The Fate of International Monetary Systems: How and Why They Fall Apart
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DOI: 10.1017/s1537592720002315
Abstract: The collapses of the interwar and Bretton Woods monetary regimes have been understood as evidence that international monetary regimes fail when sudden economic shocks destabilize the political coalitions or shared ideas underpinning them. But while… read more here.
Keywords: systems fall; fall apart; international monetary; monetary systems ... See more keywords
Why Clothes Don't Fall Apart: Tension Transmission in Staple Yarns.
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DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.120.158001
Abstract: The problem of how staple yarns transmit tension is addressed within abstract models in which the Amontons-Coulomb friction laws yield a linear programing (LP) problem for the tensions in the fiber elements. We find there… read more here.
Keywords: clothes fall; fall apart; staple yarns; tension ... See more keywords
Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart: Literary Humanism and the Question of Human Dignity
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DOI: 10.2979/reseafrilite.52.2.02
Abstract: ABSTRACT:This essay celebrates the sixtieth anniversary of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart by returning to a cliché that the novel remakes African humanity. While the presumption of Achebe’s humanism has congealed into academic common sense,… read more here.
Keywords: fall apart; literary humanism; humanism; chinua achebe ... See more keywords