Stephany Griffith‐Jones, Ocampo José Antonio, and Joseph E. Stiglitz
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- February 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199578801
- eISBN:
- 9780191723285
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199578801.003.0001
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Macro- and Monetary Economics, Financial Economics
This introductory chapter lays out the premise for the rest of the volume, which draws from the analysis of the current crisis to make a fairly comprehensive and ambitious set of policy proposals in ...
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This introductory chapter lays out the premise for the rest of the volume, which draws from the analysis of the current crisis to make a fairly comprehensive and ambitious set of policy proposals in the fields of national and global regulation, national macroeconomic management, and reform of the world monetary system. At the time of sending the book to the press, debates on national and global policy responses to the crisis were quite active. Some interesting initiatives have been put forth, such as the renewed issuance of Special Drawing Rights (SDRs), and steps towards better international regulation. However, many concerns remained as to the adequacy of the fiscal stimulus throughout the world and the unsettled position of banks in industrial countries, but particularly in the United States.Less
This introductory chapter lays out the premise for the rest of the volume, which draws from the analysis of the current crisis to make a fairly comprehensive and ambitious set of policy proposals in the fields of national and global regulation, national macroeconomic management, and reform of the world monetary system. At the time of sending the book to the press, debates on national and global policy responses to the crisis were quite active. Some interesting initiatives have been put forth, such as the renewed issuance of Special Drawing Rights (SDRs), and steps towards better international regulation. However, many concerns remained as to the adequacy of the fiscal stimulus throughout the world and the unsettled position of banks in industrial countries, but particularly in the United States.
Gary G. Hamilton, Benjamin Senauer, and Misha Petrovic
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- May 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199590179
- eISBN:
- 9780191724893
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199590179.001.0001
- Subject:
- Business and Management, International Business
This book describes and analyzes the transformation that occurred in retailing in the last half of the twentieth century and demonstrates that this transformation has substantially changed the global ...
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This book describes and analyzes the transformation that occurred in retailing in the last half of the twentieth century and demonstrates that this transformation has substantially changed the global economy. This transformation is both obvious and largely unrecognized. It is obvious, because the transformation is a part of our everyday lives. In the United States, in 1954, there were only 500 shopping centers across the country, most of which were by today’s standard very small. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the shopping centers in the USA alone number over 50,000, many of which are gargantuan. This same expansion is happening throughout the world. In fact, the largest shopping centers are no longer in the USA, but are scattered around the globe. Many of the newest and largest of them are now in Asia. As pervasive and obvious as these changes are, there has been surprisingly little research on the global effects of retailing. This book is among the first books to address this important topic in a systematic and highly readable manner. The authors demonstrate that retailers and merchandisers increasingly organize the global economy by developing two types of markets, consumer markets and supplier markets. Using point-of-sales information, retailers anticipate and try to create consumer markets for the goods they sell. Based on this information, retailers also create and maintain supplier markets for the goods that they buy from manufacturers and that they in turn sell to consumers. Retailers attempt to “make” both types of markets, by setting prices and the terms and conditions of exchange. The extraordinary success that retailers and merchandisers have enjoyed in making both types of markets has had far-reaching consequences on how all national economies perform in an age of global retailing.Less
This book describes and analyzes the transformation that occurred in retailing in the last half of the twentieth century and demonstrates that this transformation has substantially changed the global economy. This transformation is both obvious and largely unrecognized. It is obvious, because the transformation is a part of our everyday lives. In the United States, in 1954, there were only 500 shopping centers across the country, most of which were by today’s standard very small. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the shopping centers in the USA alone number over 50,000, many of which are gargantuan. This same expansion is happening throughout the world. In fact, the largest shopping centers are no longer in the USA, but are scattered around the globe. Many of the newest and largest of them are now in Asia. As pervasive and obvious as these changes are, there has been surprisingly little research on the global effects of retailing. This book is among the first books to address this important topic in a systematic and highly readable manner. The authors demonstrate that retailers and merchandisers increasingly organize the global economy by developing two types of markets, consumer markets and supplier markets. Using point-of-sales information, retailers anticipate and try to create consumer markets for the goods they sell. Based on this information, retailers also create and maintain supplier markets for the goods that they buy from manufacturers and that they in turn sell to consumers. Retailers attempt to “make” both types of markets, by setting prices and the terms and conditions of exchange. The extraordinary success that retailers and merchandisers have enjoyed in making both types of markets has had far-reaching consequences on how all national economies perform in an age of global retailing.
