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‘Turkeys Cannot Vote for Christmas’: Why Epistemic Disobedience in an Anti‐Black World Matters

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Never in the history of global coloniality has the idea of epistemic disobedience been as important as in the 21st century. This is not only because the struggle for decolonisation has shifted from physical confrontation between the coloniser and the colonised into a battle of ideas but also because the former has deployed the idea of ...
Morgan Ndlovu
wiley   +1 more source

Housing as Asset‐Based Welfare in Australia: An Investigation Through a Consumption Lens

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Housing asset‐based welfare has long been a key component of Australia's social policy. This resonates with a parallel literature identifying a trade‐off between homeownership and the size of nations' welfare states, wherein owner‐occupiers in smaller welfare states tend to come to rely on housing wealth to meet many of their welfare needs ...
Gavin A. Wood   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The essential but often misunderstood role of economics in groundwater sustainability research

open access: yesEnvironmental Research Letters
To promote better groundwater policymaking, hydrologists and economists need to work together. The importance of hydrology is self-evident, but we posit that questions about the causes of and potential solutions for groundwater problems, and pathways to ...
William K Jaeger   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The emergence of the conception of rationality in mainstream economics

open access: yesIberian Journal of the History of Economic Thought
Rationality is a loaded term. When we say that a person’s behaviour is rational, we hint that she acts as she ought to act. The normative dimension of rationality is often conflated, if not confounded, by social scientists.
Alfonso Palacio-Vera
doaj   +1 more source

Normative Modelling in Demo-Economics [PDF]

open access: yes, 1977
This report is an expository state-of-the-art review of several fundamental themes in two related but largely unconnected bodies of literature. The focus is on recent attempts to design comprehensive dynamic demo-economic policy models that are formally ...
Rogers, A., Willekens, F.
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Cost Utility Analysis of Fluticasone Exhalation Delivery System Versus Budesonide Nasal Irrigation for Chronic Rhinosinusitis With Nasal Polyps

open access: yesInternational Forum of Allergy &Rhinology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps (CRSwNP) is managed after sinus surgery with topical corticosteroids. Given limited distribution of nasal steroid sprays, patients have the option of either steroid nasal irrigation (SNI) or exhalation delivery system with fluticasone (EDS‐FLU).
Daniel Xiao   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

L’invisibilisation du commun

open access: yesDroit et Cultures
This paper describes from an analytical and normative perspective how economics reduces what’s common to its individual components only. The ignorance by welfare economics of its normative challenge results from “welfarism”, the framework according to ...
Antoinette Baujard
doaj   +1 more source

Opposing consensus science through scholarly practices: The role of claims maintenance

open access: yesJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines how three US‐based communities who oppose consensus science produce and disseminate scholarly‐like artifacts: pro‐life activists, Young Earth Creationists, and Anthropogenic Climate Crisis skeptics. Prior research shows that industry‐ or church‐backed advocacy campaigns often generate claims supported by these communities ...
Irene V. Pasquetto   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Micro-Economics Foundations of Islamic Economics

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Islam and Society, 1986
I. Objective of this Paper The main objective of this paper is to show the relevance of ethical or normative elements in economic theory. The paper builds on the exchange mechanism of economics as the ethical basis of the social order and shows that an ...
Masudul Alam Choudhury
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Political economics and normative analysis [PDF]

open access: yes
The approaches and opinions of economists often dominate public policy discussion. Economists have gained this privileged position partly (or perhaps mainly) because of the obvious relevance of their subject matter, but also because of the unified ...
Colin Jennings, Iain McLean
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