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Bretton Woods II and the Emerging Economies: Lazarus, Phoenix, Or Humpty Dumpty?
DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS Working Paper Bretton Woods II and the Emerging Economies: Lazarus, Phoenix, or Humpty Dumpty? by Arslan Razmi Working Paper 2009-02 Revised version, April 2009 UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST Bretton Woods II and the Emerging Economies: Lazarus, Phoenix, or Humpty Dumpty? Arslan Razmi 824 Thompson Hall, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003 April 8, 2009 Abstract Several studies have commented on the emergence of a new inter- national monetary system in the post-Asian crisis years. The current international …nancial crisis has, however, put Bretton Woods II under considerable strain. This paper analyzes the sustainability of the pre- crisis order from an emerging country perspective. A simple framework in which agents have a choice between …nancial and real assets is constructed in order to explore possible consequences of the shocks that emerging economies are currently experiencing. Stock and ‡ow implications are analyzed. Assuming that recent events would have reinforced monetary authorities’desire to maintain an adequate cushion of reserves while pre- venting exchange rate volatility, we …nd that the response to most shocks would involve running continuous current account surpluses, that is, a continuation of a crucial aspect of Bretton Woods II. Given political and economic constraints, is such a continuation feasible? A preliminary ex- ploration raises serious doubts and skims alternatives. JEL Codes: F02, F32, G01, F55 Keywords: Bretton Woods II, emerging economies, reserve accumulation, precautionary motives, mercantilism. 1 Bretton Woods II and the Emerging Economies: Lazarus, Phoenix, or Humpty Dumpty? 1 Introduction The ongoing …nancial - and now increasingly, real - sector crisis that originated in the United States is presently the center of much academic and policy discussion. -
Mediterranean Ecological Footprint Trends Content
MEDITERRANEAN ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT TRENDS CONTENT Global Footprint Network 1 Global Footprint Network EDITOR Foreword Promotes a sustainable economy by Alessandro Galli advancing the Ecological Footprint, Foreword Plan Blue 2 Scott Mattoon a tool that makes sustainability measureable. Introduction 3 AUTHORS Alessandro Galli The Ecological Footprint 8 Funded by: of World Regions David Moore MAVA Foundation Established in 1994, it is a family-led, Nina Brooks Drivers of Mediterranean Ecological Katsunori Iha Footprint and biocapacity changes 10 Swiss-based philanthropic foundation over time whose mission is to engage in strong Gemma Cranston partnerships to conserve biodiversity Mapping consumption, production 13 for future generations. CONTRIBUTORS AND REVIEWER and trade activities for the Mediterranean Region Jean-Pierre Giraud In collaboration with: Steve Goldfi nger Mediterranean Ecological Footprint 17 WWF Mediterranean Martin Halle of nations Its mission is to build a future in which Pati Poblete people live in harmony with nature. Anders Reed Linking ecological assets and 20 The WWF Mediterranean initiative aims economic competitiveness at conserving the natural wealth of the Mathis Wackernagel Toward sustainable development: 22 Mediterranean and reducing human human welfare and planetary limits footprint on nature for the benefi t of all. DESIGN MaddoxDesign.net National Case Studies 24 UNESCO Venice Conclusions 28 Is developing an educational and ADVISORS training platform on the application Deanna Karapetyan Appendix A 32 of the Ecological Footprint in SEE and Hannes Kunz Calculating the Ecological Footprint Mediterranean countries, using in (Institute for Integrated Economic particular the network of MAB Biosphere Research - www.iier.ch) Appendix B 35 Reserves as special demonstration and The carbon-plus approach learning places. -
Building a Sustainable and Desirable Economy-In-Society- In-Nature
