classes hegemonic struggles and the middle class question

... future The contributors wrote their initial papers in the winter of 2009/10 and shared their ideas with each other and with members of the Collegium at the Helsinki Symposium The volume is therefore ... hegemonies, each with the capacity to destroy life on the planet (a capacity they retain) The ‘end’ of the Cold War therefore posed the question of world leadership and the future of world order ... contradiction (Bakker and Gill 2003: 27–9) This involves, on the one hand, the extension of the global power of capital and, on the other, the intensified exploitation of human beings and nature that...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2014, 21:55

... the mute and many others, and laid them at his feet; and he healed them The people were amazed when they saw the mute speaking, the crippled made well, the lame walking and the blind seeing And ... seeing And they praised the God of Israel Matthew 15:29–31 Great crowds came to Jesus, bringing the lame, the maimed, the blind, the dumb and putting them at his feet; and he healed them The news ... my grandfa­ ther and my father all their lives The Blumhardts’ faith and vision have become part of our legacy as a church movement, and with the witness of orig­ inal Hutterianism and the life-affirming...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 01:20

... closed economy and then in an open economy, and explores financing and intermediation patterns in the run-up to, and during, the crisis The discussion focuses largely on identities and on the risk ... between the current account and the accumulation of reserves is more likely to run the other way: the accumulation may reflect the wish to resist the appreciation of the currency, when the authorities ... contributed to the credit boom and the transmission of the turmoil, and diverts attention away from the monetary and financial factors that sowed the seeds of the crisis We have argued that the fundamental...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 03:20

... the Fed’s balance sheet between the banking sector and the ultimate borrowers The Fed took in deposits from the banking sector (through increased reserves) and then lent out the proceeds to the ... maximizing the return on equity The borrower then has a leverage of 50 If a shock raises the haircut, then the borrower must either sell assets or raise equity Suppose that the haircut rises to 4% Then ... for below the current market price on the understanding that it will buy it back in the future at a pre-agreed price The difference between the current market price of the security and the price...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 23:20

... structure [5] These findings raise the interesting question of whether the balance between acharan sulfate and this other GAG species remains unchanged from birth to the adult life of the snail The presence ... to the source of the tissue, which included the digestive tract, kidney, albumen gland, feet and spermatheca GAGs are reported to be present in the mollusk shell organic matrix [17,26,27] and these ... from the nacreous layer of the shell from the pearl oyster, Pinctada maxima Although these and other reports suggest the presence of GAGs or proteoglycans in the mollusk shell organic matrix, the...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 16:20

... partial explanation of the high U.S external deficit over the 2000s See Chinn and Ito (2007) and Gruber and Kamin (2007) 12 2000, and other industrial country rates other than the United Kingdom’s ... rising steadily in the U.S since the middle 1990s; they began to rise more rapidly.16 Given the wide extent of homeownership in the U.S and the relative ease, compared to other countries, of ... the rise in world saving and the expanding global imbalances that emerged later in the decade Indeed, it is only around 2004 that the 26 A curious and so far unresolved aspect of the saving and...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 02:20

... trade and the international financial market The Netherlands 15 At the start of the crisis, the unemployment rate in The Netherlands was the lowest in Europe at around % (Euro area average 10 %) and ... the years, with the scores close to each other Comparing the score of 2010 and 2005, Austria and The Netherlands increase their human capital a little; whereas Belgium and Switzerland decrease a ... ranking of Austria, Belgium, The Netherlands, and Switzerland Real GDP Growth per capita of Austria, Belgium, The Netherlands, and Switzerland from 2005 to 2010 ...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2014, 11:41

... data The path development of the four countries is again at the two ends of the continuum, with Israel in the middle upper end and the other three countries at the lower end Turkey is at the upper ... ecosystems The only predictable in true innovation is the unpredictability and the surprises The role of the public sector is to drive strategy and measures enabling the unpredictable, and to catalyze ... (Baxter 2012) Furthermore, consumers in the major markets such as European Union and the U.S cut their spending to save their personal wealth, thus decreased the trade demand and impacted those...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2014, 11:41

