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Reconsidering the Right to Own Property [PDF]

, 2013
This article considers whether there should be a separate international Covenant to elaborate on the human right to own property. Citing two contemporary cases—namely,the semi-starvation faced by many citizens of Zimbabwe and the shortage of food in ...
Howard-Hassmann, Rhoda E.
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Claus Offe (1940–2025): A Tribute to His Academic Work and His Role as a Political Intellectual

Constellations, EarlyView.
Tine Stein
wiley   +1 more source

What is social science if not critical?

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
Abstract This short article represents a contribution to the debate on the motion “Social science is explanation, or it is nothing.” While in the format of parliamentary debating the contribution would fall on the side of the opposition, I will not be arguing against explanation as such.
Jana Bacevic
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The Empire Struck Back: The Mexican Oil Expropriation of 1938 Reconsidered [PDF]

The Mexican expropriation of 1938 was the first large-scale non-Communist expropriation of foreign-owned natural resource assets. The literature generally makes three assertions: the U.S.
Noel Maurer
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Making AI Work: A Critical Theory of AI Production

Constellations, EarlyView.
Rosalie Waelen, Jean‐Philippe Deranty
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Trade, expropriation and allocation [PDF]

Allocation rules map preference profiles into allocations, whereas trading rules map preference profiles and allocations into allocations. It is shown that no allocation rule can derive from a trading rule based on voluntary trade and satisfying a weak ...
Antonio Quesada
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Financialisation, or the Search for Profits in the Sphere of Circulation [PDF]

Financialisation of advanced capitalist economies during the last three decades represents expansion of the sphere of circulation, while the sphere of production has continued to face difficulties of profitability and productivity growth.
Costas Lapavitsas
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Inflated Recommendations

The RAND Journal of Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Biased recommendations arise naturally in markets with heterogeneous consumers. We study a model in which a monopolist offers an experience good to a population of consumers with heterogeneous tastes and makes personalized purchase recommendations.
Martin Peitz, Anton Sobolev
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Demographics and Factor Flows – A Political Economy Approach [PDF]

We investigate the effect of population aging on international factor flows in a political-economy framework. Political barriers to immigration in developed countries and insecure property rights in developing countries impede factor flows.
Lena Calahorrano, Philipp an de Meulen
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De‐Dollarization Is a Plausible Outcome of the New Washington Consensus

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A trend towards de‐dollarization of the global economy in which the US dollar ceases to be used as the world's reserve currency for international transactions confronts some of the existing structures of international economic law, built upon the rules set out by US‐led organizations like the WTO, the IMF, and the World Bank. This article will
David Collins
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