Author: Eduardo Rojas
Publisher: David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
This book explores key metropolitan management issues, presents practical principles of good governance as they apply to the metropolis, and unfolds cases of institutional and programmatic arrangements to tackle such issues.
Governing the Metropolis
Author: Eduardo Rojas
Publisher: David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
This book explores key metropolitan management issues, presents practical principles of good governance as they apply to the metropolis, and unfolds cases of institutional and programmatic arrangements to tackle such issues.
Publisher: David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
This book explores key metropolitan management issues, presents practical principles of good governance as they apply to the metropolis, and unfolds cases of institutional and programmatic arrangements to tackle such issues.
DRASTIC
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Groundwater
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Groundwater
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
Ordinary Places/Extraordinary Events
Author: Clara Irazábal
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134326246
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Clara Irazábal and her contributors explore the urban history of some of Latin America’s great cities through studies of their public spaces and what has taken place there. The avenues and plazas of Mexico City, Havana, Santo Domingo, Caracas, Bogotaì, SaÞo Paulo, Lima, Santiago, and Buenos Aires have been the backdrop for extraordinary, history-making events. While some argue that public spaces are a prerequisite for the expression, representation and reinforcement of democracy, they can equally be used in the pursuit of totalitarianism. Indeed, public spaces, in both the past and present, have been the site for the contestation by ordinary people of various stances on democracy and citizenship. By exploring the use and meaning of public spaces in Latin American cities, this book sheds light on contemporary definitions of citizenship and democracy in the Americas.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134326246
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Clara Irazábal and her contributors explore the urban history of some of Latin America’s great cities through studies of their public spaces and what has taken place there. The avenues and plazas of Mexico City, Havana, Santo Domingo, Caracas, Bogotaì, SaÞo Paulo, Lima, Santiago, and Buenos Aires have been the backdrop for extraordinary, history-making events. While some argue that public spaces are a prerequisite for the expression, representation and reinforcement of democracy, they can equally be used in the pursuit of totalitarianism. Indeed, public spaces, in both the past and present, have been the site for the contestation by ordinary people of various stances on democracy and citizenship. By exploring the use and meaning of public spaces in Latin American cities, this book sheds light on contemporary definitions of citizenship and democracy in the Americas.
Development as Freedom
Author: Amartya Sen
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 030787429X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
By the winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Economics, an essential and paradigm-altering framework for understanding economic development--for both rich and poor--in the twenty-first century. Freedom, Sen argues, is both the end and most efficient means of sustaining economic life and the key to securing the general welfare of the world's entire population. Releasing the idea of individual freedom from association with any particular historical, intellectual, political, or religious tradition, Sen clearly demonstrates its current applicability and possibilities. In the new global economy, where, despite unprecedented increases in overall opulence, the contemporary world denies elementary freedoms to vast numbers--perhaps even the majority of people--he concludes, it is still possible to practically and optimistically restain a sense of social accountability. Development as Freedom is essential reading.
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 030787429X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
By the winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Economics, an essential and paradigm-altering framework for understanding economic development--for both rich and poor--in the twenty-first century. Freedom, Sen argues, is both the end and most efficient means of sustaining economic life and the key to securing the general welfare of the world's entire population. Releasing the idea of individual freedom from association with any particular historical, intellectual, political, or religious tradition, Sen clearly demonstrates its current applicability and possibilities. In the new global economy, where, despite unprecedented increases in overall opulence, the contemporary world denies elementary freedoms to vast numbers--perhaps even the majority of people--he concludes, it is still possible to practically and optimistically restain a sense of social accountability. Development as Freedom is essential reading.
A Model of Growth Through Creative Destruction
Author: Philippe Aghion
Publisher: London : Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario
ISBN: 9780771411168
Category : Economic development
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This paper develops a model based on Schumpeter's process of creative destruction. It departs from existing models of endogenous growth in emphasizing obsolescence of old technologies induced by the accumulation of knowledge and the resulting process or industrial innovations. This has both positive and normative implications for growth. In positive terms, the prospect of a high level of research in the future can deter research today by threatening the fruits of that research with rapid obsolescence. In normative terms, obsolescence creates a negative externality from innovations, and hence a tendency for laissez-faire economies to generate too many innovations, i.e too much growth. This "business-stealing" effect is partly compensated by the fact that innovations tend to be too small under laissez-faire. The model possesses a unique balanced growth equilibrium in which the log of GNP follows a random walk with drift. The size of the drift is the average growth rate of the economy and it is endogenous to the model ; in particular it depends on the size and likelihood of innovations resulting from research and also on the degree of market power available to an innovator.