... back on the path of smart, sustainable, and inclusive growth The main question is how capable and ready are the national governments to tackling the complex and manifold issues of crises and to ... ecosystems The only predictable in true innovation is the unpredictability and the surprises The role of the public sector is to drive strategy and measures enabling the unpredictable, and to catalyze ... Germany had the highest PC and France still had the lowest score For renewal capital (RC), Germany consistently had the highest score and was far ahead of the other three countries Ireland had the lowest...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2014, 16:23

... currency area and the resulting EU institutional frame for the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP) and the Excessive Deficit Procedure (EDP) We discuss the legal basis for the EDP and the relevant ... Appendix: Ideology and Economics in the Failure of Lehman Brothers 105 Chapter The Economics of Monetary Union: The Theory of Optimum Currency Areas Abstract  In the 1960s, the theory of Optimum ... (except possibly in Ireland), more losses in output and employment are to be expected Thus, the burden of the adjustments to the imbalances in the Eurozone between the surplus and the deficit countries...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2014, 18:40

... than the rank and file) But big companies fail all the time and, to be honest, they leave little mark of their passage, except for the holes they leave in the lives (and retirement accounts) of their ... fellow reporters and editors Sandra Block, Christine Dugas, and Cathy Chu are friends of the best kind: They can tell you when your ideas are good and when they’re bad, and in either case, you ... in the form of an electronic book entry Viola! The money supply is now larger The dealers now have more money on their books than they need, so they lend the excess out to other banks But the...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2014, 21:48

... institutions, and regulatory authorities; and the postal savings system and the Fiscal Loan and Investment Program The incomplete liberalization has led, among others, to the unraveling of the main ... These characteristics are: (1) the rules and constraints nature of institutions, (2) the ability of their rules and constraints to govern the relations among individuals and groups, and (3) their ... and monetary and fiscal policies) should have been changed and regulation and supervision of the financial sector should have been strengthened The financial crisis in Thailand is a result of the...

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2014, 17:35

... consequences for EMU The Greek crisis and the Stability and Growth Pact ECB independence and the no-bailout clause The Greek crisis and the ‘two-speed EMU’: the restricted solidarity hypothesis Some concluding ... between the US and Italian labour markets The effect of the crisis on the Italian and US labour markets The experience of unemployment in Italy and in the US The costs of being unemployed in the ... (i.e., the Stability and Growth Pact), the independence of the ECB and the meaning and limits of the no-bailout clause and, eventually, the future of EMU In Chapter 9, ‘From Miracle to Crash? The...

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2014, 19:21

... back on the path of smart, sustainable, and inclusive growth The main question is how capable and ready are the national governments to tackling the complex and manifold issues of crises and to ... ecosystems The only predictable in true innovation is the unpredictability and the surprises The role of the public sector is to drive strategy and measures enabling the unpredictable, and to catalyze ... related to the innovation capability of the region The correlation between these factors and the GDP growth is undisputable In knowledge intense industries talent is attracting talent, and the connectivity...

Ngày tải lên: 04/11/2014, 05:34

... conservative propaganda, and with the break up of the radical associations and the consequent erosion of the links between these organisations and other intellectual currents and circles, the conditions ... in the more pressing conflicts of the age The complex intersection of these two histories – the political turmoil of the 1790s and the broader hegemonic shift towards the meritocratic bias of the ... about the role of literature and the status of the author; the second shifts its focus to the debates about working -class activists, radical women authors and the Orientalists and examines the...

Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 11:00

... see, the chart covers the various elements of a round and the golfer records his or her performance on each hole The golfer then reviews it and determines the areas of opportunity to improve and ... round The Global Leadership Course is a tough layout The fairways are narrow, the rough is U.S Open deep, and the pin settings on the greens are in difficult-to-reach positions And, of course, sand, ... in their game that, if improved, could lower their scores, such as driving distance, iron play, the short game, and putting The quest is to add the fewest numbers to the blank scorecard over the...

Ngày tải lên: 17/10/2013, 23:15

... between the tee and the green that offers the player the best chance for success Also known as ‘ the short grass.’’ Feathery Early type of golf ball made by filling a leather pouch with boiled feathers ... rivers, and trees Hole General term for the area between tee and green Also, the specific target on the green Hook Unintentional stroke that causes the ball to bend sharply to the left for a right-handed ... Grip To hold the club such that the little finger of one hand is wrapped around the forefinger of the other Lie Position of the ball at rest Links Golf course within four miles of the sea coast...

Ngày tải lên: 20/10/2013, 19:15