is well documented, the mechanisms underlying this change remain less understood. This article examines how EU officials negotiated the routinisation of the European Commission's Task Force for Greece into the Structural Reform Support Service, a technical assistance mechanism for all ...
Marylou Hamm
wiley   +1 more source

Positive and negative stress in business cycle behaviour [PDF]

The economic theory shows as business cycles have longer periods of expansions than contractions. The purpose of this paper is to analyze their behaviour in order to present a metrics that assesses the negative and positive stress of the economic system.
Mario Coccia
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The Making of the EU's Geoeconomic ‘Bazooka’: The Anti‐Coercion Instrument and the Role of Think Tanks in European Union Foreign Policy

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract The Anti‐Coercion Instrument (ACI), the most powerful tool in the EU's geoeconomic arsenal, has its origins in the first Trump US presidency and has recently been brandished again as a potential response to Trump's coercive tariffs. Its centrality to the EU's ‘geoeconomic turn’ and the twists and turns of its legislative history have been ...
Jaša Veselinovič
wiley   +1 more source