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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article analyses a new wealth tax (the IGF) in Bolivia against the backdrop of the 2019 ousting of former president Evo Morales. In doing so, it engages calls for ‘a return to politics’ in anthropology by proposing the notion of a ‘fiscal grievance politics’ as animating elite opposition to the tax in lowland Santa Cruz department. I show that the
Charles Dolph
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Mixed oligopoly, public firm behavior, and free private entry [PDF]
, 2012 © 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reservedWe analyze a mixed oligopoly with free entry by private firms, assuming that a public firm maximizes an increasing function of output, subject to a break-even constraint.
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.The autonomy of the United Wa State Army of Myanmar today is said to be based on the egalitarianism of Wa communities in the past. The analysis of commensuration in kinship, sacrifice, and war challenges these portrayals of autonomy and egalitarianism.
Hans Steinmüller
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Región y Sociedad, 2017 The government constituted the Federal Board of Material Improvements in order to manage and control the economic resources and the construction of public works at México’s borders and ports.
María del Carmen Zetina Rodríguez +2 more
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Profit Sharing under the Threat of Nationalization [PDF]
A multinational corporation engages in foreign direct investment for the extraction of a natural resource in a developing country. The corporation bears the initial investment and earns as a return a share of the profits. The host country provides access
Di Corato, Luca
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Insights from the Presidential Addresses to the Agricultural Economics Society
Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Society's published presidential addresses have embraced a wide range of subject matter, reflecting a ‘road well travelled’ in agricultural economics. The areas covered include the development and use of data and statistics, lessons from history, sectoral analysis, land economics, international trade and international development.
David Blandford
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Наука. Инновации. Технологии, 2022 The main tendencies and contradictions of the development of the countries of Western Europe and the USA in the second half of XIX century are considered in the article and the causes of economical rise in the 50–60-ies and crisis occurrences in ...
Igor Vladimirovich Kryuchkov
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Evolving Geopolitics and Japan's Economic Security–Trade Nexus: ‘New Capitalism’ as a Balancing Act?
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Amid intensifying geopolitical tensions, governments increasingly perceive economic interdependence as a strategic vulnerability. Japan, situated geopolitically between two great powers—the United States and China—attempts to navigate geopolitics by prioritising economic security.
Minako Morita‐Jaeger
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The closure of Michael Colliery in 1967 and the politics of deindustrialization in Scotland [PDF]
, 2015 Michael Colliery in east Fife was the largest National Coal Board (NCB) unit in Scotland when it closed in 1967, following a disastrous fire which killed nine miners.
Phillips, Jim
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Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Much of the subsea cable network, which carries the vast majority of global internet traffic, is developed, owned, and operated by private corporations. In an era of growing global tensions, states have come to view these cables as critical to their interests. The article addresses the disconnect between statecraft‐centric explanations and the
Joscha Abels
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