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Impact of Geography on Institutions in Agricultural and Nomadic Societies
International Studies of Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How geography affects the choice of institutions is studied in a theoretical model. In this model, nations are located around a circle. Rulers compete through choosing tax rates, the level of military spending, and the degree of formality of institutions. Geographic condition is captured by population density.
Haiwen Zhou
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THE SOCIAL AND CULTURAL SPACE IN THE LIGHT OF MODERN ANTHROPOLOGY
, 2015 Ирина Евгеньевна Фадеева
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Constructive Memory in Truth‐Telling for Reconciliation
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Truth‐telling has, in diverse contexts, been conceptualised as a vehicle for achieving reconciliation following injustice. As a social and political phenomenon, it involves the communication of narratives grounded in episodic memory. Such narratives may fail to reproduce the details of past events and may even include details that were not ...
Alberto Guerrero‐Velázquez +1 more
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The Problem of generation; generational Studies and the Confusion between Continuity and Change in Generational Cultures [PDF]
مسائل اجتماعی ایرانGenerational studies have been widespread in Iran in the last three decades and it can be considered as a social probelm for Iranian social sciences. On the one hand, research paradigms have special problematics and methodologies in their heart, and on ...
Jabbar Rahmani
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Positive Freedom and the Social Meaning of Money
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Semiotic objections to markets hold that buying and selling certain things – for example, sex, body parts, votes, surrogacy services – expresses that those things are fungible with money, which has only profane value. This article offers a more fundamental challenge to semiotic critiques of market.
Andrew Allison +2 more
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Racism and racial health inequity: four theories for public health. [PDF]
J Public Health (Oxf)Parker C +9 more
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Yes, Friendship and Love Can Be Bought and Sold
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Can friendship and love be bought and sold? I argue yes, contrary to philosophical consensus. The prevailing view rests on the common error of over‐reliance on idealized conceptions of friendship and love that bear little resemblance to actual relationships.
Simone Sommer Degn
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Redefining social medicine from Latin America: Historical foundations and contemporary directions. [PDF]
PLOS Glob Public HealthOrtega F, Abarca-Brown G.
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Social/Cultural Anthropology: The Three Worlds of Bali. J. Stephen Lansing. [PDF]
, 1986 Robert W. Hefner
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Society as Reality and Construction: Decolonial Citizenship‐Making
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Kymlicka asks whether the Marshallian vision of society‐ and membership‐making remains relevant when thinking about possible Indigenous futures. In this article, I first respond to this question. Given the meticulousness of Kymlicka's analysis, my response should be read as complementary, offering additional considerations that I think warrant
Rauna Kuokkanen
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