This framing paper has two main purposes. We first provide a brief survey of the economic literature on taxation in South Africa. Second, we attempt to offer some ideas about areas and topics on which more information is needed and which are therefore suitable topics for further research....

Most people think of science and literature as distinct human endeavours. According to received convention, science is mostly about ‘mind’, whereas literature is largely about ‘heart’. Science, goes the argument, is by and large rational, literature primarily emotional. Science is about...

Governments in all parts of the world use their purchasing power to advance social, economic and environmental goals. In a similar vein, public food procurement has also been used to promote a number of positive outcomes. There is growing interest among countries and international institutions...

הדברים הבאים נכתבו ב-2007 כטיוטה שטרם נסתיימה. במקורם, הם היו אמורים להיות ראשיתו של מאמר שיתאר את סופרי "המלחמה הגדולה", מלחמת-העולם הראשונה, אלה שכתבו עליה כחיילים,...

Recent studies in psychology and neuroscience find that fictional works exert strong influence on readers and shape their opinions and worldviews. We study the Potterian economy, which we compare to economic models, to assess how Harry Potter books affect economic literacy. We find that some...

Recent studies in psychology and neuroscience find that fictional works exert strong influence on readers and shape their opinions and worldviews. We study the Potterian economy, which we compare to economic models, to assess how Harry Potter books affect economic literacy. We find that some...

Recent studies in psychology and neuroscience find that fictional works exert strong influence on readers and shape their opinions and worldviews. We study the Potterian economy, which we compare to economic models, to assess how Harry Potter books affect economic literacy. We find that some...

Recent studies in psychology and neuroscience find that fictional works exert strong influence on readers and shape their opinions and worldviews. We study the Potterian economy, which we compare to economic models, to assess how Harry Potter books affect economic literacy. We find that some...

Introduction : systems of life, or bioeconomic politics / Richard A. Barney and Warren Montag -- Looking for (economic) growth in the eighteenth century / Christian Marouby -- An African diasporic critique of violence / James Edward Ford III -- Rousseau : vital instinct and pity / Pierre...

"In the Methodological Prologue to this book, I mention that Political Economy of Modernism takes its place in relation to my earlier books, Modernism and Time, which examined cultural modernism in relation to intellectual institutions of the sciences, mathematics, and aesthetics in the early...

"Nakano Kōji pens the door to the treasury of Japanese classics by introducing six writers who are his personal favorites. The writers under his lens span seven centuries, ranging from the twelfth century to the nineteenth. Three are poets; three wrote timeless prose. The hermit-monk Ryōkan, a...

Economics, science fiction, history, and comparative studies / Ha-Joon Chang -- Future incorporated? / Laura Horn -- Currencies of social organization: the future of money / Sherryl Vint -- Automating economic revolution: Robert Heinlein's The moon is a harsh mistress / Brian Willems -- Feeding...

The walking econ : learning economics from the Walking dead / by Tawni H. Ferrarini -- Never a lovely day - the wretched economics of Mad Max : fury road / by Michelle Albert Vachris and G. Dirk Mateer -- The odds are never in your favor : preventing economic growth in the Hunger games / by J....

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The state of Kerala lies in the South- West of the Indian peninsula. Kerala has a rich history and folk culture. The stories of Yakshi, the blood sucking, man-eating seductress vampire is very popular among the older and younger generations of Keralites. This paper is an exploration into the...

¿La actual crisis económica como retorno a la normalidad?: la baja productividad y el subempleo crónico en España / Holm-Detlev Köhler -- España: crisis, postcrisis y un nuevo comienzo político / Walther L. Bernecker -- Tradiciones, transiciones y transgresiones: la crisis en España...

The Viennese Turkish community constitutes 4% of all people residing in Vienna. This considerable presence has also brought with it many artistic and cultural activi-ties. In this paper I question how far these activities have diversified Viennese cultural life. The results are two-fold: my...

During the time when politics was involved in people's personal lives to the highest level, an approach of the communist literature era can not be analyzed independently of the environment in which it was created. So, the present work aimed at the socio-political context of the time and...

The present paper intends to view literature in light of the recent overlydebated phenomenon of cultural and linguistic globalization and to prove how necessary it is for us to accept this reality. I'm not going to avoid the vehement opinions of non-believers, but the idealists that already...