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Explaining the Industrial Revolution: From Agraria to Industria
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Ernest Gellner suggested that a multi‐factor—indeed, a 15‐factor—model was necessary to explain the Industrial Revolution. Most economic historians prefer a much simpler economistic theory while adding ritual genuflections to the role of ‘culture’ and ‘institutions’.
Michael Mann
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‘Gig’ Work and Fatherhood: A Typology of Ride‐Share Fathers in Australia
New Technology, Work and Employment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines what motivates fathers with dependent children to work in the gig economy and to what extent care considerations influence their decisions to perform this work. Integrating the literature on gig work, flexible work and the household dynamics of gig workers, this case study fills a gap by examining how well ride‐share work ...
Lisa Gulesserian +2 more
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Collective value? Finland‐Swedish literature in the Nordic literary prize culture
Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.Abstract Unlike many other minority literatures, Finland‐Swedish literature is very well embodied in the literary prize culture. Statistically, Finland‐Swedish authors are overrepresented among the nominees and recipients of the largest and most prestigious awards in Sweden and Finland, as well as the major joint Nordic literary prizes.
Tomi Riitamaa
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Public Administration, EarlyView.ABSTRACT New research argues that robust governance based on flexible adaptation and proactive innovation is needed in order to uphold core public functions, purposes, and values in times of societal turbulence. However, we have limited knowledge of the conditions for enhancing robust governance.
Jacob Torfing +9 more
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Plant Biotechnology Journal, EarlyView.Summary Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) is an important legume crop that has been subjected to intensive breeding, resulting in limited genetic diversity. Australia is the world's second largest producer and the leading exporter of chickpea; the genomic architecture of its cultivars remains largely unexplored.
Vanika Garg +16 more
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The ‘Little Big Bang’ in Paris: financial market deregulation in a dirigiste system
European Journal of Political Research, 1989 Abstract. French dirigisme since World War II has been identified at four levels: economic planning; the dominance of a neo‐colbertisre civil service elite; Gaullism and the Fifth Republic; and a state‐led, credit‐based system for financing industry.
Philip G. Cerny
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The Big Bang: Integration of Financial Markets
, 1988 I feel myself as a European to be placed in the correct time zone in this session. I have just been inspired, figuratively from the East from Tokyo, by Mr Ogata, and I am now in a position to provoke the New Yorker sitting figuratively to my West. If I wished to provoke Mr Freeman it might be with the reflection that London currently handles 25 per ...
Limerick Patrick
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The Euro – No Big Bang for European Financial Markets?
, 2015 Claudia M. Buch, Susanne Lapp
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The Japanese “Big Bang” financial reforms and market implications
Journal of Asian Economics, 1998 Robert Dekle
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The "Big Bang"? An Ambivalent Japan Deregulates Its Financial Markets
The Brookings Review, 1998 Edward J. Lincoln, Robert E. Litan
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