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In January 1976, Raymond Barre, the first President of The Geneva Association, and Orio Giarini, its first Secretary General, founded The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance with the main goal of supporting and encouraging research in the economics of risk and insurance. At that time, research in the field of insurance was still embryonic and insurance was regarded as peripheral social activity. When sustained economic growth gained traction, the function of insurance gradually emerged as a key contributor to economic development. By integrating uncertainty into economic theory and benefiting from the progress of both financial economics and decision theory, research developed further in the field of insurance economics and risk management, and is now prolific. The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance undeniably contributed to this evolution and its impact on research in insurance has largely exceeded what its two founding members could have expected. This volume is a special collection of papers celebrating 40 Years of The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance. The collection looks back at the storied history of The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance and features papers from some of the esteemed authors who have contributed to the journal in its lifetime. This collection of papers highlights just a few of the many themes addressed in the papers published by the journal since it was created. Nevertheless, the selection exemplifies the richness and variety of topics the field of insurance covers.

In this rich and savvy collection of commentaries on the events, people and issues that shape and define our world, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and New York Times bestselling author Ellen Goodman cuts to the heart of the stories and controversies that helped to define our times.For over twenty-five years, nationally syndicated columnist Ellen Goodman has been training her lens on contemporary American life. A marvelously direct writer with keen insight into what makes the average American tick, laugh and occasionally boil with rage, Goodman takes her measure of the national psyche in a voice that is at once perceptive, witty and deeply humane.Paper Trail, her first collection in more than ten years, journeys through an era that has been golden in its advances and bleak in its disappointments. In a voice both reasoned and impassioned, she makes sense of the cultural debates that have captured our attention and sometimes become national obsessions. She wrestles with the close-to-the-bone issues of abortion, working mothers and gay marriage, the struggles for civil liberties and equal rights, and the moral complexity of assisted suicide and biotech babies. As she wends through the era of the Clinton scandals and the'amBushing'of America, the dot-com boom and bust, the horrors of September 11 and the War on Terrorism, Goodman pauses to celebrate some of our lost icons, including Jackie Onassis, Princess Diana and Doctor Spock. She reminds us as well of the fleeting fame of such instant celebrities as Elian Gonzalez and Lorena Bobbitt. The lines that separate public and private life dissolve under Goodman's scrutiny as she shows us how Washington politics, Silicon Valley technology and the national media culture infiltrate our jobs, relationships and minds. With the trademark clarity that readers count on, she walks us through the dilemmas posed by new technologies that range from cloning to cell phones and makes us laugh at the vagaries of Viagra and Botox and unreality TV. And in a world that sometimes seems to be stuck on fast forward, she holds on to values as timeless as a family Thanksgiving and a summer porch in Maine. Including more than 160 of Ellen Goodman's lively and stylish columns, this timely collection walks us along the paper trail in a voice that is both crystal clear and original.

Provides a context and exercise for introducing retail inventory management, including cost optimization, service-level criteria, and forecasting in single and multiproduct settings. The owner of a single-location paper and paper products store considers the implications of expansion for inventory management. Considerations include lost sales, retail metrics for multiproduct settings, and shelf space constraints. An Excel spreadsheet accompanies and is integral to the case, allowing students to explore these issues. For spreadsheet inquiries, please contact customer service at 1-800-545-7685 or custserv@hbsp.harvard.edu

Metso Paper, the world's largest producer of paper machines, aims to transform itself into a knowledge- and information-based service and solution provider for the paper industry by aggressively exploiting information technologies. In the fall of 2002, Jorma Hujala, a vice-president of the Development, References, and Projects Department of Metso Paper's largest business unit, Rautpohja, attended a corporate-wide brainstorming meeting to decide how to improve the paper machine production and delivery process. Due to low growth in its traditional markets, the company needs to consider extending its strategy and business model to become not just a machine producer but also a supplier of services related to the value chain of paper production. In executing the new strategy, the company considers its world-class knowledge and capabilities to be its key competitive asset. Over the past decade, the department had improved project delivery performance through aggressive use of IT. Hujala and his team had to think carefully about how to enable and support the new corporate strategy and how to continue to develop their IT services and competencies accordingly.

