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Macedonian Opium

open access: yes
The Vardar Valley emerged as a key Balkan center for opium and tobacco cultivation under Ottoman and later Yugoslav rule. White poppies yielded high-morphine opium, largely exported for pharmaceutical purposes. In interwar Yugoslavia, small growers were exploited by Salonika speculators until PRIZAD, established in 1930, centralized pricing, quality ...
openaire   +1 more source

Individualism and working from home

open access: yesEconomic Inquiry, EarlyView.
Abstract We show that culturally transmitted individualism is an important determinant of working from home (WFH). Using individual‐level data from the U.S. Current Population Survey (CPS) and the European Social Survey (ESS), we compare immigrants and their descendants from different cultural backgrounds residing in the same location.
Jan Bietenbeck   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Illyrians and Macedonians in the Fifth Century BC

open access: yesKaranos
The Illyrians lived in a mountainous territory that bordered the rich plains of Macedonia. Therefore, since the archaic age, they tried several times to penetrate Macedonia.
Franca Landucci Gattinoni
doaj  

What is fake news? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Recently, the term «fake news» has become ubiquitous in political and public discourse and the media. Despite its omnipresence, however, it is anything but clear what fake news is. An adequate and comprehensive definition of fake news is called for.
Jaster, Romy, Lanius, David
core  

Broke Autocrats, Broken Elections: Trade Shocks and Electoral Fraud in Autocracies

open access: yesEconomics &Politics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We argue that when terms‐of‐trade (ToT) shocks reduce resource rents, autocrats lose the fiscal capacity to sustain loyalty through patronage and increasingly rely on electoral manipulation as a survival strategy. We present a simple model in which rents finance patronage in normal times, while adverse shocks reduce the effectiveness of ...
Antonis Adam, Sofia Tsarsitalidou
wiley   +1 more source

Chromosomal Abnormalities in Early Pregnancy Losses: A Study of 900 Samples. [PDF]

open access: yesBalkan J Med Genet, 2023
Bozhinovski G   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The circulation and distribution of classical Greek coinage

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract From a sample of the most prominent Greek city‐states, data involving a total of 999 hoards and 160,007 coins from 550 to 300 BC were collected to discern the relative magnitudes, consistency of issue, and distribution of Classical Greek coinages.
Zane Mullins
wiley   +1 more source

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