How can small cities make an impact in a globalizing world dominated by ‘world cities’ and urban development strategies aimed at increasing agglomeration? This book addresses the challenges of ...smaller cities trying to put themselves on the map, attract resources and initiate development. Placemaking has become an important tool for driving urban development that is sensitive to the needs of communities. This volume examines the development of creative placemaking practices that can help to link small cities to external networks, stimulate collaboration and help them make the most of the opportunities presented by the knowledge economy. The authors argue that the adoption of more strategic, holistic placemaking strategies that engage all stakeholders can be a successful alternative to copying bigger places. Drawing on a range of examples from around the world, they analyse small city development strategies and identify key success factors. This book focuses on the case of ‘s-Hertogenbosch, a small Dutch city that used cultural programming to link itself to global networks and stimulate economic, cultural, social and creative development. It advocates the use of cultural programming strategies as a more flexible alternative to traditional top-down planning approaches and as a means of avoiding copying the big city. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Ever since China entered the World Trade Organization at the turn of the century, Latin America supplied China with more and more of the primary commodities it needs and more. In The China Triangle, ...Kevin P. Gallagher traces the development of the China-Latin America trade over time and covers how it has affected the centuries-old (and highly unequal) US-Latin American relationship.
Globalization, surely one of the most used and abused buzzwords of recent decades, describes a phenomenon that is typically considered to be a neutral and inevitable expansion of market forces across ...the planet. Nearly all economists, politicians, business leaders, and mainstream journalists view globalization as the natural result of economic development, and a beneficial one at that. But, as noted economist Martin Hart-Landsberg argues, this perception does not match the reality of globalization. The rise of transnational corporations and their global production chains was the result of intentional and political acts, decisions made at the highest levels of power. Their aim - to increase profits by seeking the cheapest sources of labor and raw materials - was facilitated through policy-making at the national and international levels, and was largely successful. But workers in every nation have paid the costs, in the form of increased inequality and poverty, the destruction of social welfare provisions and labor unions, and an erratic global economy prone to bubbles, busts, and crises. This book examines the historical record of globalization and restores agency to the capitalists, policy-makers, and politicians who worked to craft a regime of world-wide exploitation. It demolishes their neoliberal ideology - already on shaky ground after the 2008 financial crisis - and picks apart the record of trade agreements like NAFTA and institutions like the WTO. But, crucially, Hart- Landsberg also discusses alternatives to capitalist globalization, looking to examples such as South America's Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA) for clues on how to build an international economy based on solidarity, social development, and shared prosperity.
Autor smatra da su se promijenili naglasci u teorijskoj literaturi o globalizaciji. Više se ne ističe ireverzibilnost globalizacije što je bio čest naglasak u entuzijastičkoj literaturi o ...globalizaciji tijekom devedesetih godina. Ne samo da globalizacija više nije neka nedodirljiva struktura nego se već desetak godina pojavljuju istraživanja koja osporavaju globalizaciju kao takvu. Slijedom toga, autor posebnu pažnju posvećuje radovima Justina Rosenberga koji tvrdi da je doba globalizacije završeno. Naime, za Rosenberga je globalizacija bila samo ideološka konstrukcija podržana od tzv. globalizacijske teorije, koja nije uspjela ni u jednom svom aspektu: kao opća socijalna teorija, historijski sociološki argument te kao osnova za interpretaciju empirijskih događaja. Za razliku od Rosenberga, autor smatra da globalizaciju treba promatrati i u kontekstu tzv. metapolitičkih pojmova i njihovih semantičko- političkih funkcija. Koristeći metodologijske postavke Reinharta Kosellecka, autor pokazuje da ovi pojmovi doživljavaju svoj intelektualno-politički vrhunac tako što ubrzavaju povijest odnosno transcendiraju zatečeno stanje. Nakon revolucionarnog vrhunca, oni nestaju, ili im se, što je češće, mijenja značenje kako bi pokrili ‘novu’ stvarnost. Na osnovi uvida Hannah Arendt, autor pokazuje da je globalizacija izgubila svoj revolucionarni potencijal, ali da to nužno ne znači i kraj globalizacijske teorije.
Autor vidi svoju knjigu Karl Marx i politička ekonomija Moderne kao sažetu
polemičku autobiografiju. Marx je za njega nadasve iznimno uspješni ključ za
novo razumijevanje klasične političke i ...političko-ekonomske teorije i njezinu
primjenu u budućim analizama i projektima izlaza iz aktualne svjetske krize.
