Repost from vogon.nl The Dutch system for allocating public housing matches homes to tenants’ preferences reasonably well on average. But...

How Airbnb Changed the Rules Airbnb just changed its rules. Airbnb. History,Our Airbnb story starts with a 2007 San Francisco...

Colonial concession companies like Companhia de Diamantes de Angola (Diamang) relied heavily on coercive labour systems to manage the high...

The Human Brain Owes Its Existence to a Prehistoric Pandemic Key points. A retroviral infection is responsible for evolution of...

This research explores how South Sudan’s current looming crisis is rooted in a century-long history of coercive and predatory revenue-raising...

We provide new spatial and historical data to overturn the common claims that (i) African borders were decided at the...

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How do trade booms affect labor in economies where multiple coercive labor systems coexist? Drawing on newly digitized census microdata...

What did economic and political power look like in the eighteenth century Cape Colony—and who held it? In our study...

PIM, DAM, and CMS are three distinct systems that manage different parts of an organization's content and product information. A...