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Moral Economies of Debt Forgiveness and Enforcement in Postcrisis Iceland

open access: yesEconomic Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Who deserves financial relief in times of crisis, and on what grounds? The 2008 collapse of Iceland's banking system prompted state intervention to mitigate household indebtedness, including forbearance, pension withdrawals, repayment adjustments, and debt reductions.
Timothy Heffernan
wiley   +1 more source

Collateralization of the Body in the Central Sahara: On Forms and Effects

open access: yesEconomic Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article tracks a transporter along the route linking Tripoli to the Saharan town of Ghadames in post‐2011 Libya, asking what secures an obligation when the institutions that normally underwrite it (offices, courts, recognized names) have receded. I distinguish the debt, the sum owed, from the security pledged to answer for it: what may be
Moad Musbahi
wiley   +1 more source

When money isn't everything: Identifying stage‐based patterns of entrepreneurial resource acquisition

open access: yesStrategic Management Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary Scholars often examine how entrepreneurs' existing ties predict resource acquisition. We investigated the reverse: How does the act of pitching generate new ties with investors? Using the context of the Slow Money community, we analyzed social entrepreneurs' pitches to impact investors.
Esther Leibel   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Why Does Individualism Affect Economic Development: Is It Values, Policies, or Institutions?

open access: yesSouthern Economic Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A substantial body of literature highlights the positive roles of individualism and economic freedom in fostering prosperity, and recent work links the two. This paper disentangles their contributions to economic development. In cross‐country data, we show that both are independently associated with per capita income, even after extensive ...
Lewis S. Davis   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Emergent Innovation in Systemic Programme Design: Retrospective Reflections on the Development of a Student‐Centred Masters in Systems Thinking

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Our theory of education, based on a systemic understanding of the subjective and intersubjective construction of knowledge, is that students are motivated to study what is most meaningful to them. Meaningfulness is grounded in the students' prior experiences, which are highly diverse.
Wendy J. Gregory, Gerald Midgley
wiley   +1 more source

Systemic Design in Times of Crisis: Fostering a Collaborative Culture Under Conditions of Energy Vulnerability in Northeastern Iran

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The actualization of innovation in social systems requires interventions within small systems, communities and organizations. At this scale, practitioners can engage directly with the interactions, communication and dialogue among key actors, including those with conflicting interests.
Moein Nedaei
wiley   +1 more source

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