DOCSLIB.ORG

Emel Pubblications

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Emel Pubblications EMEL PUBBLICATIONS Jean Monnet Module on European Monetary and Economic Law (in Open Access Version) 2016-2019 JEAN MONNET ACTION European Monetary and Economic Law (EMEL) Table of Contents Contributions to Collected Volumes 1- “The Constitutionalization of the Washington consensus in the European Union: like giving up the Social Market Economy, in E. Sciso (ed. by)Transparency and Democracy in the Bretton Woods Institutions”, Springer, Giappichelli, Torino, 2017, pp. 91-106. 2- “The European Central Bank and the European Democracy: a Technocratic Institution To Rule All European States?” in L. Daniele (ed. by) “The Democratic Principle and The Economic Monetary Union”, Springer, Giappichelli, Torino, 2017, pp. 249-264. 3- “Economic and Monetary Union and Switzerland: two models compared in the light of the economic crisis”, in V. Salvatore (ed. by) The free movement between Switzerland and the European Union, Giappichelli, Torino, 2016, pp. 35-53. 4- “Il difficile equilibrio tra austerità e solidarietà nell’Unione economica e monetaria” in M. Mascia, F. Velo (a cura di) L’Unione economica europea : aspetti economici, sociali e istituzionali, Cacucci Editore, Bari, 2016, pp. 73-81. Articles: 1 The Italian’s Succession System after the EU Regulation n. 650/2012” in Contratto e Impresa/Europa, 2018, pp. 476-499. 2 - “The regulation of patrimony within civil law systems: from a unitary to a divisional approach in the management of patrimonial assets and its effects on private international law rules”, in Journal of Private International Law, 2018, pp. 368-382. 3- “The Financial and Economic Crisis: A Missed Opportunity to Rethink the Institutional Architecture of the European Union”, in (La) Cittadinanza europea, 2017, pp. 69-87. The Constitutionalization of the Washington Consensus in the European Union - giving up the social market economy. Giulio Peroni* The expression Washington Consensus, coined in 1989 by the English economist John Williamson, is usually indicated by a set of 10 economic policy prescriptions that constitute the "standard" reform package promoted by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank, and the US Treasury Department, all based in Washington D.C., for solving the economic crisis of developing countries. The paper, after describing the main characteristics of the Washignton Consensus economy model in the perspective of the international economic law, intends to underline the deep influence of this economic ‘recipe’ on the Maastricht Treaty and on the construction of the European Monetary Union (EMU). In spite of the failure of this model, as showed by the current economic and financial crisis started in 2008, the European Institutions and the EU Member states still do not seem ready to change the primary rules of the EU treaties devoted to the economic and monetary policy, with the real risk of increasing the disaffection of European citizens towards the European Union. 1 The Washington Consensus and its influence on Bretton Woods Institutions The expression Washington Consensus was used for the first time by John Williamson1 at the end of the 1980s during a conference convened by the Institute for International Economic on the Latin American debt crisis.2 On that occasion, a group of economists and * Associate Professor in International Law at the School of Law of the University of Milan. Email: [email protected]. This is an Open access version thanks to the fundamental contribution of Jean Monnet Eacea Module European Monetary and Economic Law (EMEL). Please visit https://gperoniemel.ariel.ctu.unimi.it. This study has been published in the in E. Sciso (ed. by) Transparency and Democracy in the Bretton Woods Institutions, Springer, Giappichelli Torino, 2017, pp. 91-106. 1 British economist (born June 7, 1937, Hereford) Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute from 1981 to 2012. He was project director for the UN High-Level Panel on Financing for Development in 2001 and advisor to the International Monetary Fund (1972–74) and economic consultant to the UK Treasury (1968–70). 2 The Conference in question took place in Barcelona (Spain), in 1989 and Willamson entitled it ‘from the Washington consensus to Global governance’. 