A reflection on borrowing from western economics

When Inter-ethnic Botanical Borrowing does not rely on Obvious Efficacy: Some questions from Western Amazonia

Inter-ethnic botanical borrowing is usually deemed to be based on pragmatic efficiency. However, in the regional system we discovered between several indigenous groups from the Peruvian rainforest, the transfer of ethnomedicinal knowledge relies much more on relational factors than on any kind of strictly therapeutic efficacy. This is clearly substantiated by a detailed comparison between objec...

Copyright and Cross-Cultural Borrowing: Indo-Western Musical Encounters

Borrowing from thy neighbour: a European perspective on sovereign debt

European capital markets show increasing concern about the extent of sovereign debts and their sustainability. Here we explore some insights that the Overlapping Generations (OLG) framework has to offer on such issues. The OLG framework implies, for example, that there is a limit to the amount of debt that may be sustained in a closed economy — with high debt raising interest rates and crowding...

Ontologies: Borrowing from Software Patterns

ion Objective Semantics

Constructed wetlands: borrowing a concept from nature.