The great transformation

2005 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-98
Author(s):  
RUDOLF KLEIN
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Monetary Theory ◽  
Quarter Century ◽  
The Past ◽  
Great Transformation ◽  
The Way

Over the past quarter century or so there has been, in Peter Hall’s formulation (Hall, 1993), a paradigm shift in macro-economic policy making: a movement from a Keynesian mode of policy making towards one based on monetary theory. The latter was open to a variety of interpretations and has been modified in practice. However, there was clearly a transformation in the way we think about economic policy making. Is the same true of social policy? Has there been an equivalent paradigm shift in the way we think about social policy? The two books under review provide an opportunity for addressing this question.

Ubiquitous Connectivity & Work-Related Stress

2011 ◽  
pp. 167-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Ramsay ◽  
M. Hair ◽  
K. V. Renaud
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Quarter Century ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Workplace Stressors ◽  
The Past ◽  
Related Stress ◽  
E Mail ◽  
The Way

The way humans interact with one another in the 21st Century has been markedly influenced by the integration of a number of different communication technologies into everyday life, and the pace of communication has increased hugely over the past twenty-five years. This chapter introduces work by the authors that considers the ways one communication-based technology, namely e-mail, has impacted workers’ “thinking time”, and become both a “workplace stressor” and an indispensable communications tool. Our research involved both a longitudinal exploration (three months) of the daily e-mail interactions of a number of workers, and a survey of individuals’ perceptions of how e-mail influences their communication behaviour in general, and their work-related communication in particular. Initial findings, in the form of individual differences, are reported here. The findings are presented in relation to the way workplace stressors have changed over the past quarter century.

Commentary

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter M. Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
The Past ◽  
Post War

Thatcher’s economic legacy is represented by a distinctive rupture with the past in terms of the framework within which economic policy is designed. Thatcherism was a counter-revolution to the post-war Keynesian revolution. Whilst this framework has evolved post Thatcher there has not yet been a further counter-revolution that has returned economic policy making to its pre-Thatcher ways. Moreover, Thatcherism paid greater attention to micro-economic details of policy which had been absent from most Keynesian discussions.

Pudding Economics: Franklin’s “The Way to Wealth” and the Transactional Self

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 596-618 ◽  
Author(s):  
Howard Horwitz
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Adam Smith ◽  
Strict Sense ◽  
Late Capitalism ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Per Se ◽  
Literary Performance ◽  
New Nation ◽  
The Way

Abstract Benjamin Franklin’s preface to the 1758 edition of Poor Richard’s Almanack, usually titled “The Way to Wealth,” is generally regarded as a sermon on frugality. The very form of the 1758 Preface, with Richard Saunders’s voice framing Father Abraham’s “Harangue,” ironizes Father Abraham’s doctrine of frugality. The effect of this literary performance is to illustrate or even stimulate desire for social interaction that is not frugal in any strict sense, but rather manifests an impulse to expand intercourse. The 1758 preface and Franklin’s extensive writings on economics present an expansive vision of capital formation. Commerce must grow incessantly, not for the accumulation of capital per se but for the prospect of endless growth, to spur and sustain what Adam Smith called “the progressive state.” Franklin’s economic writings delineate the constitution of the subject populating progressive society. Identity and ultimately the character of society are fabricated through ongoing, visible, and expanding transactions. Expansive or progressive identity is not illusory, but constitutive. Self and society must be creditable. This conceptualization was central to economic policy-making in the new nation; it straddles neoliberal critiques of subjectification in late capitalism.

scholarly journals HISTORY IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY ETHIOPIA: THE ‘GREAT TRADITION’ AND THE COUNTER-HISTORIES OF NATIONAL FAILURE

2017 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 425-444 ◽  
Author(s):  
SARA MARZAGORA
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Young Student ◽  
The Past ◽  
Great Tradition ◽  
The Way

AbstractDrawing from both fictional and non-fictional sources, this article traces the way history was conceptualised in twentieth-century Ethiopia by secular educated elites, charting the changing power relations between Ethiopia's hegemonic historiographical paradigm and the alternative historical visions that challenged this ‘Great Tradition’ over the course of the century. While the Great Tradition extols Ethiopia's past and future glories, the counter-histories focused instead on the country's failure to develop and democratise. Against the interpretation that the counter-histories supplanted the Great Tradition in the late 1960s, the article examines them in terms of complementarity. The intellectual interventions of young student radicals in the late 1960s constitute a break, but not a drastic paradigm shift from the past. The Great Tradition had already been called into question by older generations of intellectuals, even if they proved unable or unwilling to translate their disillusionment into political action.

scholarly journals Political Potency and the Impotency of European Sovereignism: Pandemic and Technocracy

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 158-178
Author(s):  
Antonio Cantaro
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Economic Policy ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
Public Intervention ◽  
Social Crisis ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
The Masses

Abstract The covid-19 pandemic and the parallel economic and social crisis mark both a decline of neoliberal globalisation and a return of public intervention. As many have stated, the economic policy triptych of the past decades – the opening of markets, withdrawal of the state and privatisation – has substantially disappeared from the agendas of governments around the world. The ‘political’, in a sense, is back. But in what sense? Can we talk about a real paradigm shift? The return of the political that we are witnessing manifests itself in the permanence and persistence of the neoliberal anthropology of the masses, which is the legacy of globalism, of the Maastricht order and of its idea of civilisation (even more than its political economy dogmas).

