Material meanings: ‘waste’ as a performative category of land in colonial India [PDF]
, 2016 Nearly seven decades after ‘decolonization’, policymaking in India continues to be haunted by colonial categories. Focusing on the category ‘wastelands’, which has been central to recent debates on India's biofuel policies, we study how it was ...
Arora, Saurabh, de Hoop, Evelien
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Economic growth as the limiting factor for wildlife conservation [PDF]
The concept of limiting factor includes the lack of welfare factors and the presence of decimating factors. Originally applied to populations and species, the concept may also be applied to wildlife in the aggregate.
Czech, Brian
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La Fisiocracia en España: los Principes de la législation universelle (1776) de G. L. Schmid d´Avenstein [PDF]
, 2005 Although there is a range of articles around that describe and analyse the spread of Physiocracy in Spain, up until now none of them focused on the contribution made to this process by G. L. Schmid d'Avestein, a member of the Swiss Enlightenment.
Astigarraga, Jesús
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A resource-advantage perspective on pricing: shifting the focus from ends to means-end in pricing research? [PDF]
, 2013 This paper contributes to a long-lasting debate between practitioners who argue that academia is unable to understand what pricing is all about and academics who criticize practitioner pricing approaches for lacking rigor or rationality.
Roper, Angela, van der Rest, Jean-Pierre
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French-Asian connections : the Compagnies des Indes, Frances's Eastern trade, and new directions in historical scholarship [PDF]
, 2013 With the recent rise in global history as a discipline, early modern Europe's Asian trade has become a new focus of interest. In French historiography, however, this still remains marginalized.
Gottmann, Felicia
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Vicent Llombart Rosa (1948-2017): obituario. Historiografía y compilación bibliográfica [PDF]
, 2017 El doctor Vicent Llombart Rosa fue catedrático de Historia del Pensamiento Económico de la Universitat de València y un reconocido experto en la Ilustración, miembro de la Real Academia de Ciencias Morales y Políticas, decano de la Facultad de Ciencias ...
Cervera Ferri, Pablo
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A 'third culture' in economics? An essay on Smith, Confucius and the rise of China [PDF]
China's rise drives a growing impact of China on economics. So far, this mainly works via the force of example, but there is also an emerging role of Chinese thinking in economics.
Herrmann-Pillath, Carsten
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Future agriculture and food supply chain - not even doomsday preppers got it right [PDF]
, 2017 Future agriculture and food supply chain is one of the pillars of human survival and prosperity in the long run. The planet’s ecosystem is very fragile and influenced by a large array of very diverse natural and human factors which are frequently ...
Stefanic, Filip, Stefanic, Ivan
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Development and Social Goals: Balancing Aid and Development to Prevent ‘Welfare Colonialism’ [PDF]
The current development policy focus on poverty reduction is erroneous. Historically, successful development policy—from the late fifteenth century until the beginning of the twenty-first—has achieved structural change away from dependence on raw ...
Erik S. Reinert
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