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The Dears: Lost in the Plot (Bibliophonic #1)
By Lorraine Carpenter. 2011
Over a decade after the release of their first album, The Dears have weathered the indie fringes, the collapse of…
the music industry as we knew it and the near implosion of the band itself, with their creative vision and gang dynamic intact. The Dears: Lost in the Plot looks at how The Dears survived the fallout, and helped launch the acclaimed mid-aughts music scene in their hometown of Montréal. The Dears: Lost in the Plot is the first book in Invisible Publishing’s new Bibliophonic series. The Bibliophonic Series is a catalogue of the ongoing history of contemporary music. Each book is a time capsule, capturing artists and their work as we see them, providing a unique look at some of today’s most exciting musicians.This book develops a theoretical framework unlike the conventional neoclassical paradigm for the analysis of growth and deploys analytical data…
to understand the main policy issues affecting developing countries, with particular attention to countries which, after having a spurt of growth, have been unable to maintain the momentum of their economies. One of the guiding ideas of the book is that each one of these countries has its own middle-income trap. The book focuses the discussion on growth and development around the specific characteristics of these countries and the constraints they face to achieve rapid growth. The book offers the building blocks for an integrated approach to development economics from the perspective of developing economies themselves. It looks at real-life constraints to growth and development, such as institutions, access to financing, macroeconomic policies, the role of foreign direct investment, the pros and cons of trade and financial opening to the rest of the world, education and health issues, sustainable development in a world experiencing global warming, productive development policies, income distribution, and poverty. Further, it offers simple growth models that go beyond the conventional neoclassical model to help the reader understand the unique challenges facing developing countries. While recognizing that growth is necessary to achieve development, the book argues that there are other variables that can be just as important to wellbeing and pays close attention to issues such as health, education, and political freedom. The book summarizes the issues that are crucial for countries to be able to accelerate their growth rates and to achieve development and makes a theoretical contribution to the study of economic development, particularly growth models appropriate to middle-income countries. Thus, it will be a useful guide for researchers and academics in the field of development economics and other social sciences dealing with developing countries.Danish Design Heritage and Global Sustainability
By Ditte Lysgaard Vind. 2023
With a bias for action, this book offers valuable insights into the origins of the much-celebrated Danish design tradition and…
how it can be employed to create design solutions to address today’s environmental crisis using the planetary boundaries as positive creative constraints. Danish design has long been revered for its high-quality aesthetics, materials and craftmanship, encouraging sustainability without compromise. This book explores the lessons to be learnt from Scandinavian design ideals, introduces the philosophy and principles of circular economy and showcases the potential power of combining circular economy and design in helping to mitigate the effects of climate change. It presents a range of case study examples across multiple sectors and includes interviews with Danish designers from architecture, furniture, fashion, digital and industrial design, providing unique insights by some of the world’s leading contemporary designers. Bridging theory and real-world insights and experiences, this book builds on the framework of the 4Rs – The Circular Way: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Replace to encourage innovation through the replacement of environmentally damaging materials and business models. A must-read for product designers, industrial designers, consultants, business developers, sustainability professionals and students interested in learning how to design and implement circular, sustainable models into practice.The Silver Economy: An Ageing Society in the European Union (Routledge Studies in the European Economy)
By Agata Niemczyk, Katarzyna Szalonka, Anna Gardocka-Jałowiec, Wioletta Nowak, Renata Seweryn, Zofia Gródek-Szostak. 2024
The definition of “old” has evolved intensively over the years due to demographic changes, and the ageing population is one…
of the most frequently discussed issues in recent decades. The profile of the 21st century senior is completely different from the senior in the second half of the 21st-century senior is completely different from the senior in the second half of the 20th century, not to mention earlier periods in history. As an increasing group of benefactors of human activity, they create demand for products and experiences. The system of goods and services that aims to leverage their purchasing potential and satisfy their consumption needs, including living, health, tourism, cultural, information, and communication needs, has been referred to as the so-called Silver Economy. The book reviews the phenomenon of ageing of the EU’s population over 50. It also presents a multidimensional view of the potential for the development of this group’s economic, social, medical, family, personal and technological demand in the early 21st century. The book analyses the market behaviour of seniors and argues that the Silver Economy will grow in importance and profitability every year in various areas, both public and private. This includes health, finance, employment, leisure and well-being, education, and the use of digital tools. This publication is recommended for policymakers and business players who are considering how to achieve economic development through the growing and changing demand of the ageing population. For the world is now facing a challenge that no community has ever faced before – the coexistence of a long-lived population on the one hand and the growing popularity of digital technologies on the other. Chapter 4 of this book is available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www.routledge.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license. The publication was financed by a subsidy for the University of Wroclaw, Funds for the “Excellence Initiative – Research University” program, a subsidy for the University of Bialystok and a grant from the Krakow University of Economics (057/ ZZE/2022/POT).Principles of Public Finance (Routledge Library Editions)
