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Between the Gift and the Market: The Economy of Regard.. [PDF]
'The great transformation' from customary exchange to impersonal markets is incomplete. Reciprocal exchange pervades modern societies. it takes the form of 'gifts,' reciprocated without certainty. Reciprocity is driven by the pursuit of 'regard'.
Offer, Avner
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Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.A new electrochemical system based on a microporous hybrid of carbon nanoplatelets and nanotubes to selectively capture Ni2+ from wastewater is constructed. The system temperature rises rapidly when irradiated with sunlight, which enhances the Ni2+ removal rate by 250% and the selectivity by 53%, and the energy consumption is also reduced by 51 ...
Ziquan Wang +11 more
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“To fulfill a private obligation”: Marianne Moore, Her Patrons, and the Social Economy of the Gift
NANO, 2017 This paper focuses on material and financial gifts received by the American modernist poet Marianne Moore (1887-1972) under the auspices of patronage.
Síofra McSherry
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The Politics of Objects: Eliza Cook’s Biographies of Things
Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2016 Eliza Cook’s poetry of daily life is intertwined with her Chartist engagement. While her poems often denounce the forces of oppression that threaten social peace and the daily life of simple people, her biographies or fictitious autobiographies of things
Fabienne Moine
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If not for money for what? Digging into the OS/FS contributors’ motivations [PDF]
This paper analyses the data collected by two of the most significant surveys on the Open Source Software (OSS) contributors’ motivations with the aim of assessing if in the OSS products circulation we can recognise the characteristics of the modern way ...
Graziella Marzi
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A different capitalism? : Guanxi-capitalism and the importance of family in modern China [PDF]
, 2011 The emergence of Capitalism is said to always lead to extreme changes in the structure of a society. This view implies that Capitalism is a universal and unique concept that needs an explicit institutional framework and should not discriminate between a ...
Rühle, Susanne
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, 2006 Network is a device for organising and conceptualising non-linear complexity. Networks defy narrative, chronology and thus also genealogy because they entail a multiplicity of traces.
Loon, J van
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Extensive Review of Materials for Next‐Generation Transparent Batteries and Their Design Strategies
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Review explores emerging materials and design strategies for transparent batteries, examining electrodes, electrolytes, separators, and device architectures optimized for high electrochemical performance, mechanical flexibility, and optical transparency.
Atul Kumar Mishra +5 more
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Gift Exchange as Communal Resistance in Ernest Gaines’s A Lesson Before Dying
NANO, 2017 This article examines the representation of gift exchange in Ernest Gaines’s novel, A Lesson Before Dying. Drawing upon sociological and anthropological theories of the gift, it argues that gift exchange among the black community in the fictional town of
Scott Thomas Gibson
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Contested claims to social welfare: Basic income grants in Namibia
sozialpolitik.ch, 2017 In many parts of the world, income transfers to underprivileged groups have long been part of social welfare programmes. However, the conditionality of such grants has recently been challenged on a global scale, arguing that income grants should serve as
Sabine Klocke-Daffa
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