Faith, gender and financial investment: Providence and Presbyterianism in Scotland and abroad
Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract Mid‐nineteenth century fictional representations of misdirected investment by widows and clergy position them as ignorant in financial matters and hence pitiable. While scholars have recognised female agency in nineteenth century commerce, insufficient attention has been paid to religious belief in financial decision‐making.
Jennifer Jones, Susan Poole
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COVID- 19 and human right to food: lived experiences of the urban poor in Kenya with the impacts of government's response measures, a participatory qualitative study. [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2022 Kimani-Murage EW +5 more
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Native Artists: Livelihoods, Resources, Space, Gifts [PDF]
, 2009 Examines the experiences of Ojibwe artists in Minnesota, including access to training, funding, space, paying markets, and institutional support; discrimination and isolation; and relationships with communities.
Ann Markusen, Marcie Rendon
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Farmers' pro‐social motivations and willingness‐to‐accept in markets with public goods
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract To explain how some farmers' decisions may diverge from profit‐maximization, we incorporate proactive social preferences for public goods in an expected utility framework, in addition to reactive risk preferences to uncertainty. We offer empirical evidence that proactive preferences influence farmers' decisions alongside reactive preferences ...
Jill Fitzsimmons +2 more
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Understanding old herbal secrets: The renaissance of traditional medicinal plants beyond the twenty classic species? [PDF]
Front Pharmacol, 2023 Scherrer MM +3 more
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Interpreting a crisis: trade and money debates in England during the parliament of 1621 [PDF]
The parliament of 1621 witnessed extensive debating of economic issues by those engaged in finding solutions for the exacting crisis which then affected England.
Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak
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Progress and Poverty: Walter Rodney's Legacy
The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The conventional view of human progress states that the more humanity makes progress, the less poverty is entrenched. But, global development is currently characterized by a persistent combination of economic progress and growing relative poverty. This endemic inequality has puzzled economists for years.
Franklin Obeng‐Odoom
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Improving pathways to care through interventions cocreated with communities: a qualitative investigation of men's barriers to tuberculosis care-seeking in an informal settlement in Blantyre, Malawi. [PDF]
BMJ Open, 2021 Phiri MM +8 more
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Art Deaccessions and the Limits of Fiduciary Duty [PDF]
, 2009 Art deaccessions prompt lawsuits against museums, and some commentators advocate using the stricter trust standard of care, instead of the prevailing corporate standard (business judgment rule), to evaluate the conduct of non‑profit museum boards.
Chen, Sue
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