Ting Xu and Alison Clarke (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780197266380
- eISBN:
- 9780191879579
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197266380.001.0001
- Subject:
- Law, Environmental and Energy Law
‘Communal’ property is an important mechanism for allocating natural resources and regulating their use – whether for economic exploitation, recreational use or the promotion of biodiversity and ...
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‘Communal’ property is an important mechanism for allocating natural resources and regulating their use – whether for economic exploitation, recreational use or the promotion of biodiversity and nature conservation. The form which communal property regimes take, however, and their relationship to private property structures, varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction and is poorly understood. Nevertheless, the importance of communal property, transcending the public/private divide in property rights, is increasingly apparent globally. Contributions to this volume focus on legal strategies for the development and protection of communal property and how these strategies ‘map’ over different jurisdictions (England and Wales, Scotland, South Africa, Cameroon, Italy, Israel and China) and jurisprudential approaches. They look at property beyond the traditional, individualist, and exclusive ownership model, engaging with communal property ‘practices’ in different jurisdictions to explore the theoretical grounding of communal property, not only linking theory with practice but also linking the local with the global.Less
‘Communal’ property is an important mechanism for allocating natural resources and regulating their use – whether for economic exploitation, recreational use or the promotion of biodiversity and nature conservation. The form which communal property regimes take, however, and their relationship to private property structures, varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction and is poorly understood. Nevertheless, the importance of communal property, transcending the public/private divide in property rights, is increasingly apparent globally. Contributions to this volume focus on legal strategies for the development and protection of communal property and how these strategies ‘map’ over different jurisdictions (England and Wales, Scotland, South Africa, Cameroon, Italy, Israel and China) and jurisprudential approaches. They look at property beyond the traditional, individualist, and exclusive ownership model, engaging with communal property ‘practices’ in different jurisdictions to explore the theoretical grounding of communal property, not only linking theory with practice but also linking the local with the global.
Susan Strange
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781784992651
- eISBN:
- 9781526104168
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9781784992651.003.0002
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Theory
We are looking for the key decisions which have altered the course of world economic history in recent times, and which have shaped the development of the world economy and determined shifts in the ...
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We are looking for the key decisions which have altered the course of world economic history in recent times, and which have shaped the development of the world economy and determined shifts in the costs and benefits, the profits and losses, the risks and opportunities amongst nations, classes and other social groups. But it is important at the start to be clear as to what we mean by a key decision and what we should be prepared to look for and include. In the first place we are analysing the monetary system. Decisions here are not quite the same as in the study of international diplomatic relations, for instance. There, states decide to make war or to make peace, to make alliances and to intervene in the affairs of others. The action is between foreign ministers and diplomats and the key decisions are up to them. Monetary systems are different. In the real world – though not always in the fairyland of economic theory – a monetary system must have both political authority and a market. The market is essential whenever economic exchange between buyers and sellers is not all done by command of a third party. If buyers and sellers are free to exercise some degree of choice, however limited, and if their transaction is not conducted through barter, there must be money. But a monetary system cannot work efficiently unless there is political authority to say what money must be used or may be used; to enforce the execution of agreed monetary transactions; and to license, and if necessary support, major operators in the system.Less
We are looking for the key decisions which have altered the course of world economic history in recent times, and which have shaped the development of the world economy and determined shifts in the costs and benefits, the profits and losses, the risks and opportunities amongst nations, classes and other social groups. But it is important at the start to be clear as to what we mean by a key decision and what we should be prepared to look for and include. In the first place we are analysing the monetary system. Decisions here are not quite the same as in the study of international diplomatic relations, for instance. There, states decide to make war or to make peace, to make alliances and to intervene in the affairs of others. The action is between foreign ministers and diplomats and the key decisions are up to them. Monetary systems are different. In the real world – though not always in the fairyland of economic theory – a monetary system must have both political authority and a market. The market is essential whenever economic exchange between buyers and sellers is not all done by command of a third party. If buyers and sellers are free to exercise some degree of choice, however limited, and if their transaction is not conducted through barter, there must be money. But a monetary system cannot work efficiently unless there is political authority to say what money must be used or may be used; to enforce the execution of agreed monetary transactions; and to license, and if necessary support, major operators in the system.
