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Obesity and the Politics of Taddeo di Bartolo's Inferno
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines Taddeo di Bartolo's depiction of Hell in the Collegiata di Santa Maria Assunta, the mother church of San Gimignano. In a striking departure from similar scenes of the period, the fresco, painted in the early fifteenth century, emphasizes the obesity of the sinners—suggesting a deliberate visual critique.
Stefania Roccas Gandal
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Family Relations, Volume 75, Issue 3, Page 1618-1635, July 2026.Abstract Objective This study aimed to explore how Arab mothers in Israel perceive their intergenerational relationships with young adult daughters within the sociocultural context of Arab society and their intersecting marginalized positions as women and ethnic minority members.
Haneen Karram‐Elias
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Money and sociality: Measuring the unmeasurable money as justice, time and usury [PDF]
Filozofija i Društvo, 2016 Levinas confirms: a reflection about a money as a social and economical reality is not possible without a serious analysis of empirical data. On the other hand, this reflection always involves something else, so a money is never a merely ...
Janković Zoran
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Disentangling Inequality and Exploitation in the Rice Value Chain in Northern Uganda
Journal of Agrarian Change, Volume 26, Issue 3, July 2026.ABSTRACT Although inequality between actors in agricultural value chains has been extensively studied, informal and semiformal arrangements in domestic value chains involving small‐scale actors have been explored less than formal arrangements involving large firms.
Malin J. Nystrand
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How investors account for the quick and the dead
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
Frederick F. Wherry
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Family Matters: Exploring the Link Between Parental and Executive Financial Misconduct
Journal of Accounting Research, Volume 64, Issue 2, Page 561-632, May 2026.ABSTRACT Using a novel data set of misconduct records for Finnish CEOs and directors and their parents, we explore whether corporate executives’ financial misconduct is associated with similar behavior by their parents. Controlling for various other factors of executive financial misconduct, we find that executives are significantly more likely to ...
JENNI KALLUNKI +4 more
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The Usurious Nature of Excessive Interest Rate in The Algerian Banking Legal System
مجلة القانون، المجتمع والسلطةThe Algerian banking law's omission of the term "Riba" is a notable feature, especially in a country where Islamic finance has garnered significant attention across various sectors.
Abdelhafid Ahamane
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Ribā dan Ketidakadilan Sistem Ekonomi Kapitalisme, Sebuah Kajian Teoritis
Islamic Economics Journal, 2017 The failures of capitalism economic in realizing justice and prosperity is due to the implementation of the interest system (usury system). In the long term usury system pose a huge gap between communities.
Muhammad Ghozali, Yusi Septa Prasetya
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Why Paternalism Is Wrong (When It Is Wrong)
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 112, Issue 3, Page 578-593, May 2026.ABSTRACT This paper proposes a novel reinterpretation of the familiar, if inchoate, thought that paternalism offends against an ideal of personal sovereignty. The central idea is that (competent) persons have a particular kind of normative power. Just as each of us has the right to control how others are permitted to use our bodies or property, we each
Jonathan Parry
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The Roles of Agricultural Credit, Financial Development, and Renewable Energy for Food Security
Food and Energy Security, Volume 15, Issue 2, March/April 2026.ABSTRACT Access to credit and renewable energy adoption are crucial for promoting food security in emerging economies. This study examines the long‐term impact of agricultural credit, financial development, and renewable energy on food security and agricultural production in India from 2000 to 2022.
Xiaoping Tang +4 more
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