by C.R.Yadu and Sahil Mehra* Within the discourse of Development Economics, the most widely accepted theory is that of ‘structural transformation’ (ST), which posits that, over time, non-agricultural, high productivity, and capitalist sectors will gain greater significance in terms of both national income and employment, while the role of agricultural, low productivity, and non capitalist […]
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by Tamar Barkay* Are the inverse trajectories of internal corporate social responsibility (CSR) and the decline of organized labor in the past decades linked? If so, how?These questions arise from three widely recognized observations. First, since the 1980s, most OECD countries have experienced a decline in unionization and union density rates (Visser, 2012). Second, following […]
by Kean Birch* Unicorns are private companies valued at over US$1 billion. The term was first used by venture capitalist Aileen Lee in 2013 and has since become a cultural trope of its own. According to the business analytics firm CB Insights, there were close to 1,000 unicorns in the world at the end of […]
If you believe in Santa, do not read the following paper — sympathetically warn us Teea Palo, Katy Mason and Philip Roscoe at the beginning of “Performing a Myth to Make a Market: The Construction of the ‘Magical World’ of Santa”. In this interesting research, the authors follow the Santa myth to a remote northern […]