Susan Strange
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781784992651
- eISBN:
- 9781526104168
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9781784992651.003.0007
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Theory
The problem of managing and stabilizing a financial system that is fundamentally out of order and control is a global one. But the solution is a national one. It is absolutely no use looking to ...
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The problem of managing and stabilizing a financial system that is fundamentally out of order and control is a global one. But the solution is a national one. It is absolutely no use looking to international organizations to wave a magic wand and restore financial order and with it world prosperity. Any survey of recently proposed solutions (as in the last chapter) leads to the conclusion that the reform must start with a change of mind in Washington.Less
The problem of managing and stabilizing a financial system that is fundamentally out of order and control is a global one. But the solution is a national one. It is absolutely no use looking to international organizations to wave a magic wand and restore financial order and with it world prosperity. Any survey of recently proposed solutions (as in the last chapter) leads to the conclusion that the reform must start with a change of mind in Washington.
Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780823277872
- eISBN:
- 9780823280490
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823277872.003.0010
- Subject:
- Literature, World Literature
This essay shows how the idea of the South Atlantic as a space
of dictatorships and banana republics was contested on the ground by literary experimentation and transoceanic influence. Armillas- ...
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This essay shows how the idea of the South Atlantic as a space
of dictatorships and banana republics was contested on the ground by literary experimentation and transoceanic influence. Armillas- Tiseyra uses Sony Labou Tansi’s La vie et demie (Life and a Half 1979) as an example of a dictator novel, a genre that spans the Global South. Armillas-Tiseyra argues for the term “constellation” to be used in place of “magical realism” to classify the genre. “Constellation” here serves as a figure both for the relationship of
individual texts or textual features to each other (a loose configuration or grouping) and for a mode of comparison that proceeds by juxtaposition and collage rather than more rigid hierarchical systematization. The allows Armillas-Tiseyra to approach and grapple with the difficult relationship between critique and narrative form.Less
This essay shows how the idea of the South Atlantic as a space
of dictatorships and banana republics was contested on the ground by literary experimentation and transoceanic influence. Armillas- Tiseyra uses Sony Labou Tansi’s La vie et demie (Life and a Half 1979) as an example of a dictator novel, a genre that spans the Global South. Armillas-Tiseyra argues for the term “constellation” to be used in place of “magical realism” to classify the genre. “Constellation” here serves as a figure both for the relationship of
individual texts or textual features to each other (a loose configuration or grouping) and for a mode of comparison that proceeds by juxtaposition and collage rather than more rigid hierarchical systematization. The allows Armillas-Tiseyra to approach and grapple with the difficult relationship between critique and narrative form.
Thomas J. Csordas
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780814772591
- eISBN:
- 9780814723517
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814772591.003.0007
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Anthropology, Religion
This chapter explores the “global geography of the spirit” evident among Catholic charismatic communities. It takes geography as having both literal and metaphorical implications, which thus refers ...
