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The rise of the privilege system in Russia: from the ‘special favour’ to a ‘common legal act’ (17th-19th century) by Gouzevitch, Irina, Gouzevitch, Dimitri

“…This particular condition incited the authors, who met this problematic while studying the inventive activity of foreign engineers on the Crown service during the 18th and 19th centuries, to tempt a short synthetic overview of the rise of privileges system in Russia, from its timid beginnings to the developed and highly regulated State legislation. …”
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Pasarelas, diálogos y muros entre el progreso/desarrollo y lo común/comunidad (notas parciales y en filigrana) by González Meyer, Raúl

“…This, as an idea and purpose, has its roots in the notion of progress that has been imposed and spilled from thewestern center in recent centuries and has a milestone and historical refraction in the decades of the 30s to 50s of the 20th century in which the processes of African, Arab and Asian decolonization, the crises of oligarchic domination inLatin America, the European reconstruction, the loss of legitimacy of economic liberalism, the gain of planning prestige, and  the  awareness  of  the  great  world  poverty –in  an  advanced  era  of  science,  technology  and productivity– leads to strengthening institutional, organizational, engineering and conceptual processes, in order to create or consolidate development dynamics in an accelerated way. …”
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