1 policy makers investigated the economic reforms in that area of the World and were in agreement with a common set of economic remedies. This favoured structural adjustments with the goal of substituting their traditional state economic system with a market based economic model. Ten reforms were agreed on as a summary of what most economists in Washington thought Latin America ought to be undertaking: 1) Fiscal Discipline; 2) Reordering Public Expenditure Priorities; 3) Tax Reform; 4) Liberalizing Interest Rates; 5) A Competitive Exchange Rate; 6) Trade Liberalization; 7) Liberalization of Private Foreign Direct Investment; 8 ) Privatization; 9) Deregulation; 10 ) Protection of Property Rights. In particular, for Williamson, the mentioned policies could be summed up “as prudent macroeconomic policies outward orientation and free market capitalism”.3 In other terms, a group of economic measures able to react to the ‘development theories’ that, for the ‘founding fathers’ of the Washington Consensus, were at the basis of the failed state economic State policies.4 The Washington Consensus became rapidly the core of the Reagan and Thatcher political and economic Agenda, the conservative leaders of two of the most important economies in the World (USA and United Kingdom), influencing strongly their ultra-liberalist macroeconomic policies. In the same period, the Washington Consensus became an expression for the political, administrative and technocratic action of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank (WB), US Treasury Department, the Federal Reserve Board (FED) and the Inter America Development Bank (IADB).5 The described heterogeneous panorama of technocratic and political actors, geographically all based in the capital of the most world important country, underlines how the Washington Consensus was not only a species of ideological and academic ‘product’ (inspired especially by Milton Friedman and Von Hajek, the ‘founders’ of modern monetarism6 and neo-libelarism7 respectively), but essentially a ‘policy paradigm’. More precisely, this became “a powerful and enduring framework of related ideas and standards 3 See Williamson (2003), pp. 1-3. 4 See Williamson (2009), pp. 7-26. 5 The reference to ‘consensus’ wants in fact to mean that the 10 points, mentioned in the text, were shared by power circles in Washington, including the US Congress and Administration, on the one hand, and international institutions such based in Washington International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, on the other, supported by a range of think tanks and influential economists. 6 In particular, Friedman argued that poor monetary policy by the Federal Reserve (FED) represented the main cause of the Great Depression in the 1930s. In his view, markets naturally move towards a stable center, an incorrectly set money supply can cause market’s failure; in this way, the FED’s failure to offset forces that were putting downward pressure on the money supply and for reducing the stock of money. These were the opposite of what should have been done. His position was criticized by ‘Keynesians’ for which the demand for goods and services is the key to economic output. Because the economy is subject to periodic instability and deep swings, it is dangerous to make the FED obliged to a preordained money target, they argued the FED should have some margin or ‘discretion’ in carry out monetary policy. 7 An ideology and policy model that exalts the value of the free market competition and the minimal state presence in economic and social affairs. Since the 1970s, owing to the economic stagnation and increasing public debt some economists proposed a return to classical liberalism, which in its revived form became neoliberalism. In particular way, Von Hayek argued that government measures aimed at the redistribution of wealth lead inevitably to totalitarims. His point of view was enthusiastically embraced by the conservative political parties in Britain and the United States, which achieved power with the administrations of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (1979–90) and U.S. President Ronald Reagan (1981–89). 