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This chapter explores the “global geography of the spirit” evident among Catholic charismatic communities. It takes geography as having both literal and metaphorical implications, which thus refers to a figurative conceptual terrain as well as to the physical features on the face of the earth. Both of these meanings are at play in an examination of the “cartographic self-representation” of Catholic charismatics, who draw for instance on websites to exhibit a powerful sense of international presence and progress toward world evangelization. The chapter includes but goes beyond the examination of maps, however, as it traces the workings of the geography of the spirit in the everyday lives of members, their verbal and body languages, and their (often gendered) experiences of space.Less
This chapter explores the “global geography of the spirit” evident among Catholic charismatic communities. It takes geography as having both literal and metaphorical implications, which thus refers to a figurative conceptual terrain as well as to the physical features on the face of the earth. Both of these meanings are at play in an examination of the “cartographic self-representation” of Catholic charismatics, who draw for instance on websites to exhibit a powerful sense of international presence and progress toward world evangelization. The chapter includes but goes beyond the examination of maps, however, as it traces the workings of the geography of the spirit in the everyday lives of members, their verbal and body languages, and their (often gendered) experiences of space.
Naomi André
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780252041921
- eISBN:
- 9780252050619
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5622/illinois/9780252041921.003.0006
- Subject:
- Music, Opera
This chapter places Winnie: The Opera (Bongani Ndodana-Breen, Warren Wilensky, and Mfundi Vundla, 2011) in a larger comparative framework that includes the Western opera tradition, opera in the ...
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This chapter places Winnie: The Opera (Bongani Ndodana-Breen, Warren Wilensky, and Mfundi Vundla, 2011) in a larger comparative framework that includes the Western opera tradition, opera in the United States, and the representation of blackness in opera more generally. With a reading of postcolonial and post-apartheid theorists (for example, Homi Bhabha and the “unhomely,” Karin Barber and entextualization, and Sarah Nuttal’s entanglement), this chapter also draws upon the Global South (and global studies) along with transnationalism. This chapter examines events from the opera in Winnie Mandela’s life (torture, the Mandela United Football Club, and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission) as they are characterized musically and in the drama.Less
This chapter places Winnie: The Opera (Bongani Ndodana-Breen, Warren Wilensky, and Mfundi Vundla, 2011) in a larger comparative framework that includes the Western opera tradition, opera in the United States, and the representation of blackness in opera more generally. With a reading of postcolonial and post-apartheid theorists (for example, Homi Bhabha and the “unhomely,” Karin Barber and entextualization, and Sarah Nuttal’s entanglement), this chapter also draws upon the Global South (and global studies) along with transnationalism. This chapter examines events from the opera in Winnie Mandela’s life (torture, the Mandela United Football Club, and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission) as they are characterized musically and in the drama.
Mette Hjort and Duncan Petrie
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748625369
- eISBN:
- 9780748671151
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748625369.003.0004
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
As a small and relatively peripheral nation, Ireland's film industry is largely state-funded with additional support from European sources and co-production deals with the commercial industry. It ...
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As a small and relatively peripheral nation, Ireland's film industry is largely state-funded with additional support from European sources and co-production deals with the commercial industry. It produces between 10 and 15 feature films per year as well as a range of shorts, documentaries and animation films. Ireland is also a popular location for large-scale American and British film and television productions, which bring additional economic and training benefits to the local indigenous industry. Although this industry only emerged relatively recently in the 1980s/1990s, Ireland has had a presence in the American and British film industries since the earliest days of filmmaking and a range of dominant tropes has emerged in the representation of Ireland and the Irish. Much indigenous filmmaking is a response to these traditions of representation as well as a response to the rapid economic and social changes that have characterised Ireland since the 1980s. Indeed, Irish cinema has played a key role in tracking and representing these transformations so that, despite the low profile of Irish cinema internationally (with the exception of Neil Jordan and Jim Sheridan) the indigenous cinema has played a key role in the cultural re-imagining of Ireland and the Irish at home.Less
As a small and relatively peripheral nation, Ireland's film industry is largely state-funded with additional support from European sources and co-production deals with the commercial industry. It produces between 10 and 15 feature films per year as well as a range of shorts, documentaries and animation films. Ireland is also a popular location for large-scale American and British film and television productions, which bring additional economic and training benefits to the local indigenous industry. Although this industry only emerged relatively recently in the 1980s/1990s, Ireland has had a presence in the American and British film industries since the earliest days of filmmaking and a range of dominant tropes has emerged in the representation of Ireland and the Irish. Much indigenous filmmaking is a response to these traditions of representation as well as a response to the rapid economic and social changes that have characterised Ireland since the 1980s. Indeed, Irish cinema has played a key role in tracking and representing these transformations so that, despite the low profile of Irish cinema internationally (with the exception of Neil Jordan and Jim Sheridan) the indigenous cinema has played a key role in the cultural re-imagining of Ireland and the Irish at home.
