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Coolies – Asiáticos and Chinos: Global Dimensions of Second Slavery [PDF]
, 2016 Michael Zeuske
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Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The khipu knotted string records in the ancient Andes were accounting systems, but they did not indicate any concepts of commensurability or exchange value. They were not incipient money; instead, monetized commerce appears to have predated the economic organization of the Inca society. The article begins by tracing the emergence of coinage in
Alf Hornborg
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The Unknown Legacy of the 13th Amendment
, 2016 On January 31, 1865, Congress passed the 13th Amendment, declaring slavery illegal in the United States. Or so it seemed. The second line of the Amendment, and the most oft unknown, states that slavery can still be used as a form of punishment for crimes,
Jones, Danielle E.
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Marching Masters: Slavery, Race, and the Confederate Army During the Civil War
, 2014 Robert S. Wolff
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Compact Manipulator With Flexible Parallel Mechanisms and Variable Stiffness for Keyhole Procedures
SmartBot, EarlyView.This paper presents a compact 7‐DOF flexible parallel manipulator with a 4.5 mm outer diameter and a 1.8 mm central instrument channel for keyhole procedures. Kinematic and stiffness models are established, and workspace dexterity is analyzed. Experimental validation shows 0.49 mm average teleoperation accuracy, confirming excellent performance in ...
Changsheng Li +6 more
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The Jamestown/Xiaogang Survival Game: A Class Experiment
Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT One of the most important insights for any economics class is the power of private incentives and competition to work hard when the fruits of one's effort are not diluted by incomplete property rights. The paper reports results of a classroom experiment that implements a transition from a “common field” with shared harvests to a division into ...
Lee Coppock +3 more
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The Legacy of Chattel Slavery and Its Association with Prostate Cancer Incidences in the Southeastern United States. [PDF]
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers PrevBharadwaj MC +7 more
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Freedom of Scientific Inquiry and Democracy. A Systems‐Theoretical Approach
Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The article examines the relationship between democracy and one of its inherent features: freedom of scientific inquiry—a multi‐layered concept closely intertwined with the broader notion of academic freedom—both of which are increasingly under threat worldwide. The paper advocates for the use of Luhmann's theoretical framework to analyse this
Krešimir Žažar, Steffen Roth
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The Psychological Distance of Modern Slavery Risk. [PDF]
Risk AnalCakir MS, Wardman JK, Trautrims A.
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