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Slapping the Grasping Hand: Correlates of Political Corruption in Emerging Markets by Goldsmith, Arthur A.

“…The international community is redoubling efforts to curb political corruption in the developing and transitional economies. The consensus now is that the…”
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Enriching Exchange: Cultural Dimensions of Markets by Spillman, Lyn

“…As economic sociologists have been arguing for some time, markets are not to be abstractly opposed to other social relations but rather to be understood as…”
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Trust and Sociability: On the Limits of Confidence and Role Expectations by Seligman, Adam B.

“…Trust is distinguished from confidence in that the latter rests on knowledge or predictability of the alter's actions, while trust is necessary to maintain…”
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The Changing Relationship between Economic Sociology and Institutional Economics: From Talcott Parsons to Mark Granovetter by Velthuis, Olav

“…In his early work, Talcott Parsons severely criticized Old Institutional Economists like Thorstein Veblen and Clarence Ayres. Parsons' main objection was that…”
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Conceptualizing Professionalism: Why Economics Needs Sociology by Roberts, Jennifer, Dietrich, Michael

“…The main argument presented here is that economics provides a necessary but not sufficient analysis of professionalism. A sufficient analysis can only be…”
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Economics and Restaurant Gratuities: Determining Tip Rates by Bodvarsson, öRn B., Gibson, William A.

“…Is tipping in restaurants simply a social norm where people tip on the basis of some rule of thumb (15% of bill size for example)? Using evidence gathered from…”
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Environmental Genocide: Native Americans and Toxic Waste by Brook, Daniel

“…Physical and cultural genocide have been practiced against Native Americans for half a millennium. In the modern era, these forms of genocide have been…”
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The New Institutionalism: Contradictory Notions of Change by Hira, Anil, Hira, Ron

“…This article suggests that the new institutionalism contains ambiguous and contradictory notions of change. By setting up a model that explains institutional…”
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A Household Production Analysis of Religious and Charitable Activity by Clain, Suzanne Heller, Zech, Charles E.

“…Two conventional wisdoms are prevalent among churchgoers with regards to monetary contributions. One is that contributions of their time and money to their…”
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The Worldwide Movement in Private Universities: Revolutionary Growth in Post-Secondary Higher Education by Quddus, Munir, Rashid, Salim

“…The end of the Cold War, which resulted from the collapse of communism and the spread of free market ideas in the former Soviet Union, China, and nations in…”
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Lessons from the History of Affordable Housing Cooperatives in the United States: A Case Study in American Affordable Housing Policy by Sazama, Gerald W.

“…Understanding the history of the affordable housing cooperatives in the United States helps us understand the general history of American affordable housing…”
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Ontology with Human Subjects Testing: An Empirical Investigation of Geographic Categories by Smith, Barry, Mark, David

“…The paper presents a framework for the formulation and testing of ontological theories embodied in human cognition, concentrating primarily on the domain of…”
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The Wage Effects of Being Raised in the Catholic Religion: Does Religion Matter? by Ewing, Bradley T.

“…This paper provides new empirical evidence about the existence of a Catholic wage premium. A simple allocation-of-time model provides two explanations for the…”
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The Social Norms of Discrete Consumer Exchange: Classification and Quantification by Maxwell, Sarah

“…Social norms have been recognized as an important influence in long-term relational exchange between firms. It is here argued that social norms are equally…”
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The Economic Sociology of Alfred Marshall:An Overview by Aspkrs, Patrik

“…The aim of the paper is to present the economic sociology of Alfred Marshall (1842-1924). Three topics are discussed in the paper: Marshall's ideas of how…”
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A Socio-Historical Interpretation of Toxic Waste Sites: The Case of Greater Boston by Krieg, Eric J.

“…At a recent conference in San Francisco, the American Health Foundation reported that "blacks may be more likely than whites to develop lung cancer from…”
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The Consumption of Music and the Expression of VALUES: A Social Economic Explanation for the Advent of Pop Music by Dolfsma, Wilfred

“…By consuming pop music, people want to express who they are, to which group they belong, what their identity is. People's identity, however and contrary to…”
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Legalize Drugs Now!: An Analysis of the Benefits of Legalized Drugs by Cussen, Meaghan, Block, Walter

“…The legalization of drugs would prevent our civil liberties from being threatened any further, it would reduce crime rates, reverse the potency effect, improve…”
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Explaining Differences in Economic Performance among Racial and Ethnic Groups in the USA: The Data Examined by Darity, William, Guilkey, David K., Winfrey, William

“…By utilizing self-reported race and ancestry in the 1980 and 1990 USA censuses and the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique, the extent of wage…”
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