The Economic Argument for Stakeholder Corporations

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lenore Palladino
Keyword(s):  
Economic Argument

Marnie Holborow, The politics of English. London: Sage, 1999. Pp. vii, 216. Hb $78.00.

2001 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 323-324
Author(s):  
Ron Scollon
Keyword(s):  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
British Council ◽  
Economic Argument

The politics of English is an oddly unifying book. If one were to wonder what Fairclough and Tannen, Bernstein and Saussure, Crystal and Kress, the Milroys and Foucault, Kachru and the British Council, Hume and Pennycook, Conrad and Fishman, Pinker and Chomsky, Cheshire and Trudgill, Holmes and Schiffrin, Lakoff and Labov, and a rather lengthy roster of others have in common, it would be the scorn for their work manifested by Holborow. This low esteem is based on the failure of these scholars to have given Marx and Engels, Voloshinov, and (“some”) Vygotsky a careful enough reading. In the author's view, there is little to be said – not just about English or the politics of English, but about applied linguistics, discourse, and sociolinguistics more generally – that was not already laid down by these very few authorized writers. This book will find few readers within these fields, I would think, since most of the practitioners would find the arguments made against their work oddly authoritarian, coming as they do from an author who argues that a materialist, economic argument is the only valid one.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger E. Backhouse ◽  
Bradley W. Bateman ◽  
Tamotsu Nishizawa ◽  
Dieter Plehwe
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Social Provision ◽  
Economic Argument ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The World ◽  
Recent Origin ◽  
Welfare Discourse ◽  
Over Time ◽  
The Welfare State

During the last several decades, the welfare state has come under increasing pressure around the world, with social provision often being cut or privatized. Often the justification for these changes has been made as an economic argument, especially a neoliberal argument that the welfare state diminishes growth or produces disincentives to work. These arguments are of relatively recent origin, however; many types of economists have supported the creation of the welfare state, even liberal economists. The purpose of this book is to examine the economic arguments that have been used in the United Kingdom, Japan, and Germany in support of, and in opposition to, the welfare state. Special attention is paid to the transnational dimensions of recent welfare discourse and to the ways that liberal and neoliberal arguments about the welfare state have changed over time.

In Response to the Economic Argument

1988 ◽  
Vol 30 (10) ◽  
pp. 824-825 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Golaszewski ◽  
Donald Vickery ◽  
George Pfeiffer
Keyword(s):  
Economic Argument

Chapter 1. Demand in 1962 and 1963

1963 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 4-19
Keyword(s):  
Excess Demand ◽  
Annual Rate ◽  
Economic Argument ◽  
Official View

Throughout 1962 the big economic argument about expansion was not whether it was desirable, but whether it was happening. The official view in the spring was that there was enough demand in the economy to make output rise at an annual rate of 3-4 per cent a year; and this was fast enough. So the Budget was framed with the risk of excess demand in minds.

Containing destruction from Brazil's Amazon highways: now is the time to give weight to the environment in decision-making

2006 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 181-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
PHILIP F. FEARNSIDE
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
Cost Savings ◽  
The State ◽  
Future Plan ◽  
Mato Grosso ◽  
Soybean Production ◽  
The Road ◽  
Economic Argument

The BR-163 Highway (Fig. 1) was originally built by the Brazilian Army in 1973 and 1974. It has remained passable since, although poor road conditions in the unpaved portion (the 646-km portion in the state of Pará from the border with Mato Grosso to Trairão) impede use of the road as a significant export route. Reconstructing the highway has been a (so-far unimplemented) part of an evolving series of plans for massive expansion of infrastructure: Brasil em Ação (Brazil in Action) for 1996–1999, Avança Brasil (Forward Brazil) for 2000–2003, and the Pluriannual Plan for 2004–2007 (Laurance et al. 2001; Fearnside 2002). Soybean plantations in the northern part of the state of Mato Grosso have been rapidly expanding, partly in anticipation of the BR-163 being reconstructed and paved (Fearnside 2001). The governor of Mato Grosso since 2003 is Brazil's largest soybean entrepreneur and a major force in inducing the federal government to pave the road. With the construction of the BR-163, northern Mato Grosso would be linked to the ports of Miritituba and Santarém (Fig. 1), halving the current distance for transportation, as currently soybeans from northern Mato Grosso are exported through the port of Paranaguá in the state of Paraná. A future plan would take the soybeans by rail from Cuiabá to Santos. Cost savings for soybean export of US$ 11.6 per tonne relative to the rail route through Santos (Alencar et al. 2005) provide an economic argument for the BR-163 project. Soybean production in northern Mato Grosso was 3.61 million tonnes in 2004 (Alencar et al. 2005), worth approximately US$ 813 million. Nevertheless, even with substantial monetary benefits for the BR-163, the various forms of impact from the project must be quantified and compared to the benefits before a decision is made (Fearnside 2005).

scholarly journals The Economic Argument for Engagement: New Directions for Research

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 14
Author(s):  
Matt Leighninger
Keyword(s):  
Economic Argument ◽  
New Directions

scholarly journals People who move and need news

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Cokley ◽  
Margie Comrie
Keyword(s):  
Federal Government ◽  
Discrete Groups ◽  
Communications Networks ◽  
Economic Argument ◽  
Governmental Intervention

This article proposes historical precedents for policies which support journalism enterprises that serve populations 'on the move' using communications networks and technologies. A contemporary case study is used to support an economic argument that there is a rationale for continued governmental intervention in journalism in the sphere of the international and domestic movement of passengers, cargo and discrete groups of linked individuals. It concludes that this sphere represents a valuable productivity opportunity for Australia which the Federal Government should exploit.

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