2 about policy – a model that specifies both the instruments that should be used in a policy area and the goals that the policy should be addressing”.8 In other words, the main aim of the Washington Consensus paradigm was to remove government intervention in socialist and developing countries and to set up a well functioning market system.9 The undoubted economic success achieved by Thatcherism and Reaganomics (between ’80’s and ‘90’s), was connected to the rapid economic growth registered in many regions of East Asia (the well known Asian Tigers)10 It was also accompanied by the increase of trade and investments (favored by the introduction of the World Trade Organization -WTO in 1994) and gave a decisive impulse to the Washington Consensus’s expansion in world trade and economy. Another decisive factor that determined the large recourse to Washington Consensus paradigm was the IMF’s and WB’s choice to base their macroeconomic conditionality mechanism on the ‘Williamson List’. In particular, the Washington Consensus was implemented by the Bretton Woods Institutions through contract-like documents called Letter of Intents (in the case of IMF) or Letter of Development policy (in the case of the World Bank). In the above documents the total amount of the loan granted to State in economic and financial difficulty with their balance of payments were usually defined together with the repayment schedule and above all a series of economic policy commitments. To avoid borrowers infringe in their commitments, the cited Letters establish payment tranches, along with scheduled reviews of the borrower’s policies. In fact, in the case in which the beneficiary of the loan is found to be out of compliance, the IMF or the WB have the right to suspend their financial assistance.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Community Power and Grassroots Democracy Other Books by Michael Kaufman
    BY MICHAEL KAUFMAN & HAROLDO DILLA ALFONSO COMMUNITY POWER AND GRASSROOTS DEMOCRACY OTHER BOOKS BY MICHAEL KAUFMAN Jamaica Under Manleji: Dilemmas of Socialism and Democracjy Bejond Essqys Men on Pleasure, Power and Change (ed.) Cracking the Armour: Power, Pain and the Lives of Men Theorizing Masculinities (co-edited with Harry Brod) COMMUNITY POWER AND GRASSROOTS DEMOCRACY The Transformation of Social Life Edited Michael Kaufman and Haroldo Dilla Alfonso ZED BOOKS London & New Jersej INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH CENTRE Ottawa Cairo Dakar Johannesburg Montevideo Nairobi • New Delhi Singapore Community Power and Grassroots Democracj was first published in 1997 by Zed Books Ltd, 7 Cynthia Street, London NI 9JF, UK, and 165 First Avenue, Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey 07716, USA, and the International Development Research Centre, P0 Box 8500, Ottawa, ON, Canada KIG 3H9. Editorial copyright © Michael Kaufman, 1997 Individual chapters copyright © individual contributors The moral rights of the authors of this work have been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988 Typeset in Monotype Garamond by Lucy Morton, London SEI2 Printed and bound in the United Kingdom by Biddies Ltd, Guildford and King's Lynn All rights reserved A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Contress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Community power and grassroots democracy the transformation of social life / edited by Michael Kaufman, and Haroldo Dilla Alfonso. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 1—85649—487—X. ISBN 1-85649—488—8 (pbk.) 1. Community development—Latin America—Case studies. 2. Political participation—Latin America—Case studies.
    [Show full text]
  • Dignity in Movement Borders, Bodies and Rights
    Dignity in Movement Borders, Bodies and Rights EDITED BY JASMIN LILIAN DIAB This e-book is provided without charge via free download by E-International Relations (www.E-IR.info). It is not permitted to be sold in electronic format under any circumstances. If you enjoy our free e-books, please consider leaving a small donation to allow us to continue investing in open access publications: http://www.e-ir.info/about/donate/ i Dignity in Movement Borders, Bodies and Rights EDITED BY JASMIN LILIAN DIAB ii Dignity in Movement E-International Relations Bristol, England 2021 ISBN 978-1-910814-59-8 This book is published under a Creative Commons CC BY-NC 4.0 license. You are free to: • Share – copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format. • Adapt – remix, transform, and build upon the material. Under the following terms: • Attribution – You must give appropriate credit to the author(s) and publisher, provide a link to the license and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. • Non-Commercial – You may not use the material for commercial purposes. Any of the above conditions can be waived if you get permission. Please contact [email protected] for any such enquiries, including for licensing and translation requests. Other than the terms noted above, there are no restrictions placed on the use and dissemination of this book for student learning materials/scholarly use. Production: Michael Tang Cover Image: Ekkapop Sittiwantana/Shutterstock A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
