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Benefitting from brutality? Profits of north‐western Europe's slave trade at the eve of the industrial revolution

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract One of the most contentious issues in the study of the Atlantic slave trade is the profitability of the trade. In this paper, we contribute by pooling all available data on transatlantic slave ship voyage accounts into a joint dataset. This dataset includes data from a period of 100 years (1730–1830) and from five nations (Denmark, France ...
Klas Rönnbäck   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

On Schopenhauer's Debt to Spinoza1

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract Schopenhauer offers ‘nature is not divine but demonic’ as a direct rebuttal of Spinoza's pantheism, his identification of ‘nature’ with ‘God’. And so, one would think, he ought to have been immune to the ‘Spinozism’ that became, as Heine called it, ‘the unofficial religion’ of the age.
Julian Young
wiley   +1 more source

Collingwood's Everyday Aesthetics

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract Any adequate account of aesthetic experience must be able to accommodate the pervasiveness of aesthetic experiences in everyday life. While writers on everyday aesthetics have frequently taken inspiration from John Dewey's Art as Experience, my aim in this article is to show that there is another work in the history of the discipline that ...
Mark Windsor
wiley   +1 more source

Financial Statement Readability and Firm Debt Choice

open access: yesFinancial Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Examining more than 16,000 firm‐year observations in the United States, we provide novel evidence showing that higher financial statement readability leads to a decrease in information asymmetry and the need for external monitoring, thereby reducing the reliance on bank debt relative to public debt.
Wajih Abbassi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

F IS FOR FALCON: THE TRUE STORY OF THE ‘NOVELLE’

open access: yesGerman Life and Letters, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article takes a closer look at the Boccaccio story upon which Paul Heyse based his famous ‘Falken‐Theorie’ of the ‘Novelle’. The essay then links Boccaccio to a general account of storytelling as an aid to survival amid the hostility of nature and human circumstances.
Michael Minden
wiley   +1 more source

Somerset Maugham's Failings

open access: yes
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Allan Hepburn
wiley   +1 more source

Hung Out to Dry: Gender Washing in Organizations

open access: yesGender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper advances feminist organizational theory by critically examining the phenomenon of gender washing, a strategic practice whereby organizations superficially promote gender equity while perpetuating discriminatory structures. Drawing on 12 in‐depth interviews with women across diverse UK industries and professional backgrounds, this ...
Rebecca L. Burke, J. Miguel Imas
wiley   +1 more source

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