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Was it up to individual judgement to trade not at par different labour notes in Modern Times?
During his experiment in Cincinnati Warren distinguished different types of labour:
Adjustments were made for the difficulty and disagreeableness of the work performed, so that time was not the only ...
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Is support for the far right unusually low in Lithuania (compared to its neighbors) and if so why?
The Economist (2023-09-14):
Support for nationalist or far-right parties:
Lithuania <1%
Poland >40%
Estonia, Latvia, Slovakia (and many other countries): 20-30%
The above map suggests ...
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Why does the US CBP require airlines to have some US Customs Visa Waiver Agreement to be allowed to transporting passengers to the US who rely on it?
I read on https://simpleflying.com/philippine-airlines-us-visa-waiver-carrier-agreement-expires/:
Philippine Airlines' US Customs Visa Waiver Agreement has expired, preventing them from transporting ...
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Is fiscal responsibility more difficult to practice in China since most of the spending is done by local governments? [closed]
Local government debt reached 92 trillion yuan ($12.8 trillion), or 76% of economic output in 2022, up from 62.2% in 2019. Part of it is
debt issued by local government finance vehicles (LGFVs), which ...
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What are the politics of Steven Pinker? [closed]
What are the politics of Steven Pinker?
I have not heard or read a statement from him in which he describes the political theory to which he adheres.
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Have making worker standards part of trade deals been tried?
From an article linked here, comments seem fairly unhappy with immigrants asking for rights as residency. Comments saying they should go back, no one invited them, baffled how they got to the country ...
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Why does China not consider itself to be a member of the G77 while the G77 itself lists China as one of its members?
The Group of 77 lists China as one of its members.[14] The Chinese
government provides consistent political support to the G77 and has
made financial contributions to the Group since 1994, but it does ...
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What are some of the amendments made to reduce the ideological influence on the North Korean judiciary?
The penal code is based on the principle of nullum crimen sine lege
(no crime without a law), but remains a tool for political control
despite several amendments reducing ideological influence.[4] ...
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Why disappear government Ministers and army officials? [closed]
So recently two Chinese Government Ministers and a few high ranking PLA officers have gone missing.
China's Defense minister Li Shangfu, been missing since late August. Initially said to be a health ...
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About N. Korea's Nukes and Delivery Systems
Sorry if this question is inappropriate for this SE or perhaps too technical but it is frankly a genuine concern for me.
Basically, the question is, how much should the claims of NK be believed? My ...
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Authoritative sources for the Chinese balloon's sensors "had never been activated while over the Continental United States?" Activated beforehand? [closed]
CBS News' September 17, 2023 almost clickbait title The bizarre secret behind China's spy balloon left me disappointed (but not surprised.
See also CBS video including bits of interview with Milley: ...
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What has Russia committed to NOT doing with North Korea, trade-wise?
Putin and Kim seem to be on a little bit of a bromance these days. It is speculated that Russia wants to get North Korean ammunition for its "special military operation" in Ukraine.
North ...
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Why did Spanish nationalists interrupt one-minute silence for the victims of Morocco earthquake?
In this link you will watch a video of Spanish nationalists in Catalonia who interrupted a minute moment of silence that was held for victims of the recent earthquake.
What's the reason these Spanish ...
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How easy is it to receive a radio signal in Mandarin from BBC and VoA in Beijing?
How easy is it to receive a radio signal in Mandarin from BBC and VoA in Beijing? In other words, is it a good signal that you can listen to at any time of day with readily available equipment that is ...
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What are possible sanctions the U.S. could put against North Korea if they were to provide arms to Russia?
Foreign governments and experts have speculated that Kim will likely
supply ammunition to Russia in exchange for receiving advanced weapons
or technology from Russia.
Milley and the other defense ...
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Are there developed countries that refused to make any net-zero commitment?
Last year, climate action was all about declaring dates for achieving
net-zero carbon emissions. At the 2021 UN’s climate change conference
in Glasgow, COP26, India pledged that it would reach net-...
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Is there political support for Women's Football which corresponds chronologically to the 2022 World Cup results?
