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POPULAR ENTREPRENEURSHIP: A Grammar of Moral Economy in Contemporary Urban Peripheries
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines how popular entrepreneurship operates as a cultural grammar that disrupts established practices of wageless life in urban peripheries. Drawing on four years of ethnographic research conducted in São Paulo, it analyses entrepreneurial discourses not simply as ideological impositions, but as ambivalent mediations of ...
Henrique Costa
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Intellectual Solidarity and Reflexive Dislocation: Sociology in the Age of Global Authoritarianism
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article contributes to current debates on the ethics of critical scholarship in an era of authoritarian consolidation and institutional erosion. It introduces intellectual solidarity as an ethical stance and reflexive dislocation as a methodological practice that together offer a grounded response to the complicities and constraints of ...
Salvador Santino Regilme
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CEO Military Background and Investment Efficiency
Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, 2021We identify an unexplored attribute of the CEO associated with corporate investment efficiency – military experience.
Irfan Ullah +3 more
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Military Expenditure and Investment in OECD Countries: Revisited
Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy, 2014Abstract This study examines the effects of military expenditure on investment in 13 selected OECD countries over the period of 1971–2012 by applying the Smith Demand-Side model and different estimation methodologies including panel data, cross section and time series estimation methods.
Na Hou, Bo Chen
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The present value criterion in military investments
IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 1967Since the benefits of a military investment are not marketable, the investment itself is also not marketable. It follows, in particular, that there is no way in which the cost profile of such an investment can even conceptually be varied, except by government borrowing or by adoption of an alternative investment.
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Non-Military Justification for Investments in Military Technologies
1989It is sometimes assumed that non-military justifications play a part in the choice of the military technologies in which a country will invest. Such justifications, however, play no part in decisions on military technologies — or defence Research and Development (R and D) — on the part of countries which have a potential adversary, are ultimately ...
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Non-Military Justifications for Investment in Military R and D
1989The connection between military-oriented and civilian technology (and scientific) research dates back a long time, but only recently has world-wide attention been paid to it. There are two reasons for this. The first is the large proportion of public funds invested in military research, 70–90 billion dollars a year on a world-wide scale (of which 85 ...
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A semi-variance portfolio selection model for military investment assets
Expert Systems with Applications, 2011This paper discusses the portfolio selection for military investment assets based on semi-variance as a measure of risk. In this paper we propose a new definition of military investment assets for portfolio selection. Based on the new definition, a semi-variance model is provided.
Sang-Chin Yang +3 more
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Military Investments and Economic Growth in Developing Nations
Economic Development and Cultural Change, 1991In the 1980s much scholarly attention was paid to estimating the impact of Third World security sectors on domestic economic performance. Generally speaking, three branches of the pertinent literature can be identified. One branch consists of case studies of arms-producing less developed countries (LDC APs) to assess the level of sophistication and the
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Growth, investment and military expenditure in the European Union‐15
Journal of Economic Studies, 2010PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between growth, investment and military expenditure in the case of the European Union‐15.Design/methodology/approachThe paper uses fixed panel models, random coefficient models and a trivariate VAR model to examine empirically the relationship between these three macroeconomic ...
Christos Kollias +1 more
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