Joia S. Mukherjee
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- December 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780190662455
- eISBN:
- 9780190662486
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190662455.003.0002
- Subject:
- Public Health and Epidemiology, Public Health
This chapter focuses on the emergence of the AIDS pandemic. It covers the emergence of symptoms associated with HIV, the discovery of the virus, and the understanding of its transmission. It ...
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This chapter focuses on the emergence of the AIDS pandemic. It covers the emergence of symptoms associated with HIV, the discovery of the virus, and the understanding of its transmission. It emphasizes the importance of AIDS activists in acceleration of the development of drugs that changed the disease from a terminal to chronic disease. AIDS activists throughout the world then worked together to fight for equitable distribution of AIDS treatment. The movement drew an explicit connection between the AIDS pandemic and the right to health and succeeded in garnering novel funding for global health delivery. AIDS changed many things in global health, from patient-led activism to drug discovery to the long-term provision of care. In this book, the global health era is defined as the period after 2000, when AIDS activism helped shift the health paradigm in impoverished countries from prevention only to the delivery of health care.Less
This chapter focuses on the emergence of the AIDS pandemic. It covers the emergence of symptoms associated with HIV, the discovery of the virus, and the understanding of its transmission. It emphasizes the importance of AIDS activists in acceleration of the development of drugs that changed the disease from a terminal to chronic disease. AIDS activists throughout the world then worked together to fight for equitable distribution of AIDS treatment. The movement drew an explicit connection between the AIDS pandemic and the right to health and succeeded in garnering novel funding for global health delivery. AIDS changed many things in global health, from patient-led activism to drug discovery to the long-term provision of care. In this book, the global health era is defined as the period after 2000, when AIDS activism helped shift the health paradigm in impoverished countries from prevention only to the delivery of health care.
Sanjay Srivastava
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- January 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780198099147
- eISBN:
- 9780199084487
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198099147.003.0009
- Subject:
- Sociology, Urban and Rural Studies
Focusing on shopping malls, this chapter seeks to track the ways in which ‘social’ and consuming life are imagined within narratives of their design, operation, and use. It is concerned with ...
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Focusing on shopping malls, this chapter seeks to track the ways in which ‘social’ and consuming life are imagined within narratives of their design, operation, and use. It is concerned with competing and complementary meanings of space that circulate through the web of relationships between mall visitors and planners. It is through a discussion of spaces that the chapter explores the ways in which consumers are imagined as differentiated consuming units located between multiple binaries such as ‘global’ and ‘local, and ‘modern’ and ‘traditional’. Through explorations of spatial discourses of mall planners, architects, managers, and theoreticians (such as those who write in trade magazines)–the chapter seeks to outline what is specific about the ways in which Indian malls produce spatial ‘myths of identity’Less
Focusing on shopping malls, this chapter seeks to track the ways in which ‘social’ and consuming life are imagined within narratives of their design, operation, and use. It is concerned with competing and complementary meanings of space that circulate through the web of relationships between mall visitors and planners. It is through a discussion of spaces that the chapter explores the ways in which consumers are imagined as differentiated consuming units located between multiple binaries such as ‘global’ and ‘local, and ‘modern’ and ‘traditional’. Through explorations of spatial discourses of mall planners, architects, managers, and theoreticians (such as those who write in trade magazines)–the chapter seeks to outline what is specific about the ways in which Indian malls produce spatial ‘myths of identity’
Y.V. Reddy, Narayan Valluri, and Partha Ray
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- November 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199452651
- eISBN:
- 9780199084524
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199452651.003.0002
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Financial Economics
The global financial crisis originated in select advanced economies with financial sectors being severely affected. The linkages between financial and fiscal situations in such significantly affected ...
