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Better on Average? Average Inflation Targeting With an Unclear Averaging Window
Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Average inflation targeting (AIT) aims to stabilize inflation expectations by offsetting past deviations from target. However, ambiguity about the averaging window can complicate expectations formation and reduce policy effectiveness. This paper integrates AIT into a benchmark DSGE model, incorporating adaptive learning and a signal extraction
James Dean
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Philippine Social Science JournalAgainst the backdrop of global displacement and Philippine urbanization, this study evaluates the implementation of a local housing resettlement program to address critical gaps in sustainable development. Utilizing a descriptive-comparative design with
Krizzia Joy N. Javier +2 more
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Origem dos filmes negros sobre património construído: diversos olhares [PDF]
, 2011 Os filmes negros desenvolvem-se sobre substrato granítico com morfologia idêntica ao mesmo. A sua eliminação requer métodos abrasivos e/ou químicos por forma a superar a impermeabilidade e dureza característica. A génese de formação dos filmes negros é o
Braga, Maria Amália Castro Sequeira +5 more
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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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Movimentos negros, educação e ações afirmativas
, 2007 Tese (doutorado)—Universidade de Brasília, Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Departamento de Sociologia, 2007.Nesta tese o autor se propõe a discutir por que renomados cientistas sociais da área de estudos e pesquisas sobre as relações raciais brasileiras –
Santos, Sales Augusto dos
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Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.Abstract The savage was a familiar as well as deeply problematic figure in late‐Victorian literary and scientific imaginaries. Savages provided an unstable but capacious and flexible signifier to explore human development and human difference, most often in ways that followed a disturbing racial logic.
Diarmid A. Finnegan
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Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.Abstract This article argues that W. E. B. Du Bois grounded his seminal conceptualisation of “the Negro church” in a Pan‐Africanist challenge to how Christian reformers and missionaries' usage of “Darkest Africa” as a metaphor for modern urban vice and poverty denigrated Africa and the African diaspora while promoting a segregated, imperialist version ...
Kai Parker
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Secularism, Gender and Masculinity in Nineteenth‐Century Cremation in Europe and the USA
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay explores, from transnational perspectives, the early history of modern cremation, which developed in the long nineteenth century with secularist connotations. I argue that the beginnings of modern cremation were shaped by bourgeois men who claimed certain identifiers for themselves in a gendering and Othering way.
Carolin Kosuch
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“Social science is explanation or it is nothing.” Introduction to a debate
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.Abstract This essay introduces contributions to a special section, which documents and extends a debate on the proposition “Social Science is Explanation or it is Nothing” held at the London School of Economics on October 13th, 2022. It discusses the history of the “Group for Theoretical Debates in Anthropology” led by Tim Ingold, Peter Wade and ...
Monika Krause
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Unnatural Wills: Inheritance Disputes and Inequality
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Within the conceptual frame of relational economic sociology, inheritance disputes are a canonical form of relational mismatch. But the social patterning of relational mismatches, and their various ties to inequality, remain murky. In this paper, I examine all known inheritance disputes in Dallas from 1895–1945 within their social context to ...
Shay O'Brien
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