La comptabilité générationnelle constitue certainement un complément intéressant à la traditionnelle mesure de déficit budgétaire si elle est utilisée avec clarté et précaution. En ce qui concerne la ...Belgique, les générations futures verraient leurs taxes nettes croître au minimum de 61% par rapport à celles des nouveau-nés. Or, cette génération souffre déjà d'un déséquilibre par rapport à celle de ses parents et grands-parents. Les pensions et la santé représentent par ailleurs les deux charges les plus importantes pesant sur les générations futures, même par rapport à la dette consolidée de l'État. Le rétablissement d'un certain équilibre, ne fut-ce qu'en termes de cohérence des finances publiques, passerait probablement par une modération de ces transferts.
Generational accounting in Belgium.
Generational accounting is undoubtedly a useful addition to traditional measurements of budget deficit if used with clarity and caution. As far as Belgium is concerned, future generations will see their net taxes grow by at least 61% in comparison with those of current newborns. Yet this generation is already suffering an imbalance in relation to that of its parents and grandparents. Pensions and health are, moreover, the two heaviest burdens facing future generations, even in comparison with consolidated government debt. The restoration of a certain balance, if only in terms of the consistency of public finance, would probably entail reducing transfers in these fields.
This paper specifically examines intergenerational conflict and analyzes an overlapping generations model of public goods provision from the viewpoint of time-consistency. Public goods are financed ...through labor-income and capital-income taxation, thereby distorting savings and the labor supply. Taxes redistribute income across generations in the form of public goods. Under such a situation, there emerge dual intergenerational conflicts: the first is related to the amount of public goods and the second is the tax burden. We then contrast the politico-economic equilibrium with commitment allocation, and analyze the sources of conflict and time-inconsistency, and attempt to resolve such a conflict by introducing the concept of eintergenerational bargainingf. Our main findings are the following. First, taxation derived using Lagrange method fails to be time-consistent. Second, depending on bargainingpower, taxation based on intergenerational bargaining can be time-consistent. Third, we portray the properties of taxation and public goods provision rules based on intergenerational bargaining.
In his 1930 speech in Warsaw, Bergelson used the image of the speeding train to exalt Soviet Yiddish literature and to castigate Yiddish literature written elsewhere. Nonetheless, his own ...preoccupation as an artist was with the Jews who arrived too late for the train that was to bring them to their future. In his 1946 play “Prince Ruveni,” Bergelson raises the question of renewal again but with a greater sense of urgency:
In the spirit of the time of rebirth—
Columbus’s time … what happened?
I stand and ask of this great time:
Whether you give your gift to everyone
Age is a central characteristic of literary characters. It determines their scope of action, their behavioral repertoire, their social relationships with others and much more. The category of age is ...particularly significant for children's and young adult literature: questions of dependencies, knowledge, experiences, memories and development can be negotiated via age constructions. Adults do not only appear as parents and teachers. They are also (great-)grandparents and older people in other social roles who become important counterparts for child and adolescent characters – e.g. in relation to existential topics such as illness and death. However, the topic has so far been underexposed in literary studies and literary didactics. This volume changes that: using relevant texts from the genres of picture books, children's and young adult novels and film, the authors focus on these diverse relationship constellations. The result is an important contribution to the exploration of current children's and youth media.
Transformative and mutually beneficial solutions require decision-makers to reconcile present- and future interests (i.e., intrapersonal conflicts over time) and to align them with those of other ...decision-makers (i.e., interpersonal conflicts between people). Despite the natural co-occurrence of intrapersonal and interpersonal conflicts in the transformation toward sustainability, both types of conflicts have been studied predominantly in isolation. In this conceptual article, we breathe new life into the traditional dialog between individual decision-making and negotiation research and address critical psychological barriers to the transformation toward sustainability. In particular, we argue that research on intrapersonal and interpersonal conflicts should be tightly integrated to provide a richer understanding of the interplay between these conflicts. We propose a novel, unifying framework of interdependent conflicts that systematically structures this interplay, and we analyze how complex interdependencies between the social (i.e., conflict between decision-makers) and temporal (i.e., conflict within a decision-maker) dimensions pose fundamental psychological barriers to mutually beneficial solutions. Since challenges to conflict resolution in the transformation toward sustainability emerge not only between individual decision-makers but also frequently between groups of decision-makers, we scale the framework up to the level of social groups and thereby provide an interdependent-conflicts perspective on the interplay between intra- and intergenerational conflicts. Overall, we propose simple, testable propositions, identify intervention approaches, and apply them to transition management. By analyzing the challenges faced by negotiating parties during interdependent conflicts and highlighting potential intervention approaches, we contribute to the transformation toward sustainability. Finally, we discuss implications of the framework and point to avenues for future research.
"Water buffalo youth," "mixed-race," and "out of control" are notable mainstream terms publicly used to refer to Korean popular music (hereafter "K-pop") fans in Vietnam. In a de-Westernization of ...fandom studies via a Vietnamese case study of the complicated relationship between nationalistic discourses and transcultural fandom, a cultural frame surrounding mainstream online news representations and public reception of young K-pop fans may be constructed, specifically the dominant shift in the mainstream narrative about Vietnamese K-pop fans between 2011 and 2019 in relation to politicized notions of shame and pride. These findings reveal and complicate various cultural, political, and ideological subjectivities of contemporary Vietnam that are similar to China's ambiguous reception of the Korean Wave. Studying a global and transcultural phenomenon like K-pop in different national contexts remains relevant and important.
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