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Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Neoliberal market‐oriented approaches to solving social and economic problems defined as “poverty” have received much attention in anthropology and allied disciplines such as sociology and geography and among development studies scholars and practitioners.
Olubukola Olayiwola
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Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As the concept of sustainability became mainstream in development discourses from its environmentalist origins, it increasingly came to resemble the unchecked capitalist logics that it was originally meant to critique: Rather than reorganizing the economy, sustainability could be achieved through the economy as philanthropy became modeled on ...
Caitlyn Bolton
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Entrepreneurship‐As‐Struggle: The Crises and Politics of Entrepreneurial Becomings
Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Entrepreneurship among marginalized people in Bangladesh involves social, political, and cultural struggle against immediate crises of poverty and enduring crises of class, caste, religious, and gendered exclusions. Drawing on 25 months of ethnographic research among entrepreneurs in rural Bangladesh and the life stories of 137 entrepreneurs ...
Grace Mueller +4 more
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Sticking your neck out and burying the hatchet: what idioms reveal about embodied simulation [PDF]
, 2014 Natalie A. Kacinik
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Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The khipu knotted string records in the ancient Andes were accounting systems, but they did not indicate any concepts of commensurability or exchange value. They were not incipient money; instead, monetized commerce appears to have predated the economic organization of the Inca society. The article begins by tracing the emergence of coinage in
Alf Hornborg
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Who gets redeployed? Inventor characteristics and resource redeployment decisions
Strategic Management Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Research Summary While the literature highlights the benefits of internally redeploying resources, there is less empirical guidance on which resources are most likely to be redeployed. We examine the relationship between inventor characteristics and redeployment decisions, motivated by the tension between costs and benefits of keeping a ...
Kyungsoo Kim, Isin Guler, Samina Karim
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Phenomenon of Synonymy of Verbal Idioms Denoting Feelings In Russian, Tajik, And English Languages
Polylinguality and Transcultural Practices, 2013 The importance of synonymy phenomenon is emphasized by its study based on practical examples used in speech and literature; it lets us to divide verbal idioms denoting feelings in Russian, English, and Tajik languages into three groups: verbal idioms ...
N F Mikheyeva, F A Akhmedova
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When do firms learn by hiring? How complexity moderates the value of new knowledge
Strategic Management Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Research Summary Organizations often hire employees hoping to acquire new knowledge. While the literature has paid considerable attention to the role of the characteristics of the source of knowledge, the recipient firm, and the knowledge being transferred, it has largely overlooked those of the knowledge being replaced.
Dong Nghi Pham +2 more
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SusMat, EarlyView.The study uses rapidly prepared Cr NPs with controllable fluorescence, enabling co‐regulation of quenching and enhancement for dyes and DNA of differing structures. By assembling a CD63‐specific aptamer with Cr NPs, it creates a quantitative readout for CD63‐positive TDEs.
Meng Yao Wu +5 more
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Idioms and other constructions in American Sign Language
Cognitive LinguisticsIdioms are phrases like English [hit the sack], meaning ‘go to bed’. For linguists working with sign languages, a question arises: “What do idioms look like in a sign language?” This paper proposes a definition of idiom that can be used to identify ...
Lepic Ryan
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