epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-03-18 | Author:Daniel Miller

How jeans became ordinary For this purpose we used the same technique I had devised originally for the shopping research, taking randomly selected streets and working with whoever happened to ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Martin Wolf [Wolf, Martin]

CONCLUSION The people who have developed the critical perspectives outlined above differ on political values and so on whether the aim should be less state and more private or less ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2010-02-25 | Author:Geoffrey Miller

For example, I was involved in a couple of studies that examined relationships between intelligence and brain size, and intelligence and body symmetry. The psychologist Lars Penke and I reviewed ...

mobi, pdf |eng | 2010-02-26 | Author:Geoffrey Miller

• sizes of specific cortical areas (such as lateral and medial prefrontal cortex and posterior parietal cortex) • concentrations in the brain of particular neurochemicals (such as N-acetyl-aspartate) • age ...

epub |eng | 2014-09-01 | Author:Coyle, Diane

THE EXPLOSION OF VARIETY A seemingly separate issue, also of increasing salience, is that the way GDP is measured makes it impossible to capture fully the effect of innovation. Innovation ...

mobi |eng | 2011-09-14 | Author:Allen, Robert C. [Allen, Robert C.]

The immediate reason for the difference between the two countries is obvious: the USA had more schools than Mexico. New England had achieved close to complete literacy for its male ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2013-08-18 | Author:Prasad, Eswar S.

Firewall Made of BRICS Regional pooling arrangements like the CMIM are hardly the only game in town. The five major emerging markets, known as the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2006-07-15 | Author:Dean Baker [Baker, Dean]

13 These data are taken from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (2006, Table 11). 14 This estimate is derived in Baker (2005a). 54 would eliminate the incentive to ...

epub |eng | | Author:Stephen D. King

LIVING WITH INCOME INEQUALITY Longer term, the education route appears to be attractive, but I cannot help feel there are immense limitations. We’re back to the population numbers game. As ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2014-02-18 | Author:Harvey, David [Harvey, David]

Over the last thirty years inequality has grown dramatically in many countries. In the US the share of national income going to the top 1% has doubled since 1980 from ...

epub, pdf |eng | 1949-03-25 | Author:L. Albert Hahn [L. Albert Hahn]

12. The Purchasing Power Theory—Sense and Nonsense* When the average businessman thinks about wage problems and a wage policy, as he often must do nowadays, he cannot help being unhappy. ...

epub |eng | 2012-03-18 | Author:Daniel Miller

How jeans became ordinary For this purpose we used the same technique I had devised originally for the shopping research, taking randomly selected streets and working with whoever happened to ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2010-03-25 | Author:Nouriel Roubini

Chapter 8 First Steps It’s a truism that crises go hand in hand with regulation and reform of the financial system. The near-death experience of a financial crisis pushes many ...

epub |eng | 2013-09-12 | Author:Tyler Cowen [Cowen, Tyler]

The Machine’s Place Not many people, from their standpoint as observers or as consumers of culture, want man and machine to converge. It seems that even when the machines are ...

epub |eng | | Author:Jagdish Bhagwati

Air Transport Regarding air transport, progress has been notable in the construction of modern airports in New Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Bangalore, and even some smaller towns, such as Jaipur. ...