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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"cultural economics"”.
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Knock-offs, fakes, replicas, and reals : a cultural supply chain of counterfeit fashion
This thesis attempts to uncover the emotional and cultural economics of material culture. What does it mean for material good to be "fake"? What are the salient aspects that are being copied and are those aspects purely material? How does counterfeit branded fashion function as craft, as commodity, …
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Iceland's house scene : accessing global markets?
… of qualitative research methods and studies from cultural economics, the work of this research has given me a broader and different perspective, and a better introduction to the culture of clubbing. Conclusions show that access would cost both time and money, and would require focus and …
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Tag based Bayesian latent class models for movies : economic theory reaches out to big data science
For the past 50 years, cultural economics has developed as an independent research specialism. At its core are the creative industries and the peculiar economics associated with them, central to which is a tension that arises from the notion that creative goods need to be experienced before an …
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Essays on historical development in Africa
… development literature within development economics and investigates the long-term impacts of historical events on contemporary development performance, to aid our understanding of underdevelopment in modern Africa. In Chapter 2, I first introduce the theory of ethnicity and the related …
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Tournament bass fishing: Commodification in a serious leisure activity
Using the dynamic social world of tournament bass fishing as a backdrop, this research combined qualitative and quantitative research methods in a grounded theory approach for the study of commodification, serious leisure and the relationship between these two important social phenomena. …
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The creative destruction of the "winner-take-all" society? Property rights and the economics of the long tail in the music industry
Technological change has always impacted the music industry, which is now absorbing the destructive effects of the digital revolution. The Internet and MP3s have allowed for illegal downloading and file sharing. For producers, revenue streams have run dry because consumers can get their music for …
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Labor Mobilization and Utilization Among Small Scale Farmers in Chibale Chiefdom, Serenje, Zambia
Traditional diffusion models of agricultural technologies have been limited to evaluating the nature of technologies and the impacts technologies may have in societies, rather than the extent to which the structure of society may be compatible with the technology itself. Thus, labor-absorbing …
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Pure Immanence
This support paper will explore the medical, societal and personal implications derived from the compulsion of self-mutilation. It is studied through research creation in the form of sculpture, photographs, videos and bio-art. Three bodies of work will be discussed, beginning with a critique of …
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The economics of violence: On the relations between power structures and economic systems
This thesis examines force as a means of acquiring goods and services. Anthropological evidence indicates that resource scarcities and human wants do not suffice to dictate that economic activity be as intense as it appears in most modern societies. The use of force for exploiting the labor of …