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Preliminary Warnings on 'Constitutional' Idolatry [PDF]
, 2016 Reflects on the risk of the UK developing a "constitutional idolatry" for a written constitution, and the dangers which such a codified constitution may present. Examines the changing meaning of "constitution" and discusses, with reference to the US, how
Jones, Brian Christopher, Jones, B.
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Spanish stock returns, growth, and inflation, 1900–2020
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract This paper studies equity returns in the Madrid Stock Exchange and their connections with the macroeconomy from the emergence of a stock market around 1900 to its ‘big bang’ at the turn of the twenty‐first century. Using high‐quality data from primary sources and the methodology of the modern IBEX35 (published since 1987), we constructed an ...
Stefano Battilossi +2 more
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Od ateizmu pojęcia do ateizmu bez pojęcia
Teksty Drugie, 2018 Wrobel explores ‘atheism of the concept,’ which for him gives rise to the ‘cult of the concept’. He asks if ‘atheism of the concept’ might not be a vestige of theistic thinking, which we ought to overcome.
Szymon Wróbel
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Speculation in the United Kingdom, 1785‒2019
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract Speculation has long been thought to have significant economic effects, but it is difficult to measure, making it challenging to examine these effects empirically. In this paper we measure speculation in the United Kingdom since 1785 by using business and financial reporting in The Times newspaper.
William Quinn +2 more
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Virtue Ethics in a Value-driven World: Medical Errors and the Albatross. [PDF]
Clin Orthop Relat Res, 2023 Humbyrd CJ.
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Women in business: Gender and commercial space in nineteenth‐century Glasgow
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract Focusing on women entrepreneurs in a large British city, we examine how women's commercially listed businesses populated that city. Using commercial property rental records, our study allows us to understand sectoral variation and the distribution of businesses across the city and to assess both the absolute and relative contribution of women ...
Graeme Acheson +2 more
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Aristocratic identification in Felix’s Life of Guthlac
Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.Recent scholarship often sees high‐born monastics and clerics in early Christian England as part of the aristocratic class. Modern identity theories, however, suggest that social identity could be dynamic, situational, processual and discursive. In light of this concept, the present article reads Felix’s Life of Guthlac as a text that constructs an ...
Lek Hang Chan
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Striking the right balance between youth and experience: An ageing scientific workforce could have unanticipated implications for innovation, creativity, and productivity. [PDF]
EMBO Rep, 2023 Hunter P.
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Idolatry and the construction of the Spanish empire
, 2018 Includes bibliographical references and index.An ethnohistory on the spiritual as well as governmental conquest of the indigenous people in colonial Mexico that examines the role the shifting concept of idolatry played in the conquest of the Americas, as
Soormally, Mina Garcia, author +1 more
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Idolatry, Ecology, and the Sacred as Tangible
, 2011 While paganic aniconic forms of religiosity do flourish, such as we see in Shinto, Balinese Hinduism and Neo-paganism, idolatry is nevertheless a central form of religious expression to both generic paganism and vernacular forms of worship in general ...
Michael York
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