This book shares 3 parts of a business/career development system crafted to aid users build their own business and career pathways. For ages 11 and up, these Freedom Papers are perfect for making sure you can use your education and skills to prosper whether there are jobs or not.

First Published in 1970. This is the second edition reprint of the Bullion Report of 1810, published in 1925 with an introduction that outlines why it is a useful document as reference to the similarities of the consequences that the United Kingdom found itself in after 1919 in regards to the printing of the currency note and the Cunliffe limitation.

The Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (BPEA) is a semi-annual academic conference and journal that pairs rigorous research with real-time policy analysis to address the most urgent economic challenges of the day. Working drafts of the papers are presented at the conference typically held twice each year. The final papers and discussant remarks from each conference are subsequently published in the journal several months later.POPP, VONA, MARIN and CHEN on The Employment Impact of a Green Fiscal Push: Evidence from the American Recovery and Reinvestment ActBUCKMAN, CHOI, DALY and SEITELMAN on The Economic Gains from EquityCHERRY, JIANG, MATVOS, PISKORSKI and SERU on Government and Private Household Debt Relief during COVID-19RENNERT, PREST, PIZER, NEWELL, ANTHOFF, KINGDON, RENNELS, COOKE, RAFTERY, ŠEVČÍKOVÁ and ERRICKSON on The Social Cost of Carbon:Advances in Long-Term Probabilistic Projections of Population, GDP, Emissions, and Discount RatesREIS on Losing the Inflation AnchorAUTOR, DORN and HANSON on On the Persistence of the China Shock

Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (BPEA) provides academic and business economists, government officials, and members of the financial and business communities with timely research on current economic issues.

Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (BPEA) provides academic and business economists, government officials, and members of the financial and business communities with timely research on current economic issues.Contents:All Medicaid Expansions Are Not Created Equal: The Geography and Targeting of the Affordable Care ActCraig Garthwaite, John Graves, Tal Gross, Zeynal Karaca, Victoria Marone, and Matthew J. NotowidigdoPolicies and Payoffs to Addressing America's College Graduation DeficitChristopher Avery, Jessica Howell, Matea Pender, and Bruce SacerdoteThe Optimal Inflation Target and the Natural Rate of InterestPhilippe Andrade, Jordi Galí, Hervé Le Bihan, and Julien MatheronInflation Dynamics: Dead, Dormant, or Determined Abroad?Kristen J. ForbesMacri's Macro: The Elusive Road to Stability and GrowthFederico SturzeneggerProgressive Wealth TaxationEmmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman

Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (BPEA) provides academic and business economists, government officials, and members of the financial and business communities with timely research on current economic issues.Contents:On Secular Stagnation in the Industrialized World, Lukasz Rachel and Lawrence H. SummersA Forensic Examination of China's National Accounts, Wei Chen, Xilu Chen, Chang-Tai Hsieh, and Zheng SongA Unified Approach to Measuring u•, Richard K. Crump, Stefano Eusepi, Maric Giannoni, and Ays¸egül S¸ahinFiscal Space and the Aftermath of Financial Crises: How It Matters and Why, Christina D. Romer and David H. RomerOkun Revisited: Who Benefits Most from a Strong Economy? Stephanies R. Aaronson, Mary C. Daly, William L. Wascher, and David W. WilcoxOn the Economics of a Carbon Tax for the United States, Gilbert E. Metcalf

Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (BPEA) provides academic and business economists, government officials, and members of the financial and business communities with timely research on current economic issues. Contents:The European Central Bank's Monetary Policy during Its First 20 Years, Philipp Hartmann and Frank SmetsAccounting for Macro-Finance Trends: Market Power, Intangibles, and Risk Premia, Emmanuel Farhi and François GourioThe Real Effects of Disrupted Credit: Evidence from the Global Financial Crisis, Ben S. BernankeThe Cyclical Sensitivity in Estimates of Potential Output, Olivier Coibion, Yuriy Gorodnichenko, and Mauricio UlateShould the Federal Reserve Regularly Evaluate Its Monetary Policy Framework?, Jeff Fuhrer, Giovanni P. Olivei, Eric S. Rosengren, and Geoffrey M.B. TootellMonetary Policy at the Effective Lower Bound: Less Potent? More International? More Sticky?, Kristin ForbesThe Efficacy of Large-Scale Asset Purchases When the Short-Term Interest Rate Is at Its Effective Lower Bound, James D. HamiltonThe Federal Reserve Is Not Very Constrained by the Lower Bound on Nominal Interest Rates, Eric T. SwansonComments on Monetary Policy at the Effective Lower Bound, Janet Yellen

Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (BPEA) provides academic and business economists, government officials, and members of the financial and business communities with timely research on current economic issues.Contents:Is Automation Labor Share-Displacing? Productivity Growth, Employment, and the Labor ShareDavid Autor and Anna SalomonsSafety Net Investments in ChildrenHilary W. Hoynes and Diane Whitmore SchanzenbachJobs for the Heartland: Place-Based Polices in 21st-Century AmericaBenjamin Austin, Edward Glaeser, and Lawrence SummersMacroeconomic Effects of the 2017 Tax ReformRobert J. Barro and Jason FurmanLiquidity Crises in the Mortgage MarketYou Suk Kim, Steven M. Laufer, Karen Pence, Richard Stanton, and Nancy WallaceMortgage Market Design: Lessons from the Great RecessionTomasz Piskorski and Amit Seru

This book, first edited with an introduction by F. A. v. Hayek in 1939, explores some of the popular errors which related to the suspension of the cash payments of the Bank of England, and to the influence of our paper currency on the price of provisions. The introduction provides an interesting overview of the life, thoughts, and achievements of Henry Thornton. An Enquiry into the Nature and Effects of the Paper Credit of Great Britain will be of interest to students of the history of economic thought.

Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (BPEA) provides academic and business economists, government officials, and members of the financial and business communities with timely research on current economic issues.

This book features the best papers presented at the Asia-Pacific Conference on Economics & Finance in 2016. Chapters include research conducted by experts in the field of Economics, Finance and Business from the region. Put together by East Asia Research, East Asia Institute of Management & Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS), this book serves as a useful resource for educators, researchers, thought leaders, policy makers, and economists.

This volume, originally published in 1958, contains a selection of the most important and interesting articles by Knut Wicksell, which had hitherto only been published in Swedish. They cover Wicksell's views on Economics and monetary theory, his theory of production and distribution, some review articles on the works of Pareto, Böhm-Bawerk, Carl Menger and Bowley and some papers on foreign trade problems, written after the First World War. Erik Lindahl's introductory essay gives a picture of Wicksell the social reformer, who radical opinions often brought him into conflict with the authorities and the general public.

The volume is divided into three parts:A: Economic Growth and Related Problems (covering international trade and economic integration, including a comparative study between Europe and America)B: Theoretical Welfare Economics (welfare propositions in economics, profit maximization and its implications and the Theory of Tariffs)C: Practical Welfare Economics (the price of economic progress, equity and international payments).

The book is a compilation of selected papers presented at the Asia Conference on Economics & Business Research in 2015. The peer-reviewed contributions cover topics such as microeconomics, macroeconomics, financial economics, accounting and economics, organizational behavior, marketing, business ethics, general management, strategic management, operations management and public sector management. The volume serves as a valuable resource for researchers and practitioners in the area of economics and business research in Asia.

First Published in 2004. This is the second of three volumes of an edition of Professor Meade's papers. As with the first volume (The Collected Papers of James Meade, Vol. I: Employment and Inflation, 1988), it includes both previously published papers and hitherto unpublished memoranda written during Meade's period of government service, 1940-7, in the Economic Section of the Cabinet Offices, of which he was Director 1946-7.

