Book Review: Forgive us our debts
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Movie Review: ‘Payback’ Atwood Book on Screen
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Occupy defined-benefit pension funds!
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New Journal launched in “Business Anthropology”
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The Futures of Finance Conference
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What Has the Occupy Movement Done for Scholars?
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Diffusion of Activities
The diffusion of activities from the “metropolitan core” to the underdeveloped economies of the “periphery” can occur under a variety of circumstances. The import- substituting development strategy that many economies of the “periphery” had followed in the post-war period had led to
