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Introduction: Whose Bosnia?, Edin Hajdarpasic

Edin Hajdarpasic

Lessons From The U.S. Great Depression And The German Hyperinflation, Lester G. Telser

Lester G Telser

Abstract. The German hyperinflation and the U.S. Great Depression have in common the effects of an insufficient amount of useful media of exchange. In Germany too much currency was printed and in the U.S. widespread bank failures undermined confidence in all demand deposits so all bank checks were regarded suspiciously. The effects were the same in both countries, very high rates of unemployment coupled with collapse of their economies. The German Hyperinflation gives evidence against the Phillips Curve. JEL E65 Study of Particular Policy Episodes

Non Profit Suppliers Of Higher Education: Corollaries, Lester G. Telser

Lester G Telser

The American Association for the Advancement of Science bills Harvard University $26,675 for a one year subscription to their weekly publication Science. That anon profit suppliers of higher education is willing to pay such amounts far above the true incremental cost of supplying it with such publications is a corollary of the economic explanation of their behavior. Nonprofit Organizations JEL L30

Digital Storage In The Computer Age And The Irish Potato Famine, Lester G. Telser

Lester G Telser

Kicking The Habit (Of Resistance To Digital Preservation), Meg Miner

Meg Miner

This article makes the case that starting a digital preservation (DP) program is a lot like kicking bad habits. We all know we need to do it, but our lack of confidence and fear of the unknown hold us back. We want someone to deliver a quick and easy solution—a magic pill, even—to take our troubles away.

Unless an institution can commit to ongoing costs associated

with a full-service digital preservation platform or to the technical knowledge and support needed for robust, open source tools, many archivists will need to develop a DP program gradually. If you are facing the …

Goals And Information Behavior In Religious Sermons, Darin Freeburg

Darin Freeburg

Acceptance Of Knowledge Management Concepts In Religious Organizations: The Impacts Of Information And Willful Disengagement From Productive Inquiry, Darin Freeburg

Darin Freeburg

Assessing 'Green Energy Economy' Stimulus Packages: Evidence From The U.S. Programs Targeting Renewable Energy, L. Mundaca T., J. Luth-Richter

Luis Mundaca

The paper provides a comprehensive empirical assessment of American stimulus policies aimed at renewable energy (RE) technologies. We use an indicator-based methodology to assess progress with respect to energy, environmental and socio-economic issues resulting from RE stimulus programs linked to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and review and analyze the emerging but scattered literature. Overall, our results indicate that stimulus programs have had a positive effect on the RE sector. This is despite the fact that they were originally planned to work in combination with a greenhouse gas ‘cap-and-trade’ system, which has not been implemented. From the methodological perspective, …

Assessing The Effectiveness Of The ‘Green Economic Stimulus’ In South Korea: Evidence From The Energy Sector, L. Mundaca T., B. Damen

Luis Mundaca

The purpose of this paper is to provide an ex-post evaluation of the effectiveness of the South Korean Green New Deal (GND) as an instrument to deliver both an economic recovery and improved environmental performance. We use the energy sector as the main scope for our analysis when measured against climate-related indicators (e.g. CO2 emissions, energy intensity, share of renewable energy in supply mix) adopted by the South Korean government as part of a broader commitment to green growth. The research involves complimentary methods to assess the economic and environmental effectiveness of the GND at the macro-level; including the so-called …

How Smart Are Electricity Users With ‘Smart Metering’? A Behavioural Economics Experiment, S. Bager, L. Mundaca T.

Luis Mundaca

The purpose of this paper is to examine how behavioural biases affect consumers’ response to energy-use information provided through smart meters (SM). We take insights from behavioural economics and carry out two real-life experiments with SMs and electricity users. The experiments were conducted in Copenhagen (Denmark) to identify and assess the potential of two economic behavioural biases, salience and loss aversion. The results of the first experiment (i.e. installation of SM without further intervention) generally aligned with electricity use reductions found in previous research, and indicate that it may be reasonable to expect a reduction in electricity use in the …

