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A Test of the Coase Conjecture Using Prices of Electronic Books

Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Coase Conjecture predicts that a durable‐goods monopolist without commitment will rapidly cut price toward marginal cost. We test this prediction in the electronic‐book market using release‐day prices. To proxy for marginal cost, we use competitive prices of public‐domain electronic books on the same platforms.
Tim Groseclose, Alex Tabarrok
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Stosunek ludności województwa śląskiego do „władzy ludowej” w latach 1945–1947

Klio, 2014
Relations between Inhabitants of Silesian Voivodeship and Polish Communists in 1945–1947 (Summary) In the years 1945–1947 Silesian Voivodeship was inhabited by the indigenous people, immigrants (displaced from Eastern Borderlands due to the ...
Bartosz Borys
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Law and Authoritarianism, the expulsion of communists in the New State (1937-1945)

Prisma Jurídico, 2008
In this article we intend to think about the expulsion of communists during the Brazilian New State (1937-1945), the dictatorship of Getúlio Vargas. Hundreds of foreigners were arrested and forced to leave Brazil under the charge of “harmfulness”, a ...
Mariana Cardoso Ribeiro
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William E. Walling and the Pragmatist Foundations of Proto‐Western Marxism: A Re‐Evaluation and Critique

Constellations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reevaluates Walling as a neglected precursor to American Western Marxism, arguing that his 1912–1914 trilogy synthesized Marxist theory of his time and Deweyan pragmatism into a distinct “pragmatist conception of history.” Born into “aristocracy” yet radicalized, Walling's unique trajectory—as a co‐founder of the NAACP and critic ...
Paulo Antunes
wiley   +1 more source

“Indios”, “comunistas” y “guerrilleros”: miedos y memorias de la lucha por tierras en las tierras altas de Jujuy, Argentina

Corpus: Archivos Virtuales de la Alteridad Americana, 2013
In this work we analyze the ways in which struggles for land since the last decades of the 19th century in the highlands of the Andean province of Jujuy, Argentina, were portrayed in terms of “communist threat”.
Guillermina Espósito, Ludmila Da Silva Catela   +1 more
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John Gray: ‘Americanism’ and the Perversion of Post‐liberalism

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article will make the case for John Gray's inclusion in the canon of post‐liberals despite his protests to the contrary, and will argue that his peculiar post‐liberalism is important for its challenges to the dominance of liberalism as both a political culture and way of theorising the ends of politics based on the model of the American ...
Paul Kelly
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Zgodovina kot servis

Dileme, 2019
During the downfall of Marxist regimes in Eastern Europe, the communists in Slovenia were focused on the further implementation of their far-reaching plans. While doing so, they did not forget to maintain the conscience of the past.
Igor Grdina
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Marksistični center zaseda [PDF]

Dileme, 2018
During the third session of the Section of the Marxist Centre of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Slovenia for Conceptual Questions of Historiography on 26 December 1978, a primarily political discussion about a book by the Marxist ...
Igor Grdina
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Conceptualizing moral migration: how disillusionment and the transnational right motivate migration to Russia Conceptualiser la migration morale : comment les désillusions et la droite transnationale motivent l’émigration vers la Russie

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Russia is consistently a top migration destination. While most migrate to Russia from other post‐Soviet countries, a small but highly visible group of the Russian‐speaking diaspora has returned from Europe and North America. Lauded in Russian media as ‘ideological migrants’, their narratives at first glance echo those of the state as they claim to flee
Lauren Woodard
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Masculinity, Prostitution, and the Imaginary Northwest in Chinese Travel Writings About Shanxi and Western Inner Mongolia, 1920–1949

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article considers travel writings by metropolitan men in Republican China about Shanxi and western Inner Mongolia as a case study to further explore the transformations and continuities of Chinese masculinities. Drawing upon a range of popular travel narratives, it shows that so‐called “Worn‐Out Shoes (poxie)” – women perceived as ...
Amanda Zhang
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