Cum am găsit miliardele ascunse ale unor premieri, dictatori, funcționari FIFA, șefi de concerne și magnați – și banii secreți din cercul intimilor lui Putin „Inegalitatea de venituri este una dintre problemele definitorii ale vremurilor noastre. Ne afectează pe toți, din lumea întreagă. Dezbaterea despre accelerarea sa bruscă s-a dezlănțuit de mulți ani, iar politicienii, oamenii de știință și activiștii sunt neputincioși în a opri acest fenomen, în ciuda numeroaselor discursuri, a analizelor statistice, a câtorva proteste firave și a dezvăluirilor ocazionale. Totuși, o întrebare rămâne: de ce? Și de ce acum? Documentele Panama furnizează un răspuns convingător la aceste întrebări: corupția masivă, generalizată. Și nu este o coincidență că răspunsul vine de la o firmă de avocatură. [...] Impactul colectiv al acestor eșecuri [al băncilor, al autorităților de reglementare financiară și fiscale, al instanțelor judecătorești, al instituțiilor media, al profesiunilor juridice] este o eroziune completă a standardelor etice, care conduce în cele din urmă la un nou sistem pe care continuăm să îl numim capitalism, dar care este echivalent cu sclavia economică. În acest sistem – sistemul nostru –, sclavii nu știu care le este statutul, nici cine le sunt stăpânii, care există într-o lume aparte, unde lanțurile intangibile sunt ascunse cu grijă într-un maldăr de limbaj judecătoresc inaccesibil. Oribila magnitudine a pagubelor aduse lumii ar trebui să ne trezească pe toți. Dar atunci când e nevoie ca un avertizor de integritate să dea alarma, este un motiv de și mai mare îngrijorare. Este un semnal că sistemele de verificare și echilibru ale democrației au dat greș, că prăbușirea este sistemică și că instabilitatea gravă ar putea fi chiar după colț. Așa că acum este timpul pentru a acționa cu adevărat, iar acest lucru începe prin a pune întrebări.“ – din manifestul lui John Doe „Dezvăluiri din interior despre cum guverne, corporații și grupuri de crimă organizată au folosit lumea secretă a jurisdicțiilor offshore pentru a se implica în fraude și furturi sistematice. Povestea aproape perfectă pentru secolul XXI – eșecul democrației, triumful puterii comerciale și lăcomie, lăcomie, lăcomie.“ – The Guardian

Samuel Gompers (1850–1924) devoted his life to improving the conditions of American workers through better wages, shorter workdays, and safer workplaces, achieved through common effort, democratic organization, and practical action. His objective was betterment, or, as he often said,'more.'His moral vision was grounded in a commitment to social justice and a passion for service. A cigar maker by trade, he became the American Federation of Labor's first president in 1886 and, except for one year, remained its president until his death, guiding it through prosperity and recession, war and peacetime. By the time Gompers died, the AFL was a major force on the national scene and had claimed over four million members. Gompers was a tireless writer and impassioned speaker, and he left behind an immense archive of articles and editorials, addresses and testimony before a variety of audiences, and extensive correspondence with allies and adversaries alike. His correspondents included trade unionists and political leaders, reformers and radicals, captains of industry defending their positions, and workers asking for help or advice. The twelve volumes of The Samuel Gompers Papers, edited by Stuart B. Kaufman, Peter J. Albert, and Grace Palladino, for the first time make Gompers'wide-ranging and complex documentary legacy accessible to scholars, students, historians, and serious readers in the labor movement and among the public at large. This invaluable comprehensive index provides a key to the Gompers volumes. It not only allows quick reference to individual documents but permits scholars to see at a glance the contours and emphases in subject matter and locate the substantive annotations of key individuals and unions, strikes and lockouts, conferences and meetings, and legislation and key concepts in the history of the Gompers era.

Written over a period of twenty years the papers included here reflect the changing circumstances around the study of accounting history.

