The political economy of maximum residue limits: A long‐term health perspective

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Karemera ◽  
Bo Xiong ◽  
Gerald Smalls ◽  
Louis Whitesides
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
The Political ◽  
Maximum Residue Limits

Many Happy Returns? Investment Governance and the Political Economy of Time in UK Pensions Provision

2021 ◽  
pp. 209-246
Author(s):  
Craig Berry
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Financial Institutions ◽  
Capital Investment ◽  
Pension Funds ◽  
The Political ◽  
Private Pensions ◽  
Pension Schemes ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Uk

We are increasingly conscious that private pension schemes in the UK are primarily financial institutions. UK private pensions provision has always been highly financialized, but the individualization of provision means this dynamic matters more than ever to retirement incomes. Furthermore, individualization has occurred at a time when the UK economy’s capacity to support a long-term approach to capital investment, upon which pensions depend, has declined. The chapter argues that pensions provision essentially involves managing the failure of the future to resemble the present, or more specifically present forecasts of the future. As our ability to manipulate the value of the future has increased, our ability to tolerate forecast failure has declined. The chapter details how pension funds invest, and how this has changed, and provides an original understanding of several recent attempts to shape pensions investment, ultimately demonstrating the limitations of pensions policy in shaping how provision functions in practice.

scholarly journals The power of place-makers and merchants: Papal and Marian items in the political economy of pilgrimage

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Mariano Barbato
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Field Studies ◽  
The Political ◽  
Supply Side ◽  
Purchase Decisions ◽  
Pope Benedict Xvi ◽  
Benedict Xvi ◽  
Long Term Performance ◽  
Term Performance

Based on two field studies on the micro level of items which place-makers and merchants display at holy sites, an argument about the supply side of the political economy of pilgrimage is proposed. Place-makers and merchants rely on the established pilgrims’ traditions but differ concerning innovations. Place-makers are the principals of the sites and invest in innovations in order to secure the site’s long-term performance. Merchants rely on short-term purchase decisions of the pilgrims. They prefer tried and tested products and look for novelties which fits in the pattern of success. While the resilience of placemakers demonstrate the power of the supply side, the cautiousness of the merchants hints to its limits. Rome during Francis’Jubilee of Mercy and the Bavarian Marian shrine Altötting in the years after the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI are the case studies to illustrate these claims in the perspective of Marian and papal pilgrimage.

scholarly journals Excedente e território: uma leitura das ferrovias brasileiras a partir do cruzamento entre direito econômico e geografia crítica

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (38) ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter Marquezan Augusto
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
Uneven Development ◽  
The Political ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Critical Geography ◽  
Porto Alegre ◽  
Economic Law

Excedente e território: uma leitura das ferrovias brasileiras a partir do cruzamento entre direito econômico e geografia crítica Surplus and territory: an understanding of brazilian railways from the interplay between economic law and critical geographyWalter Marquezan Augusto*  REFERÊNCIA AUGUSTO, Walter Marquezan. Excedente e território: uma leitura das ferrovias brasileiras a partir do cruzamento entre direito econômico e geografia crítica. Revista da Faculdade de Direito da UFRGS, Porto Alegre, n. 38, p. 199-219, ago. 2018. RESUMOABSTRACTO presente artigo busca construir uma linha interpretativa para pesquisas em direito econômico da infraestrutura a partir do cruzamento interdisciplinar com a geografia crítica. Considerando a complexidade envolvida na constituição do objeto de pesquisa em direito econômico, questiona-se quais pressupostos teóricos permitiriam uma abertura interdisciplinar aos fundamentos do próprio direito econômico. A hipótese aponta para as zonas conceituais comuns identificadas nos tópicos do excedente e do território. Apoiado nessa construção, propõe-se experimentalmente uma leitura sobre o setor ferroviário brasileiro. Partindo de referências historiográficas sobre o tema, o trabalho analisa a economia política da forma jurídica que aparece traduzida em determinados momentos de transformação das ferrovias brasileiras, na longa duração, sob o prisma do fluxo de excedente sobre os fixos e o desenvolvimento desigual do território dentro do campo da infraestrutura. This paper aims to build an interpretation for researches on infrastructure law from an interdisciplinary view with critical geography. Considering the complexity of the constitution of a research object in economic law, the article questions the theorical premises that could assume an interdisciplinary opening for the own economic law basis. The hypothesis indicates to mutual concepts of surplus and territory. Based on this, the work proposes an experimental interpretation of Brazilian railway sector. Emerging from historiographical references on this theme, this work analyzes the political economy of the juridical form that appears translated in certain moments of the Brazilian railroads transformation, in the long-term, under the prism of surplus flow over fixes and the uneven development of territory inside infrastructure field. PALAVRAS-CHAVEKEYWORDSDireito econômico da infraestrutura. Geografia crítica. Excedente. Território. Ferrovias.Infrastructure economic law. Critical geography. Surplus. Territory. Railways.* Doutorando na área de Direito Econômico e Economia Política do Programa de Pós-Graduação da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de São Paulo (USP).

