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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Spendthrift"”.
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Waste Not: Criminalizing Wastefulness in Early Modern Germany
… local, state, and imperial court trials of “spendthrifts” from early modern Württemberg, the thesis shows that prodigality laws provided litigants with a flexible, multifaceted tool to prevent reckless financial mismanagement. Once laws began to criminalize wastefulness in the mid-sixteenth …
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Low-Protein Meal Challenge as a Predictor for Weight Loss Success in Severe Obesity
… of weight-loss response. The established thrifty/spendthrift phenotyping protocols to identify weight loss resistant and susceptible metabolic phenotypes, respectively, rely on prolonged fasting and overfeeding using whole-room calorimetry assessments, which represents a substantial barrier to the …
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Essays in Macroeconomics
… leverage and investment dynamics.</p><p>The spendthrift nature of U.S. households leading up to the financial crisis has been cited as a major contributing factor for the Great Recession. Indeed, the personal saving rate has been falling since the end of the 1970s, dropping to as low as …