Ethnography as a nonlinear dynamic system
... by answering a question: “Is there an algorithm to produce the expression of interest that is simpler than the expression itself? How much simpler is it?” One informal example is the contrast between paint-by-numbers and a Jackson Pollock painting. Paint-by-numbers is simple by comparison. Pollock i ...
... by answering a question: “Is there an algorithm to produce the expression of interest that is simpler than the expression itself? How much simpler is it?” One informal example is the contrast between paint-by-numbers and a Jackson Pollock painting. Paint-by-numbers is simple by comparison. Pollock i ...
Consumption and its Externalities: Where Economy Meets Ecology
... of energy use;10 household metabolism;11 industrial ecology12 and market research.13 Two, and this may well be the most difªcult yet most important question, under what conditions do individuals opt for a non-commercial or relatively non-material response to meet a need? Research does exist on intri ...
... of energy use;10 household metabolism;11 industrial ecology12 and market research.13 Two, and this may well be the most difªcult yet most important question, under what conditions do individuals opt for a non-commercial or relatively non-material response to meet a need? Research does exist on intri ...
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... In the 28 Theses, “revolutionary communist radicalism” (even minoritarian) can be found throughout history, but its content is never really defined in previous periods. “The proletariat has no revolutionary essence” (Thesis 9), but there is said to be a substantial communist revolutionary practice. ...
... In the 28 Theses, “revolutionary communist radicalism” (even minoritarian) can be found throughout history, but its content is never really defined in previous periods. “The proletariat has no revolutionary essence” (Thesis 9), but there is said to be a substantial communist revolutionary practice. ...
social capital and the equilibrium number of
... contracts. This “external” social capital (Adler and Kwon, 2002) varies among individuals in the economy and those with larger and more intense networking relationships will presumably obtain greater private benefit. The literature on entrepreneurship recognizes the relevance of social ties, of soc ...
... contracts. This “external” social capital (Adler and Kwon, 2002) varies among individuals in the economy and those with larger and more intense networking relationships will presumably obtain greater private benefit. The literature on entrepreneurship recognizes the relevance of social ties, of soc ...
The Last Musketeer of the French Revolution: Exploring the
... who actually remained members of the third estate: Immigrants, the unemployed, working-class laborers, women, the petite bourgeoisie, or in other words those who were to be aspired by the ideals of the Revolution yet are repeatedly betrayed by its leaders. I argue that the frustrating gap between th ...
... who actually remained members of the third estate: Immigrants, the unemployed, working-class laborers, women, the petite bourgeoisie, or in other words those who were to be aspired by the ideals of the Revolution yet are repeatedly betrayed by its leaders. I argue that the frustrating gap between th ...
Beyond Cultural History? The Material Turn, Praxiography, and
... Lyndal Roper described an “economy of bodily fluids” in early modern witchcraft beliefs, which regarded old women as sucking on the bodily fluids of others. Roper, using psychoanalytic categories, argued that young mothers projected their own confusing emotions onto older lying-in maids, whom they a ...
... Lyndal Roper described an “economy of bodily fluids” in early modern witchcraft beliefs, which regarded old women as sucking on the bodily fluids of others. Roper, using psychoanalytic categories, argued that young mothers projected their own confusing emotions onto older lying-in maids, whom they a ...
Universal Values, Contextualization and Bioethics: Knowledge
... These developments provided bioethics not only with power and recognition, but they posed to it new challenges too. Its traditional theories and methods are not always applicable in a context in which more and more problems require global answers. At the policy level some degree of consensus has to ...
... These developments provided bioethics not only with power and recognition, but they posed to it new challenges too. Its traditional theories and methods are not always applicable in a context in which more and more problems require global answers. At the policy level some degree of consensus has to ...
92. Whither the Welfare State: Public versus Private Consumption?
... or cultural objects. What is it that underlies and is not revealed by the private relationship between consumer and object of consumption which may be more overt in case of public consumption. For Marx, it is the social relationship between producers as opposed to those (being treated as relations) ...
... or cultural objects. What is it that underlies and is not revealed by the private relationship between consumer and object of consumption which may be more overt in case of public consumption. For Marx, it is the social relationship between producers as opposed to those (being treated as relations) ...
Foreign Direct Investment and Growth: the role of regional territorial
... included in the production function. Capital productivity improves because of the increase in the endowment of equipment and the number and variety of intermediates; labour productivity increases because of the acquisition of knowledge and managerial techniques coming from abroad; and total factor ...
... included in the production function. Capital productivity improves because of the increase in the endowment of equipment and the number and variety of intermediates; labour productivity increases because of the acquisition of knowledge and managerial techniques coming from abroad; and total factor ...
Social Complexity and Evolved Moral Principles.
... under the next point), nonlinearity and path dependency are more fundamental, as Hayek’s own work suggests. 7 (ii) Organized complexity occurs “when the character of the structures showing it depends not only on the properties of the individual elements of which they are composed, and the relative f ...
... under the next point), nonlinearity and path dependency are more fundamental, as Hayek’s own work suggests. 7 (ii) Organized complexity occurs “when the character of the structures showing it depends not only on the properties of the individual elements of which they are composed, and the relative f ...
- Lancaster EPrints
... transaction cost analysis, for example, there has been growing interest in forms of economic coordination which conform neither to pure markets nor to unitary corporate hierarchies (on the market-hierarchy distinction in this context, see, classically, Coase 1937; Williamson 1975; Williamson 1985). ...
... transaction cost analysis, for example, there has been growing interest in forms of economic coordination which conform neither to pure markets nor to unitary corporate hierarchies (on the market-hierarchy distinction in this context, see, classically, Coase 1937; Williamson 1975; Williamson 1985). ...