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Personalities and cultures: readings in psychological anthropology
In: Texas Press sourcebooks in anthropology 3
Cultural/Ethnology: The Forging of the Cosmic Race: A Reinter‐pretation of Colonial Mexico. Colin M. MacLachlan and Jaime E. Rodriguez O
In: American anthropologist: AA, Volume 86, Issue 1, p. 200-201
ISSN: 1548-1433
Cambio de Indumentaria: La Estructura Social y el Abandono de la Vestimenta Indigena en la Villa de Santiago Jamiltepec. Susana Drucker
In: American anthropologist: AA, Volume 70, Issue 5, p. 1009-1010
ISSN: 1548-1433
Tzintzuntzan: Mexican Peasants in a Changing World. GEORGE M. FOSTER
In: American anthropologist: AA, Volume 70, Issue 4, p. 781-782
ISSN: 1548-1433
GENERAL: Sociocultural Foundations of Personality. Albert D. Ullman
In: American anthropologist: AA, Volume 68, Issue 5, p. 1262-1264
ISSN: 1548-1433
Catholicism and Democracy: An Essay in the History of Political Thought. By Emile Perreau-Saussine. Translated by Richard Rex and with a foreword by Alasdair MacIntyre. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012. 200p. $45.00
In: Perspectives on politics, Volume 12, Issue 2, p. 530-531
ISSN: 1541-0986
BUSINESS METHOD PATENTS AND U.S. FINANCIAL SERVICES
In: Contemporary economic policy: a journal of Western Economic Association International, Volume 28, Issue 3, p. 322-352
ISSN: 1465-7287
A decade after the State Street decision, more than 1,000 business method patents are granted each year. Yet, only 1 in 10 is obtained by a financial institution. Most business method patents are also software patents. Have these patents increased innovation in financial services? To address this question, we construct new indicators of research and development intensity based on the occupational composition of financial industries. The financial sector appears more research intensive than official statistics would suggest but less than the private economy taken as a whole. There is considerable variation across industries but little apparent trend. There does not appear to be an obvious effect from business method patents on the sector's research intensity. Looking ahead, three factors suggest that the patent system may affect financial services as it has electronics: (1) the sector's heavy reliance on information technology, (2) the importance of standard setting, and (3) the strong network effects exhibited in many areas of finance. Even today litigation is not uncommon; we sketch a number of significant examples affecting financial exchanges and consumer payments. The legal environment is changing quickly. We review a number of important federal court decisions that will affect how business method patents are obtained and enforced. We also review a number of proposals under consideration in the U.S. Congress. (JEL O31, O34, G20)
When Do More Patents Reduce R&D?
In: American economic review, Volume 96, Issue 2, p. 87-91
ISSN: 1944-7981
Paul B. Trawick, The Struggle for Water in Peru: Comedy and Tragedy in the Andean Commons (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2002), pp. xiv+351, £58.50, £20.50 pb
In: Journal of Latin American studies, Volume 37, Issue 1, p. 229-231
ISSN: 1469-767X
Paul B. Trawick, The Struggle for Water in Peru: Comedy and Tragedy in the Andean Commons (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2002), pp. xiv+351, (GBP)58.50, (GBP)20.50 pb
In: Journal of Latin American studies, Volume 37, Issue 1, p. 229-232
ISSN: 0022-216X
Mohandas K. Gandhi: Citizenship and Community for an Industrial Age
In: Bulletin of science, technology & society, Volume 23, Issue 3, p. 192-200
ISSN: 1552-4183
For Mohandas K. Gandhi, questions of technology were integral to his overall utopian vision. His future for India and for the world at large rested on the belief that technology, along with all the instrumentalities of society and culture, could be judged on the basis of their continuation to swaraj—dimensions of individual and community freedom. He was pragmatic; he changed notably over time in his specific views of "appropriate" technology and institutions. But his basic vision of the good society endured, being part of the sense of who he was, and what he was to do, for the concluding decades of his long life.
On Dry Farming in Upper Mesopotamia
In: Current anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 2, p. 289-290
ISSN: 1537-5382