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Promises kept: enforcement and the role of rotating savings and credit associations in an economy
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2002-05)
Rotating savings and credit associations (roscas) are a popular form of informal finance in developing countries. This paper examines the rosca's ability to enforce its terms of membership and the implications that this ...
Recasting Caste: Histories of Dalit Transnationalism and the Internationalization of Caste Discrimination.
(2013)
This dissertation analyzes one strand of post-independence anti-caste activism, that of transnational dalit activism. As an interdisciplinary work of anthropology and history, it draws from multi-site archival and ethnographic ...
Terror and Toleration: The Habsburg Empire Confronts Islam, 1526–1850 – By Paula Sutter Fichtner
(Blackwell Publishing IncWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2011-09)
Lapis Gabinus: Tufo and the Economy of Urban Construction in Ancient Rome.
(2014)
In this dissertation I consider the role which tufo quarries played in the economy of urban construction at Rome by analyzing, in detail, one such quarry just east of the city—that which produced lapis Gabinus, a building ...
The value and allocation of time in rural Botswana
(Elsevier, 1984)
Time use data indicate that there is substantial surplus labor in rural areas of Botswana, with the incidence of underutilization varying by age, sex, and asset position. Time allocations are influenced by economic incentives, ...
Differentiating a Republican Citizenry: Talents, Human Science, and Enlightenment Theories of Governance
(2002)
This essay explores how the Enlightenment preoccupation with nature and reason, and
the concomitant desire to restructure civil and political society according to these principles, served simultaneously to write certain ...
A note on changes in black racial attitudes in Detroit: 1968–1976
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; D. Reidel Publ. Co ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1979-10)
A graph theory interpretation of nodal regions
(Springer-Verlag; The Regional Science Association, 1961-12)
The techniques defined in this paper will divide a set of cities into subgroups which specify a central place and its subordinate hierarchy. The association between cities is not the only system which may be defined as a ...