This volume consists of lectures and articles by Maurice Dobb selected from among those delivered or written by him during the 1950s and 60s. It includes three lectures delivered at the University of Bologna on ‘Some Problems in the History of Capitalism', two lectures on economic development given at the Delhi School of Economics, articles on the theory of development, and a number of articles on various questions of soviet economic planning contributed to specialist journals. The collection ends with a note in retrospect on Marx's Das Kapital published in recognition of the centenary of the appearance of Volume One of that work in 1867.

First Published in 2004. This is Volume III of four on the collected papers of James Meade and looks at International Economics. James Meade was Professor of Commerce London School of Economics from February 1948.

First Published in 2004. This is Volume I of four on the collected papers of James Meade and looks at Employment and Inflation. James Meade was Professor of Commerce London School of Economics from February 1948.

Provides a context and exercise for introducing retail inventory management, including cost optimization, service-level criteria, and forecasting in single and multiproduct settings. The owner of a single-location paper and paper products store considers the implications of expansion for inventory management. Considerations include lost sales, retail metrics for multiproduct settings, and shelf space constraints.

In 1999, the IMF and the World Bank adopted a new frame work for supporting economic reform in low-income member countries to achieve the objectives of poverty reduction and economic growth. The frame work consists of two key elements: country-authored Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers, drawing on broad-based consultations with key stake holder groups; and a vehicle for the provision of IMF concessional lending, the Poverty Reduction andGrowth Facility. This evaluation takes stock of progress to date and attempts to identify short comings that may require course corrections in the design and implementation of the initiative.

The final paper assignment for the Self-Assessment and Career Development course.

This important collection is a timely contribution to the debate on the Asian financial crisis. With chapters written by well-established international experts in Asian economics, this book constitutes a finely judged example of the varying opinions on the matter.

Concerns the decision of International Paper, the world's largest pulp and paper corporation, about when to adopt the provisions of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards 106 (SFAS 106),'Employers'Accounting for Postretirement Benefits Other than Pensions.'SFAS 106 requires the accrual of a significant balance sheet liability to recognize the future cost of promises made to employees to pay for benefits during retirement, most importantly for health insurance benefits. Compared to the prevailing'pay-as-you-go'accounting, the provisions of SFAS 106 typically require a higher annual expense for'other postemployment benefits'(OPEB). Set in late November 1992, a year after the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) announced the final form of SFAS 106. Application of the new rules was required for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 1992, but as usual earlier adoption was encouraged. In addition, on adoption of the new standard companies were given the option of either recognizing the liability for accrued benefits immediately, or gradually over a period of up to twenty years. Thus, IP was faced with decisions both of when and how to adopt SFAS 106.

The Bellagio Group was founded at a time of global economic crisis. This collection brings together the private correspondence and published papers of the Group's founders, creating a picture of the personalities, issues, debates and compromises leading to the adoption of flexible exchange rates and a modified Triffin plan.

The Bellagio Group was founded at a time of global economic crisis. This collection brings together the private correspondence and published papers of the Group's founders, creating a picture of the personalities, issues, debates and compromises leading to the adoption of flexible exchange rates and a modified Triffin plan.

The Bellagio Group was founded at a time of global economic crisis. This collection brings together the private correspondence and published papers of the Group's founders, creating a picture of the personalities, issues, debates and compromises leading to the adoption of flexible exchange rates and a modified Triffin plan.

The Bellagio Group was founded at a time of global economic crisis. This collection brings together the private correspondence and published papers of the Group's founders, creating a picture of the personalities, issues, debates and compromises leading to the adoption of flexible exchange rates and a modified Triffin plan.

