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Greenhouse: Why a Good Plan Failed [PDF]

open access: yes, 1986
[Excerpt] In June 1984, Rhode Island voters went to the polls to decide the fate of an ambitious economic revitalization plan. Two years in the making, the plan was based on the most comprehensive study of a single state\u27s economy ever conducted.
Weisman, Dan
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Lost in aggregation? On the importance of local food price data for food poverty estimates

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores within‐country variations in food price dynamics and food poverty estimates by employing local market price data and national consumer price index (CPI) data. Our results show that national CPI data may be useful for approximating national trends but they fail to detect and identify spatial variations in local trends, which
Stephan Dietrich   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

03-11 "Clocks, Creation, and Clarity: Insights on Ethics and Economics from a Feminist Perspective" [PDF]

open access: yes
This essay discusses the origins, biases, and effects on contemporary discussions of economics and ethics of the unexamined use of the metaphor “an economy is a machine.” The neoliberal view that the self-regulated workings of free markets should be kept
Julie A. Nelson
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Seeking the Real Adam Smith and Milton Friedman [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
In this paper we will analyze the relationship between free market principles and ethics through an exploration of how too many business managers often approach the ideas of Adam Smith and Milton Friedman.
A Buchanan   +15 more
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A community‐driven approach to address substance use and create a Great Plains American Indian addiction and recovery research agenda

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Substance use, specifically opioid and methamphetamine use, is of increasing concern among American Indian (AI) populations in the Great Plains. This community‐driven participatory study investigated the impacts of substance use and community‐defined needs in treating addiction.
Brynn Luger   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Monitoring Development Sustainability through Sustainable Community Indicators

open access: yesProceedings, 2018
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is both a continuation to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and an improvement on the addition of ‘means of implementation’ to achieve the goals.
Somchai Jitsuchon
doaj   +1 more source

China

open access: yes, 1997
Economic development processes in post-1949 China can be divided into two periods. In the first, 1950-70, the economy was extensively and intensively controlled by the state with a priority for developing heavy industries.
CHOI, Shan Yu   +6 more
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Conceptualisations of sustainable tourism development: an examination of the distance between ideology and local desires [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This research seeks to resolve academic concern for the limited insight within existing bodies of knowledge in terms of how Sustainability and Sustainable Tourism Development is conceptualised at a grassroots level; by the stakeholders and more ...
Taylor, F
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The Insistence of Blackness and the Persistence of Antiblackness in Ireland

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper positions Ireland as a critical site for examining the insistence of blackness and an antiblackness created and sustained through Irish ethnonationalist imaginaries and exclusionary processes. Drawing on connected sociologies and Irish Black Studies, this enquiry argues that antiblackness in Ireland operates as a generational force,
Philomena Mullen
wiley   +1 more source

Investigating the Adaptability of Macro Policies of "Resistance Economy" In the Epistemic System of Political Transcendental Theosophy [PDF]

open access: yes‫سیاست متعالیه‏, 2019
Theories of "government" are based on their philosophy of support, and they appear in all domains, including political economy. Assuming that the "Transcendental Theosophy" is a philosophical device supporting the Islamic Republic of Iran, the political ...
ali toussi   +1 more
doaj  

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