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Beyond Supply and Demand: The Moral Economy of Price Formation in Slab City
Economic Anthropology, Volume 13, Issue 1, January 2026.ABSTRACT This article investigates the unique economic practices of Slab City, California, an off‐grid community that rejects mainstream US values. Despite operating within the broader US economic system, Slab City residents have developed alternative forms of exchange, using cigarettes and cannabis alongside US dollars.
Bailey C. Hauswurz
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Veblen goods and neighbourhoods: endogenising consumption reference groups [PDF]
One of the significant developments in the last four decades of economics is the growing empirical evidence that individual consumption preferences, as mea- sured by self-reported life satisfaction, are neither fixed nor self-centred but are instead ...
Barrington-Leigh, Christopher P
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The show must go on: making money glamorizing oppression [PDF]
, 2005 This article presents an interdisciplinary analysis of the glamorization of the courtesan image as proposed by Baz Luhrmann’s film Moulin Rouge. The film sparked the appearance of high-street fashion inspired by the image of
Buck-Morss, Susan +12 more
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Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, Volume 131, Issue 1, January 2026.Abstract Modification of river corridors, particularly deforestation and the removal of large wood, has greatly altered the abundance and influence of large wood in most rivers in the temperate latitudes. The conceptual framework of large wood process domains can assist in both directing research and facilitating large wood‐related management and ...
Shayla Triantafillou, Ellen Wohl
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Did Lobachevsky Have A Model Of His "imaginary Geometry"? [PDF]
, 2010 The invention of non-Euclidean geometries is often seen through the optics of Hilbertian formal axiomatic method developed later in the 19th century. However such an anachronistic approach fails to provide a sound reading of Lobachevsky's geometrical ...
Rodin, Andrei
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Inequality, Social Respectability, Political Power and Environmental Devastation [PDF]
Although healthy societies may require a degree of material inequality, higher levels of inequality have been linked to negative social consequences ranging from poorer health to lessened democracy.
Jon D. Wisman
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A Comparison of Veblen and Schumpeter on Technology [PDF]
This paper aims at demonstrating the significance of two alternative approaches developed by Veblen and Schumpeter to technology underlying recent institutionalist and evolutionary stances. It should be mentioned that it is not the primary object of this
Ceyhun Gurkan
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Evolutionary Game Theory and Thorstein Veblen’s Evolutionary Economics: Is EGT Veblenian? [PDF]
This essay provides an approach to the analysis of the link between Thorstein Veblen's evolutionary approach and evolutionary game theory (EGT). We shed some light on the potential contribution of Veblen's theory of socioeconomic evolution to the ...
Villena, Marcelo J. +1 more
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Realism and the point at infinity: The end of the line? [PDF]
Synthese, 2023 Parkinson-Coombs O, Núñez R.
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Reconceptualising the third sector: toward a heterodox perspective [PDF]
The paper explores the way the work of classic institutionalist authors can inform modern nonprofit economics. From the perspective of Thorstein Veblen, nonprofit organisation is explained as an institutional consequence of the pecuniary-industrial ...
Vladislav Valentinov
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