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Class, caste and conspicuous consumption in India

open access: yesEconomica, Volume 93, Issue 370, Page 439-467, April 2026.
Abstract Using nationally representative household‐level panel data from India, we study status‐signalling through conspicuous consumption across castes, religions and income classes. Conditional on permanent income, scheduled caste (SC) and scheduled tribe (ST) Hindu households spend more, while religious minorities spend less on visible consumption ...
Aruni Mitra, Ronit Mukherji
wiley   +1 more source

The Complex Geography of Cultural Networks

open access: yesGeography Compass, Volume 20, Issue 4, April 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines the cultural sector as complex, sprawling, and uneven spatial networks, shaped by the interactions of people, institutions, goods and services. At the intersection of network science and geography, it synthesises how spatial network approaches have been applied to the study of cultural and creative industries, including ...
Andrea Ballatore
wiley   +1 more source

Treatment as an Individual and the Priority of Persons Over Groups in Antidiscrimination Law [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
The Supreme Court has said that the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution and Title VII’s prohibition of discrimination require that all persons be treated as individuals and that the laws operate primarily to protect “persons, not groups.” This ...
Huttu, John, Svedjemo, Gustaf
core   +1 more source

Dilemmas of dating: The case of aprioristic sexual lookism

open access: yes
Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Rossella De Bernardi
wiley   +1 more source

Asymmetries in factors influencing non-fungible tokens’ (NFTs) returns

open access: yesFinancial Innovation
The asymmetries of factors influencing the return of cryptocurrencies have already been well documented; however, in the case of NFTs, only information asymmetries and hedging properties related to asymmetries were studied.
Botond Benedek, Bálint Zsolt Nagy
doaj   +1 more source

Beyond the Competition Approach to Money: a Conceptual Framework applied to the Early Modern France [PDF]

open access: yes
As other European countries of that time, Early modern France was characterized by its monetary plurality. The purpose of the text is to present this plurality and analyse the ways it was articulated.
Jérôme Blanc
core  

Striking a Balance between Property and Personality. The Case of the Avatars [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Virtual worlds, as powerful social platforms of intense human interaction, gather millions of users worldwide, producing massive economies of their own, giving rise to the birth of complex social relationships and the formation of virtual communities.
GOMES DE ANDRADE, Norberto Nuno
core  

Non-fungible tokens in ophthalmology: what is it good for? [PDF]

open access: yesEye (Lond), 2023
Pietris J   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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