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The global financial crisis originated in select advanced economies with financial sectors being severely affected. The linkages between financial and fiscal situations in such significantly affected countries are the main thrust of this chapter. No doubt, several developing countries were also affected, but that was essentially through contagion. This chapter, therefore, concentrates on the relevant advanced economies and in particular, on the US and seeks to give, by way of background, a broad overview of the causes of the crisis, its global fiscal impact, responses to the crisis, and their fiscal implications (including the larger fiscal consequences on public debt). It concludes by stressing the importance of the different dimensions of imbalances, of the need for rebalancing them and, of reassessing fiscal, financial, and monetary linkages that may be necessary in distilling lessons from the crisis for the future.Less
The global financial crisis originated in select advanced economies with financial sectors being severely affected. The linkages between financial and fiscal situations in such significantly affected countries are the main thrust of this chapter. No doubt, several developing countries were also affected, but that was essentially through contagion. This chapter, therefore, concentrates on the relevant advanced economies and in particular, on the US and seeks to give, by way of background, a broad overview of the causes of the crisis, its global fiscal impact, responses to the crisis, and their fiscal implications (including the larger fiscal consequences on public debt). It concludes by stressing the importance of the different dimensions of imbalances, of the need for rebalancing them and, of reassessing fiscal, financial, and monetary linkages that may be necessary in distilling lessons from the crisis for the future.
Graham Denyer Willis
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780520285705
- eISBN:
- 9780520961135
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520285705.003.0001
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Latin American Cultural Anthropology
A contextual discussion of the context and problem of violence in Sao Paulo as it relates to policing, organized crime, and the city in the contemporary period. We position the book vis-à-vis some ...
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A contextual discussion of the context and problem of violence in Sao Paulo as it relates to policing, organized crime, and the city in the contemporary period. We position the book vis-à-vis some theoretical considerations surrounding notions of the state, sovereignty, marginality, and police reform before providing a background on methodology, episteme, and research access for the present study.Less
A contextual discussion of the context and problem of violence in Sao Paulo as it relates to policing, organized crime, and the city in the contemporary period. We position the book vis-à-vis some theoretical considerations surrounding notions of the state, sovereignty, marginality, and police reform before providing a background on methodology, episteme, and research access for the present study.
Alexander R. Bazelow
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780823249602
- eISBN:
- 9780823250752
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823249602.003.0008
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Political Philosophy
This chapter discusses the movie Twelve Hours to Midnight— How Brazil Has Responded to the Global Financial Crisis, a documentary about how a country emerges from an economic crisis and ultimately ...
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This chapter discusses the movie Twelve Hours to Midnight— How Brazil Has Responded to the Global Financial Crisis, a documentary about how a country emerges from an economic crisis and ultimately redeems itself. Above all, it is the story of five men, Oded Grajew, Helio Mattar, Paulo Itacarambi, Ricardo Young, and Raymundo Magliano, who helped found the corporate social responsibility movement and later the Instituto Ethos in Brazil. It is a documentary about what happens to a country when it realizes it has hit “rock bottom” and has no choice but to face traditionally repressed realities and begin the long hard road to reforming itself. In short, it is where this conference should end, rather than begin, and I think it is also a fitting tribute to Hannah Arendt, the thinker whose ideas inform and inspire it.Less
This chapter discusses the movie Twelve Hours to Midnight— How Brazil Has Responded to the Global Financial Crisis, a documentary about how a country emerges from an economic crisis and ultimately redeems itself. Above all, it is the story of five men, Oded Grajew, Helio Mattar, Paulo Itacarambi, Ricardo Young, and Raymundo Magliano, who helped found the corporate social responsibility movement and later the Instituto Ethos in Brazil. It is a documentary about what happens to a country when it realizes it has hit “rock bottom” and has no choice but to face traditionally repressed realities and begin the long hard road to reforming itself. In short, it is where this conference should end, rather than begin, and I think it is also a fitting tribute to Hannah Arendt, the thinker whose ideas inform and inspire it.
