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Waiting for the barbarians : seeking solutions or awaiting answers? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Cavafy's (1961) famous poem describes the paralysis induced when waiting for an event that never happens, finding distraction in other things while expecting imminent cataclysm.
Law, Derek
core  

Trade Unions and Sustainability: An Integrative Review

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite the growing presence of trade unions (TUs) in sustainability discussions, academic research on their role is still scattered. This article presents an integrative review of 110 peer‐reviewed English‐language academic articles on this topic, indexed in Scopus and Web of Science and published between 1997 and early 2025.
Branko Bembič   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Buchanan and the Social Contract: Coordination Failures and the Atrophy of Property Rights

open access: yesSouthern Economic Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT James Buchanan advocated that societies should be based on a social contract. He rejected anarchy, seeing it as a “Hobbesian jungle” that calls for government intervention to maintain social order. He also opposed theories of spontaneous order. These views led to debates about the compatibility of Buchanan's works with classical liberalism and
Stefano Dughera, Alain Marciano
wiley   +1 more source

The Bucellarii and the Roman Empire: Their Origins, Service, and the Matter of Social Cohesion among their Members

open access: yesStudia Historica: Historia Antigua, 2016
The aim of this article is to introduce a preliminary analysis about the bucellarii (a type of mercenary soldiers) during 4th and 5th centuries A.D. Such analysis is presented in the context of the increase of foreign soldiers in the Roman army since the
Fernando Carlos RUCHESI
doaj  

Mussolini\u27s Gladius: The Double-Edged Sword of Antiquity in Fascist Italy

open access: yes, 2016
Mussolini and the Fascist Party used a plethora of propaganda techniques in order to suggest the renewal of the old Roman Empire with the rise of the Italian Fascist Party. Through the use of ideology, race issues, religion, educational control, posters,
Schrader, Kyle W.
core  

Loquella barbarica (I) [PDF]

open access: yes, 1997
As Loquella barbarica notes on phylological and historyographical information on the languages, be either arabic, amazigh or latin, in use in the ancient al-Andalus, will be gathered.
Barceló, Miquel
core   +1 more source

A failed transplant

open access: yes
Journal of Hospital Medicine, EarlyView.
David L. Curtis
wiley   +1 more source

The History and Ideas of George Herbert Mead's Pragmatism and Its Relevance for Operational Research and Systems Thinkers

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT George Herbert Mead is an oft forgotten or ignored American philosopher who was one of the originators of pragmatism. Today, he is recognised as a creative thinker who has teased out knotty problems that others in the field had not realised were problems. Understanding Mead's analysis has been made difficult because he died prematurely without
Richard Ormerod
wiley   +1 more source

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