    [Show full text]
  • Assessment Report on Technical, Legal, Institutional and Policy Conditions
    Deliverable 2.1 ASSESSMENT REPORT ON TECHNICAL, LEGAL, INSTITUTIONAL AND POLICY CONDITIONS This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 953040. The sole responsibility for the content of this document lies with the COME RES project and does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the European Union. Public SUMMARY WP: 2 Name of the WP: Starting conditions, potentials, barriers and drivers for the uptake of RES based community energy Dissemination Public Due delivery date: 28 February 2021 level: Type: Report Actual delivery date: 26 February 2021 Lead beneficiary: CICERO – Center for International Climate Research Contributing beneficiaries: FUB, VITO, BBH, RESCoop.eu, ECOAZIONI, ENEA, LEIF, TU/e, KAPE, INEGI, ECORYS Lead authors: Lead authors: Karina Standal and Stine Aakre Contributing authors: Irene Alonso (ECORYS); Isabel Azevedo (INEGI); Massimo Bastiani (Ecoazioni); Nicoletta del Bufalo (ECORYS); Martina Caliano (ENEA); Sarah Delvaux (VITO); Rosaria Di Nucci (FUB); Dörte Fouquet (BBH); Vincenzo Gatta (FUB); Xenia Gimenez (ACER); Gaidis Klāvs (IPE); Michael Krug (FUB); Ivars Kudreņickis (IPE); Erik Laes (TU/e); Kristin Linnerud (CICERO); Elena De Luca (ENEA), Pouyan Maleki (ECORYS); Erika Meynaerts (VITO); Piotr Nowakowski (KAPE); Maria Grazia Oteri (ENEA); Stavroula Pappa (REScoop.eu); Roland Schumann (ACER); Dirk Vansintjan (REScoop.eu); Virna Venerucci (Ecoazioni); Ryszard Wnuk (KAPE); Aija Zučika (LEIF); Solveig Aamodt (CICERO) Document history Submitted Version Date Reviewed/approved by Date for review by V0 Karina 18.02.2021 Kristin Linnerud, CICERO 19.02.2021 Standal, CICERO V1 Stine Aakre, 19.02.2021 Pouyan Maleki, ECORYS 22.02.2021 CICERO Rosaria Di Nucci FUB-FFU 24.02.2021 V2 Karina 26.02.2021 Rosaria Di Nucci FUB-FFU 26.02.2021 Standal, CICERO i COME RES 953040 - D2.1: ASSESSMENT REPORT ON TECHNICAL, LEGAL, INSTITUTIONAL AND POLICY CONDITIONS Public ABOUT COME RES COME RES - Community Energy for the uptake of renewables in the electricity sector.
    [Show full text]
  • Bibliography
    International Review of Social History 45 (2000), pp. 335–364 2000 Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis BIBLIOGRAPHY General Issues SOCIAL THEORY AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Alexander Bogdanov and the Origins of Systems Thinking in Russia. Ed. by John Biggart, Peter Dudley [and] Francis King. Ashgate, Aldershot [etc.] 1998. xi, 362 pp. £42.50. The twenty-six contributions to this volume are the proceedings of a conference organized in Norwich in January 1995 on the pioneering contribution to the develop- ment of system thinking made by the Russian revolutionary, founding member of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, philosopher and social scien- tist Alexander A. Bogdanov-Malinovsky (1873–1928). The contributors deal with the origins and philosophical foundations of Bogdanov’s Tektology or ‘‘universal organiz- ation science’’, its application in economics and the place and significance of Tektology in modern system theory. Simultaneously, a guide to the published and unpublished works of Bogdanov was issued (see below). ANDERSON,PERRY. The Origins of Postmodernity. Verso, London 1998. vii, 143 pp. £11.00. See Alun Munslow’s review in this volume, pp. 320–322. BAUMANN,FRED E. Fraternity and Politics. Choosing One’s Brothers. Praeger, Westport (Conn.) [etc.] 1998. ix, 150 pp. £43.95. ‘‘This book seeks to explore the project of fraternity, how it has been and can be pursued and with what results.’’ Aiming to distinguish fraternity from the ideals of ‘‘community’’ and ‘‘solidarity’’, the author starts by examining a recent experience of a political movement driven by the project of fraternity, the American New Left. He then explores the fraternal element in the French Revolution, as personalized in the sans- culotte sections during the Terror and concludes with an exploration of Sartre’s develop- ment of the theory of fraternity and terror in his Critique of Dialectical Reason.
