Agricultural Economics and the Agrarian Lobby in Hungary under State Socialism

2017 ◽  
Vol 44 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 284-308
Author(s):  
Zsuzsanna Varga
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Economics ◽  
Economic Research ◽  
Agricultural Cooperatives ◽  
Agrarian Sector ◽  
Agrarian Policy ◽  
Policy Suggestions ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Oriented Research

Following the revolution in 1956, Hungary’s agrarian policy went through changes and reforms unprecedented within the socialist block. The most important reform was the abolition of the system of compulsory delivery. This article aims to outline how the political change affected agrarian economics and also highlights the significant role played by some scholars, with their latent presence and their policy suggestions, which the Kádár Government had the courage to support in November 1956. With the emergence of the so-called Agrarian Lobby, of the intertwining networks of politicians, administrators, and scientists of the agrarian sector, the personal and intellectual preconditions had already been in place before 1956. Institutionalization, however, could only come about after the partial rehabilitation of market economy. The post-1956 political leadership could only meet the challenge of re-defining the relationship of the state and the agricultural cooperatives with the contribution of professionals. At the same time, the shape and nature of Kádár era agrarian economic research were also affected by the alliance between the practitioners of the field and the emerging network of agro-politicians and administrators, the Agrarian Lobby. Two key figures, Ferenc Erdei and Lajos Fehér, shared the responsibility for the better performance of agriculture. This paper also pays attention to the way their cooperation on this reform policy-oriented research was realized and the key role it played in the Hungarian agricultural cooperatives’ emancipation from the bonds of the kolkhoz model in the 1960s.

scholarly journals Takis Zenetos’s Electronic Urbanism and Tele-Activities: Minimizing Transportation as Social Aspiration

Urban Science ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 31
Author(s):  
Marianna Charitonidou
Keyword(s):  
Information Society ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Home Office ◽  
The Social ◽  
Residential Units ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Takis Zenetos was enthusiastic about the idea of working from home, and believed that both architecture and urban planning should be reshaped in order to respond to this. He supported the design of special public spaces in residential units, aiming to accommodate the inhabitants during working hours. This article argues that Zenetos’s design for “Electronic Urbanism” was more prophetic, and more pragmatic, than his peers such as Archigram and Constant Nieuwenhuys. Despite the fact that they shared an optimism towards technological developments and megastructure, a main difference between Zenetos’s view and the perspectives of his peers is his rejection of a generalised enthusiasm concerning increasing mobility of people. In opposition with Archigram, Zenetos insisted in minimizing citizens’ mobility and supported the replacement of daily transport with the use advanced information technologies, using terms such as “tele-activity”. Zenetos was convinced that “Electronic Urbanism” would help citizens save the time that they normally used to commute to work, and would allow them to spend this time on more creative activities, at or near their homes. The main interest of “Electronic Urbanism” lies in the fact that it not only constitutes an artistic contribution to experimental architecture, but is also characterized by a new social vision, promising to resynchronize practices of daily life. An aspect that is also examined is the relationship of Zenetos’s ideas and those of the so-called Metabolists in the 1960s in Japan, including Kenzo Tange’s conception of megastructures. Zenetos’s thought is very topical considering the ongoing debates about the advanced information society, especially regarding the social concerns of surveillance, governance, and sovereignty within the context of Big Data. His conception of “tele-activities” provides a fertile terrain for reflecting on potential implications and insights concerning home-office conditions not only within the context of the current pandemic situation but beyond it as well.

Fire, people and ecosystem change in Pleistocene Australia

2016 ◽  
Vol 64 (8) ◽  
pp. 643 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher N. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Fire Regimes ◽  
Ecosystem Change ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Cascading Effects ◽  
Continental Scale ◽  
The Past ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

Since the 1960s, Australian scientists have speculated on the impact of human arrival on fire regimes in Australia, and on the relationship of landscape fire to extinction of the Pleistocene megafauna of Australia. These speculations have produced a series of contrasting hypotheses that can now be tested using evidence collected over the past two decades. In the present paper, I summarise those hypotheses and review that evidence. The main conclusions of this are that (1) the effects of people on fire regimes in the Pleistocene were modest at the continental scale, and difficult to distinguish from climatic controls on fire, (2) the arrival of people triggered extinction of Australia’s megafauna, but fire had little or no role in the extinction of those animals, which was probably due primarily to hunting and (3) megafaunal extinction is likely to have caused a cascade of changes that included increased fire, but only in some environments. We do not yet understand what environmental factors controlled the strength and nature of cascading effects of megafaunal extinction. This is an important topic for future research.

