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Moral Economies of Debt Forgiveness and Enforcement in Postcrisis Iceland

open access: yesEconomic Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Who deserves financial relief in times of crisis, and on what grounds? The 2008 collapse of Iceland's banking system prompted state intervention to mitigate household indebtedness, including forbearance, pension withdrawals, repayment adjustments, and debt reductions.
Timothy Heffernan
wiley   +1 more source

The Legacies of Lockdown: Moral Logics of Exchange and Mistrust in Postpandemic China

open access: yesEconomic Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT When Shanghai entered an extended lockdown under China's Zero‐COVID policy in spring 2022, residents found themselves confined within their residential compounds, cut off from conventional supply chains, and dependent on improvised systems of local provisioning and state rationing. From the perspective of economic anthropology, such conditions
Erika Kuever
wiley   +1 more source

Improving Human Diving Endurance With a Field‐Deployable Exoskeleton

open access: yesSmartBot, EarlyView.
High energetic demands to overcome drag, combined with a finite supply of self‐contained breathing gas, fundamentally limit human endurance in underwater locomotion. Here, we present DiveMate, a portable exoskeleton that provides adaptive bidirectional assistance synchronized with fin‐kicking during diving, reducing lower‐limb muscle activation and ...
Zhihao Zhou   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Organizing across cognitive asymmetry in human–AI collaboration: A study of perfume creation

open access: yesStrategic Management Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary As organizations increasingly adopt generative AI (GenAI), they face a strategic challenge: not only deciding which tasks AI should perform, but also how to organize the integration of human and AI efforts to produce viable solutions.
Tomoko Yokoi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pay‐for‐prominence: The (un)intended consequences of monetary incentives on employees' networks and attrition

open access: yesStrategic Management Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary We introduce the concept of pay‐for‐prominence, a system where employees are monetarily incentivized to become knowledge hubs in the intrafirm network and examine its effects on employees' networks and attrition. Integrating social network theory with relational incentives theory, we argue that pay‐for‐prominence motivates ...
Alessandro Iorio   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Adding Realism to Theories of Taxpayer Compliance

open access: yesSouthern Economic Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Explaining why people pay taxes has not been a central focus in the many important contributions of Jim Cox. Even so, I argue here that his work has greatly affected the way that we think about taxpayer compliance, by adding both directly and indirectly much needed realism to the theories and the applications of compliance. These contributions
James Alm
wiley   +1 more source

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