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Conspicuous corruption: Evidence at a country level. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2021
People can exhibit their status by the consumption of particular goods or experiential purchases; this is known as "conspicuous consumption"; the practice is widespread and explains the market characteristics of a whole class of goods, Veblen goods ...
Panos Louridas, Diomidis Spinellis
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Values of power in Anglo-Saxon heroic epos of the early Middle Ages [PDF]

Жанры речи, 2023
The concern of this study is to explore the values of power that form its images in Anglo-Saxon epic culture of the early Middle Ages. The research is based on the epic poem “Beowulf” and applies cultural approach to linguistic study of ...
Palashevskaya, Irina Vladimirovna, Gogenko, Victoria Vladimirovna   +1 more
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Mammalian herbivory indirectly shapes savanna arthropod communities but only at very low or high levels. [PDF]

J Anim Ecol
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.
Matthies BE, Stevens N, Hill JK, Leturuka B, Njuguna M, Smyth LK, Rogan MS, Machungo CW, Baillie JEM, Rithaa JN, Parr CL.   +10 more
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Factors affecting household carbohydrate food consumption in Central Java: Before and during the COVID-19 pandemic

Open Agriculture, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a change in food demand. In Central Java, during the pandemic (2021), the proportion of expenditure on the grain food group was higher than in 2020; meanwhile, the proportion of the ready-to-eat food group decreased.
Rahayu Wiwit, Darsono Darsono, Marwanti Sri, Antriyandarti Ernoiz   +3 more
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Pourquoi l’économie est-elle nécessairement instituée ? Une réponse commonsienne à partir du concept de futurité

Revue Interventions Économiques, 2010
Most of the available "institutional" approaches do not supply a good answer to the following question: why is the economy inevitably institutionalized? Only the institutionalist approaches of T. Veblen and of J.R. Commons answer this question adequately.
Jean-Jacques Gislain
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Architects, Bandits and Knights

Проект Байкал, 2006
Some quotations: «A new disaster has been added to pollution of the unique lake–it is cottage development of the coast». «The trouble is that the projects are realized without even being seen by architectural society.
Konstantin Lidin
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Good for business, good without reservation? Veblen’s critique of business enterprise and pecuniary culture [PDF]

Journal of Classical Sociology, 2014
Thorstein Veblen’s work undoubtedly has a place within the field of institutional economics but he has been a relatively marginal figure within the discipline of sociology. If Veblen is discussed at all within contemporary sociology, it is almost without exception in relation to his first major work The Theory ...
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Learning From Early Attempts to Generalize Darwinian Principles to Social Evolution [PDF]

, 2009
Copyright University of Hertfordshire & author.Evolutionary psychology places the human psyche in the context of evolution, and addresses the Darwinian processes involved, particularly at the level of genetic evolution.
Aldrich H. E., Aldrich H. E., Alexander S., Archer M. S., Aunger R., Bagehot W., Baldwin J. M., Bannister R. C., Bergstrom T. C., Berle A. A., Blackmore S., Bogdan R., Boyd R., Campbell D. T., Campbell D. T., Childe V. G., Commons J. R., Cziko G., Darwin C. R., Darwin C. R., Dawkins R., Dawkins R., Degler C. N., Dennett D. C., Dorfman J., Drummond H., Durham W. H., Edelman G. M., Geoffrey M. Hodgson, Godfrey-smith P., Hayek F. A., Henrich J., Hodgson G. M., Hodgson G. M., Hodgson G. M., Hodgson G. M., Hodgson G. M., Hodgson G. M., Hodgson G. M., Hodgson G. M., Hodgson G. M., Hull D. L., Hull D. L., James W., Keller A. G., Keller A. G., Kidd B., Knudsen T., Kontopoulos K. M., Lewes G. H., Lewontin R. C., Morgan C. L., Nelson R. R., Penrose E. T., Plotkin H. C., Popper K. R., Price G. R., Richards R. J., Sanderson S. K., Sober E., Sober E., Sober E., Sperber D., Sterelny K., Veblen T. B., Veblen T. B., Veblen T. B., Veblen T. B., Webb S. J., Weismann A., Weissman D.   +70 more
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Optimal Nonlinear Redistributive Taxation and Public Good Provision in an Economy with Veblen Effects [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2008
AbstractThis paper deals with the consequences of the assumption of negatively interdependent preferences for the shape of the optimal nonlinear income tax and the efficient level of public good provision in a setting where the agents' market ability is private information.
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SYSTEMIC APPROACH OF THE CONSUMER BEHAVIOR [PDF]

Management & Marketing, 2016
In an era of globalization, we witness the encounter of cultures and the exchanges between them. Often, the cultural influences affect the consumer's decision to purchase goods.
Adrian Nicolae CAZACU
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