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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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’n Feministiese ondersoek na Bettina Wyngaard se misdaadfiksie
Tydskrif vir LetterkundeThe recent discourse on black feminism in Afrikaans literature is strongly influenced by powerful and activist-oriented writers like Ronelda Kamfer, Lynthia Julius, and Veronique Jephtas.
Courtneigh Ess
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From Convicts to Contemporary Convictions: Two Hundred Years of Australian Crime Fiction
Linguae &: Rivista di Lingue e Culture Moderne, 2018 European Australia began in 1788 as an English jail, and from 1818 novels and stories appeared locally and in London about escaped convicts acting against free settlers, and sometimes Indigenous people resisting the taking of their land. Gold, discovered
Stephen Knight
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Lexical Syllabus in Elementary and Secondary Education: Construction and Implementation
TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Nonnative language users operate with significantly limited vocabularies compared to native speakers, particularly when the language is learnt in school contexts. This paper demonstrates how empirical research on vocabulary learning combined with experience in teaching and curricula design has informed the principled construction of a lexical ...
Batia Laufer
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Mystère-Magazine : un objet patrimonial
BelphégorThis article discusses the heritage value of Mystère-Magazine (1948-1976), a special-interest magazine on crime fiction, from a dual perspective. On the one hand, it examines the attempts at patrimonialisation made by Mystère-Magazine, which from the ...
Annabelle Marion
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Citizens are more willing to co‐produce when participants represent community demographics
Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.Abstract Despite co‐production's potential to address democratic deficits, the role of representation in co‐production and its impact on public perceptions remain largely under‐analysed empirically. Employing a vignette survey design, this study tests how representation in co‐production affects citizens’ intentions to get involved.
Wonhyuk Cho +3 more
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MediAzioniThis article examines the processes of translation, adaptation and linguistic and cultural appropriation at work in the dual field of crime fiction and the magazine press, drawing on the example of Mystère-Magazine, the French version of Ellery Queen’s ...
Annabelle Marion
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, 2013 The chapter explores the tradition of the post-feminist avenging angel in contemporary crime fiction, with particular focus on Scandinavian crime stories, such as Stieg Larsson's Millennium ...
Yvonne Leffler, Leffler, Yvonne,
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Forensic Fiction and the Normalization of Surveillance
Nordicom Review, 2014 This essay investigates forensic fiction as a trend in televised crime fiction and argues that this trend or subgenre is particularly interesting if we are to understand how surveillance is portrayed in contemporary society.
Hausken Liv
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Sémiotique judiciaire : crime et signe
Cahiers de Narratologie, 2019 The science of crime, or forensic science, crystallized at around the same time as gothic and detective literature in the latter part of the nineteenth century.
Marcel Danesi
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