Income Inequality and Poverty During the Transition from Planned to
... or has improved during the transition, they allow us to measure the impact of the transition relatively well. But in some other countries, the quality of surveys has not improved, and their reliability may have deteriorated as circumstances changed. For example, while the surveys may have once offer ...
... or has improved during the transition, they allow us to measure the impact of the transition relatively well. But in some other countries, the quality of surveys has not improved, and their reliability may have deteriorated as circumstances changed. For example, while the surveys may have once offer ...
Studying Societies and Cultures: Marvin Harris`s Cultural
... Inasmuch as Harris’s work had a broad impact on all subfields of anthropology, we hope this book will be of interest to all anthropologists. Those contemporary anthropologists who embrace a scientific approach generally fall into one of two camps, Harris’s own cultural materialism or Darwinian anthr ...
... Inasmuch as Harris’s work had a broad impact on all subfields of anthropology, we hope this book will be of interest to all anthropologists. Those contemporary anthropologists who embrace a scientific approach generally fall into one of two camps, Harris’s own cultural materialism or Darwinian anthr ...
Working Papers Migration Theory Quo Vadis? Paper 100, November 2014
... This paper elaborates an aspirations–capabilities framework to advance our understanding of human mobility. Arguing in favour of conceptual eclecticism to bridge disciplinary and paradigmatic divides, the paper conceives migration as an intrinsic part of broader processes of social transformation an ...
... This paper elaborates an aspirations–capabilities framework to advance our understanding of human mobility. Arguing in favour of conceptual eclecticism to bridge disciplinary and paradigmatic divides, the paper conceives migration as an intrinsic part of broader processes of social transformation an ...
Background Paper on Cooperatives *
... of people without having to pay outside investors thereby providing insurance at cost. This is a particular business advantage in with-profits pensions12. However, recently there have been some serious governance failures in mutual insurers in the UK which had to demutualise because of poor decisio ...
... of people without having to pay outside investors thereby providing insurance at cost. This is a particular business advantage in with-profits pensions12. However, recently there have been some serious governance failures in mutual insurers in the UK which had to demutualise because of poor decisio ...
Sport and Modern Social Theorists: Theorizing Homo Ludens
... contributions of historians and sociologists to our theoretical understanding of sport. These two disciplines have generated by far the largest and most complex discursive formations within sports studies since its foundation in the 1960s. That point is illustrated by the kinds of sports studies cou ...
... contributions of historians and sociologists to our theoretical understanding of sport. These two disciplines have generated by far the largest and most complex discursive formations within sports studies since its foundation in the 1960s. That point is illustrated by the kinds of sports studies cou ...
Trade barriers and export potential: Gravity
... affect exports, along with geographical distance and the size of the destination markets (measured by GDP). Estimates vary across sectors and their absolute values are generally higher if we use aggregated trade data, as opposed to data at the detailed product level. Due to this variation, we indica ...
... affect exports, along with geographical distance and the size of the destination markets (measured by GDP). Estimates vary across sectors and their absolute values are generally higher if we use aggregated trade data, as opposed to data at the detailed product level. Due to this variation, we indica ...
Foucault`s new functionalism
... concerned to answer - namely, how do the units of a power dispositif fit together? The connections between Foucault's early ideas and his later work on power are as revealing as their differences. In this section I examine each of the above themes in turn. Functional analysis In "What is an Author?" ...
... concerned to answer - namely, how do the units of a power dispositif fit together? The connections between Foucault's early ideas and his later work on power are as revealing as their differences. In this section I examine each of the above themes in turn. Functional analysis In "What is an Author?" ...
Lukacsoctpolished - reificationofpersonsandpersonificationofthings
... commodities, i.e., the personification of certain things (money-capital) and the “reification” of a certain relationship (labour). It does not consist of a general ‘reification’ of all relationships, as some humanist interpretations of Marx argue, but only of this particular relationship.’ From Ben ...
... commodities, i.e., the personification of certain things (money-capital) and the “reification” of a certain relationship (labour). It does not consist of a general ‘reification’ of all relationships, as some humanist interpretations of Marx argue, but only of this particular relationship.’ From Ben ...
1 CULTURAL EVOLUTION TRUE AND FALSE
... without articulating a genuine theory about the role and the use of knowledge in society. 1 This forms the hard core of what I will call the Hayekian theoretical argument. But one can find a much different kind of argument in Hayek, i.e. an evolutionary argument. I will characterize this argument as ...
... without articulating a genuine theory about the role and the use of knowledge in society. 1 This forms the hard core of what I will call the Hayekian theoretical argument. But one can find a much different kind of argument in Hayek, i.e. an evolutionary argument. I will characterize this argument as ...
Critical Theory Meets America: Riesman, Fromm, and The Lonely
... power (Jay 1973; Burston 1991; Bronner 1994). Fromm broke with the critical theorists in the late 1930s due to various intellectual as well as personal conflicts with Horkheimer and Adorno (McLaughlin 1999). Fromm then gained fame in American intellectual life with his bestselling sociological class ...
... power (Jay 1973; Burston 1991; Bronner 1994). Fromm broke with the critical theorists in the late 1930s due to various intellectual as well as personal conflicts with Horkheimer and Adorno (McLaughlin 1999). Fromm then gained fame in American intellectual life with his bestselling sociological class ...
Production Fragmentation and the Environment
... East Asia refers to major countries in northeast Asia, namely, China, Japan, and South Korea, and major ASEAN countries of Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. Environmental quality refers to ‘Properties and characteristics of the environment, either generalized or ...
... East Asia refers to major countries in northeast Asia, namely, China, Japan, and South Korea, and major ASEAN countries of Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. Environmental quality refers to ‘Properties and characteristics of the environment, either generalized or ...