This article centres the role of Cairo's popular forces in 2011 revolutionary Uprising Egypt. It does so by bringing to focus relationship between these forces' everyday spatial practices and forms contention, on one hand, activism protests central places like Tahrir Square, other. demonstrates that life neighbourhoods Cairo is constitutive a political domain which ordinary citizens cultivate r...

Introduction 1 Acknowledgment 1 Notation 1 1. The tensor product with a motive of weight zero 3 1.1. The tensor product of two motives of weight zero 3 1.2. The tensor product of a torus with a motive of weight 0 3 1.3. The tensor product of an abelian scheme with a motive of weight 0 4 1.4. The tensor product of an extension of an abelian scheme by a torus with a motive of weight 0 4 2. The 1-...

Classified broadly, two motives for intra-family transfers exist: altruism and selfishness. This paper examines two selfish hypotheses − the exchange motive (strategic bequest motive) and the demonstration effect − using a new Japanese micro data set. My analysis of the determinants of intergenerational co-residence, distance between residences, and frequency of contact yields considerable supp...

This paper examines how aversion to risk and aversion to intertemporal substitution determine the strength of the precautionary saving motive in a two-period model with Selden/Kreps-Porteus preferences. For small risks, we derive a measure of the strength of the precautionary saving motive which generalizes the concept of "prudence" introduced by Kimball (1990b). For large risks, we show that d...