Is there political support for Women's Football which corresponds chronologically to the 2022 World Cup?
Since FIFA started holding a Women's World Cup tournament in 1990 the United States team has ...
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Why does Afghanistan use Solar Hijri calendar while they don't celebrate Nowruz as the new year day? [closed]
I was reading the Wikipedia article for Nowruz and the first map caught my eye:
Iran is the only country that Nowruz is both a national holiday and the new year.
Afghanistan on the other hand just ...
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Do any 2024 Republican Presidential candidates oppose a pathway to legalization of illegal immigrants?
During the 2016 US Presidential campaign, Republican Presidential candidate Ted Cruz said this:
My position is very simple. I oppose amnesty. I oppose citizenship. I oppose legalization … Today, ...
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What are the challenges for multilateral lender to increase the share of funding in local currencies?
New Development Bank, the multilateral lender founded by the BRICS
group of emerging-market countries, aims to increase the share of
funding it raises in local currencies to 30% from less than 20%,
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Are there countries where unions are banned from donating money or lobbying politicians?
In the US, unions are a major political donor and expend a lot of political capital on lobbying elected representatives. Are there countries where unions are banned from making any sort of donations ...
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Reports in the European Parliament
What are so-called "reports" in the European Parliament?
If reports have no legislative effect, are they just mere declaration of intention of the parliament?
What kind of majority is needed ...
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How do union advocates explain worker salary and conditions improvement in countries where unions are banned? [closed]
On the one hand, unions are entirely banned in China as well as any forms of public protests. On the other hand, no one can deny the fact that Chinese workers have seen a tremendous increase in ...
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Is any country putting pressure against Saudi Arabia for its human rights violations presently?
The United States and other Western allies have all but rubber-stamped
Saudi Arabia’s repression at home and abroad. Repeated U.S. failures
to hold Saudi Arabia to account for a litany of human rights
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Has Iran ever been criticized for misspelling the name of the country of Somalia?
I am Iranian. Because of the heavy influence of Islam from the conquer of Sassanide Empire till now Iran uses Arabic alphabets (with four extra letters).
There are so many Arabic words in Persian ...
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Is China's definition of spying one of the loosest in the world?
The United States government, analysts, and lawyers say that the
revisions to Beijing's anti-espionage law are vague and will give
authorities more leeway in implementing already opaque national
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Why did Poland and Romania side with Ukraine in February 2022? [closed]
If Poland or Romania had marched into Ukraine from the west, they could have easily annexed lots of fertile land and valuable cities.
I cannot imagine their leaders to be too dumb to recognize the ...
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Could there have been advantages to extending an invitation to North Korea to observe the Belt and Road Initiative?
Could there have been advantages to extending an invitation to North Korea to observe the Belt and Road Initiative?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt_and_Road_Initiative
Observers
North Korea[72]
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Are there any mass primitivist societies (i.e. population over a thousand people) that currently exist?
I know there are small communes and primitivist societies out there, but are there any primitivist societies in the modern world with a population of over one thousand people? Large uncontacted tribes ...
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Help with understanding Eritrea factions
Around the world there has been a few events where Eritrea Culture days have been attacked.
This article has some info, but I am unsure how biased it is.
https://tesfanews.net/international-campaign-...
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Role of economic developement in political stability?
Often it is given that rapid economic progress is one the things that make the Chinese communist party acceptable to the Chinese people. Can this be accepted as a given fact? Conversely, if there was ...
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How do radical ecologists and anarchist communists tackle the issue of other countries military imperialism?
Radical ecologism (Jacques Ellul, André Gorz, Ivan Illich) and left anarchism (Bakunin, Guy Debord) advocate for the disparition of the state, in favor of little communes, living peacefully, sharing ...
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Can the Bank of France print as many Euros as it wants, what are the limitations, and how is it enforced? [duplicate]
The Bank of France contributes to the design of the monetary policy of
the euro zone (through macroeconomic research and forecast and by
taking part in the deliberations on ECB decisions) and ...
