This paper estimates intertemporal labor supply responses to two-year long income tax holidays staggered across Swiss cantons. Cantons shifted from an income tax system based on the previous two ...years’ income to a standard annual pay as you earn system, leaving two years of income untaxed. We find significant but quantitatively very small responses of wage earnings with an intertemporal elasticity of 0.025 overall. High wage income earners and especially the self-employed display larger responses with elasticities around 0.1 and 0.25, respectively, most likely driven by tax avoidance. We find no effects along the extensive margin at all.
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, indigenous communities in the United States and Australia suffered a common experience at the hands of state authorities: the removal of their ...children to institutions in the name of assimilating American Indians and protecting Aboriginal people. Although officially characterized as benevolent, these government policies often inflicted great trauma on indigenous families and ultimately served the settler nations’ larger goals of consolidating control over indigenous peoples and their lands.
White Mother to a Dark Race takes the study of indigenous education and acculturation in new directions in its examination of the key roles white women played in these policies of indigenous child-removal. Government officials, missionaries, and reformers justified the removal of indigenous children in particularly gendered ways by focusing on the supposed deficiencies of indigenous mothers, the alleged barbarity of indigenous men, and the lack of a patriarchal nuclear family. Often they deemed white women the most appropriate agents to carry out these child-removal policies. Inspired by the maternalist movement of the era, many white women were eager to serve as surrogate mothers to indigenous children and maneuvered to influence public policy affecting indigenous people. Although some white women developed caring relationships with indigenous children and others became critical of government policies, many became hopelessly ensnared in this insidious colonial policy.
R. Chudamani was a much-admired Tamil creative writer in the recent past. She is known for her short stories. Chudamani's short stories deal with personal and public lives. The short story "We Don't ...Know" taken for this study deals with social issues in the society. It also reveals how women are oppressed in the androcentric society. The plot revolves around the protagonist, Abhirami who was abused by antagonist, Velappan. This paper focuses on Marxist feminism. Marxist feminism emerged between 1960s and 1970s. It centres on women's liberation which, it is assumed, can be achieved by the eradication of class difference and capitalism alone. This paper also aims to analyse the characters in the short story, We Don't Know which determine the Marxist feminist approach.
A Region of Legitimacies Leheny, David
Asia Policy,
01/2022, Letnik:
17, Številka:
1
Book Review, Journal Article
Recenzirano
The nostalgia for a time when things seemed to work is hardly limited to Japan. It was central to Donald Trump's effort to win the White House, which was premised in ways both subtle and obvious on ...not just an earlier moment in the United States' economic leadership but also (and perhaps even more) on its racial hierarchies. If the long-term meaning of U.S. economic development in contemporary politics cannot simply be reduced to the liberal market economy represented in the "varieties of capitalism" literature, neither can the complex mix of public, private, political, and social forces of postwar Japan. Park Geun-hye's road back to South Korea's Blue House and Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos's political resurgence in recent years-both premised in wildly different ways on nostalgia for the leadership of their famous, authoritarian fathers-remind us that contemporary Asia also has a postwar past. This is not simply a set of events and decisions that create policy legacies but also the logics of development and power that allow for new possibilities in constructing political myths and affective social ties. T.J. Pempel's A Region of Regimes: Prosperity and Plunder in the Asia-Pacific will likely immediately become required reading for students of Asia's political economy, and it does not disappoint on that front. It demonstrates all the hallmarks of Pempel's superb scholarship over the past half-century. By categorizing many countries in the region as developmental regimes, ersatz developmental regimes, or rapacious regimes, Pempel shrewdly provides an expansive overview while inserting the conceptual language needed to tease out patterns of economic development, political coalition-building, and social policy negotiation.
Midge Costanza was one of the unlikeliest of White House insiders. But for a time during the seventies, this "loud-mouthed, pushy little broad" with no college education was a prominent focal point ...of the American culture wars. In this book, Doreen J. Mattingly draws on Costanza's life to tell a wider, but heretofore neglected, story of the hopeful yet fraught era of gender politics in late 70s Washington - a history that is not just important to US women's and presidential history but which continues to resonate in politics today.
At the height of the Cold War, as nuclear Armageddon between the Western bloc and the Eastern bloc loomed, a ray of hope appeared at the 1956 Olympics. An American gold medalist named Harold Connolly ...and a Czech gold medalist named Olga Fikotová fell in love. After a whirlwind courtship in front of the world press corps, they married and migrated to the United States, becoming global celebrities. They eventually settled near the golden beaches of California. The narratives about their romance constructed by the media and by the Connollys themselves proclaimed that California dreams could win the Cold War without resort to weapons of mass destruction by employing the engines of mass consumption. From the 1950s through the end of the Cold War in the 1990s, that idea remained endlessly fascinating to the American public and to the advocates of soft-power strategies in Olympic arenas.
Since 2012, the Deportation Research Clinic, part of the Buffett Institute for Global Studies at Northwestern University, has been pursuing research on government misconduct under the rubric of what ...Jacqueline Stevens calls "forensic intelligence." The Clinic uses law and publicity, including scholarship, to create new realities, which in turn produce new facts and knowledge. Stevens draws on scholarship by S. M. Amadae, Noam Chomsky, Philip Green, Chalmers Johnson, Kenneth Osgood, Ido Oren, Michael Rogin, and Frances Saunders to explain the relation of "forensic intelligence" to the "national intelligence" paradigm now organizing mainstream political science research. The article concludes by describing how U.S. government and economic elites distort research and teaching priorities, and provides examples from Northwestern University.
Driven by keen intellectual inquisitiveness, purpose, and conviction, Robert Raymond Sterling (1931-2010) dedicated his professional life to developing scholarship in accounting education, practice, ...and research. He did so with what his Australian intellectual counterpart and kindred spirit, Raymond John Chambers (1997, xvii ), described as a "sustained, but temperate, passion." The author's purpose is not to document Sterling's life, work, and academic career extensively, although, for the convenience of readers, we initially record his key appointments and achievements, as they provide an understanding of his scholarly legacy. A more extensive description of Sterling's life is given in the tribute rendered at his memorial service in Houston, Texas, on Jul 2, 2010. Instead, in this memorial, the authors seek to set forth and assess historically Sterling's intellectual contributions to accounting education and research. The authors believe they are profound and will be revisited by scholars of the future.
The late Joseph Ransdell's advocacy for a “unitary interpretation” of the work of C.S. Peirce found expression in a 1989 paper where he declared Peirce's 1867 essay “On a New List of Categories” to ...be “the basic text for that part of his philosophy which he called ‘phenomenology’.” Several of Peirce's later writings comment retrospectively on the process of inquiry which produced that 1867 paper and eventually developed into the science which he named “phenomenology” in 1902. Some of these later texts are arguably as “basic” to an understanding of Peircean phenomenology as the 1867 essay itself. An examination of these retrospective texts, together with some of Peirce's late writings on phaneroscopy, will support Ransdell's claim that Peirce rightly considered his own life's work to be “fundamentally self-consistent throughout,” but will also clarify and modify Ransdell's assertions about Peirce's 1867 essay, his phenomenology, and their roles in his philosophical system.
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