SCIENCE | ENVIRONMENT State of the World 2013 2013 STATE OF THE WORLD is Is Sustainability Still Possible? SUSTAINABILITY “State of the World 2013 assembles the wisdom and clarity of some of the earth’s finest thinkers, visionaries, and activists into a dazzling array of topics that merge to offer a compellingly lucid and accessible vision of where we are—and what is the wisest and healthiest course for the future.” OF THE WORLD STATE —NINA SIMONS, Cofounder, Bioneers Still Possible? “This edition forges a new path for the State of the World series, and for environmental thinking in general. A pivotal book that marks a defining moment for our species.” — RICHARD HEINBERG, Senior Fellow, Post Carbon Institute, and author of The End of Growth “State of the World 2013 is a powerful collection of articles, and the vision behind it is impressive. Here is a book that gets beyond ‘sustainababble’ and asks the tough, essential questions. It should make readers more determined than ever to do their part in avoiding planet-wide disaster—and better informed about how to do that.” — PETER SINGER, Professor of Bioethics, Princeton University, and author of Animal Liberation, One World, and The Life You Can Save Sustainability gets plenty of lip service, but the relentless worsening of key environmental trends reveals much of that attention to be “sustainababble.” From climate instability and species extinctions to approaching scarcities of freshwater, minerals, and energy, worrisome limits to human economic activity look more pressing each year—all while our political institutions seem impotent to address the challenge. THE WORLDWATCH INSTITUTE, in this edition of the celebrated State of the World series, takes an unflinching look at what the data say about the prospects for achieving true sustainability, 2013 what we should be doing now to make progress toward it, and how we might cope if we fail to do so. -
Does the Planned Obsolescence Influence Consumer Purchase Decison? the Effects of Cognitive Biases: Bandwagon
FUNDAÇÃO GETULIO VARGAS ESCOLA DE ADMINISTRAÇÃO DO ESTADO DE SÃO PAULO VIVIANE MONTEIRO DOES THE PLANNED OBSOLESCENCE INFLUENCE CONSUMER PURCHASE DECISON? THE EFFECTS OF COGNITIVE BIASES: BANDWAGON EFFECT, OPTIMISM BIAS AND PRESENT BIAS ON CONSUMER BEHAVIOR. SÃO PAULO 2018 VIVIANE MONTEIRO DOES THE PLANNED OBSOLESCENCE INFLUENCE CONSUMER PURCHASE DECISIONS? THE EFFECTS OF COGNITIVE BIASES: BANDWAGON EFFECT, OPTIMISM BIAS AND PRESENT BIAS ON CONSUMER BEHAVIOR Applied Work presented to Escola de Administraçaõ do Estado de São Paulo, Fundação Getúlio Vargas as a requirement to obtaining the Master Degree in Management. Research Field: Finance and Controlling Advisor: Samy Dana SÃO PAULO 2018 Monteiro, Viviane. Does the planned obsolescence influence consumer purchase decisions? The effects of cognitive biases: bandwagons effect, optimism bias on consumer behavior / Viviane Monteiro. - 2018. 94 f. Orientador: Samy Dana Dissertação (MPGC) - Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo. 1. Bens de consumo duráveis. 2. Ciclo de vida do produto. 3. Comportamento do consumidor. 4. Consumidores – Atitudes. 5. Processo decisório – Aspectos psicológicos. I. Dana, Samy. II. Dissertação (MPGC) - Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo. III. Título. CDU 658.89 Ficha catalográfica elaborada por: Isabele Oliveira dos Santos Garcia CRB SP-010191/O Biblioteca Karl A. Boedecker da Fundação Getulio Vargas - SP VIVIANE MONTEIRO DOES THE PLANNED OBSOLESCENCE INFLUENCE CONSUMERS PURCHASE DECISIONS? THE EFFECTS OF COGNITIVE BIASES: BANDWAGON EFFECT, OPTIMISM BIAS AND PRESENT BIAS ON CONSUMER BEHAVIOR. Applied Work presented to Escola de Administração do Estado de São Paulo, of the Getulio Vargas Foundation, as a requirement for obtaining a Master's Degree in Management. Research Field: Finance and Controlling Date of evaluation: 08/06/2018 Examination board: Prof. -
Discovering Our True Identity Consumerism Can Encourage the Least Attractive Human Traits— Avarice, Aggression, and Self-Centeredness
Discovering Our True Identity Consumerism can encourage the least attractive human traits— avarice, aggression, and self-centeredness. By giving us a new identity as members of God’s Body, the Eucharist can form us in fidelity, other-centeredness, and proper joy, which are counter- Christian Reflection cultural to the ethos of consumer culture. A Series in Faith and Ethics Prayer Scripture Reading: 1 Corinthians 11:17-34 Responsive Reading† Bread of the world, in mercy broken, Wine of the soul, in mercy shed, Focus Article: By whom the words of life were spoken, Discovering Our True And in whose death our sins are dead. Identity Look on the heart by sorrow broken, (Consumerism, pp. 32-38) Look on the tears by sinners shed; Suggested Articles: And be Thy feast to us the token, That by Thy grace our souls are fed. Which Kingdom? (Consumerism, pp. 