Introduction

Troublemakers ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Kathryn Schumaker
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
The United States ◽  
Board Of Education ◽  
Chicano Movement ◽  
Legal Principles ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The introductionexplains how and why student protest became common in the United States in the late 1960s and places these protests in the context of shifts in the history of education and in broader social movements, including the civil rights movement, the Chicano Movement, and black power activism. The introduction also situates students’ rights within the context of children’s rights more broadly, explaining the legal principles that justified age discrimination and excluded children and students from the basic protections of American constitutional law. The introduction identifies the two decades between the 1960s and 1980s as a constitutional moment that revolutionized the relationship of students to the state. It also connects students’ rights litigation to the issue of school desegregation and the legacy of Brown v. Board of Education.

scholarly journals The Role of Agricultural Economics in a Changing Environment

1975 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-4 ◽  
Author(s):  
John A. Ewing
Keyword(s):  
Program Development ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Applied Economics ◽  
Agricultural Economics ◽  
Economic Forces ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The historical development of Agricultural Economics as a field of applied economics has been well-documented in books and journals by scholars within the profession. The relationship of Agricultural Economics to other social, biological and natural sciences has changed as the discipline has emerged and as forces of science and technology have been brought to bear on problems of our society.The objective of this paper is to define or establish the parameters of Agricultural Economics but offer personal views on how economic forces within our economy have influenced program development in research involving many disciplines. In this process I will emphasize some of the areas where Agricultural Economics has made a major contribution and, in my judgement, can play an important role in the future.

Heartfelt Driving: Discourses on Manners, Safety, and Emotion in Japan's Era of Mass Motorization

2012 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 171-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua Hotaka Roth
Keyword(s):  
Social Control ◽  
Traffic Accidents ◽  
Emotional Reactions ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The One ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Social Management ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
School Curricula

This paper explores the contradictory discourses on manners, safety and emotion that arose with mass motorization in Japan in the 1960s and which continue through the present. It documents the way in which multiple government entities end up working at cross-purposes in their attempts to cultivate safer drivers and slow the epidemic of traffic accidents. On the one hand, the discourse on driving manners suggests a widespread embrace of the Traffic Bureau's and other government agencies' concern with safety. On the other hand, the emphasis on manners may lead to angrier driving, which promotes accidents according to psychological studies of driving. The picture that emerges is one in which attempts at social control are complicated by the often unpredictable emotional reactions of subjects caught in a web of institutional and ideological processes. By exploring the relationship of emotion to driving school curricula and the discourse on manners, this article extends previous studies of self, social control, and social management in Japan.

scholarly journals Editor's Introduction: I. Writing Modern Art and Science – An Overview; II. Cubism, Futurism, and Ether Physics in the Early Twentieth Century

2004 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 423-466 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Dalrymple Henderson
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Modern Art ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Art And Science ◽  
Radical Innovations ◽  
Science And Art ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Modern Artists ◽  
The Relationship

This issue of Science in Context presents a sampling of current work by art historians examining modern artists' engagement with science as well as the relationship of photography to both science and art. The essays' topics span the mid-to-later nineteenth century to the 1960s and, thus, in a series of case studies provide an introduction to aspects of artistic modernism. Indeed, it is impossible to understand fully many of the radical innovations of modern art without some knowledge of an artist's cultural context, and developments in science have often played a critical role in defining that milieu. Collected together, these essays also represent methodological models of historical work on art and science that serve as useful examples in this developing field.

scholarly journals A Vote of Confidence: On the Aims and Functions of Literary History

Tekstualia ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-167
Author(s):  
Żaneta Nalewajk
Keyword(s):  
Literary History ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Real Chance ◽  
Responsible Manner ◽  
Oriented Research ◽  
Research Tools