Tourism research has indeed become a booming and attractive agenda for data analysis oriented empirical economist thanks to modern technology. There has been a tremendous improvement over last decades in the mathematical, statistical, probabilistic, and computational tools available to applied macroeconomics in tourism research. The book is no attempt to make comprehensive or broad representation of the issues of development of macro econometric modelling in tourism research. Authors'intention is to be selective, illustrative and deep, to present cases of analytical thinking on some of the major issues of model-based research in tourism sector. Zdravko Šergo is Senior Research Associate at Institute of Agriculture and tourism Poreč, Croatia. His scientific research and professional activities are focused on Tourism economy, Macroeconomic aspects of tourism, Sustainable tourism development. During his carrier he was a member of scientific teams in numerous projects among two or more scientific institutions. He published more than a hundred scientific papers and numerous book chapters. Jasmina Gržinić is full Professor of Tourism at Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, Croatia, Department of Economics and Tourism, where she was the Head of the Department of Tourism for many years. She is a member of the editorial boards of 5 international scientific journals and 4 international scientific monographs. Her main research topics are Principles of tourism, International tourism, Management of tourism attractions, Tour operators and Tourist agencies. She worked on several projects and published more than eighty scientific papers, including the book “International Tourism” (2014) and “Tour operators and hoteliers in the modern tourism” (2015). ABSTRACTING & INDEXING Approaches in Tourism Modelling is covered by the following services: Baidu Scholar CNKI Scholar (China National Knowledge Infrastructure) Dimensions DOAB (Directory of Open Access Books) EBSCO ExLibris Google Books Google Scholar Naviga ReadCube Semantic Scholar TDOne (TDNet) WorldCat (OCLC) X-MOL

First published in 1927, this important collection contains a selection from the unpublished papers left by the late Professor George Unwin, together with certain of the chapters and articles contributed by him to books and periodicals. Part I is concerned with'The Study and Teaching of Economic History'. Par II,'Essays and Lectures on Historical Subjects', ranges over such topics as The Mediaeval City, Commerce and Coinage in Shakespeare's England, Indian Factories in the Eighteenth Century, and ends with a selection of his more important reviews of books. Part III contains six Miscellaneous Papers on varied topics and the Appendix gives an indispensable list of the published works of George Unwin.

For forty years, historians have argued that early twentieth-century provincial governments in Canada were easily manipulated by the industrialists who developed Canada's natural resources, such as pulpwood, water power, and minerals. With In the Power of the Government, Mark Kuhlberg uses the case of the Ontario pulp and paper industry to challenge that interpretation of Canadian provincial politics.Examining the relationship between the corporations which ran the province's pulp and paper mills and the politicians at Queen's Park, Kuhlberg concludes that the Ontario government frequently rebuffed the demands of the industrialists who wanted to tap Ontario's spruce timber and hydro-electric potential. A sophisticated empirical challenge to the orthodox literature on this issue, In the Power of the Government will be essential reading for historians and political scientists interested in the history of Canadian industrial development.

This title was first published in 2000: A collection of Ranko Bon's papers on input-output analysis and its applications. The underlying feature of the papers is a focus on the supply-side input-output model, which better predicts the behaviour of mature economic sectors, such as agriculture and mining, than the demand-sided model. The construction sector is especially relevant in the context of economic stability and maturity issues, as it offers an index of economic maturity for entire economies. This is the main theme that evolves through the papers collected in the book.

Few scholars have been as influential in finance and economics as University of Chicago professor Eugene F. Fama. Over the course of a brilliant and productive career, Fama has published more than one hundred papers, filled with diverse, highly innovative contributions. Published soon after the fiftieth anniversary of Fama's appointment to the University of Chicago and his receipt of the Nobel Prize in Economics, The Fama Portfolio offers an authoritative compilation of Fama's central papers. Many are classics, including his now-famous essay on efficient capital markets. Others, though less famous, are even better statements of the central ideas. Fama's research considers key questions in finance, both as an academic field and an industry: How is information reflected in asset prices? What is the nature of risk that scares people away from larger returns? Does lots of buying and selling by active managers produce value for their clients? The Fama Portfolio provides for the first time a comprehensive collection of his work and includes introductions and commentary by the book's editors, John H. Cochrane and Tobias Moskowitz, as well as by Fama's colleagues, themselves top scholars and successful practitioners in finance. These essays emphasize how the ideas presented in Fama's papers have influenced later thinking in financial economics, often for decades.