The Myth Of The White Minority, Andrew Pierce

Andrew J. Pierce

In recent years, and especially in the wake of Barack Obama’s reelection, projections that whites will soon become a minority have proliferated. In this essay, I will argue that such predictions are misleading at best, as they rest on questionable philosophical presuppositions, including the presupposition that racial concepts like ‘whiteness’ are static and unchanging rather than fluid and continually being reconstructed. If I am right about these fundamental inaccuracies, one must wonder why the myth of the white minority persists. I will argue that by re-envisioning whites as a minority culture struggling against a hostile dominant group, and by promoting …

Vox Populi Or Vox Masculini? Populism And Gender In Northern Europe And South America, Cas Mudde, Cristobal Rovira Kaltwasser

Cas Mudde

Conceptually, populism has no specific relationship to gender; in fact, gender differences, like all other differences within ‘the people’, are considered secondary, if not irrelevant, to populist politics. Yet populist actors do not operate in a cultural or ideological vacuum. So perhaps it is the national culture and broader ideology used by populists that determine their gender position. To explore this argument, we compare prototypical cases of contemporary populist forces in two regions: the Dutch Partij voor de Vrijheid (PVV, Party for Freedom) and the Dansk Folkeparti (DF, Danish People's Party) in Northern Europe, and the Partido Socialista Unido de …

Canadian Multiculturalism And The Absence Of The Far Right, Cas Mudde

Cas Mudde

The far right has never been a prominent force in Canadian politics or society. Traditionally, they more resembled the North American than the West European model: ideologically dominated by right-wing populism and white supremacy, organizationally characterized by factionalism and sectarianism. The extreme right seems an almost negligible force today, in part reflecting a similar decline in the United States, while the radical right has so far been unable to build upon the recent upsurge of Islamophobia, as in Western Europe. We argue that the failure of the Canadian radical right is primarily the result of Canada's unique multiculturalism policy, which …

Beliefs, Institutions, And Learning: A New Order For The New Global Economy?, Sumru G. Altug

SUMRU G ALTUG

No abstract provided.

Systematic Observation For Design Implementation: Exploring Children’S Cognitive Play Behavior Interaction In Natural, Mixed, Or Manufactured Behavior Settings, Zahra Zamani

Zahra Zamani

Many disciplines are currently exploring how physical environment attributes associate with children’s developmental behaviors. However, there is a lack of evidence-based design guidelines to amplify the play value of outdoor preschool settings. This study compared three types of behavior settings (natural, mixed, and manufactured) for their cognitive play behavior opportunities (functional, constructive, exploratory, dramatic, and games with rules). Read more...

Overview: A Sketch Of Themes In Analysis Of Creaturely Motives, Kirby Farrell

kirby farrell

This is a response to a Research Gate session on “Horror Sanguinis,” an essay posted by D.L. Smith and Ioanna Panaitiu, on rites of purification through which cultures prepare warriors and others tainted by violence to reenter society. My comment sketches some basic themes in my work on creaturely motives in cultural analysis (Post-Traumatic Culture and The Psychology of Abandon).

Law In Regression? Impacts Of Quantitative Research On Law And Regulation, David C. Donald

David C. Donald

Quantitative research (QR) has undeniably improved the quality of law- and rulemaking, but it can also present risks for these activities. On the one hand, replacing anecdotal assertions regarding behavior or the effects of rules in an area to be regulated with objective, statistical evidence has advanced the quality of regulatory discourse. On the other hand, because the construction of such evidence often depends on bringing the complex realities of both human behavior and rules designed to govern it into simple, quantified variables, QR findings can at times camouflage complexity, masking real problems. Deceptively objective findings can in this way …

A Model To Evaluate Vehicle Emission Incentive Policies In Japan, Don Fullerton, Li Gan, Miwa Hattori

Don Fullerton

Using 3 years of data from the 47 prefectures of Japan, we estimate the behavior of households that simultaneously make discrete decisions about vehicle ownership and continuous decisions about driving distance. We use the estimated parameters to calculate elasticities and to simulate the effects of alternative pollution control policies such as taxes on gasoline, distance, or particular cars. Given choices about cars and distance, we also calculate emissions. Since we model simultaneous choices, both the chosen distance and the chosen car can be affected either by a tax on distance or by a tax on car characteristics. We find expected …

One Blood, Michael Adams

Michael Adams

No abstract provided.

