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Sociologist in the Demography And Ageing Unit, Melbourne School Of Population And Global Health, University Of Melbourne www.jamesmahmudrice.info
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I've been having a fun time browsing through @chrispower.bsky.social's brief survey of the short story: www.theguardian.com/books/series... And, happily, the following books by Machado de Assis and Nabokov (both included in the survey) arrived in the post on Friday, just in time for the weekend!

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A few years ago I published an article on the effect of public transfers on intergenerational inequality in income. A recent working paper by Peter Varela, Robert Breunig and Matthew Smith approaches the same topic with a similar methodology. The papers (see below) differ in important ways however.

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I just read this @thesiswhisperer blog, then went to the Atlantic site to find my publications are mentioned 105 times in Meta’s AI pirater 😳 Seems everything via Taylor & Francis, Palgrave, Routledge, & Cambridge Uni Press! 😭😭

submitted 76 days ago • 2 comments

In his book "Dimensions Of Urban Social Structure" (University Of Toronto Press, 1969), Frank Lancaster Jones makes some interesting observations on the value of social research that "states the obvious" or produces "commonsense" results rather than surprising ones:

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