Market Forces and Fair Institutions: The Political Economy of Europe
... 1950s (ECSC and EURATOM) to the launching of the Euro in the 1990s, France and Germany have been sharing in a European project which has conversely deeply transformed their domestic conditions. It is of great interest to measure how much their respective “welfare states,” all considerations due to c ...
... 1950s (ECSC and EURATOM) to the launching of the Euro in the 1990s, France and Germany have been sharing in a European project which has conversely deeply transformed their domestic conditions. It is of great interest to measure how much their respective “welfare states,” all considerations due to c ...
Contents - Uni Kassel
... The preoccupation with and examination of social structures is pivotal for post-structural approaches. While they go along with structuralist conceptions in promoting a relational and differential account of social structures, they critique structuralists for introducing a new essentialism. This ess ...
... The preoccupation with and examination of social structures is pivotal for post-structural approaches. While they go along with structuralist conceptions in promoting a relational and differential account of social structures, they critique structuralists for introducing a new essentialism. This ess ...
Enhancing Productive Capacity of the Poor in the COMCEC Member
... fund have moved to distributing social safety net benefits based on proxy means testing taking into account income and household information to ensure that the most vulnerable benefit. PROXY MEANS TESTING Lesson learned: Cash transfer programs have been effective in supporting those in the informal ...
... fund have moved to distributing social safety net benefits based on proxy means testing taking into account income and household information to ensure that the most vulnerable benefit. PROXY MEANS TESTING Lesson learned: Cash transfer programs have been effective in supporting those in the informal ...
theoretical pluralism and sociological theory
... the most vigorous advocate of scientific theorizing among today’s leading theorists. If we take a grand total, we get the following results: 39 percent of the articles published fell within social theory, 34 percent within sociological theory, and 21 percent under theorizing about the classics (6 pe ...
... the most vigorous advocate of scientific theorizing among today’s leading theorists. If we take a grand total, we get the following results: 39 percent of the articles published fell within social theory, 34 percent within sociological theory, and 21 percent under theorizing about the classics (6 pe ...
DECENT WORK AS A GOAL FOR THE GLOBAL ECONOMY Gerry
... The second dimension concerns basic rights at work. These have been expressed in the ILO’s core labour standards: freedom of association, freedom from discrimination, freedom from forced labour, freedom from child labour. These rights are widely flouted. For instance, ongoing research at the Intern ...
... The second dimension concerns basic rights at work. These have been expressed in the ILO’s core labour standards: freedom of association, freedom from discrimination, freedom from forced labour, freedom from child labour. These rights are widely flouted. For instance, ongoing research at the Intern ...
Placing power in practice theory Matt Watson
... practice theory guided by a heuristic understanding of power as object. This understanding is in tension with the fundamental ontological commitments of practice theory. An account of action which shows it to be both enabled and shaped by a distributed and heterogeneous range of phenomena and relati ...
... practice theory guided by a heuristic understanding of power as object. This understanding is in tension with the fundamental ontological commitments of practice theory. An account of action which shows it to be both enabled and shaped by a distributed and heterogeneous range of phenomena and relati ...
In the platform for this conference, Lyn Spillman encouraged
... collaboration with a group of social scientists around the notion of successful societies. In 2002, we were contacted individually by CIFAR, a funder interested in developing a research program that would move the field of population health in a new direction. The field of epidemiology has typically ...
... collaboration with a group of social scientists around the notion of successful societies. In 2002, we were contacted individually by CIFAR, a funder interested in developing a research program that would move the field of population health in a new direction. The field of epidemiology has typically ...
Bridging Leadership - Synergos Institute
... 2. A partnership is a dynamic relationship and requires constant nurturing 3. The basic components function interdependently 4. A change in any one of the parts affects the whole 5. Activities should be linked to mutually agreed upon desired results ...
... 2. A partnership is a dynamic relationship and requires constant nurturing 3. The basic components function interdependently 4. A change in any one of the parts affects the whole 5. Activities should be linked to mutually agreed upon desired results ...
Critical Realism in Information Systems Research
... among them, and figuring in contributions to this special issue, are the work of Margaret Archer (1995) in sociology and Tony Lawson (1997) in economics. It is important to note that both started from a critical engagement with existing perspectives in their respective domains, an engagement which s ...
... among them, and figuring in contributions to this special issue, are the work of Margaret Archer (1995) in sociology and Tony Lawson (1997) in economics. It is important to note that both started from a critical engagement with existing perspectives in their respective domains, an engagement which s ...
Another economy is possible
... investment brokers, Wall Street traders, mortgage lenders, realtors, developers pushed their activities to the brink of legality, and in some cases beyond. To a great extent, they were doing what they were supposed to be doing – pursuing the greatest payoff for the least amount of effort. So it was ...
... investment brokers, Wall Street traders, mortgage lenders, realtors, developers pushed their activities to the brink of legality, and in some cases beyond. To a great extent, they were doing what they were supposed to be doing – pursuing the greatest payoff for the least amount of effort. So it was ...
New Economics: Nature`s Laws
... measurements taken of the cells, and an estimate of the load carried by the wasps, the number of collecting trips made by the wasps was correlated with the quantity of resin contained within the nest partitions and closures Fricke [14]. The constraints and opportunities to understanding the complex ...
... measurements taken of the cells, and an estimate of the load carried by the wasps, the number of collecting trips made by the wasps was correlated with the quantity of resin contained within the nest partitions and closures Fricke [14]. The constraints and opportunities to understanding the complex ...
with Dilip Gaonkar - Elizabeth A. Povinelli
... cultural ramifications, is not so much a bourgeois cosmopolitan norm as a fetishized effect of circulating forms of abstract labor and finance capital. Where these forms of abstract labor and finance capital are absent, the normative modern stranger vanishes. As a result, it is no longer viable to t ...
... cultural ramifications, is not so much a bourgeois cosmopolitan norm as a fetishized effect of circulating forms of abstract labor and finance capital. Where these forms of abstract labor and finance capital are absent, the normative modern stranger vanishes. As a result, it is no longer viable to t ...
Capitalism, cities, and the production of symbolic forms
... namely the urban conditions underlying the production of commodified symbolic forms. I use the term ‘commodified’ in the usual (Marxian) sense to designate goods and services that are produced by capitalist firms for a profit under conditions of market exchange; and I mean by ‘symbolic forms’ goods ...
... namely the urban conditions underlying the production of commodified symbolic forms. I use the term ‘commodified’ in the usual (Marxian) sense to designate goods and services that are produced by capitalist firms for a profit under conditions of market exchange; and I mean by ‘symbolic forms’ goods ...
Capitalism, cities, and the production of symbolic forms*
... namely the urban conditions underlying the production of commodified symbolic forms. I use the term ‘commodified’ in the usual (Marxian) sense to designate goods and services that are produced by capitalist firms for a profit under conditions of market exchange; and I mean by ‘symbolic forms’ goods ...
... namely the urban conditions underlying the production of commodified symbolic forms. I use the term ‘commodified’ in the usual (Marxian) sense to designate goods and services that are produced by capitalist firms for a profit under conditions of market exchange; and I mean by ‘symbolic forms’ goods ...
1 Globalisation and developing countries: diversity of causalities
... Developing countries differ widely in terms of their external financing, with the importance of aid characterising the poorest countries, which receive almost no private flows. The reverse situation applies to emerging countries: while the poorest depend on the hazards of aid, the emerging ones depe ...
... Developing countries differ widely in terms of their external financing, with the importance of aid characterising the poorest countries, which receive almost no private flows. The reverse situation applies to emerging countries: while the poorest depend on the hazards of aid, the emerging ones depe ...