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The Paradoxes of the Spiritual Self: Disidentification as a Marker of Identity

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how practitioners of self‐spirituality conceptualize their spiritual identity. On the basis of 62 in‐depth interviews with secular Jewish Israelis engaged in various spiritual practices, we find that spiritual identity is constructed through a distinctive cultural logic we term disidentification—a systematic resistance to ...
Nurit Zaidman, Michal Pagis
wiley   +1 more source

Population aging and corporate tax avoidance: Suppression or promotion? [PDF]

PLoS One
Qi L, Liang P.
europepmc   +1 more source

Effects of the 2004 Personal Income Tax System Reform on the Shadow Sector in Ukraine [PDF]

, 2006
Andrii, Oliinyk, Larvsa, Koziarivska
core  

An Investigation of Alternative Treatments of Deferred Taxes in Bond Raters' Judgments

, 1991
H. F. Huss, Jingwen Zhao
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Random Carbon Tax Policy and Investment Into Emission Abatement Technologies

Mathematical Finance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We analyze the problem of a profit‐maximizing electricity producer, subject to carbon taxes, who decides on investments into CO2$\rm CO_2$ abatement technologies. We assume that the carbon tax policy is random and that the investment in the abatement technology is divisible, irreversible, and subject to transaction costs.
Katia Colaneri, Rüdiger Frey, Verena Köck   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

“Nowhere else to go”: Slow abandonment and (en)closures of long‐term care in Los Angeles

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Residential long‐term care facilities, known in California as “board and care” homes, have been closing rapidly in the last decade. Proponents assert these provide vital forms of housing and care to the poor and must be saved, while critics contend they perpetuate the institutionalization of people with disabilities and should be abolished ...
Maxwell A. Hellmann
wiley   +1 more source

Searching for safety: Working conditions and policing in a US emergency department

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract In the United States, emergency departments aren't supposed to turn anyone away. They are the safety‐net of the safety‐net providing life‐saving care. Yet, what happens to healthcare when conditions are so strained that patients and staff lash out at each other? What happens when the safety net becomes a carceral net?
Fabián Luis C. Fernández
wiley   +1 more source

Austere Moral Ecologies and Artificial Agents

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract There are underappreciated moral costs for deploying artificially intelligent agents in our present bureaucratically and market‐structured world. Currently, AI systems lack the interiority and mutual vulnerability required for genuine moral relationality.
Manuel Vargas
wiley   +1 more source

A Tale of Two Cities: Australian Evidence on the Effects of Lockdown on Grocery Inflation

Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite extensive research on the economic implications of COVID‐19, the inflationary consequences of lockdown remain underexplored. Prior impact assessments may be compromised due to the cross‐jurisdictional presence of lockdowns and the prevalence of the coronavirus.
Chew Lian Chua, Sarantis Tsiaplias
wiley   +1 more source