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A short proof that the Coulomb-gauge potentials yield the retarded fields
, 2011 A short demonstration that the potentials in the Coulomb gauge yield the retarded electric and magnetic fields is presented. This demonstration is relatively simple and can be presented in an advanced undergraduate curse of electromagnetic ...
Heras J A +4 more
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Weather, fertility, and land: land curse in economic development in a unified growth theory [PDF]
We consider fertility choice and weather in analyzing the effect of farmland abundance in economic development. We find that quality-adjusted agricultural land abundance may confer a type of "resource curse", in that it prolongs the tenure of an economy ...
He, Qichun
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Kutukan dan berkah dalam cerita Jawa Kuna Sebuah refleksi sikap arogan para pemilik kekuasaan
Wacana: Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia, 2005 Old Javanese tales like Adiparwa and Sudamala are full of elements of curse cast by a man or a god. The curses take the form of words uttered full of emotion and anger to the addressee.
Dwi Woro Retno
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Avoiding the Resource Curse: The Role of Institutions [PDF]
This paper investigates empirically whether the natural resource curse exists and if institutions can help alleviate this curse. Both cross-country and dynamic panel regressions confirm the important role of institutional quality (measured by either ...
KK Tang +3 more
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Corruption, Development and the Curse of Natural Resources [PDF]
In 1995, Jeffrey Sachs and Andrew Warner found a negative relationship between natural resources and economic growth, and claimed that natural resources are a curse.
G. Cornelis van Kooten +2 more
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The winner's curse: experiments with buyers and with sellers [PDF]
, 1989 This paper explores the winner's curse phenomena as it was studied experimentally by Kagel and Levin. Experiments with the winner's curse are complicated by the fact that subjects can lose money and the experimenter has only a limited means of collecting
Lind, Barrry, Plott, Charles R.
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Bright Prospects or an Omnious Future
Swiss Journal of Sociocultural Anthropology, 2017 Analysing competing visions of Uganda’s future with oil, this article off ers a new perspective on the resource curse as a risk discourse. Political and civil society actors in Uganda create and negotiate visions of the future that are framed by the ...
Annika Witte
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Natural resources and institutions: the “natural resources curse” revisited [PDF]
The present paper deals with the role of political authorities and institutions in explaining growth failures. We aim to search answers for three related questions: is there a natural resources curse? Are all types of natural resources exposed to a curse?
Pessoa, Argentino
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An Alternative Explanation for the Resource Curse: The Income Effect Channel [PDF]
The paper provides an alternative explanation for the “resource curse” based on the income effect resulting from high government current spending in resource rich economies.
Alichi, Ali, Arezki, Rabah
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Outcome knowledge and false belief
Frontiers in Psychology, 2016 Virtually every social interaction involves reasoning about the perspectives of others, or ‘theory of mind’. Previous research suggests that it is difficult to ignore our current knowledge when reasoning about a more naïve perspective (i.e., the curse of
Siba eGhrear +2 more
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