Y.V. Reddy, Narayan Valluri, and Partha Ray
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- November 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199452651
- eISBN:
- 9780199084524
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199452651.003.0004
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Financial Economics
The depth and spread of the global financial crisis was of such magnitude that most nations plunged into action with conventional and unconventional globally coordinated measures. Remedial stimulus ...
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The depth and spread of the global financial crisis was of such magnitude that most nations plunged into action with conventional and unconventional globally coordinated measures. Remedial stimulus measures were both monetary and fiscal, by central banks and national governments, respectively, recognizing that monetary or fiscal actions alone might not suffice. To begin with, the actions were at a national level but soon converged to globally concerted and coordinated action. With traditional monetary easing of lowering interest rates knocking against the zero-bound limit, some monetary authorities even resorted to extraordinary monetary actions like quantitative easing. Stimulus measures inevitably have fiscal consequences, even monetary stimulus action because of latent quasi-fiscal implications. What emerges from this chapter is that the various ramifications of the global financial crisis ultimately and inevitably have fiscal consequences, thus underscoring the centrality of fiscal issues, which are to be addressed at a national level.Less
The depth and spread of the global financial crisis was of such magnitude that most nations plunged into action with conventional and unconventional globally coordinated measures. Remedial stimulus measures were both monetary and fiscal, by central banks and national governments, respectively, recognizing that monetary or fiscal actions alone might not suffice. To begin with, the actions were at a national level but soon converged to globally concerted and coordinated action. With traditional monetary easing of lowering interest rates knocking against the zero-bound limit, some monetary authorities even resorted to extraordinary monetary actions like quantitative easing. Stimulus measures inevitably have fiscal consequences, even monetary stimulus action because of latent quasi-fiscal implications. What emerges from this chapter is that the various ramifications of the global financial crisis ultimately and inevitably have fiscal consequences, thus underscoring the centrality of fiscal issues, which are to be addressed at a national level.
Orrin H. Pilkey, Linda Pilkey-Jarvis, and Keith C. Pilkey
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780231168441
- eISBN:
- 9780231541800
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231168441.003.0009
- Subject:
- Environmental Science, Climate
The climate refugee problem will dwarf the current political refugee problem facing western Europe. Bangladesh with millions of people on the delta will provide the greatest number of refugees that ...
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The climate refugee problem will dwarf the current political refugee problem facing western Europe. Bangladesh with millions of people on the delta will provide the greatest number of refugees that will flee to India or Myanmar. India is building the Great Wall of India in anticipation of this future flow of humanity. Currently, most people leaving the delta are fleeing to Dhaka or to other major cities near deltas. On a local scale all over the world, beachfront dwellers will be moving back, often into already crowded cities.Less
The climate refugee problem will dwarf the current political refugee problem facing western Europe. Bangladesh with millions of people on the delta will provide the greatest number of refugees that will flee to India or Myanmar. India is building the Great Wall of India in anticipation of this future flow of humanity. Currently, most people leaving the delta are fleeing to Dhaka or to other major cities near deltas. On a local scale all over the world, beachfront dwellers will be moving back, often into already crowded cities.
David A. Chang
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780816699414
- eISBN:
- 9781452954417
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816699414.003.0007
- Subject:
- Literature, Film, Media, and Cultural Studies
The chapter traces writing about American Indian people in Hawaiian-language newspapers from the 1830s to the end of the century. It argues that over the course of the nineteenth-century, Kānaka came ...
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The chapter traces writing about American Indian people in Hawaiian-language newspapers from the 1830s to the end of the century. It argues that over the course of the nineteenth-century, Kānaka came to see a likeness between themselves and American Indian people, and that act of recognizing likeness was part of the process of thinking about the global category of the indigenous--a conversation that is very current today.Less
The chapter traces writing about American Indian people in Hawaiian-language newspapers from the 1830s to the end of the century. It argues that over the course of the nineteenth-century, Kānaka came to see a likeness between themselves and American Indian people, and that act of recognizing likeness was part of the process of thinking about the global category of the indigenous--a conversation that is very current today.