    [Show full text]
  • Advancing Urban Rights Equality and Diversity in the City
    Advancing urban rights Equality and diversity in the city Eva Garcia-Chueca and Lorenzo Vidal (Eds.) 76 Advancing urban rights Equality and diversity in the city Eva Garcia-Chueca and Lorenzo Vidal (Eds.) 76 ©2019 CIDOB CIDOB edicions Elisabets, 12 08001 Barcelona Tel.: 933 026 495 www.cidob.org [email protected] Printing: Book-Print S.A. ISBN: 978-84-92511-75-4 Legal deposit: B 25546-2019 Barcelona, November 2019 Cover Image: Matteo Paganelli CONTENTS ABOUT THE AUTHORS 5 INTRODUCTION 11 Eva Garcia-Chueca and Lorenzo Vidal THE RIGHT TO THE CITY AS A RIGHT TO DIFFERENCE 21 Michele Grigolo ................................................................................................................................... 23 Understanding the right to the city as the right to difference Jordi Borja ................................................................................................................................................ 33 The right to the city: from the street to globalisation FOSTERING EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY AT LOCAL LEVEL 43 JoAnn Kamuf Ward ............................................................................................................................. 45 Human rights as a means to advance equity and embrace difference: lessons from US cities Thomas Angotti .................................................................................................................................. 55 Diverse cities: the legacy of colonialism and persistence of racism in New York City Jaime Morales ......................................................................................................................................
    [Show full text]
  • Communicating Climate Justice a Thesis Submitted In
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Santa Barbara Revolutionary Talk: Communicating Climate Justice A thesis submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree Master of Arts in Global and International Studies by Theo LeQuesne June 2016 Committee Members: Professor Giles Gunn, Co-Chair Professor John Foran, Co-Chair Dr. Raymond Clemençon, Senior Lecturer The thesis of Theodore Francis LeQuesne is approved. __________________________________________________________________ Raymond Clemencon __________________________________________________________________ John Foran __________________________________________________________________ Giles Gunn, Committee Chair June 2016 ABSTRACT Revolutionary Talk: Communicating Climate Justice By Theo LeQuesne This thesis examines the role that story-based strategy and narrative oriented communications play in the Climate Justice Movement’s counterhegemonic struggle against neoliberal discursive hegemony. As more and more people come to accept the reality of the climate crisis a new struggle is emerging, a discursive struggle over what the crisis actually means. This project identifies an ideological polarization in which climate justice represents a socially transformative bottom up approach to climate change, while hegemonic neoliberal elites advocate for market solutions, technofixes and minimal social change. My project therefore places emphasis upon the role that ideology, norms and values play in shaping attitudes towards climate change solutions and societal transformation. I use Laclau and Mouffe’s theory of discourse and hegemony to provide a framework for studying the rhetoric and implications of climate change discourse. I examine two case studies in the United States: The Our Power Campaign in Richmond, California and the Fossil Free UC fossil fuel divestment campaign as sites of clear hegemonic struggle over how climate change is understood. Together these sites provide a valuable cross-section of climate justice organizations in the US.
    [Show full text]
  • The Political Legacy of Entertainment TV Online Appendix ∗
    The Political Legacy of Entertainment TV Online Appendix ∗ Ruben Durantey Paolo Pinottiz Andrea Teseix August 2018 [forthcoming in The American Economic Review] ∗We thank Alberto Alesina, Filipe Campante, Antonio Ciccone, Stefano DellaVigna, Ruben Enikolopov, Ray Fisman, Greg Huber, Brian Knight, Valentino Larcinese, Marco Manacorda, Torsten Persson, Barbara Petrongolo, Andrei Shleifer, Francesco Sobbrio, Joachim Voth, David Weil, Katia Zhu- ravskaya, four anonymous referees, and seminar participants at Bocconi, CREI, NYU, MIT, Sciences Po, Brown, Dartmouth, Sorbonne, WZB, Surrey, Queen Mary, Yale, EIEF, LSE, Namur, Bank of Italy, War- wick, UPF, and participants at the AEA Meetings, the EUI Conference on Communications and Media Markets, and the Lisbon Meeting on Institutions and Political Economy for helpful comments. We are very grateful to Ben Olken and Ruben Enikolopov for their help with the ITM software. We thank Nicola D'Amelio and Giuseppe Piraino for their assistance with data collection, Giovanni Sciacovelli for excellent research assistance, and Laura Litvine for her outstanding help with the digitization of the transmitters data. Ruben Durante is grateful to the Sciences Po Scientific Board for financial support. A previous version of this paper circulated under the title Voting Alone? The Political and Cultural Consequences of Commercial TV. yUniversitat Pompeu Fabra, Sciences Po, and CEPR; contact: [email protected]. zBocconi University, fRDB, CEPR, IRVAPP, and DONDENA; contact: [email protected]. xQueen Mary University, CEP (LSE), and CEPR; contact: [email protected]. A1 Appendix A Additional tables and figures Table A1: Programming schedules, Mediaset vs. RAI 1983-1987 (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) total share of total airtime critics' reviews MPAA parental airtime entert.