By Hugh Dalton. 2003
'Dalton has succeeded in expressing general economic concepts in simple language' The Economist. The 1971 edition of this famous textbook…
includes recent material to the general survey on the theory of taxation, other forms of public revenue, public expenditure and public debts. There are chapters on modern theories of budgetary policy and the controversial cheap money policy, pursued by the author when he was in charge of the British Treasury from 1945-1947.Roads to Freedom: Essays in Honour of Friedrich A. von Hayek
By Erich Streissler. 2003
The articles in this volume were written in honour of F. A. Hayek and cover the whole scope of his…
thought. Many of the essays take as a starting point Hayek's own writings. The list of distinguished contributors include: Jacques Rueff, George Halm, Michael Polyani, Gordon Tullock, Günter Schmölders, Friedrich Lutz, Gottfried von Haberler, Frank Paish, Ludwig Lachmann, Peter Bauer, James Buchanan, Fritz Machlup and Karl Popper.Agricultural Fluctuations in Europe: From the Thirteenth to twentieth centuries
By Wilhelm Abel. 2005
Wilhelm Abel's study of economic fluctuations over a period of seven hundred years has long been established as a core…
text in European agricultural history. Professor Abel was one of the first economic historians to make extensive use of statistical data, and his scholarship and approach have had a decisive effect on the orientation of economic and agricultural history. Using data on population, wages and rents from England, France, Germany and the Low Countries, and, on occasion, from Italy, Scandinavia and Poland, here Professor Abel demonstrates the striking similarity in the overall economic development for all these areas. He also analyses, the short-term fluctuations that have affected agricultural development within this economic framework, and is able to show the broad significance of the shape of the late medieval depression, the scale of the desertions of villages that accompanies it, and the implications of the sixteenth century price revolution. The book's importance lies in tracing the long-term trends that have characterized European economic development since the High Middle Ages, and as such it has made an invaluable contribution to all comparative analyses of different Western European countries since it was first published in 1980.Pricing and Equilibrium (Routledge Library Editions)
By Erich Schneider. 2003
This volume analyses value and equilibrium. Chapters on the decisions of household and on the theory of the firm (including…
short and long-term planning and investment) include both static and dynamic analysis.* Based on the enlarged sixth German edition this English edition contains many diagrams and an introduction to linear programming, as well as full treatment of the author's well-known theory of production.Political and Religious Ideas in the Works of Arnold Schoenberg (Border Crossings #Vol. 5)
By Daniel Albright, Russell A. Berman, Charlotte M. Cross. 2000
The original essays in this collection chronicle the transformation of Arnold Schoenberg's works from music as pure art to music…
as a vehicle of religious and political ideas, during the first half of the twentieth century. This interdisciplinary volume includes contributions from musicologists, music theorists, and scholars of German literature and of Jewish studies.The Language of the Modes provides a study of modes in early music through eight essays, each dealing with a…
different aspects of modality. The volume codifies all known theoretical references to mode, all modally ordered musical sources, and all modally cyclic compositions. For many music students and listeners, the "language of the modes" is a deep mystery, accustomed as we are to centuries of modern harmony. Wiering demystifies the modal world, showing how composers and performers were able to use this structure to create compelling and beautiful works. This book will be an invaluable source to scholars of early music and music theory. in early music through eight essays, each dealing with a different aspects of modality. It codifies all known theoretical references to mode, all modally ordered musical sources, and all modally cyclic compositions. This book will be an invaluable source to scholars of early music.Adrian Willaert: A Guide to Research (Routledge Music Bibliographies)
By David Kidger. 2005
This key text will be the first full-length research tool on Adrian Willaert, the Renaissance composer of motets and madrigals…
who came to prominence in the first part of the sixteenth century, and should prove invaluable to researchers and students.Postmodern Music/Postmodern Thought (Studies In Contemporary Music And Culture Ser. #Vol. 4)
By Joseph Auner, Judy Lochhead. 2002
What is postmodern music and how does it differ from earlier styles, including modernist music? What roles have electronic technologies…