Att Beforska Barn Och Unga I Hem, Skola, Samhällsvård Och Kriminalvård, Titti Mattsson

Titti Mattsson

The article describes and analyses the legal framework concerning children’s participation in research in Sweden. Research on children is one way to improve children’s living conditions. For example, there is a need for knowledge about children’s and young people’s situation at home, at school, in community care and in correctional facilities. It is inevitable that there arise both ethical and legal issues concerning this research. A law has been in force since 2004, which deals with vetting the ethics of research that involves humans, i.e. the Act (2003:460) concerning the Ethical Review of Research Involving Humans. The article aims to …

Creating Computer Availability Maps, Scott Bacon

Scott Bacon

Simulating Univariate And Multivariate Nonnormal Distributions Through The Method Of Percentiles, Jennifer Koran, Todd C. Headrick, Tzu Chun Kuo

Todd Christopher Headrick

This article derives a standard normal-based power method polynomial transformation for Monte Carlo simulation studies, approximating distributions, and fitting distributions to data based on the method of percentiles. The proposed method is used primarily when (1) conventional (or L) moment-based estimators such as skew (or L-skew) and kurtosis (or L -kurtosis) are unknown or (2) data are unavailable but percentiles are known (e.g., standardized test score reports). The proposed transformation also has the advantage that solutions to polynomial coefficients are available in simple closed form and thus obviates numerical equation solving. A procedure is also described for simulating power method …

Dictators And Death: Casualty Sensitivity Of Autocracies In Militarized Interstate Disputes, Cigdem V. Sirin, Michael T. Koch

Cigdem V. Sirin

Food Sovereignty As Decolonization: Some Contributions From Indigenous Movements To Food System And Development Politics, Sam Grey, Raj Patel

Sam Grey

Rudolf Kjellén: Nordic Biopolitics Before The Welfare State, Markus Gunneflo

Markus Gunneflo

Το Σφύριγμα Του Κόκκινου Τραίνου: Ο Κύπριος Διανοούμενος Την Εποχή Της Αβεβαιότητας Καλοκαίρι 2015, Σελ. 28-34., Nicos Trimikliniotis

Nicos Trimikliniotis

Κείμενο στο τιμητικό αυτό αφιέρωμα για τα 90χρονα του Πανίκου Παιονίδη, ενός διανοούμενου που ξεπερνά το μικρό γεωγραφικό μέγεθος του νησιού μας απαντά σε μια ανάγκη. Πρόκειται για διασκευασμένη ομιλία στην τιμητική εκδήλωση για τον Πανίκο Παιονίδη, 26 Οκτωβρίου 2012 με τίτλο «Ο Ρόλος του Διανοούμενου στη Κύπρο και Οικουμενική κρίση», στη Λευκωσία. Ενώ έχουν διοργανωθεί διάφορες εκδηλώσεις και υπάρχουν ανάλογες εκδόσεις που επιχειρούν να αποτιμήσουν το έργο του Παιονίδη, κυρίως ως λογοτέχνη και γενικά για την προσφορά του στα γράμματα και τον πολιτισμό, το σκεπτικό για τη διοργάνωση της συγκεκριμένης εκδήλωσης, όπως και της παρούσας έκδοσης επιχειρεί να αποτιμήσει …

Meta-Analytic Study: Student Connectedness Across On-Ground, Fully Online, And Hybrid Contexts, Hannah L. Smith, An H. Dang, R. M. Mueller

Reed M. Mueller, Ph.D.

Curriculum Mapping As A Strategic Planning Tool (Post-Print Proof), Susan [Gardner] Archambault, Jennifer Masunaga

Susan Gardner Archambault

Data Visualization As A Communication Tool, Susan [Gardner] Archambault, Joanne Helouvry, Bonnie Strohl, Ginger Williams

Susan Gardner Archambault

Cost-Oriented Agile Innovation For Mechatronics Management In Less Developed Regions, Edmond Hajrizi, Muzafer Shala, Valmir Hoxha, Larry Stapleton

Edmond Hajrizi