An illuminating history of America's original credit market. The Continental Dollar is a revelatory history of how the fledgling United States paid for its first war. Farley Grubb upends the common telling of this story, in which the United States printed cross-colony money, called Continentals, to serve as an early fiat currency—a currency that is not tied to a commodity like gold, but rather to a legal authority. As Grubb details, the Continental was not a fiat currency, but a “zero-coupon bond”—a wholly different species of money. As bond payoffs were pushed into the future, the money's value declined, killing the Continentals'viability years before the Revolutionary War would officially end. Drawing on decades of exhaustive mining of eighteenth-century records, The Continental Dollar is an essential origin story of the early American monetary system, promising to serve as the benchmark for critical work for decades to come.

Carta e natura, riciclo e circolarità. Il filosofo Massimo Donà si pro- pone di riflettere intorno alla materia di cui questo stesso libro è fatto: la carta. Lo fa ripercorrendone anzitutto le origini: la carta nasce in Oriente, proprio in virtù di un'ibridazione. La natura è per essenza circolare; i suoi dinamismi mostrano che andare avanti è per essa sempre un tornare indietro. Da cui un ricominciare perpetuo. In natura i processi circolari rendono palese che tutto, tornando ogni volta all'inizio, si fa nuovo. Che nulla è mai rigidamente ancorato a quel che sembra esser diventato. Tutto è in perenne metamorfosi. Tutto diviene. Dunque, far riferimento alla metamorfosi significa alludere a ciò che, della natura, ci mostra costantemente l'insostenibilità di qualsivoglia pensiero dell'immutabile, dell'eterno e del permanente. Comprendere che invece le cose sono sempre nuove, ossia che indicano sempre diverse possibili significazioni, vuol dire capire che alla base delle cose naturali v'è la «fantasia», e non l'astratta razionalità fatta propria da un certo tipo di scientificità. Buona parte dei disastri ecologici che rendono sempre più fragile il nostro pianeta, e sempre più a rischio la nostra permanenza sulla sua superficie, sono stati prodotti da una forma di pensiero lineare, produttivistico e fondato sul mito della «crescita». Su un'idea rigida di razionalità che, delle cose del mondo, ha visto solo l'essenziale sfruttabilità, utile a rendere sempre più potente il dominio dell'essere umano. Ma la natura ci insegna che in principio era il due, e non l'uno. Che tutto funge da risultato di un'originaria ibridazione; e che è folle credere che le cose siano «pure», univocamente significanti, e soprattutto che talune cose siano buone e altre cattive, alcune belle e altre brutte. Ed è così che possiamo tornare a riflettere sul fatto che la carta nasce in virtù di un'operazione di riciclo; e che solo in virtù di tale operazione può rivendicare una fortissima valenza simbolica. Ogni unità naturale è infatti in se stessa molteplice. Anche la cellulosa è una complexio; è un polimero, un aggregato. Solo se comprendiamo la strutturale complessità di ogni forma d'esistenza, possiamo capire in che senso ogni fenomeno naturale parli di una complessità strutturale che deve renderci particolarmente attenti a intervenire rompendo relazioni, e ferendo l'unità che tutto tiene insieme. Solo comprendendo questa verità, possiamo capire che in natura tutto è ibrido, complesso, e dunque correlato a ogni altra cosa; che nulla può vivere isolato, illudendosi di potersi confinare in una zona protetta e dunque non costretta a lasciarsi contaminare dall'altro, dal diverso, da quello che, in realtà, più propriamente ci riguarda.

