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Adam Smith and Roman Servitudes
No full textThis essay is a preprint of an article that appeared at: Tijdschrift voor Rechstsgeschiedenis, 72 (2004), 327–57.This essay discusses Adam Smith historical jurisprudence and his use of Roman law materials in his Lectures on Jurisprudence. It argues that Smith found it difficult to maintain his theory of legal development in the face of a highly developed body of Roman law literature
No Urban Malaise for Millennials
No full textUrban malaise or unhappiness with city life is common in developed countries. City dwellers, particularly those in the largest metropolitan areas, are reported to be the least satisfied with their lives. Using the U.S. General Social Survey (1972-2016) we explore the latest happiness trends. Our results confirm earlier findings of urban malaise: Americans in general are happiest in smaller cities and rural areas. However, the advantage of rural living is declining—rural Americans are becoming less happy relative to urbanites. Most interesting, our results show that the latest generation, Millennials (1982-2004), as opposed to earlier generations are the happiest in large cities (an estimated magnitude larger than earning an additional $100k in family income annually). We explore possible reasons for this trend and discuss directions for future research.Peer reviewe
Life Satisfaction of Career Women and Housewives
No full textProfound changes in gender roles have taken place over the past several decades in the United States. Women’s roles have changed most: women are marrying later in life and at lower rates, having fewer children, and working more outside of the household. “Career women” are the new normal and housewifery has gone out of fashion. At the same time, women have become less happy. We use the US General Social Surveys from 1972 to 2014 to explore these latest trends. We find that, until recently, women are happier to be housewives or to work part-time than full-time, especially, women who are older, married, with children, in middle or upper class, and living in suburbs or smaller places. The effect size of housewifery on subjective wellbeing (SWB) is mild to moderate, at about a fourth to a third of the effect of being unemployed. Therefore, we argue that one possible reason for the decline in average happiness for women was increased labor force participation. Yet, the happiness advantage of housewifery is declining among younger cohorts and career women may become happier than housewives in the future.Peer reviewe
City Life: Glorification, Desire, and the Unconscious Size Fetish
No full textUrbanization is one of the most astonishing transformations in the history of our species. Social scientists have spilled much ink trying to understand what cities do to humans. While there has been some psychoanalysis of cities (e.g. Pile 2005a), there is certainly room for more given the enormous importance of the process. This chapter argues that an unconscious size fetish plays a key role in alluring people to the city. Although in many ways the city provides many freedoms to urbanites, it also entraps them in city dreams and illusions. Urbanization has been typically depicted as an overly positive phenomenon, especially by economists; there is, therefore, a need to highlight its shortcomings and problems, and to understand why people prefer it regardless. In addition, this chapter argues that cities have much in common with capitalism, and that perhaps both do more harm than good.Peer reviewedReproduced from Psychoanalysis and the Global, edited by I. Kapoor, by permission of the University of Nebraska Press. Copyright 2017 by the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska Press
Livability and Subjective Wellbeing Across European Cities
No full textThis study documents for the first time the correlation between livability and subjective well
being (SWB) across European cities. Livability is measured with the popular Mercer Quality of
Living Survey and correlates considerably with SWB, measured as place and life satisfactions.
There are outliers, for instance: the “unlivable” but “happy” Belfast (fool’s paradise) and the
“livable,” but “unhappy” Paris (fool’s hell). In addition, we find geographic patterns: while
the Mercer index ranks higher Western cities, subjective well being is higher in Northern cities.
