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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"invisible hand"”.
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The invisible hand and sound change
Includes bibliography.
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Language and prejudice : the "invisible hand" of gender inequality in modern organizations
While studies have shown that interactions between workers and employers reinforce gendered allocations of workers within firms, the literature has not yet demonstrated how these interactional mechanisms operate to create gender inequalities even before formal job applications are submitted. Such …
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Contesting the Invisible Hand: The Development of Advertising Regulation in China, 1979--2000 and Beyond
The project adopts an institutional approach and investigates the dialectic between the evolution of Chinese culture and the evolution of Chinese advertising regulation in the last two decades. It provides an in-depth analysis of the development of Chinese advertising regulation since 1979 in its …
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Greening the invisible hand : how environmental non-governmental organizations (NGOs) succeed and fall in technology change
This dissertation examines how national environmental non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Sweden and the United States (US) tried to diffuse cleaner production technologies in the pulp and paper industry from 1980-1998. The environmental organizations were: Greenpeace Sweden, Swedish Society …
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From the Invisible Hand to the Invisible Woman: The Politics of Neutrality in the Context of Social Tax Expenditures
In law, neutrality is now a postulate and this is particularly true about Social Tax Expenditures (STEs) which are tax measures with a redistributive goal, similar to welfare benefits. Hence, taxation and the welfare state are closely connected insofar as STEs are part of the welfare system. But …
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The Invisible Hand or the Handgun: Ride Hailing, Violence, and Political Settlements in the South African Urban Mobility Market
Markets are thought to constitute a force that fosters peace and brings both material and non-material improvements to society. Technology and innovation are similarly believed to offer developmental promise. The spread of ride hailing platforms such as Uber to developing country contexts is …
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FROM BLACK LIVES MATTER TO WE DON’T EVEN MATTER: THE INVISIBLE HAND OF POWER ON SOCIAL MOVEMENT PARTICIPATION AND ACTIVISM IN URBAN AND RURAL SPACES
The field of social movement research is vast and evolving as technological advances continue to expand the field of movement space to include virtual worlds and digital platforms, ensuring new research endeavors. However, as movement spaces expand, one constant is the pursuit and exchange of power …
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Collective and Individual Rationality: Some Episodes in the History of Economic Thought
… in the writings of economists suggests that invisible hand theories play a key role in reconciling reductionist policy prescriptions with a holistic world. An examination of the prisoners' dilemma in game theory and Arrow's impossibility theorem in social choice theory sets the scene. The …
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Capitalist Entrepreneurs and Industrial Slavery in the Rural Antebellum South
… illuminates the actions and motivations of the 'invisible hand' of slavery, further research reveals that the enslaved were not passive victims of structural oppression, but rather, were able to exercise cultural creativity and take action within their own small sites of power</p>
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Hayekian insights into intra-firm coordination: exploring the rule following perspective
… to tentatively conjecture the case for an invisible hand (of Mengerian) explanation for the emergence of the modern business firm. Some implications of this perspective and some opportunities for further research are outlined.
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Enterprising Women in Novels of Manners: The Social Economies of Austen, Thackeray and Wharton
… Park, social economies are controlled by an invisible hand that can be trusted to reward deserving economic agents, and punish the undeserving. William Thackeray's Vanity Fair shows how social economies can be impacted by speculative bubbles, when some commodities are temporarily given more …
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Love and ecology as an integrative force for good and as resistance to the commodification of nature and planetary harms: Introducing Fluminism.
… (Daily, et al), a glove to fit the neoliberal ‘invisible hand’ (Adam Smith). Depersonalisation and reductionism persists as non-human nature is simply deemed utility to humans ~ Natural Resources ~ when in fact nature is an ever dynamic and complex matrix/flow, of individual lives and supporting …
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Community-based innovation & product development : finding from open source software and consumer sporting goods
… solve a wide range of design problems. The "many hands" of communities act as an innovation development and selection process operating largely independent of the visible hands of firms and the invisible hand of markets. Each essay in the thesis investigates the impact of community-based …
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Building the Beast: The Evolution of Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) From Street Gang to Transnational Criminal Organization
… development within enclave communities; 3) the Invisible Hand Theory; 4) Systems Thinking; 5) balloon and ripple effects initiated by policy change; 6) Porter’s 5 Forces and Supply Chain Network Analysis; 7) the hybridization process seen in the Big Cat species; and 8) Third Generation Gang and …
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Leviathan's double bottom line : Sovereign wealth funds as tools of strategic statecraft by Shannon A. Murphy.
… Century, the market will not be guided by the "invisible hand," but instead by Leviathan's.
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Essays on east European economies
… consumption and investment is determined by the “invisible hand" of the market mechanism or "visible hand" of central planner. For the purpose of this study four economic systems are defined: Capitalist market, capitalist central planning, socialist market, and socialist central planning. Ample …
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Behavioral Aspects of Supply Chain Integration: Macro and Micro Level Perspectives
… and rather impersonal level, as if an invisible hand calls the shots. The role of individual in decision making in largely ignored. I synthesize the Behavioral Agency Model (BAM) and Behavioral Approach and Inhibition Model (BAIM), specify two variables (i.e., Variability in Pay and …
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The theoretical relevance of an updated Marxian theory of commodity in economics
… mercantile form of value is thus Adam Smith's invisible hand. Finally, the thesis analyses some implications of the framework with regard to the analysis of monetary phenomena, capital accumulation and sustainable development, and reviews the most popular Marxian topic in Economics: the …