From May 20 to May 24, 1986 a conference on distributive justice and in­ equality was held at the Institute for Advanced Study Berlin (Wis­ senschaftskolleg zu Berlin). More than thirty scholars participated in this conference. The topics of the presentations ranged from ethics, welfare economics and social choice theory to characterizations of inequality meas­ ures and redistributive taxation schemes. This book contains a selection of the papers given at the conference. This collection of articles also appeared as issues 2 and 3 of volume 5 of Social Choice and Welfare. In the first paper P. Suppes argues for a pluralistic concept of equity. For too long the emphasis has been on income distribution but there are other characteristics which are important when one talks about equity. Suppes suggests that it would be desirable to have Lorenz curves for a variety of fea­ tures of societies, such as education, health and housing. P. Dasgupta studies the quality of lives in terms of an index of living stand­ ards. One has to distinguish between'same number choices'(the number of lives is given) and'different numbers choices'(problem of optimum popUlation). The author argues that in the latter case the anonymity (or sym­ metry) axiom cannot be readily defended. Once it is dropped, however, an incoherence in the moral ordering of possible worlds arises. The moral basis for different numbers choices becomes generation-dependent, an overall moral ordering of possible worlds no longer exists.

As global markets toppled during the 2008 financial crisis, the Canadian market for non-bank asset-backed commercial paper (ABCP) seemed on the verge of collapsing. Fueled by a top rating from DBRS, ABCP had found its way into the portfolios of some of Canada's most sophisticated investors as well as vulnerable retail investors who didn't know what they were holding.The failure of the $32 billion market could have tipped Canadian and foreign credit default swap markets into chaos if it weren't for the swift actions of a few powerful asset holders. Collectively, through the Montreal Accord and led by veteran Canadian lawyer Purdy Crawford, they managed to hold the Canadian ABCP market back from the brink of collapse by crafting a complex and innovative solution.Back from the Brink goes behind the scenes of the ABCP crisis to examine how a solution was reached and lessons learned that could prevent or mitigate future crises. The authors also examine the imaginative use of the Companies'Creditors Arrangement Act and describe the roles played by the banks, the major investors, rating agencies, and the financial regulators in the crisis's origins and conclusions. Back from the Brink holds important lessons for anyone interested in Canadian law, the future of complex investments, and Canada's capital markets.

This volume collects published papers and essays from widely scattered and inaccessible sources, some of which appeared for the first time when this book was originally published. In the first part of the book the subjects range from the theory of wages and recent trends in economic theory to economists'criticism of capitalism and socialism, investment-policy in under-developed countries, and economic growth under the Soviet Five Year Plans. The second part includes papers on Lenin and Marx, a study of the economic ideas of Bernard Shaw, and an essay on historical materialism.

Describes a company which has broken an unwritten cordial agreement amongst the three Australian paper manufacturers to split the domestic market three ways by market segment. The company invades another's'territory'with advanced technology, quality, and, importantly, by using the other company's poor environmental record to protect itself against retaliation. The defender finds itself unable to respond by adding capacity as public pressure denies it the ability to add capacity and upgrade the technology. Having won a large share of the market, and having successfully introduced a new recycled paper product, the invader is now considering the financial, strategic, and ethical issues of further expansion.

A paper mill's paper machines are a bottleneck in the operation. The causes include poor scheduling, lack of investment, and ineffective process control. The plant manager is charged with improving this situation fairly rapidly and has a number of proposals for change from which to choose.

This volume was assembled by two of Dr. Wantrup's students as a complement to his textbook, Resource Conservation: Economics and Policies. Wantrup's ideas on conservation economics continued to evolve in ways that were never fully reflected in that text, and although for the student of natural resource economics it is still essential reading, to st

Supplements International Paper (A).

The Bellagio Group was founded at a time of global economic crisis. This collection brings together the private correspondence and published papers of the Group's founders, creating a picture of the personalities, issues, debates and compromises leading to the adoption of flexible exchange rates and a modified Triffin plan.

The 43 papers in this collection, originally published from 1972 to 1987 delve into accounting, observing and exploring its functioning. They construct a basis for interrogating it in use and indeed they attempt to account for accounting. The author seeks to understand accounting, to appreciate what it is, what it does and how it does it, examining it from without rather than from within.