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Reducing wealth inequality and resource waste is a global challenge. A fundamental problem within the capitalist economy, put simply, lies in the enslavement of labor and the colonization of resources. To address these issues, movements…
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Article about objective regularity and mechanisms of formation of network economy in the conditions of crisis of {\guillemotleft}new economy{\guillemotright}. The network economy is considered as a basis of a following business cycle. The…
Crowdsourcing methods facilitate the production of scientific information by non-experts. This form of citizen science (CS) is becoming a key source of complementary data in many fields to inform data-driven decisions and study challenging…
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