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Pooling and repooling risk: The limits of Insurtech platforms in inclusive insurance

Finance and Society
This article investigates the promise of Insurtech to expand the frontier of the insurance market to include vulnerable populations around the world. It contributes to current debates on the proliferation of new technologies for financial inclusion as ...
Yannick Perticone, Jean-Christophe Graz
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Artificial Intelligence Patents and the Sustainable Development Goals: A Comparative Analysis of the United States and China

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Artificial intelligence (AI) is a general‐purpose technology with wide‐ranging implications for sustainable development; yet, little is known about how its innovation trajectories have aligned with the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Ern Chern Khor, Moon Choi
wiley   +1 more source

Introduction: Migrant Labor in the Platform Economy. The Intersection of Labor Digitization, Platform Capitalism, Migration, and Resistance

In the last forty years, since the end of organisation of production by the so-called Taylorist-Fordist criteria and the beginning of the neo-liberal revolution, work in the advanced economies has undergone profound transformations.
Montagna N, Della Puppa F, Dhar D
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Interpreting Sustainability: A Cross‐Cultural Exploration Between New Zealand (Western & Indigenous) and Chinese (Urban) Consumers

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainability is a globally promoted concept, yet its meaning is often shaped by cultural context. Existing research has largely been informed by Western‐centric understandings of sustainability, leaving limited insight into how sustainability is interpreted across diverse cultural settings.
Caixia (Ivy) Gan, Denise Maria Conroy
wiley   +1 more source

Introduction to the Debate on Pioneers of Capitalism

Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis
On 30 June 2023, the Centre for Urban History at the University of Antwerp, the Posthumus Institute, and the Antwerp Interdisciplinary Platform for Research into Inequality hosted a workshop dedicated to Pioneers of Capitalism. The Netherlands 1000-1800,
Bruno Blondé, Bas Spliet
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Conceptualizing variety in platform capitalism: the dynamics of variegated capitalism in Thai digital marketplace platforms

Globalizations
Digital platforms are expanding globally with significant implications for how economies operate. We argue that the literature has tended to over-emphasize the globalized and homogeneous impacts of platforms with less analysis of variable patterns across space.
openaire   +2 more sources

When Norms Meet Markets: Environmental Governance and Digital Fast‐Fashion Platforms in Brazil

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Environmental governance increasingly relies on consumer‐based mechanisms that assume that sustainability awareness translates into purchasing behaviour. This article investigates whether such mechanisms remain effective when consumption is organised through transnational digital platforms in contexts characterised by socioeconomic inequality.
Giovana Santa Rosa Lana, Paulo Afonso Brardo Duarte   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Piketty’s Capital. The Revival of Political Philosophy, Political Economy and Social Sciences in the Light of the Declaration of Human and Citizens’ Rights in the French Revolution of 1789

Nordicum-Mediterraneum, 2016
Piketty’s Capital in Twenty-First Century has posed a totally new platform for the discussion of the economy and capitalism. Piketty has reinvented the classical political economy founded by Adam Smith in his 1776 Wealth of Nations. Piketty has shown via
Øjvind Larsen
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Capitalism vs. freedom

, 2018
"For years, we've been taught that capitalism is good for freedom. Dominant right-wing talk radio hosts to this day recommend "libertarian" classics like Hayek's Road to Serfdom and Friedman's Capitalism and Freedom that claim markets free us, and this ...
Larson, Rob
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