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Pracademics as agents of change: locating one in the South African agricultural economics discipline

Development in Practice
Transforming academic knowledge into effective development practice is at the heart of virtually all disciplines. However, a hybrid type of professionals – between academics and practitioners, better known as “pracademics” – who spearhead this ...
S. Zantsi, Mamakie Lungwana
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A simple introduction to the economics of storage: shifting demand and supply over time and space

, 2016
The literature on electrical energy storage (EES) is technical and complex which this paper aims to simplify. It quantifies the current scale, costs and value of different types of EES and compares them to peaking generators and interconnectors ...
D. Newbery
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An exergy-based analysis of the effects of public incentives on the so-called “energy efficiency” of the residential sector, with emphasis on primary resource use and economics of scale

Frontiers in Sustainability
Improving building efficiency is essential for reducing energy consumption, greenhouse gas emissions, and operational costs. In OECD Countries the average share of the Residential and Commercial Sector for space conditioning accounts for 30–37% of the ...
Alfonso Biondi, Piermaria Caponi, Carlo Cecere, Enrico Sciubba   +3 more
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Bifurcated Real Estate Market The Impacts of Home Office Trends on Commercial Real Estate and Urban Economics

Advances in Economics, Management and Political Sciences
This paper explores how remote and hybrid work modes are changing the US real estate market in the wake of the pandemic. The research shows that there is a clear segmentation of the market. Specific industries such as technology, finance and professional
Yinan Shen
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Minorities, Women, and Radicals in the Discipline of Economics

Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal
The discipline of economics is informally managed in the United States by the American Economic Association (AEA).  The AEA’s management of the economics community however was challenged starting in the 1960s by blacks, women, and radicals.
Thomas Scheiding
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An Approach to Economic Space Transportation [PDF]

The Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society, 1966
This paper represents the personal views of the author and the objectives do not necessarily form any part of current official thinking.Sooner or later, Europe is going to accept that it must indulge in space exploration and subsequent exploitation if it is not to lose its position as a principal technical community.
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“I Am Now Determined to Inform You What I Am Sure will Amaze You”: Objects, Domestic Space, and the Economics of Gentility

At Home in the Eighteenth Century, 2021
Stephen G. Hague
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Economic Spacing of Oil Wells

AAPG Bulletin, 1935
The use of wider spacing and the consequent drilling of fewer wells appear to be a promising procedure for necessary and important reductions in the cost of producing oil. It is believed that petroleum geologists and petroleum engineers have a very important role to play in studying the various characteristics of the producing reservoir as a basis for ...
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Administrative Systems and Economic Spaces

Regional Studies, 1997
BENNETT R. J. (1997) Administrative systems and economic spaces, Reg. Studies 31, 323-336. This paper examines the interrelation between economic change and administrative reforms. It argues that both decentralization and centralization of administration are occurring that derive from responding to economic change.
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Space Policy and Economic Analysis

Science, 1986
Molly K. Macauley, Michael Toman
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