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Does Japan have any reason to ever repay its debt?
https://fortune.com/2015/02/26/japan-economic-time-bomb/
Takatoshi Ito, an economist at Columbia’s School of International &
Public Affairs, argued at a panel discussion on Monday that unless the
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Why do some people support Russia's war in Ukraine?
The Economist Intelligence Unit reported in March that some 33% of the world's population live in countries that support Russia in their war with Ukraine, and another 30% live in countries that are ...
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Can the US government sanction a US citizen?
Imagine John Doe, a US citizen permanently residing in the United States. John Doe engages in questionable but otherwise legal conduct that goes against the current policy of the Department of State. ...
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To what was "victor's justice" used to refer to between 1971-1983 and 1991-2008?
In a comment on this answer the google ngram for "victor's justice" was shown, as a demonstration that the phrase was first used in reference to the Nuremberg trials. This appears true, as ...
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According to each of Russia and Ukraine, are Russia and Ukraine officially at war with each other?
My understanding is that while both countries are "obviously" at war, neither country has officially declared war on each other.
So, according to each of (1) Russia and (2) Ukraine, are they ...
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Can the special members of Congress for Puerto Rico, DC, and other territories be subject to recall by statute or term limited?
Representatives and senators cannot be, but what about the other members of Congress?
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Aside from market size, what kind of leverage does a government have to negotiate lower prices for drugs from pharmaceutical companies?
The Chinese government has launched six rounds of national drug price
negotiation since 2016 to lower the price and expand access to
innovative drugs, many of which are anticancer drugs. This study ...
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What exactly are the "fake elector" allegations that are being made in the US media re. the 2020 POTUS elections?
Even Fox manages to talk about them.
Who is Cathy Latham? Former Coffee County (Georgia) GOP chair accused of being a 'fake elector'
ATLANTA - Cathy Latham, former GOP chair for Coffee County and a ...
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Why wasn't the China-Japan-South Korea Trilateral Meeting held since 2019?
The 6th trilateral summit was held on 1 November 2015 in Seoul,
resuming the summit since 2012 due to a variety of disputes and issues
ranging from World War II apologies to territorial disputes among ...
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What's going on with the effort to disqualify Trump in 2023 under the Constitution, Article 14, Clause 3
Question:
What's going on with the effort to disqualify Trump for 2024 under the Constitution.
To recap:
Two legal scholars from the very influential right wing Federalist Society came out with a 128 ...
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What divisive issues are least correlated with political alignment (e.g. whether you're on the left/right)?
Inspired by this reddit post that shows that ones opinion on AI-generated art/text is basically independent of whether one is a Democrat, Independent, or Republican.
My question is: what big issues ...
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Punitive detention in article 22 of the indian constitution [closed]
I read that article 22 subclause 1 deals with punitive detention.
As far as my understanding Punitive detention is a type of imprisonment used to punish a person for an offense they committed after ...
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Who is the Kim Kun Ok that North Korea named their recent submarine after?
According to CNN
The submarine, named “Hero Kim Kun Ok,” was launched to much fanfare at a ceremony attended by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Wednesday, according to the state-run Korean Central ...
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How does the CCP prevent the minority parties from obtaining too many seats and is there a hard cap on how many seats they can get?
While only the CCP holds effective power at the national level, there
are officially eight minor parties that exist alongside the CCP.[2]
Founded before the proclamation of the People's Republic of ...
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Why doesn't India claim this portion of Kashmir?
India claims the entirety of the territory of the former princely state of Jammu and Kashmir on the basis of the princely state's Instrument of Accession, signed by Maharaja Hari Singh in 1947.
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Why do we witness a return to strong traditional gender norms in Western societies today? [closed]
Why do we witness a return to strong traditional gender norms in Western societies today?
Indeed, for women, it is translated in the interest for the figure of the witch. See the representative (best-...
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Success ratio of petition
I self-drafted a Public Interest Litigation petition (Criminal) against the appointment of the Director (HR) of a Central Public Sector Enterprise in India against whom multiple complaints of ...
