THE REVOLT OF THE LIVING DEAD: A SOCIO-POLITICAL CHRONICLE [PDF]
AnadissOur article explores how the horror genre, and more specifically the zombie subgenre, reflects and comments on broader cultural anxieties. Horror films featuring zombies serve as barometers of cultural anxieties, examining and undermining the norms and ...
Petru-Ioan MARIAN-ARNAT
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Funding and providing social services: The good, the bad and the third way? [PDF]
, 2001 The funder/provider split in the area of social services is now a long-established reality in Aotearoa/New Zealand. It has been the subject of much debate and criticism see, for example, Boston et at 1996. However, it remains the principal means by which
Harris, Paul, O’Sullivan, Dominic
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The Welfare Effects of Monopoly Innovation [PDF]
In this paper we study the welfare effect of a monopoly innovation. Unlike many partial equilibrium models carried out in previous studies, general equilibrium models are constructed and analyzed in greater details. We discover that, technical innovation
Lydia L. Gan, Shuntian Yao
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EU bilateral trade agreements and the surprising rise of labour provisions [PDF]
, 2015 Surprisingly, labour provisions in EU bilateral trade agreements have widened and deepened over the past decade. One would have expected the opposite, given the coming to power of centre-right governments in the early 2000s and a stronger liberalization ...
Orbie, Jan, Van Den Putte, Lore
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Ban on castration of boars in the Netherlands: modeling economic consequences of options [PDF]
, 2009 As a result of social criticism on castration, the Netherlands intend to start fattening boars. The great obstacle to a ban on castration is the expected negative effect on international trade because of the fear of boar taint.
Backus, G.B.C. +2 more
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A consideration of the social commentary within D.H. Lawrence's novel The rainbow : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in English at Massey University [PDF]
, 1971 D.H. Lawrence's critical essay "Why The Novel Matters" contains the personal claim: "Nothing is important but life... For this reason I am a novelist... The novel is the book of life." 1 D.H. Lawrence, "Why The Novel Matters" D.H. Lawrence.
Miller, Raymond P
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Social dilemmas and shame-based sanctions: experimental results from rural Zimbabwe [PDF]
Using two economic experiments I investigate how a sample of rural communities in Zimbabwe approach social dilemmas. When provided with an opportunity to impose sanctions in the context of a public goods game, fourteen out of eighteen communities ...
Abigail Barr
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Meaning Lyrics Slank as Media Communication Social Criticism [PDF]
, 2016 Music is used as a medium to convey the aspirations of social, political, and even become one of the media propaganda (information / opinions) to launch an ideological movement (idea / ideas).
Nur Suryanto Gono, M.Si, Drs. Joyo +1 more
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Efficiency, Practices, and the Moral Point of View: Limits of Economic Interpretations of Law [PDF]
, 2009 This paper points to some limitations of law and economics as both an explanative and a normative theory. In explaining law as the result of efficiency promoting decisions, law and economics theorists often dismiss the reasons actors in the legal system ...
Tunick, Mark
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Du social au commun : la fécondité d’un tremblement de paradigmes
Droit et CulturesThe introduction to the dossier examines the working hypothesis underlying the collected articles: that of a paradigm shift in the critique of the solidarity of the contemporary legal order with forms of human damage generated by market capitalism ...
Gildas Renou, Marie Rota
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