83-89) Reflection Past the Blockade “Consumerism is more than the mere creation and consumption (Consumerism, pp. 48-50) of goods and services,” Medley writes. It encourages the mis- taken belief that our needs can only be satisfied by excessive consumption. Soon consumers “need to need and desire to de- sire. Instead of consuming goods themselves, they consume the meanings of goods as those have been constructed through ad- vertising and marketing. In a sense, they become what they buy.” Examples are easy to find: we buy “Harley-Davidson motorcycles to symbolize personal freedom, Nike shoes to sug- gest ‘I want to be like Mike,’ and clothing from Abercrombie and Fitch to communicate chic casualness.” We buy self-images that are greedily centered on competition and self-promotion. -
Subsidizing Climate Change 2021
Subsidizing Climate Change 2021 How the Horgan government continues to sabotage BC’s climate plan with fossil fuel subsidies In 2020 – 21, BC’s NDP-led government In 2020 – 21, the NDP government Highlights: spent $1.3 billion on fossil fuel subsidies spent more subsidizing fossil fuels — 8.3 percent more than the previous ($1.3 billion) than it did on its climate year — and they are now more than change program ($1.1 billion), a trend Premier John double what they were when Premier that is predicted to increase Horgan’s NDP took power. dramatically through 2024. Horgan’s Worsening The largest single source of this By 2023 – 24, the government plans increase is the Deep Well Royalty to spend almost $1.8 billion on fossil Record on Program, a tax loophole for fracking fuel subsidies, including a 150 percent operators, which is projected to increase in the Deep Well Royalty Fossil Fuel cost taxpayers $421 million this year. Program. Subsidies The outstanding liability fracking companies have amassed through unused Deep Well Royalty Credits has The NDP government consistently grown to $3.1 billion. underestimates the costs and future liabilities of its oil and gas subsidies and overestimates the royalties it In 2020 – 21, the NDP government gave will earn from the oil and gas sector, the oil and gas industry almost five creating a vicious feedback loop that times as much money in subsidies as will cost current and future taxpayers it earned in oil and gas royalties ($282 billions of dollars. million), a higher ratio than it did in 2019 – 20. -
Film & Television
416 466 1450 • [email protected] • www.larissamaircasting.com FILM & TELEVISION Kids in the Hall (Series) Amazon (Present) Hardy Boys S2 (Series) YTV/HULU (Present) Run the Burbs (Series) CBC (Present) All My Love, Vadim (Feature) Serendipity Points Films, 6 Bees Productions (Present) Take Note S1 (Series) NBC Universal (Present) Holly Hobbie S3, 4, 5 (Series) Hulu / Family Channel (Present) Detention Adventure (Season 3) CBC (Present) Ghostwriter (Season 2) Apple & Sesame (Present) Kiss the Cook (MOW) Champlain Media Inc./Reel One Entertainment (Present) A Country Proposal (MOW) M6 Métropole Television, France (Present) First Person S2 (Short Films) Carousel Pictures (2021) Overlord and the Underwoods S1(Series) marblemedia & Cloudco Entertainment (2021) Say Yes To Christmas (MOW) Lifetime (2021) Christmas in Detroit (MOW) Lifetime (2021) Terror in the Country (MOW) ReelOne Entertainment (2021) Summer Memories (Series) Family Channel (2021) The Color of Love (MOW) Lifetime (2021) Mistletoe & Molly (MOW) Superchannell Heart & Home (2021) Secret Santa (MOW) Superchannel Heart and Home (2021) Christmas At the Movies (MOW) Superchannell (2021) Christmas in Angel Heights (MOW) M6 Métropole Television, France (2021) Left For Dead (MOW) Lifetime (2021) The Christmas Market (MOW) Vortex Productions (2021) Loving Christmas (MOW) M6 Métropole Television, France (2021) Lucas the Spider Warner Brothers (2020) Sissy Picosphere (2020) Death She Wrote M6 Métropole Television, France (2020) SPIN (Canadian Casting) Disney + (2020) TallBoyz S2 (Series) CBC (2020) Odd Squad Mobile Unit (Season 4) PBS, TVO (2020) Love Found in Whitbrooke Harbor M6 Métropole Television, France (2020) Rule Book of Love M6 Métropole Television, France (2020) Overlord and The Underwoods MarbleMedia & Beachwood Canyon Pictures (2020) Dying to be Your Friend Neshama (2020) The Young Line CBC Kids (2020) The Parker Andersons / Amelia Parker BYUtv (2020) Locked Down (Season 2) YouTube (2020) The Enchanted Christmas Cake Enchanted Christmas Cake Productions Inc. -
Calling All Music Lovers!