Smaller cities score higher on both livability and SWB, confirming thus the urban sociological
theory of urban malaise while contradicting urban economic theory of city triumph.Peer reviewe
Rvins of the palace of the emperor Diocletian at Spalatro in Dalmatia
No full textby R. Adam F·R·S F·S·A architect to the King and to the Quee
Partycypacja młodych Polaków w wyborach parlamentarnych w 2023 r. – determinanty aktywności wyborczej
No full textAuthor presents an analysis of the electoral participation of young Poles in the context of the 2023 parliamentary elections. The sources of knowledge in the article are data from the author’s research project, which was carried out thanks to the funding obtained from a research grant of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Poland. The survey results analysis, supplemented by a literature search and analysis of secondary data, constitutes the article’s essence. The survey was conducted on March 13–30, 2023, using CATI computer-assisted telephone interviews. It was measured on a nationwide sample of 1,200 people aged 18–30, allowing conclusions about the general population that was surveyed. The sample was representative of such variables as gender, age, province, and size of residence. The research project provided relevant data to answer the highlighted research question on the factors that influenced the participation of young Poles in the 2023 parliamentary elections. In the course of the analysis, the hypotheses related to the theoretical approaches within the behavioral approach and new institutionalism were verified. Quantitative methods appropriate to the neopositivist paradigm were used to verify the hypotheses. The conclusions of the analysis have important implications for understanding changes in Poland’s political landscape, taking into account the role of the young electorate in this process.Autor przedstawia analizę partycypacji wyborczej młodych Polaków w kontekście wyborów parlamentarnych w 2023 roku. Źródłem wiedzy w artykule są dane z autorskiego projektu badawczego, który został zrealizowany dzięki pozyskanemu dofinansowaniu z grantu badawczego Fundacji Konrada Adenauera w Polsce. Analiza wyników badania, uzupełniona o kwerendę literatury przedmiotu i analizę danych wtórnych, stanowi istotę artykułu. Badanie zrealizowane zostało 13–30 marca 2023 r. metodą wywiadów telefonicznych wspomaganych komputerowo CATI. Pomiaru dokonano na ogólnopolskiej próbie 1200 osób w wieku 18–30 lat, umożliwiającej wnioskowanie na ogół badanej populacji. Próba była reprezentatywna ze względu na takie zmienne jak: płeć, wiek, województwo, wielkość miejsca zamieszkania. Projekt badawczy dostarczył istotnych danych, dzięki którym możliwe jest uzyskanie odpowiedzi na wyróżnione pytanie badawcze dotyczące czynników, które wpłynęły na udział młodych Polaków w wyborach parlamentarnych w 2023 r. W toku analizy zweryfikowano hipotezy, które odnoszą się do ujęć teoretycznych w ramach nurtu behawioralnego oraz nowego instytucjonalizmu. Narzędziem służącym weryfikacji hipotez są metody ilościowe właściwe dla paradygmatu neopozytywistycznego. Wnioski z analizy mają istotne implikacje dla zrozumienia zmian w krajobrazie politycznym Polski, z uwzględnieniem roli młodego elektoratu w tym procesie
Assessing the effects of chloride deicer applications on groundwater near the Siskiyou Pass, southwestern Oregon, July 2018-February 2021
No full textby Stephen B. Gingerich, Daniel R. Wise, and Adam J. Stonewall ; prepared in cooperation with Oregon Department of Transportation.This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Includes bibliographical references (pages 33-35).Mode of access: Internet from the State Library of Oregon U.S. Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Data for: From plot to scale: ex-ante assessment of conservation agriculture in Zambia
No full textAuthor: Adam M. Komarek (https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5676-3005)Date last updated: March 29, 2019Description: This dataset contains the code and data needed to replicate the results reported in the study titled"From plot to scale: ex-ante assessment of conservation agriculture in Zambia". Study authors are Adam M. Komarek, Hoyoung Kwon, Beliyou Haile, Christian Thierfelder, Munyaradzi J. Mutenje, and Carlo Azzarri.Inside the file 'analysis.zip' are 4 main items that include the R project and three main folders:1) 'caZAM.Rproj' is the R project. It must be opened to set the project directory, which is needed to read in the data.2) The R scripts are in the folder 'scripts'. There are 12 scripts, which are ordered sequentially. 3) The folder 'data' contains the data used in the scripts.4) Output from the scripts are in the folder 'output'. Outputs include the figures and tables reported in the study
Environmental and Parental Influences on Offspring Health and Growth in Great Tits (Parus major)
No full textPMCID: PMC3728352This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited
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