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Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In the Chinese kimchi industry, manufacturers employ product names, photographs, and logistical strategies to promote their kimchi's “Koreanness.” So, what makes their kimchi “Korean,” and how does its Koreanness formulate kimchi's commodity value?
Heangjin Park
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How Communists Wanted to Remember Communism
Praktyka Teoretyczna, 2019 This is a review essay discussing an edited volume titled Historical Memory of Central and East European Communism (eds. Agnieszka Mrozik and Stanislav Holubec, Routledge 2018).
Agata Zysiak
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The Legacies of Lockdown: Moral Logics of Exchange and Mistrust in Postpandemic China
Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT When Shanghai entered an extended lockdown under China's Zero‐COVID policy in spring 2022, residents found themselves confined within their residential compounds, cut off from conventional supply chains, and dependent on improvised systems of local provisioning and state rationing. From the perspective of economic anthropology, such conditions
Erika Kuever
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Historická sociologie, 2017 The paper deals with social technology of the Communists period. There existed professional applied social science in Communist Poland, and Polish social scientists sometimes cooperated with the regime. Such activities should be at least partly explained
Marcin Kula
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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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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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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
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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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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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