Plugged In Issue Six • the official school newspaper of Speedway Senior High School • March 1,1 2011 A pro prospect in our midst? Lost Frogs: Junior hockey star just one of the guys Four Found Greatness comes in many shapes and sizes. At Speedway and other east High, it comes in the form of 5’6”, 135-pound junior, Mason coast cities than By Sandy Bauers The Philadelphia Inquirer Jobst. He is one of the top junior hockey prospects in his age in Indianapolis. (MCT) group. Jobst has talked to In August, conservationists and The 17-year old center has lived and breathed hockey recruiters at many biologists launched a five-month nearly his entire life. It all started on his third birthday, when colleges around the search to try to find 100 “lost” species young Mason received a pair of brand new ice skates. Soon country; Colorado, of amphibians. Some 126 researchers after, he was wearing them around constantly. At age four, Minnesota, Yale, combed five continents in search of Jobst enrolled in his first youth hockey league, where he Maine, and Boston frogs, salamanders and others that had played the game for the first time at Pepsi Coliseum. College. not been seen in a decade or longer Nowadays, Mason is still playing hockey at Pepsi Mason spends a and were feared extinct. Coliseum. Recently, he had the chance to play on United lot of time working The good/bad news: They found States Hockey out. He has U18, four. They also made 11 re-discoveries League’s (USHL) Indiana Jr. -
Roots Radical – Place, Power and Practice in Punk Entrepreneurship Sarah Louise Drakopoulou Dodd
Roots radical – Place, power and practice in punk entrepreneurship Sarah Louise Drakopoulou Dodd The significance continues to grow of scholarship that embraces critical and contextualized entrepreneurship, seeking rich explorations of diverse entrepreneurship contexts. Following these influences, this study explores the potentialized context of punk entrepreneurship. The Punk Rock band Rancid has a 20-year history of successfully creating independent musical and related creative enterprises from the margins of the music industry. The study draws on artefacts, interviews and videos created by and around Rancid to identify and analyse this example of marginal, alternative entrepreneurship. A three-part analytic frame was applied to analysing these artefacts. Place is critical to Rancid’s enterprise, grounding the band socially, culturally, geographically and politically. Practice also plays an important role with Rancid’s activities encompassing labour, making music, movement and human interactions. The third, and most prevalent, dimension of alterity is that of power which includes data related to dominance, subordination, exclusion, control and liberation. Rancid’s entrepreneurial story is depicted as cycles, not just a linear journey, but following more complicated paths – from periphery to centre, and back again; returning to roots, whilst trying to move forwards too; grounded in tradition but also radically focused on dramatic change. Paradox, hybridized practices, and the significance of marginal place as a rich resource also emerged from the study. Keywords: entrepreneurship; social construction; punk rock; paradox; marginality; periphery Special thanks are due to all the punks and skins who have engaged with my reading of the Rancid story, and given me so much support and feedback along the way, especially Rancid’s drummer, Branden Steineckert, Jesse from Machete Manufacturing, Kostis, Tassos (Rancid Punx Athens Crew) and Panayiotis. -
Is Sustainability in Fashion? Industry Leaders Share Their Views
Is Sustainability in Fashion? Industry leaders share their views Written by Contents Acknowledgements 3 Executive Summary 4 1. A Global Problem 7 2. Ever Onwards? Can the fashion and textiles industry become more sustainable? What the leaders say 11 Change in Three Parts: The role of consumers, brands & policymakers 11 Raising the Standard: The need for better, more consistent data 17 Financial Realities: The true cost of sustainability 21 Turbocharging Change: Does technological innovation hold the key? 25 The Last Word 29 Appendix 30 2 Acknowledgements Is sustainability in fashion? Industry leaders share their views was written by The Economist Intelligence Unit (The EIU) and sponsored by the U.S. Cotton Trust Protocol, a new system that uses verified data to encourage more sustainable growth of cotton. The findings are based on a literature review, a survey and a comprehensive interview programme conducted by The EIU between May and September 2020. The EIU bears sole responsibility for the