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Promoting an Effective Market Economy in a Changing World [PDF]

In this paper we examine the main challenges in promoting an effective market economy. While the paper ranges widely across the spectrum of economic institutions and policies, the central theme is the importance of macroeconomic stability for economic ...
W.H. Buiter, N Stern, R Lagos
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The permanent crisis, decline and transition of capitalism

, 2017
Capitalism has become progressively more unstable since the welfare state became attenuated and the Cold War ended. Finance capitalism was restored, and monopolistic competition has been rejuvenated. Economic control is more concentrated than ever.
Hillel Ticktin, Ticktin, Hillel
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‘Pro‐Germans in the Pulpits’: The Queensland Presbyterian Church and the Great War

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
During World War I, Protestant churches in Australia, on the whole, enthusiastically supported the war effort. The Queensland Presbyterian Church was a significant exception. This study analyses discord and tensions among its clergymen about what constituted an appropriate response to the war.
Mark Cryle
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Digital Echoes: Empowering Crisis Management and Urban Resilience Strategies with Real-Time Social Media Insights

International Journal of Social Science and Human Research
This paper proposes an innovative approach for decision-makers, introducing a web application that employs a microservices architecture to analyze data gathered from social networks. In the context of smart cities, citizens act as "sensors", providing real-time insights through their online activities.
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The political economy of targeted safety nets [PDF]

This paper is the written version of a lecture that draws principally on research on safety nets and operational experience with the implementation of safety nets, drawing heavily on the crisis of safety net programs in Indonesia from 1998 to 2000.
Pritchett, Lant
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The Firebrands Echo: National Fantasy as an Obstacle to Jean‐Luc Mélenchon's Populist Spectacle

Constellations, EarlyView.
Reid A. Kleinberg
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The Gender of Fossil Fuels: Oil and Domestic Perils in Mandate Palestine

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the gender dynamics behind the rise of kerosene – an oil derivative – as the main domestic fuel in Mandate Palestine. It argues that these dynamics were constitutive in determining who began to use oil, where and for what purposes, in turn demonstrating that women in Palestine were the promoters and targets of a campaign ...
Shira Pinhas
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The Iraq War 2003 – The Objective Real Reason For The Financial Economic Social Crises 2008 All Over Thw World Based On The Momtchil Dobrev’s "Theory Of Generating Crisis" And On The Basis Of Momtchil Dobrev’s "Theory Of The Mafia"

International Journal of Contemporary Research and Review, 2017
Lord prof PhD PhD Momtchil Dobrev-Halachev developed 2008 “Theory of  generating of crises “ and 2001 “ Theory of the mafia”. Based on these two theories this paper explane   the establishment of the financial crises2008  all over the world.
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Moral geographies in Kyrgyzstan : how pastures, dams and holy sites matter in striving for a good life

, 2011
This thesis is an ethnography of how places like mountain pastures (jailoos), hydro-electric dams and holy sites (mazars) matter in striving for a good life.
Féaux de la Croix, Jeanne
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Modelos y antimodelos de la renovación socialista. La revista "Convergencia" y la crisis del socialismo mundial (1981-1991)

, 2013
This article aims to analyze the existing connection between the Chilean socialist renewal and the crisis of the European left during the eighties. Starting from the articles published between 1981 and 1991 in the journal Convergencia, this article ...
Santoni, Alessandro
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