Publisher: London : Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario
ISBN: 9780771411168
Category : Economic development
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This paper develops a model based on Schumpeter's process of creative destruction. It departs from existing models of endogenous growth in emphasizing obsolescence of old technologies induced by the accumulation of knowledge and the resulting process or industrial innovations. This has both positive and normative implications for growth. In positive terms, the prospect of a high level of research in the future can deter research today by threatening the fruits of that research with rapid obsolescence. In normative terms, obsolescence creates a negative externality from innovations, and hence a tendency for laissez-faire economies to generate too many innovations, i.e too much growth. This "business-stealing" effect is partly compensated by the fact that innovations tend to be too small under laissez-faire. The model possesses a unique balanced growth equilibrium in which the log of GNP follows a random walk with drift. The size of the drift is the average growth rate of the economy and it is endogenous to the model ; in particular it depends on the size and likelihood of innovations resulting from research and also on the degree of market power available to an innovator.
The Ecology of Power
Author: Michael Heckenberger
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415945981
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415945981
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Planning Latin America's Capital Cities 1850-1950
Author: Arturo Almandoz
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136767215
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
In this first comprehensive work in English to describe the building of Latin America's capital cities in the postcolonial period, Arturo Almandoz and his contributors demonstrate how Europe and France in particular shaped their culture, architecture and planning until the United States began to play a part in the 1930s. The book provides a new perspective on international planning.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136767215
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
In this first comprehensive work in English to describe the building of Latin America's capital cities in the postcolonial period, Arturo Almandoz and his contributors demonstrate how Europe and France in particular shaped their culture, architecture and planning until the United States began to play a part in the 1930s. The book provides a new perspective on international planning.
The Idea of Justice
Author: Amartya Sen
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674060474
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
Presents an analysis of what justice is, the transcendental theory of justice and its drawbacks, and a persuasive argument for a comparative perspective on justice that can guide us in the choice between alternatives.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674060474
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
Presents an analysis of what justice is, the transcendental theory of justice and its drawbacks, and a persuasive argument for a comparative perspective on justice that can guide us in the choice between alternatives.
World Capitals
Author: Hanford Wentworth Eldredge
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
This Hebrew alphabet book features three siblings and their parents in their everyday family life at home.
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
This Hebrew alphabet book features three siblings and their parents in their everyday family life at home.
The Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage
Author: Roberta Garabello
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
ISBN: 9789041122032
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The 2001 UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage represents a major step forward in the field of international law. New archaeological rules as well as a comprehensive co-operation system among the States concerned are set up by the new Convention. Despite the negative attitude assumed by few States at the moment of voting for the text of the Convention, this new international instrument is welcome by the great majority of States. This volume focuses on the main aspects of the Convention. It is divided in two parts, to describe the situation before and after the adoption (and the forthcoming into force) of the Convention. In the first part the contradictions resulting from the regime established under the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea are analysed together with the undesirable results of the application of the rules of admiralty (law of salvage and law of finds) to the underwater cultural heritage. In the second part the negotiation process is described, both in its general aspects (the myths surrounding the draft) and in its specific results (the drafting of each single provision).
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
ISBN: 9789041122032
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The 2001 UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage represents a major step forward in the field of international law. New archaeological rules as well as a comprehensive co-operation system among the States concerned are set up by the new Convention. Despite the negative attitude assumed by few States at the moment of voting for the text of the Convention, this new international instrument is welcome by the great majority of States. This volume focuses on the main aspects of the Convention. It is divided in two parts, to describe the situation before and after the adoption (and the forthcoming into force) of the Convention. In the first part the contradictions resulting from the regime established under the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea are analysed together with the undesirable results of the application of the rules of admiralty (law of salvage and law of finds) to the underwater cultural heritage. In the second part the negotiation process is described, both in its general aspects (the myths surrounding the draft) and in its specific results (the drafting of each single provision).