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Parity and prestige in English secondary education revisited [PDF]

, 2008
Olive Banks' work Parity and Prestige in English Secondary Education made a major and distinctive contribution to the literature on the historical development of secondary education. Her work exemplified a close relationship between sociology and history,
McCulloch, Gary
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The Giffen good — a praxeological approach

Ekonomia, 2018
The Giffen good — a praxeological approachIn the present paper, we argue that the shape of any respectable demand curve must be monotonic non-increasing.
W. Block, Igor Wysocki
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Quantifying aboveground herbaceous biomass in grassy ecosystems: a comparison of field and high‐resolution UAV‐LiDAR approaches

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
The abundance of herbaceous vegetation in grassy ecosystems—which cover >25% of the world's land surface—is highly variable and impacts key ecological processes including carbon sequestration and support for grazing wildlife and livestock. Here, we present a method for using high‐resolution, UAV‐borne Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) to estimate ...
Tyler C. Coverdale, Peter B. Boucher, Jenia Singh, Andrew B. Davies   +3 more
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Values and visibility: How CEO activism influences private and public consumer choices

Strategic Management Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary Firms' and executives' stances on controversial issues affect consumer behavior. This “political consumerism” might be motivated by ideology and a desire to signal to peers, and thus vary for private and public purchases. We conduct an experiment with 1198 consumers to study how purchase visibility affects responses to CEO ...
Young Hou, Christopher Poliquin
wiley   +1 more source

Hyperations, Veblen progressions and transfinite iterations of ordinal functions

, 2012
In this paper we introduce hyperations and cohyperations, which are forms of transfinite iteration of ordinal functions. Hyperations are iterations of normal functions. Unlike iteration by pointwise convergence, hyperation preserves normality.
Fernández-Duque, David, Joosten, Joost J.   +1 more
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Mammalian herbivory indirectly shapes savanna arthropod communities but only at very low or high levels

Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
This study investigates how large mammalian herbivores shape arthropod communities in African savannas, using a broad gradient of herbivory types and intensities to assess these effects under real‐world, non‐experimental conditions. Abstract Savanna ecosystems support unique biodiversity and provide livelihoods for millions of people.
Bjoern Erik Matthies, Nicola Stevens, Jane K. Hill, Bosco Leturuka, Margaret Njuguna, Lucy K. Smyth, Matthew S. Rogan, Catherine W. Machungo, Jonathan E. M. Baillie, Jafford N. Rithaa, Catherine L. Parr   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

The making of novel ecosystems: A process‐based framework for measurement, analysis and application

Methods in Ecology and Evolution, EarlyView.
Abstract Ecological novelty is emerging rapidly due to global change drivers such as climate shifts, species introductions, defaunation, and land‐use transformation. These changes challenge how we assess, understand and manage ecosystems in the Anthropocene.
Matthew R. Kerr, Jens‐Christian Svenning, Felix Riede, Robert Buitenwerf, Andrew J. Abraham, Emma‐Liina Marjakangas, Maciej Sykut, Alejandro Ordonez   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

The history of the mainstream rejection of interdependent preferences [PDF]

, 2010
The notion of interdependent preferences has a long history in economic thought. It can be found in the works of authors such as Hume, Rae, Genovesi, Smith, Marx and Mill among others.
Drakopoulos, Stavros A.
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Class, caste and conspicuous consumption in India

Economica, EarlyView.
Abstract Using nationally representative household‐level panel data from India, we study status‐signalling through conspicuous consumption across castes, religions and income classes. Conditional on permanent income, scheduled caste (SC) and scheduled tribe (ST) Hindu households spend more, while religious minorities spend less on visible consumption ...
Aruni Mitra, Ronit Mukherji
wiley   +1 more source

Material Aspirations, Cultural Change, and the Transition Toward Sustained Growth

International Economic Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We highlight the role of economic materialism as a cultural phenomenon of significance in relation to economic transformation and development. By inducing material aspirations, an endogenous cultural change toward more widespread adherence to materialistic values is both a cause and an effect of productivity growth.
Evangelos V. Dioikitopoulos, Dimitrios Varvarigos   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source