    [Show full text]
  • The Irish Water Charges Movement: Theorising “The Social Movement in General” Laurence Cox
    Interface: a journal for and about social movements Article Volume 9 (1): 161 – 203 (2017) Cox, Irish water charges movement The Irish water charges movement: theorising “the social movement in general” Laurence Cox “The English working class will never accomplish anything before it has got rid of Ireland. The lever must be applied in Ireland. That is why the Irish question is so important for the social movement in general [die soziale Bewegung überhaupt].” (Marx to Engels, December 11 1869) Abstract This paper uses participant narratives and Marxist social movement theory to analyse resistance to water charges as the driving force of Irish anti-austerity struggles – or “the social movement in general”. It locates this movement within the history of working-class community-based self-organisation in Ireland. Contemporary resistance to metering and refusal to pay are not “spontaneous”, but articulate long-standing local rationalities. The current situation has seen the crisis of other forms of working-class articulation: union dependence on a Labour Party which enthusiastically embraced austerity in government; the co-optation of community service provision within “social partnership”, under attack from the state since the mid-2000s; and the collapse of far left initiatives for shared parliamentary representation and resistance to household charges. New forms of popular agency are thus developing; community-based direct action has enabled a historic alliance between multiple forms of working-class voice and unleashed a vast process of popular mobilisation and self-education. Finally, the paper relates the Irish movement to the wider loss of consent for austerity on the European periphery, and asks after the political prospects for effective alliances “within the belly of the beast”.
    [Show full text]
  • Politics Close to Home: the Impact of Meso-Level Institutions on Women in Politics
    Politics Close to Home: The Impact of Meso-level Institutions on Women in Politics Candice D. Ortbals*, Meg Rinckery, and Celeste Montoyaz *Pepperdine University; [email protected] y Purdue University Calumet; [email protected] Downloaded from zUniversity of Colorado; [email protected] Scholars recognize a worldwide increase in decentralization as well as the prevalence of multilevel governance in Europe. This article examines the advantages and disadvantages that meso-level http://publius.oxfordjournals.org/ institutions present for women’s political representation in three European Union member-states that are decentralized, unitary states. Using the framework of the triangle of women’s empower- ment, we ask whether women are represented in meso-level legislatures, women’s policy agencies, and women’s movements in Italy, Spain, and Poland. We find that gains in meso-level legislatures are slow, but meso-level women’s policy agencies and movements provide important access for women to politics. Like scholars studying women and federalism, we conclude that decentralized institutions in unitary states offer both opportunities for and impediments to fem- inist policy and activism. at University of Colorado on March 13, 2012 Current discourses about decentralization promise political participation, repre- sentation, and policy for women citizens. For example, in Spain, a sub-state government institute charged with improving gender equality lauded itself as an institution ‘‘with a new philosophy ...where women as individual subjects and as a collective achieve full participation’’ (Delegacio´n de la Mujer 2003, 19). Nevertheless, evidence from other countries suggests that subnational governments are not providing women greater political participation and rights.