content of this report. The findings and views expressed herein do not necessarily reflect the views of the partners and experts. The report was produced by a team of EIU researchers, writers, editors and graphic designers, including: Katherine Stewart Tom Nolan Isabel Moura Project Director Survey Manager Graphic Designer Antonia Kerle Mike Jakeman Emma Ruckley Project Manager Contributing Writer Sub-editor Interviewees Our thanks are due to the following people for their time and insights: Stefan Seidel Katrin Ley Kimberly Smith Head of Corporate Managing Director, Chief Supply Chain Officer, Sustainability, PUMA Fashion for Good Everlane Dr. Jurgen Janssen Franke Henke Indi Davis Head of the Secretariat of Senior Vice President of Head of Program, Strategy, the German Sustainable Sustainability, adidas Zilingo Textile Partnership Kathleen Talbot Chief Sustainability Officer, Reformation 3 Executive Summary Arguably the fashion and textile industry is What can be done to address these myriad and not sustainable in its current form. -
Ethical Fashion in the Age of Fast Fashion Sophie Xue Connecticut College, [email protected]
Connecticut College Digital Commons @ Connecticut College Art Honors Papers Art Department 2018 Ethical Fashion in the Age of Fast Fashion Sophie Xue Connecticut College, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/arthp Part of the Ethics and Political Philosophy Commons, and the Fashion Design Commons Recommended Citation Xue, Sophie, "Ethical Fashion in the Age of Fast Fashion" (2018). Art Honors Papers. 26. https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/arthp/26 This Honors Paper is brought to you for free and open access by the Art Department at Digital Commons @ Connecticut College. It has been accepted for inclusion in Art Honors Papers by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Connecticut College. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The views expressed in this paper are solely those of the author. Ethical Fashion in the Age of Fast Fashion Sophie Xue Connecticut College Art Honor Thesis, 2017-2018 3 Acknowledgements Thank you Professor Pamela Marks for generously supporting and encouraging me to pursue this topic. I wouldn’t have come this far without your guidance. Thank you Professor Sabrina Notarfrancisco for introducing me to the world of fashion and teaching me how to sew. Thank you Professor Assor, Professor Bailey, Professor Barnard, Professor McDowell, Professor Gilbert, Professor Hendrickson, Professor Pelletier, Professor Shockey, Professor Wollensak for never failing to provide answers to my queries that fell within your broad areas of expertise. Thank you mom and dad for granting me the freedom to chase my wildest dreams and giving me a Connecticut College education. And finally thank you my friends, especially Nicolae Dorlea, you have inspired me and helped me tremendously along this journey. -
Bad Rhetoric: Towards a Punk Rock Pedagogy Michael Utley Clemson University, [email protected]
Clemson University TigerPrints All Theses Theses 8-2012 Bad Rhetoric: Towards A Punk Rock Pedagogy Michael Utley Clemson University, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/all_theses Part of the Rhetoric and Composition Commons Recommended Citation Utley, Michael, "Bad Rhetoric: Towards A Punk Rock Pedagogy" (2012). All Theses. 1465. https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/all_theses/1465 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Theses at TigerPrints. It has been accepted for inclusion in All Theses by an authorized administrator of TigerPrints. For more information, please contact [email protected]. BAD RHETORIC: TOWARDS A PUNK ROCK PEDAGOGY A Thesis Presented to the Graduate School of Clemson University In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Arts Professional Communication by Michael M. Utley August 2012 Accepted by: Dr. Jan Rune Holmevik, Committee Chair Dr. Cynthia Haynes Dr. Scot Barnett TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Introduction ..........................................................................................................................4 Theory ................................................................................................................................32 The Bad Brains: Rhetoric, Rage & Rastafarianism in Early 1980s Hardcore Punk ..........67 Rise Above: Black Flag and the Foundation of Punk Rock’s DIY Ethos .........................93 Conclusion .......................................................................................................................109