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Waiting for the Invisible Hand: Market Power and Endogenous Information in the Modern Market for Food [PDF]
In many ways, the modern market for food exemplifies the economist’s conception of perfect competition, with many buyers, many sellers, and a robust and dynamic marketplace. But over the course of the last century, the U.S. has witnessed a dramatic shift
Philip Wandschneider +2 more
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Genetic erosion in crops: concept, research results and challenges
, 2010 The loss of variation in crops clue to the modernization of agriculture has been described as genetic erosion The current paper discusses the different views that exist on the concept of genetic erosion in crops Genetic erosion of cultivated diversity is
Visser, L. +7 more
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When Did Globalization Begin? [PDF]
Some world historians attach globalization big bang' significance to 1492 (Christopher Colombus stumbles on the Americas in search of spices) and 1498 (Vasco da Gama makes an end run around Africa and snatches monopoly rents away from the Arab and ...
Kevin H. O'Rourke, Jeffrey G. Williamson
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Marlowe on the English stage: 1588-1988 : a stage history of three Marlowe plays Dr. Faustus, Edward II, and the Jew of Malta. [PDF]
, 1990 This study attempts to follow the stage history of three of Marlowe's plays, Dr. Faustus, Edward II, and The Jew of Malta, from Marlowe's own time to our own time.
Hakim, Rima
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, 2016 Poet Daniel Hermann (1543–1601), a 16th-century humanist and diplomat from Prussia, authored the poem "About a Frog and a Lizard Embedded in Prussian Amber," which was published in Riga in 1600.
Kreigere-Liepiņa, Laura
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, 2013 In my dissertation I examine the little-known romances of chivalry "a lo divino" published in Spain between 1552 and 1601. Although derived from medieval texts, these sixteenth-century texts rewrite the literary genre of the romances of chivalry, mixing
Mallorqui Ruscalleda, Enric +1 more
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The Irish plays of James Shirley, 1636-1640 [PDF]
Although he was a prominent and influential playwright during his theatrical career, the work of James Shirley (1596-1666) has been neglected since Dryden's description of him in 'MacFlecknoe' as a mere 'type...of tautology'.
Williams, Justine Isabella
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The mathematical career of Pierre de Fermat: 1601-1665
, 1994 Hailed as one of the greatest mathematical results of the twentieth century, the recent proof of Fermat's Last Theorem by Andrew Wiles brought to public attention the enigmatic problem-solver Pierre de Fermat, who centuries ago stated his famous ...
Mahoney, Michael Sean
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Wolfgang Ratke (Ratichius) and his educational writings [PDF]
, 1990 Wolfgang Ratke (Ratichius, 1571-1635) presents something of a paradox in educational history. Born in Holstein, he first came into prominence through the Memorandum he presented at the election of the Holy Roman Emperor in Frankfurt in 1612.
Walmsley, J.B, Walmsley, John Brian
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The conscience of the community: the character and development of clerical complaint in early modern England [PDF]
This thesis considers the character and development of clerical social criticism in England between c.1540 and c.1640. It draws principally on a number of sermons and treatises that offered critiques of the prevailing structures of wealth and power or ...
Ingram, Juliet Amy
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