The authoress of the article shows literary history conducted in a responsible manner, concentrating on working with sources, precisely setting out its poles of investigation, undertaking reflection on the limits of literariness, and refusing to avoid methodological interdisciplinary reflection (that is, defining the character of the relationship of its own language and its own context-oriented research tools vis-à-vis the languages of other areas of scholarship) – such a literary history may assist in the development of the ability clearly to perceive a situation in which it has come to an auction of methods of working on concepts that create a real chance of integrating knowledge.

scholarly journals CHETTOUH

2021 ◽  
Vol 03 (06) ◽  
pp. 493-502
Author(s):  
Khadra CHETTOUH
Keyword(s):  
Mutual Influence ◽  
Specific Aspect ◽  
Human Sciences ◽  
Critical Research ◽  
Collaborative Relationship ◽  
Linguistic Research ◽  
Descriptive Approach ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Linguistic research is based on two principles: the specific and the general. The specific aspect is ‎linked to the fact that linguistics is considered as an autonomous science having its ‎scientific ‎ characteristics which distinguish it from other human sciences. And given its particular interest in ‎language, it has its internal and external foundations and its own objectives. It describes the ‎structure of the language, seeks to know its secrets, explores its rules which control its fundamental ‎structure, and among other things delves into its sound, structural and semantic characteristics in ‎order to put a set of universal rules.‎ As for the general aspect, it is linked to the relationship existing between linguistics and the ‎other sciences: a relationship of mutual influence.‎ Linguistic research has played a major role in the institution of contemporary Arab critical ‎terminology starting from its beginning in the 1960s.‎ Critical research aims to institute critical terminology according to a system influenced by the ‎descriptive approach in the institution of thematic and conceptual oriented terminology.‎ This article aims to highlight the collaborative relationship between linguistic research and ‎critical research. So what are the limits of this collaboration, What are the linguistic bases of terminology according to the perception of Mahmoud Fahmy ‎Hegazy in his The Linguistic Foundations of Terminology as a model reflecting the efforts of ‎Arabs in the field of critical linguistics‎.

scholarly journals Does Environmental Regulation Repress the International R&D Spillover Effect? Evidence from China

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (16) ◽  
pp. 4353
Author(s):  
Chengliang Liu ◽  
Tao Wang ◽  
Qingbin Guo
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Regulation ◽  
Open Economy ◽  
Spillover Effect ◽  
Yangtze River Delta ◽  
River Delta ◽  
Policy Suggestions ◽  
Economic Regions ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Import Trade ◽  
The Relationship

The inconsistent direction between environmental regulation and technological progress is receiving increasing attention, but scholars have neglected the relationship between the two in the open economy. Against this background and based on the panel data of 30 provinces in China from 2003 to 2015, we examined the effect of environmental regulation on the international research and development (R&D) spillover effect and its regional differences in three economic regions: The Bohai Rim, Pan-Yangtze River Delta, and Pan-Pearl River Delta economic regions. The results show that (1) at China’s macro level, and at that of the three economic regions, the level of environmental regulation and international R&D spillover from import trade or foreign direct investment channels show an inverted N relationship; that is, in all provinces the weak environmental regulation initially inhibited the international technology spillover. However, as the intensity of environmental regulation increased, the level of international R&D spillovers continually rose, but overly harsh environmental regulation was not conducive to the overflow of international technology; (2) the adoption of different environmental regulations will affect the international R&D spillover effect and the inverted N relationship of environmental regulation, thus changing the inflection point of environmental regulation; and (3) currently, the level of environmental regulation is relatively low, as most provinces have not yet broken through the first turning point of the inverted N, and only a few provinces are within the rising stage of the inverted N curve. This paper provides corresponding policy suggestions according to the above conclusions.

4. Big ideas from the 20th century

2021 ◽  
pp. 44-68
Author(s):  
Gary Thomas
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
John Dewey ◽  
Reflective Thinking ◽  
Big Ideas ◽  
Comprehensive Schools ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

‘Big ideas from the 20th century’ explores how the changes in the 20th century created the conditions for John Dewey to talk about the relationship of education to democracy. For Dewey, reflective thinking is at the centre of education: education is not about learning facts—it is about being sceptical and critical. Dewey’s thought provided one of the foundation stones for the introduction of the comprehensive schools. In the UK, it is the Plowden Report of the 1960s that is generally credited with the more systematic introduction of progressive ideas. The turn to neoliberalism has had a profound effect on education in terms at segregation in schools and marketization in education.

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