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The Massalia Pólis and its Organisation: from Oligarchy to Moderate Aristocracy
RUDN Journal of World History, 2009 This article is an attempt to describe the political organization of Massalia in the antique period, especially its evolution from moderate oligarchy to moderate aristocracy. The civil community of Massalia was mixed, and included also representatives of
V I Kozlovskaya
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A Review of the Concept of Time Reversal and the Direction of Time
Entropy: In the debate about the direction of time in physics, the concept of time reversal has been central. Tradition has it that time-reversal invariant laws are sufficient to state that the direction of time is non-fundamental or emergent. In this paper, we
Cristian López, Olimpia Lombardi
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Law, politics, and finance [PDF]
The authors assess three established theories about the historical determinants of financial development. They also propose an augmented version of one of these theories.
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, 1999 The mind-body problem is the problem of explaining how our mental states, events and processes—like beliefs, actions and thinking—are related to the physical states, events and processes in our bodies.
Crane, Tim
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Tax administration in developing countries : strategies and tools of implementation [PDF]
Developing nations should adopt less sophisticated taxes (such as taxes on goods and services) to broaden the tax base and use more efficient administrative techniques. This could be achieved through a system of income withholdings (for all components of
IMF Fiscal Affairs Department
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An extension of relational methods in mortality estimations
Demographic Research, 2001 Actuaries and demographers have a long tradition of utilising collateral data to improve mortality estimates. Three main approaches have been used to accomplish the improvement- mortality laws, model life tables, and relational methods. The present paper
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Fictio Juris and the legal construction of wine: Natural vs. artificial in Spanish law (1860–1932)
Cogent Arts & HumanitiesThis paper explores the development of Spanish wine legislation between 1860 and 1932, focusing on the concept of fictio juris, a legal fiction that defines wine as a product derived solely from grape fermentation while permitting additives that alter ...
Pablo Alonso González
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Catasto coloniale e conflitti di proprietà terriera in Camerun
GEOmedia, 2011 Per quasi un secolo, fino agli Anni ‘60, l’Africa è stata una colonia europea. Durante questo periodo le leggi dei colonizzatori sostituirono molte delle norme tradizionali che erano state applicate in precedenza; questo fino all’indipendenza, quando i ...
Bernard Puépi
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Current contributions of the natural law tradition to international law
, 2022 Many elements of current positive public international law (PIL) originated in theories of natural law, including both rules – of the law of the sea and of war, of refugee and asylum law – and constitutive conceptions of sovereignty. Several scholars argue that PIL has improved upon and replaced those origins, leaving the old natural law theories dead.
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The No Child Left Behind Act and the legacy of federal aid to education.
Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2005 The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) builds on a tradition of gradually increasing federal involvement in the nation's public school systems. NCLB both resembles and differs from earlier federal education laws.
Lee W. Anderson
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