173 research outputs found
Intelligence Explosion Episode 6: The Digital Underworld: Dr. Janos Mark Szakolczai on Onlife Crime, Digital Harm and Tech Colonialism
No full textIn this episode, I sit down with Dr. Janos Mark Szakolczai, author of the forthcoming book Onlife Criminology: Virtual Crimes and Real Harms (Bristol University Press, 2025).
Together we unpack:
• How the digital and physical worlds have collapsed into one.
• New forms of crime, harm, and hidden architectures of power.
• Big Tech’s models of surveillance, addiction, and inequality.
• Digital colonialism in the Global South.
• The erosion of trust through deepfakes and conspiracies.
• Dr. Janos’s call for an “Offlife” future to reclaim autonomy.
It’s a provocative conversation about the future of digital freedoms and the urgent choices societies must make
This, too, I blame on Hitler
No full textWhat becomes of those who survive? This collection of personal essays uses humor and reflection to explore the themes of inherited trauma and bicultural identity, finding sanctity in the unlikeliest of sources: irreverence. Whether reporting on Syrian refugees at the Hungarian-Serbian border, reflecting on his experimentations with sadomasochism, recounting a botched haircut at the hands of his six-year-old brother, or translating a musical written by his grandfather in a Soviet Gulag, the author grapples with the question: how does one discover nuance in personal heritage under the Manichean weight of a global atrocity like the Holocaust?M.F.A.by Adam Jano
Colour number, capacity and perfectness of directed graphs.
No full textWe introduce a new concept of chromatic number for directed graphs, called the colour number and use it to upper bound the transitive clique number and the Sperner capacity of arbitrary directed graphs. Our results represent a common generalization of previous bounds of Alon and the second author and lead to a concept of perfectness for directed graphs
Monumental Tombs of the Hellenistic Age: A Study of Selected Tombs from the Pre-classical to the Early Imperial Era
No full textSource type: Prin
Household savings in transition economies
No full textDuring the transition from central planning to market economies now under way in Eastern Europe, output levels first collapsed by 40 to 50 percent in most countries, then staged a modest recovery in the last two years. Longer-term revival of growth requires a resumption of investment and thus, realistically, of domestic savings. To explore the determinants of household savings rates in transition economies, the authors studies matching household surveys for three Central European economies: Bulgaria, Hungary, and Poland. They find that savings rates strongly increase with relative income, suggesting that increasing income inequality may play a role in determining savings rates. Savings rates are significantly higher for households that do not own their homes or that own few of the standard consumer durables-possibly because, with no retail credit or mortgage markets, households must save to purchase houses and durables. The influence of demographic factors broadly matches earlier findings for developing countries. Perhaps surprisingly, variables associated with the household's position in the transition process-including either sector of employment (public or private) or form of employment-do not play a significant role in determining savings rates.Environmental Economics&Policies,Services&Transfers to Poor,Economic Theory&Research,Banks&Banking Reform,Payment Systems&Infrastructure,Safety Nets and Transfers,Rural Poverty Reduction,Environmental Economics&Policies,Banks&Banking Reform,Economic Theory&Research
Tectono-thermal evolution of Oman's Mesozoic passive continental margin under the obducting Semail Ophiolite : a case study of Jebel Akhdar, Oman
No full text© Author(s) 2019. We present a study of pressure and temperature evolution in the passive continental margin under the Oman Ophiolite using numerical basin models calibrated with thermal maturity data, fluid-inclusion thermometry, and lowtemperature thermochronometry and building on the results of recent work on the tectonic evolution. Because the Oman mountains experienced only weak post-obduction overprint, they offer a unique natural laboratory for this study. Thermal maturity data from the Adam Foothills constrain burial in the basin in front of the advancing nappes to at least 4 km. Peak temperature evolution in the carbonate platform under the ophiolite depends on the burial depth and only weakly on the temperature of the overriding nappes, which have cooled during transport from the oceanic subduction zone to emplacement. Fluid-inclusion thermometry yields pressure-corrected homogenization temperatures of 225 to 266 °C for veins formed during progressive burial, 296- 364 °C for veins related to peak burial, and 184 to 213 °C for veins associated with late-stage strike-slip faulting. In contrast, the overlying Hawasina nappes have not been heated above 130-170 °C, as witnessed by only partial resetting of the zircon .U-Th/=He thermochronometer. In combination with independently determined temperatures from solid bitumen reflectance, we infer that the fluid inclusions of peak-burial-related veins formed at minimum pressures of 225-285MPa. This implies that the rocks of the future Jebel Akhdar Dome were buried under 8-10 km of ophiolite on top of 2 km of sedimentary nappes, in agreement with thermal maturity data from solid bitumen reflectance and Raman spectroscopy. Rapid burial of the passive margin under the ophiolite results in sub-lithostatic pore pressures, as indicated by veins formed in dilatant fractures in the carbonates. We infer that overpressure is induced by rapid burial under the ophiolite. Tilting of the carbonate platform in combination with overpressure in the passive margin caused fluid migration towards the south in front of the advancing nappes. Exhumation of the Jebel Akhdar, as indicated by our zircon .U-Th/=He data and in agreement with existing work on the tectonic evolution, started as early as the Late Cretaceous to early Cenozoic, linked with extension above a major listric shear zone with top-To-NNE shear sense. In a second exhumation phase the carbonate platform and obducted nappes of the Jebel Akhdar Dome cooled together below ca. 170 °C between 50 and 40 Ma before the final stage of anticline formation.status: Publishe
Yugoslavia - How redistribution hurts productivity in a socialist economy
No full textSocialism as practiced in Eastern Europe is characterized by massive income redistribution. This paper focuses on: (a) interfirm redistribution, consisting of taxing profitable firms in order to subsidize unprofitable ones; and (b) intrafirm redistribution, consisting of the compression of personal income differentials within a firm. The author constructs a theoretical model of redistribution of income as practiced in Yugoslav firms. Empirical results lead to the conclusions that efficiency in production could be improved at no cost if such redistribution were abolished. Furthermore, economies in which much of the GNP is redistributed through bargaining are also bound to be inefficient in distribution because some groups are less able to represent their common interests than others. Contrary to a common belief, socialist countries can not be praised on the count of equity either. This paper presents the estimating framework and the results of the empirical analysis obtained on the basis of a sample of Slovenian enterprises and a brief discussion of policy implications concludes the paper.Environmental Economics&Policies,Economic Theory&Research,Inequality,Health Economics&Finance,Work&Working Conditions
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