    [Show full text]
  • Work & Culture
    WORK & CULTURE Community Organizing and Economic Development in the University-Hospital City Sumanth Gopinath Working Group on Breaking Down the Ivory Tower: The Globalization and Culture, University in the Creation of Another Yale University World Work & Culture 2005/3 http://www.yale.edu/laborculture/work_culture/ Gopinath | Community Organizing This essay explores the historical development and geographical context of ongoing community organizing movements fighting for economic justice in New Haven, Connecticut. As a deindustrialized city facing gentrification and effective single-employer status due to the overarching presence of Yale University, New Haven is a characteristic example of what Michael Denning has described as a “university-hospital city.” In the name of the very working-class residents who are displaced by gentrification, city administrations typically accept development at any cost, offering substantial sums as incentives to prospective employers. Facilitated by neoliberal policies that characteristically combine proclamations of economic self-sufficiency with corporate welfare, such development takes place at the expense of governmental resources or programs aiding the working poor and unemployed. Sizable capital investments are approved without any leveraging of demands on potential employers to provide better wages and benefits for workers or provide services to communities. In contrast to these policies, current community organizing efforts in New Haven have focused on securing “community benefits agreements,”
    [Show full text]
  • The Socialist Party Convention
    THE SOCIALIST PARTY CONVENTION By GENE . DENNIS Social Legislation in Massachusetts P. FRANKFELD The Schools and the People's Front RICHARD FRANK Farm Problems and Legislation ROBERT CLAY Steel Workers on the March B. K. GEBERT The Railway Labor Act JACK JOHNSTONE Youth in Industry D. DORAN Tv\'ENTY CENTS SPECIAL OFFER A free copy of Earl Browder's WHAT IS COMMUNISM? cloth edition, list price $2.00, will be given with every subscription to one of the following periodicals: The Communist A monthly magazine issued by the Communist Party of the U.S.A., dealing with the most vital social, economic and political issues of the day. Single copies 20 cents. ~ubscription $2.00 The Communist International Monthly publication of the Executive Committee of the Communist International, containing articles by outstanding leaders of the world Communist Parties. ;ingle copies 15 cents. Subscription $1.75. International Press Correspondence (Inprecorr) A weekly review of political events on the international arena. Single copies 10 cents. Subcription $5.00 Special Combinatirm Offer A subscription to all three of these important publications for one year may be had for the special price of $ 7. 2 0 Send your subscription to WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS P. 0. Box 148, Sta. D New York City NEW MASSES 31 East 27th S.reet New York, N. Y. I enclose $1 for which please send me the 15-week offer. Name------------------------------------------------------------ Address __________ ------------------------------------------- City_____________ _ _______________ State _________________ _ Occupation _________________ ----------------------- (c) DARN TOOTJN•..... WE•RE DIFFERENT You don't usually find the coupon right up here at the top.
    [Show full text]
  • Political Opinion of the Northern League Concerning Islam Immigration
    HAO, Núm. 29 (Otoño, 2012), 107-116 ISSN 1696-2060 POLITICAL OPINION OF THE NORTHERN LEAGUE CONCERNING ISLAM IMMIGRATION. Anna Molnár1. 1Pannon University, Hungary E-mail: [email protected] Recibido: 27 Agosto 2011 / Revisado: 3 Octubre 2011 / Aceptado: 14 Febrero 2011 / Publicación Online: 15 Octubre 2012 Resumen: Nowadays, of all social competence, while the member States are short phenomena in the West European countries of the necessary financial or human recourses to it is the problem of rapidly increasing be able to handle this cross-border problem. immigration that causes the severest tensions. The majority society senses the Today we can recognise the parallel processes of the increase in the number of immigrants and fact that the immigrants in constantly the slowing down of their assimilation. The increasing numbers are less and less able to majority society senses the fact that the integrate into the country of destination, immigrants in constantly increasing numbers are which phenomenon has been causing less and less able to integrate into the country of increasing tensions leading to the destination, which phenomenon has been strengthening of the extremist and causing increasing tensions leading to the nationalistic or micro-nationalistic parties all strengthening of the extremist and nationalistic over Europe. The regionalist and populist or micro-nationalistic parties all over Europe. party, the Northern League traces back the otherwise excessively complex problems The Northern League traces back the otherwise mostly rooted in society itself to the over- excessively complex problems mostly rooted in society itself to the over-simplified conflict simplified conflict between localism and 1 between localism and globalisation.
    [Show full text]