Iako je u knjizi dokumentirano izveo putove dovršenja Marxove kritike političke
ekonomije u skladu s Marxovim planom iz Kapitala, te pokazao mogućnost
utemeljenja kritičke političke teorije na osnovama te kritike. Kritička
politička teorija, suprotno Marxovu planu, po Strpićevu nalazu bila bi nužna
već u izvođenju konkretizirane teorije tržišta i cijena u “konkurenciji mnoštva
kapitala” na “površini građanskoga društva” – po Marxovoj metodologiji. Relativno
neovisno o tome, autor se u ovom članku koncentrira na proširivanje
objašnjenja karaktera Moderne Normale (MN), konstruirane u njegovoj knjizi
analizom utemeljenom kombinacijom klasične moderne i suvremene političke
i političko-ekonomske teorije. Ali i načelnom analitičkom upotrebom rezultata
svih društvenih i humanističkih znanosti, te po latentnoj nužnosti i svih
znanosti u cjelini (osobito u javnim politikama) – s utemeljujućim i provedbenim
težištem na integralnoj političkoj znanosti. Pritom se zadržava samo
na temeljnoj shemi MN (F1) iz knjige. Moderna Normala u tom osnovnom
obliku predstavlja presjek koridora cikličkoga kretanja promjenjivih poredaka
i promjenljivo međusobno strukturiranih elemenata u procesima razvoja modernih
država-nacija i njihova svjetskoga sustava, u razvoju različito utemeljivanih
klasičnim modernim političkim i političko-ekonomskim principima.
S različitim težištima/normalama i oblikovnim dominantama u strukturi različitih
političkih/političko-ekonomskih kontrapunkta razvoja u povijesno odmaknutim
inačicama MN. Konjunkture i krize razvoja tih procesa i poredaka,
uključujući aktualnu svjetsku ekonomsku, političku, društvenu i civilizacijsku
krizu i izlazak iz nje, Strpić vidi kroz cikluse MN – najočitije u polustoljetnim
i (više)stoljetnim razdobljima, a najudarnije u velikim krizama i poletima.
U radu se obrađuje skupni nalaz novca venecijanskog dužda Francesca Foscarija iz sredine 15.stoljeća, otkriven u srednjodalmatinskome selu Sitnom, koje se u kasnom srednjem vijeku nalazilou mletačkom ...šibenskom distriktu. Kao nova točka u numizmatičkoj topografi ji Foscarijeva novcana tlu Hrvatske, nalaz se obrađuje s numizmatičkog aspekta i razmatra u okviru gospodarske iopćedruštvene konjunkture u vrijeme dužda F. Foscarija.
The 14th thematic volume of International Development Policy provides perspectives through case studies from the global Souths focusing on the challenges and opportunities of governing migration on ...the subnational, national, regional and international levels. Bringing together some thirty authors from Africa, Latin America and Asia, the book explores existing and new policies and frameworks in terms of their successes and best practices, and looks at them through the lens of additional challenges, such as those brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, the rise of nationalisms and an increase in xenophobia. The chapters also take the ‘5 Ps’ approach to sustainable development (people, planet, prosperity, peace and partnerships) and assess how migration policies serve sustainable development in a rapidly evolving context. Contributors are Yousra Abourabi, Gabriela Agosto, Belkis Aracena, Andrea Fernández Benítez, Macarena Chepo, Amanda Coffie, Jonathan Crush, María del Consuelo Dávila Pérez, Dêlidji Eric Degila, Jenny Lind Elmaco, René Leyva Flores, Luisa Feline Freier, Silvia Núñez García, Marcela Pezoa González, Binod Khadria, Ariel González Levaggi, Wei Li, Meixin Liu, Ling Ma, Ratnam Mishra, Daniel Naujoks, Claudia Padilla, Karol Rojas, Fabiana Rubinstein, Yining Tan, Narender Thakur, Gerasimos Tsourapas, Valeria Marina Valle and Jossette Iribarne Wiff.
L’un des objectifs de la réglementation financière est de réduire la procyclicité. Elle devrait contribuer à empêcher le système financier d’amplifier les chocs économiques ou de devenir lui-même une ...source de chocs. C’est pourquoi la réglementation financière a été révisée en profondeur après la crise financière mondiale. La crise de la Covid-19 constitue le premier test sérieux pour ce nouveau cadre. Cet article examine si la réglementation a contribué à réduire la procyclicité cette fois-ci, et en tire des leçons pour l’avenir.
Economists have traditionally viewed futures prices as fully informative about future economic activity and asset prices. We argue that open interest could be more informative than futures prices in ...the presence of hedging demand and limited risk absorption capacity in futures markets. We find that movements in open interest are highly pro-cyclical, correlated with both macroeconomic activity and movements in asset prices. Movements in commodity market interest predict commodity returns, bond returns, and movements in the short rate even after controlling for other known predictors. To a lesser degree, movements in open interest predict returns in currency, bond, and stock markets.
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