The paper applies Lacanian psychoanalysis to a well-known phenomenon in documentary practice, namely, that those who appear in films usually violently dislike their representation in the final film. ...Broadcasting organizations have sets of rules and regulations to deal with this 'inconvenience'. I put forward a suggestion that the source of this anxiety lies in the notion of the double, which draws from Freud's 'The Uncanny' (1910) as recently developed by philosopher Mladen Dolar. I apply it to the process of documentary filmmaking. I give an example of the documentary The Best Job in the World (2009), which I directed for BBC1. In it, the participants were first invited to create their own short digital self-portraits with the material shot by us and edited later. I quote from their reports submitted in due course about their feelings about their portrayal in the film. The issue of control over one's representation seems of crucial importance. It appears that the arrival of 'the double', which the contributors had no control over created a sense of deep discomfort, even when that 'double' appeared more flattering that the contributors' perceptions of their own selves, suggesting more complicated unconscious processes.
In this analysis Morris Goldstein examines currency regime choices for emerging economies that are heavily involved with private capital markets. The author argues that the best regime choice for ...such economies would be managed floating plus, where "plus" is shorthand for a framework that includes inflation targeting and aggressive measures to discourage currency mismatching. Goldstein argues that if managed floating were enhanced in this way, it would retain the desirable features of a flexible rate regime while addressing the nominal anchor and balance-sheet problems that have historically underpinned a "fear of floating" and handicapped the performance of managed floating in emerging economies. The author also shows why managed floating plus is superior to four alternative currency-regime options--an adjustable peg system, a "BBC (basket, band, crawl) regime," a currency board, and dollarization.
Speech Is Dead; Long Live Speech Gunn, Joshua
The Quarterly Journal of Speech,
08/2008, Letnik:
94, Številka:
3
Journal Article, Book Review
Recenzirano
Gunn reviews four books, namely For More Than One Voice: Toward a Philosophy of Vocal Expression by Adriana Cavarero and translated by Paul A. Kottman; A Voice and Nothing More by Dolar Mladen; Wired ...for Speech: How Voice Activates and Advances the Human-Computer Relationship by Clifford Nass and Scott Brave; and The Presence of the Word: Some Prolegomena for Cultural and Religious History by Walter Ong.
Early in 2000, Ecuador, confronted with a serious economic crisis, adopted the US dollar as its national currency, This book examines the conditions that led to this action, describing the repeated ...cycles of crisis and failed stabilization that fatally undermined confidence in the Ecuadorian sucre. The book then analyzes dollarization ' s initial results and its effects on inflation, growth, poverty, inequality, marginalization, gender, and the Ecuadoran family. It also puts the Ecuadoran experience with dollarization in an international perspective.
The future of the dollar Helleiner, Eric; Kirshner, Jonathan
2012, 2009, 2012-09-15, 2009-08-06
eBook
For half a century, the United States has garnered substantial political and economic benefits as a result of the dollar's de facto role as a global currency. In recent years, however, the dollar's ...preponderant position in world markets has come under challenge. The dollar has been more volatile than ever against foreign currencies, and various nations have switched to non-dollar instruments in their transactions. China and the Arab Gulf states continue to hold massive amounts of U.S. government obligations, in effect subsidizing U.S. current account deficits, and those holdings are a point of potential vulnerability for American policy. What is the future of the U.S. dollar as an international currency? Will predictions of its demise end up just as inaccurate as those that have accompanied major international financial crises since the early 1970s? Analysts disagree, often profoundly, in their answers to these questions. In The Future of the Dollar , leading scholars of dollar's international role bring multidisciplinary perspectives and a range of contrasting predictions to the question of the dollar's future. This timely book provides readers with a clear sense of why such disagreements exist and it outlines a variety of future scenarios and the possible political implications for the United States and the world.
Desde el gobierno se ha intentado minimizar el efecto de esta cotizacion paralela, pero el mercado parece no hacerle caso. Ayer la presidenta Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner se refirio al tema en ...discurso. "Mientras yo sea presidenta los que quieren ganar plata a costa de una devaluacion que tenga que pagar el pueblo, van a tener que esperar a otro gobierno" disparo. Varios economistas argentinos especulan con la posibilidad de que vuelvan las intervenciones "paraestatales" para aplanar el precio y evitar que la brecha abierta entre el tipo de cambio oficial y el paralelo se amplie mas. (c) 2013 NoticiasFinancieras - (c) 2013 GDA - El Pais - All rights reserved
Dollarization Rochon, Louis-Phillipe; Seccareccia, Mario
07/2005, Letnik:
22
eBook
The use of the US dollar for domestic monetary transactions outside the USA has gone on for many years now - Panama in 1904 being the earliest example. Since the advent of the Euro, the debate over ...the benefits of monetary integration has warmed up - particularly for NAFTA countries. This collection, with contributions from experts such as Philip Arestis, Malcolm Sawyer and Stephanie Bell, examines the various problems and benefits involved in monetary integration and covers the causes of Euro instability, monetary policy in non-optimal currency unions, financial openness and dollarization and the question of dollarization in Canada. This book addresses one of the burning policy issues in Europe and America: is monetary union worthwhile? The readable yet comprehensive style of this book will make it of interest not only to academics and students involved in European integration, financial liberalization and dollarization, but will also be an important book for policy-makers at intergovernmental level.
Louis-Philippe Rochon is the Stephen B. Monroe Assistant Professor of Economics and Banking at Kalamazoo College, USA where he is also Director of the Center for Policy Studies. Mario Seccareccia is Full Professor of economics at the University of Ottawa.
Part I: The European Experience Part II: Lessons for North America
