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The Institute is a world leader in macroeconomic modelling and forecasting. It has produced quarterly economic forecasts for around sixty years, supported by macroeconomic models. The aim of the original builders of macroeconomic models was to transform understanding of how economies worked and use that knowledge to improve economic policy. In the early years, when computers were rare, macroeconomic modelling was a new frontier and Institute economists were among the first to produce a working model of the UK economy. It is remarkable how quickly models were being used to produce forecasts, assess policy and influence the international macroeconomic research agenda. The models built at the Institute were mainstream in the sense that they followed the contents of standard macroeconomic textbooks, developed with the subject, and fitted the facts as they were known at the time. There were continual improvements in understanding as the subject developed in response to new ideas and developments in the global economy. This article celebrates the development of macroeconomic modelling at the Institute and the contribution it has made to public life.

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CONSERVATIVE PARTY AND THE PROBLEMS OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE IN THE EARLY YEARS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR (on the pages of “Diary of a diplomat” by I. M. Maisky)

Bulletin of Kemerovo State University ◽

10.21603/2078-8975-2016-3-32-37 ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 32-37

Author(s):

E. V. Khakhalkina

Keyword(s):

British Empire ◽

Conservative Party ◽

Second World War ◽

Early Years ◽

World War ◽

Dominant Position ◽

Wide Range ◽

Close Relationship ◽

The Uk ◽

Second World

The “Diary” of the Soviet diplomat I. M. Maisky, who worked in London for more than ten years first as a messenger, then as the Soviet ambassador to the UK, is one of the valuable sources for the interwar period and the Second World War. The “Diary” contains records of Maisky’s conversations with the leading British politicians and public figures and his own thoughts on a wide range of issues, including the problems of the British Empire. The author of the paper analyzes the views of the Tories on the prospects for the British Empire and the Commonwealth of the postwar period and reveals the plans for the reconstruction of the Empire and its transformation while maintaining the dominant position of Britain in the format of a new relationship with the dominions and colonies. The paper shows that within the British political establishment there was no consensus on the future of the empire and, as the materials of the “Diary of diplomat” evidence, the problem of the evolution of the Empire had a close relationship with other areas of foreign and domestic policy.

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Re-Imagining Westphalia

10.1093/oso/9780190855475.003.0005 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 145-198

Author(s):

M.I. Franklin

Keyword(s):

Civil Rights ◽

Electronic Music ◽

Early Years ◽

Karlheinz Stockhausen ◽

Avant Garde ◽

Miles Davis ◽

The Us ◽

The Uk ◽

Sound Transformation ◽

The Cold War

Chapter 5 focuses on a work from Karlheinz Stockhausen entitled Hymnen (Anthems). Stockhausen’s influence on the electronic music avant-garde, in classical and popular music domains, on those from his native Germany to the UK, the US, and elsewhere, is legendary. The techniques Stockhausen was refining were also being put to work by the Beatles, Miles Davis, and Frank Zappa, to name a few. Working with national anthems that are sampled and transformed, Hymnen is a landmark work that I argue is as much about “remembering” as it is a research-based experiment in the early years of electronic and acoustic sound transformation. This work, completed during 1960s, evokes the cold war years where space exploration, civil rights, and nuclear (dis)armament standoffs between the communist East and the capitalist West predominated. It is also the decade of Woodstock, political assassinations, civil rights, and antiwar movements in the US and around the world. Hymnen still has a lot to offer for contemporary explorations into the geopolitics of any music-politics nexus.

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Ishii, Baku (1886–1962)

Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism ◽

10.4324/9781135000356-rem725-1 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Yoshida Yukihiko

Keyword(s):

Modern Dance ◽

Early Years ◽

School Life ◽

Akita Prefecture ◽

The Uk

Baku Ishii is widely regarded as the creator of Japanese modern dance. He was born in Mitane-cho, Akita Prefecture in 1886. Despite his difficulty adapting to school life in his early years, he moved to Tokyo at the age of twenty-four to study literature. Eventually, he began studying the violin at the Imperial Theatre. During the course of his violin studies, however, Ishii, moved by his exposure to opera, decided to focus on dance. While he remained at the Imperial Theatre, his new focus led him to study ballet under Giovanni Rossi, a ballet instructor who previously worked in the UK, but who had been invited to teach at the Imperial Theatre by the then managing director Keinosuke Nishino. Ishii also performed in the operas Rossi produced at the Imperial Theatre. Ishii eventually resigned from the opera as a result of an argument with Rossi. After leaving Rossi, Ishii studied rythmique (eurhythmics) with Émile Jaques-Dalcroze. Later he began to choreograph his own work.

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Maker Literacies and Maker Citizenship in the MakEY (Makerspaces in the Early Years) Project

Multimodal Technologies and Interaction ◽

10.3390/mti2030050 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 2 (3) ◽

pp. 50 ◽

Cited By ~ 17

Author(s):

Jackie Marsh ◽

Hans Arnseth ◽

Kristiina Kumpulainen

Keyword(s):

Early Childhood ◽

Civic Engagement ◽

Early Years ◽

International Project ◽

Future Research ◽

Digital Literacies ◽

Research And Practice ◽

Potential Relationship ◽

The Uk

In this paper, the potential relationship between creative citizenship and what may be termed ‘maker literacies’ is examined in the light of emergent findings from an international project on the use of makerspaces in early childhood, “MakEY” (see http://makeyproject.eu). The paper outlines the concept of creative citizenship and considers the notion of maker literacies before moving on to examine how maker literacies might be developed in early-years curricula in ways that foster civic engagement. Three vignettes are offered of makerspaces in early-years settings and a museum in Finland, Norway, and the UK. The activities outlined in the vignettes might be conceived of as ‘maker citizenship’, a concept which draws together understandings of making, digital literacies, and citizenship. The paper considers the implications of this analysis for future research and practice.

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Diversity and Perceptions of Immigration: How the Past Influences the Present

Political Studies ◽

10.1177/0032321720922774 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 003232172092277 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Lauren McLaren ◽

Anja Neundorf ◽

Ian Paterson

Keyword(s):

Generational Differences ◽

European Social Survey ◽

Additive Models ◽

Early Years ◽

Social Survey ◽

The Past ◽

Positive Attitudes ◽

The Uk ◽

British Sample ◽

The Impact

The question of whether high immigration produces anti-immigration hostility has vexed researchers across multiple disciplines for decades. And yet, understanding this relationship is crucial for countries dependant on immigrant labour but concerned about its impact on social cohesion. Absent from most of this research are theories about the impact of early-years socialisation conditions on contemporary attitudes. Using the British sample of the European Social Survey (2002–2017) and two innovative approaches to modelling generational differences – generalised additive models and hierarchical age‒period‒cohort models – this paper shows that rather than producing hostility to immigration, being socialised in a context of high immigrant-origin diversity is likely to result in more positive attitudes to immigration later in life. This implies that through generational replacement, countries like the UK are likely to become increasingly tolerant of immigration over time. Importantly, however, a context of high-income inequality may diminish this effect.

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