Discursive strategies and change

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 272-290
Author(s):  
Julia Lux
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
The Political ◽  
Theoretical Contribution ◽  
Discursive Strategies ◽  
Comparative Capitalism ◽  
Empirical Argument ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract In times of crisis, comparative capitalism analysis has difficulties differentiating crisis symptoms and effects from trends that may be more long-term. In this paper, I propose that by looking at the discursive strategies of central actors within the political economy, we may improve our understanding of capitalist trajectories. Drawing on Regulation Theory and Gramsci, the main empirical argument is that the French accumulation regime and its regulation are changing to a more explicitly export-oriented and financialised capitalism. This is underscored by the political project of capital-friendly austerity corresponding to a shift in the relationship of forces, the establishment of a neoliberal understanding of competitiveness, and the fading-out of purchasing power. The theoretical contribution of the paper is to integrate more closely critical discourse analysis with a critical political economy perspective.

How to Build and Wield Business Power: The Political Economy of Pension Regulation in Chile, 1990–2018

2018 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomás Bril-Mascarenhas ◽  
Antoine Maillet
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Theory Building ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Arena ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Business Power ◽  
Political Actions ◽  
Pension Regulation ◽  
Theoretical Developments

AbstractWhat explains the remarkable resilience of pension regulation in postauthoritarian Chile, even after decades of majoritarian voter discontent and growing international and domestic criticism of Pinochet’s pioneering private capitalization system? This puzzling outcome can be understood only by looking at the combined effect of the pension industry’s long-term power-building investments and its short-term political actions to outmaneuver state and societal challengers. Engaging new theoretical developments in political economy and historical institutionalism, this study examines the long-term process by which the previously nonexistent Chilean pension industry expanded and leveraged its power during key episodes of open contestation. The analysis of pension regulation in Chile between the 1980s and the 2010s illustrates the importance of placing business power in time, motivating new rounds of theory building in the quest to address the perennial question of how business gets what it wants in the political arena.

scholarly journals The Making of a Work-ready Individual: The Political Economy of Time in a Workfare Program in Israel

2020 ◽  
pp. 089692052097678
Author(s):  
Sara Helman
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Time Management ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Social Assistance ◽  
The Political ◽  
Flexible Work ◽  
The Unemployed ◽  
Time Density

A neoliberal policy ideal, workfare, aims to transform the long-term unemployed into “work-ready” individuals. Studies of workfare examine their use of technologies of agency and coercion, but do not sufficiently delve into the political economy of time’s role in these technologies. Based on 9 months of participant observation in an Israeli workfare program, this article analyzes how it exploited time and temporality to transform social assistance benefits into a “wage.” I argue that in calculating participants’ activities through “time accountancy,” workfare prepares the unemployed for precarious unemployment at the lower rungs of the labor market. Time accountancy disciplines the unemployed through the enforcement of time regularity and punctuality, under threat of loss of benefits, yet in the absence of time density. Workfare’s apparently incongruous training in efficient “time management” and contrasting “time-filling” practices find concordance in preparing the long-term unemployed for low-wage jobs requiring docility and obedience, for precarious flexible work where new forms of digital and biometric control proliferate.

Malnutrition and “Nutrition Engineering” in Low-Income Countries: A Rejoinder

1993 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 615-619 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Berg
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Low Income Countries ◽  
The Political ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Technical Solutions

Malnutrition cannot be reduced to any single causality. While the political economy explanation is correct, suffering must be addressed in the short term by the available technical solutions. More work is needed on both the long-term causes of malnutrition and on methods of prophylaxis and treatment for nutritional diseases.

scholarly journals Income Inequality and Environmental Degradation in Egypt: Evidence from Dynamic ARDL Approach

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ibrahim Ali
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Income Inequality ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Ardl Approach ◽  
Development Policies ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Political Economy Approach

Abstract This study aims to explore the effect of income inequality on CO2 emissions in Egypt during the period 1975–2017. " The analysis investigates the validity of the political economy approach compared to the Keynesian approach regarding the inequality-environment nexus. The study applies the novel dynamic autoregressive distributed lags approach (DARDL) to overcome the complications associated with the structure of the ARDL model. The findings showed that the relationship between inequality and CO2 emissions is not a trade-off relationship. Rather, inequality leads to environmental deterioration in the long term, which supports the political economy approach in explaining the inequality-environment nexus. Hence, the economic development policies adopted in Egypt during the past four decades have led to a negative impact on the environment.

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