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Political philosophy and the attraction of realism [PDF]
, 2015 The progressive abstraction and professionalisation of political philosophy over the last few decades has invited a ‘realist’ backlash. This turn to realism has been promoted and defended by various philosophers for a variety of reasons.
Kelly, Paul
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Livestock Tango: U.S. and Latin America Dance Together, but Who Will Lead?
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the competitiveness between Latin American and U.S. livestock and meat sectors. We employ a computable general equilibrium modeling framework to evaluate two scenarios: coordinated improvements in Latin American productivity, transport efficiency, and market access (Scenario I), and the minimum productivity gains required ...
Taís C. Menezes +2 more
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The Conception of Proletarian Literature and Socialist Realism in the Interwar Period [PDF]
Slovenska Literatura, 2020 The goal of the paper is to trace the way socialist realism was developing and establishing in Slovak literature in the period of the first Czechoslovak republic (1918 – 1938) and to verify whether it is really a immovable monolith as the tradition goes ...
Viliam Nádaskay
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, 2002 In his day, Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) was a philosopher of some importance. He argued the case for materialism perhaps more cogently than did any British thinker before recent times.
Tapper, Alan
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Temperature and Farm Labor in Nigeria
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We estimate the impact of temperature shocks on the composition of farm labor in rural Nigeria using a nationally representative household panel survey. Leveraging plausibly exogenous year‐to‐year variation in growing season temperatures, we find that warmer temperatures significantly alter farm labor composition, prompting a substantial shift
Andu Berha
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Why critical realism fails to justify critical social research [PDF]
, 2009 Many social scientists have argued that research should be designed to perform a ‘critical’ function, in the sense of challenging the socio-political status quo.
Hammersley, Martyn
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Markets Mitigate Land‐Use Competition From Energy Crops and Increase Farm Revenues
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Meeting the US Sustainable Aviation Fuel Grand Challenge target of 35 billion gal annually by 2050 will require an estimated 380 million–700 million dry tons of agricultural biomass feedstock. This study evaluates the implications of large‐scale biomass production for land use, crop production, and market outcomes under mature market ...
Daniel G. De La Torre Ugarte +2 more
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Aristotle’s Politics: Ethical Politics or Political Realism?
, 2017 Much of the scholarly literature provides significant support for the ethical foundation of Aristotelian political science. Still, it cannot be said that there is a smooth relationship between Aristotle’s ethical thinking and his theory of politics in the Politics.
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The instabilities of expertise: remaking knowledge, power and politics in unsettled times
, 2017 In this article, we explore the implications of contemporary populist challenges to established forms of expertise in the UK, USA and elsewhere. Drawing on a Foucauldian conception of knowledge and power as always articulated, we argue for a conjunctural
Clarke, John, Newman, Janet
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