Alternative manifestations of actor responses to urban flooding: case studies from Bradford and Glasgow

2009 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. C. Cashman
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Urban Flooding ◽  
The Past ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Institutional Responses ◽  
Flooding Events ◽  
Emergency Measures ◽  
The Way

Flooding processes are complex and can occur throughout urban areas sometimes with devastating consequences. Traditionally flood risks have been managed through a combination of structural defence measures, warnings and emergency measures. More recently they have included development controls and land zoning policies. When such measures fail, individuals, authorities and the economy have to cope with the consequences. There is a growing realization that the resilience of individuals and institutions to floods and the risks from flooding need to be addressed. In the past few years there has been what some have referred to as a paradigm shift in the way responses to flooding are being conceptualized and the way this affects actors and actions. Based on fieldwork including interviews this paper presents two examples of actor and institutional responses to flooding events from the cities of Bradford and Glasgow in the United Kingdom.

War and Social Policy1

2018 ◽  
pp. 44-53
Author(s):  
Richard M. Titmuss
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Economic Effects ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Effects Of War ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Modern War ◽  
The Way

This chapter focuses on the relationship of war and social policy. So far as the story of modern war before 1939 is concerned, little has been recorded in any systematic way about the social arid economic effects of war on the population as a whole. Only long and patient research in out-of-the-way documentary places can reveal something of the characteristics and flavour of social life during the experience of wars in the past. In discussing social policy, the chapter pertains to those acts of governments deliberately designed and taken to improve the welfare of the civil population in time of war. It also asks whether there were any recorded accounts of the movement of civilian populations in past wars as a calculated element in war strategy.

The Great Economic Transformation: Social Dilemmas of Chinese Capitalism

2012 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 274-289 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jen-Der Lue
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Market Economy ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
Economic Transformation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Unique Path ◽  
Chinese Case ◽  
Great Transformation ◽  
Chinese Capitalism

Abstract The transition from socialism to capitalism involves overcoming tremendous, and unavoidable, difficulties of growth and distribution, and controversial reforms. The case of China presents an important opportunity by inviting us to understand its distinctive experiences from comparative perspectives. While its market-oriented reforms have achieved remarkable growth records, the costs of privatization and liberalization have had to be absorbed by social policy, and redistributed among different social strata and specific units. This study focuses on the reconstruction of state-owned enterprises, the social security system, and industrial relations to show China’s unique path toward a market economy. As a Leninist government continues to enjoy ample room for policy manoeuvres and civil organizations are absent in social policy making, the Chinese case of “great transformation” apparently rests on an unstable ground.

Cuba's new relationship with foreign capital: economic policy-making since 1990

2008 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 769-792 ◽  
Author(s):  
EMILY MORRIS
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Foreign Capital ◽  
Evolutionary Process ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Soviet Bloc ◽  
Economic Adjustment ◽  
Policy Making Process ◽  
Cyclical Process ◽  
The Way

AbstractThis article attempts to analyse the nature of Cuban policymaking during the period of economic ‘adjustment’ since the collapse of the Soviet bloc by focusing on one aspect: the opening to foreign capital. It outlines the widely-accepted characterisation of policy as a cyclical process and identifies the assumptions about the policy-making process that underlie it. Citing data on the changes in economic conditions and the sequencing of policy towards foreign capital in the post-1990 period, it suggests that policy-making can be better understood as an evolutionary process. This conclusion has implications for the way in which we understand the renewed wave of reforms launched in March 2008.

scholarly journals Victims and the criminal justice system in India: Need for a paradigm shift in the justice system

Temida ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Murugesan Srinivasan ◽  
Mathew Eyre
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Crime Victims ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
The Past ◽  
Victims Of Crime ◽  
The Way

Until 1970s the victims of crime were a forgotten entity in the criminal justice system. The attitude began to change as the discipline of victimology came into its own. The past few decades have witnessed a revolution in the way society deals with victims of crime. Many countries have now recognized the need to provide services to victims to help them recover from the effects of crime and assist them in their dealings with the criminal justice system. But in India, there has not been any significant improvement in the position of victims in the criminal justice system. The present paper has attempted to examine the position of victims of crime in India and the criminal justice system. The paper also emphasizes the need to provide assistance to crime victims. The authors of the present paper have also suggested some of the immediate steps that are to be implemented by the law enforcement agencies in India to improve the position of victims in the criminal justice system. .

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