and sound production played in defining postmodern music? Has postmodern music blurred the lines between high and popular music? Addressing these and other questions, this ground-breaking collection gathers together for the first time essays on postmodernism and music written primarily by musicologists, covering a wide range of musical styles including concert music, jazz, film music, and popular music. Topics include: the importance of technology and marketing in postmodern music; the appropriation and reworking of Western music by non-Western bands; postmodern characteristics in the music of Górecki, Rochberg, Zorn, and Bolcom, as well as Björk and Wu Tang Clan; issues of music and race in such films as The Bridges of Madison County, Batman, Bullworth, and He Got Game; and comparisons of postmodern architecture to postmodern music. Also includes 20 musical examples.Economic Progress and Policy in Developing Countries
By Angus Maddison. 2005
First published in 2005. The central issue of our times is the unequal income of nations. Its importance outweighs most…
of the domestic problems in rich countries, and the division of the world into rich and poor has become more significant than the ideological cleavage between communism and capitalism. There are twenty-five rich countries, but more than 100 countries who are in the where income range. Two-thirds of the world's population live in the latter group. This study focuses on those countries and looks at economic policy and progress.Economics of Peasant Farming
By Doreen Warriner. 1964
This book, first published in 1939, was originally conceived as an investigation of peasant farming in Europe written in the…
years of the agricultural depression of the nineteen-thirties. It shows an immense contrast between the well-capitalized commercial peasant farming of Western Europe and the poor subsistence farming of the remotest parts of Eastern Europe; and between these two extremes a wide range of variation in standards of living and farming efficiency.Business Cycles: History, Theory And Investment Reality
By Lars Tvede. 2001
Why do we experience business cycles? What creates them? Is it mass psychology, or phenomena in the management of business?…
Are the banks to blame or should we be looking to the unions and the politicians? Lars Tvede's story moves back in time to the Scottish gambler and financial genius, John Law, and then on to the distracted Adam Smith, the stockbroker Ricardo, the investment banker Thornton, the extrovert Schumpeter, the speculator Jay Gould and many others. The computer jugglers of the modern day, with giant networks of equations, try to solve the same questions that have attracted the attention of classical economists throughout the centuries. Throughout this volume, business cycle theories are used to explain actual events. Theoretical thinking has reflected the economist's own experiences of hyper-inflations, depressions, speculation orgies and liquidity squeezes. The reader can follow the narrative to discover how economists often thought that problems had been solved until new data changed the economic picture once again.Studies in the Economic History of Southern Africa: Volume Two : South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland
By Timothy M. Shaw, Jane L. Parpart, Z. A. Konczacki. 1990
First Published in 1990. Volume Two of Studies of Economic History of South Africa, looks at the Lesotho and Swaziland…
regions. The unfolding history and historiography of Southern Africa pose profound challenges for both analysis and praxis in the last decade of the twentieth century. These challenges are reflected in the range of investigations and contradictions, some of which are treated here, which together constitute an intellectual and political conjuncture. This collection of studies deals with the countries which were not included in the companion book on the economic history of the Front- Line States. Most of the space in the present volume is devoted to South Africa, primarily because of its importance to the region but also because contributions to the economic history of that country in English are very extensive as compared to the other states of Southern Africa.An Economic History of England 1870-1939
By William Ashworth. 2005
This is a comprehensive account of a decisive epoch in England's economic development by a leading economic historian. 'Works of economic…
history often get bogged dwon in figures - so many machines, so much unemployment, often, too, they are histories of technology, not of economic organization. Professor Ashworth goes to the opposite extreme in a most praiseworthy way: his book is actually good to read. Though there are tables of statistics (eleven of them), the book is an essay in interpretation, not an encyclopedia; it enriches our understanding rather than adding to our knowledge.' A.J.P. Taylor. This classic book was first published in 1960.Did British Capitalism Breed Inequality? (Economic History Ser.)
By Jeffrey G. Williamson. 2006
First Published in 2005. This thirteen-chapter title is divided into three parts and concludes with five appendices, references, and index.…
The first part focuses on income inequality and the historical state of wages. The second begins the discussion on the driving forces of economic inequality and equilibrating factors. The third provides a model for inequality in a resource-scarce open economy with data, theory, and debate. Appropriate for economic students and those interested in British economic history.An Introduction to the Study of Industrial Relations
By Dr J Richardson. 2003
This book gives a comprehensive survey of the field of Industrial Relations, focusing on general principles and problems. Illustrations are…
drawn from the practices adopted in many parts of the world such as Australia, France, Germany and the USA. Contents include chapters on the following:* Personnel Management* Training* Methods of Wage Payment* Job Evaluation* Profit-Sharing and Co-partnership* Trade Unionism* Employers' Organizations* Collective Bargaining* Wage Bases* Equal Opportunities* Conciliation and Arbitration