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Assessing technologies : global patterns of trust and distrust ; report on one session at the XVIII World Congress of Sociology ; Yokohama, Japan, July 13 - 19, 2014

Moniz, A. Brandão - 2015

Technology assessment (TA) had never been treated as a relevant topic within the International Sociological Association (ISA) before. The first steps towards establishing this association were taken in 1948, at the initiative of the Social Science Department of UNESCO. Its formal foundation was...

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Happiness and beliefs in criminal environments

Di Tella, Rafael (contributor); … - 2008

This paper uses newly available data to describe the distribution of crime victimization and other criminal activities (including drug trafficking and corruption) around the world. The paper then documents a negative (positive) correlation between measures of criminal activity and happiness and...

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Collision of lions and butterflies or mutual neglect : outside the Anglo-American domain, too? ; the publication and citation behaviour of economic geographers and geographical economists compared

Sternberg, Rolf G. - 2013

This paper compares the publication and citation behaviour of economic geogra- phers and geographical economists. Based on a unique data set and consciously limited to researchers in the German-speaking world, empirical analyses show more parallels than expected. Convergence of scholars from...

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Behavioral Economics and Socio-Economics Journals : A Citation-Based Ranking

Azar, Ofer H. - 2006

Journal quality is a major consideration for authors, readers, and promotion and tenure committees. Unfortunately, no objective quality measure exists for most behavioral economics and socio-economics journals. To address this need, the number of articles that cited each journal in these fields...

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Education and democratic preferences

Chong, Alberto; Grâdšṭayn, Marq - 2009

This paper examines the causal link between education and democracy. Motivated by a model whereby educated individuals are in a better position to assess the effects of public policies and hence favor democracy where their opinions matter, the empirical analysis uses World Values Surveys to...

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Safeguarding Research : A Review of Economics Journals’ Preservation Policies for Published Code and Data Files

Currier, Brett; Butler, Courtney; Lillard, Kira - 2022

For many years, economics researchers have discussed the importance of sharing code and data files to ensure replicability. The discussion, however, rarely includes questions about long-term access to those files. This paper looks in-depth at the code and data policies from top economics...

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The word and the sword : how techniques of information and violence have shaped our world

Dudley, Leonard M. - 1991 - 1. publ.

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Edible people : the historical consumption of slaves and foreigners and the cannibalistic trade in human flesh

Siefkes, Christian - 2022

"While human cannibalism has attracted considerable notice and controversy, certain aspects of the practice have … received scant attention. These include the connection between cannibalism and xenophobia: the capture and consumption of … -- Understanding Congolese slave eating -- Commercial and economic aspects of Congolese cannibalism -- Exploitation and patriarchy in …

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Civilizacionno-informacionnyj podchod k analizu obščestvennogo razvitija

Sadkov, Viktor Georgievič; Grinkevič, L. - In: Obščestvo i ėkonomika : meždunarodnyj naučnyj i … (2000) 1, pp. 158-168

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Guns, germs, and steel : the fates of human societies

Diamond, Jared M. - 1999

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