Abstract Every art encounter requires making predictions given that is rife with uncertainty. What it to appreciate while relying on predictions, and what consequences? I argue appreciation involves engaging our predictive systems in such a way as correct failure at least some levels the processing hierarchy of information we receive from works. That best explains mechanism for cognizing works ...

For [contemporary] social anthropologists, the important conclusion, always worth repeating, is that the observation and the labelling of 'behaviour' are inseparable from the importation of socially derived meanings even when observing monkeys. How much more so when the process is reflexive, when the observers and the observed are both 'meaning-makers' ... Edwin Ardener, 1977: Comprehending Oth...

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This paper examines how unhedged currency exposure of firms varies with changes in currency flexibility. A sequence of four time-periods with alternating high and low currency volatility in India provides a natural experiment in which changes in currency exposure of a panel of firms is measured, and the moral hazard versus incomplete markets hypotheses tested. We find that firms carried higher ...