scholarly journals Editorial Vol.XI

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Om Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Economic Knowledge ◽  
Great Satisfaction ◽  
Natural Resource Use ◽  
University Departments ◽  
Global Recession ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Recreational Demand ◽  
Micro Insurance ◽  
General Advancement

<p>Editorial board has pleasure to release this issue of <strong><em>Economic Literature</em></strong>, an annual Journal of Department of Economics, Prithvi Narayan Campus, Tribhuvan University, Pokhara (Volume XI, No. 1, June 2013). Through the publication of this journal Department of Economics has been making efforts to promote the general advancement of economic knowledge, information and techniques of analysis since 1981. Our aim is to continue this tradition by publishing highly academic and policy oriented research papers and to provide platforms for enthusiastic scholars who like to publish their scholarly and analytical paper based on fresh research on the issues of interest around the discipline of economics. This issue incorporates analytical articles of contemporary issues of economy ranging from impact of public expenditure, natural resource use, micro-insurance, tourism trends, food security, recreational demand to impact of global recession.</p><p>Editorial board strongly believe that University Departments should engage in research and disseminate the ideas and findings to the scientific community for the enlightenment of knowledge, not just to deliver the existing knowledge in class rooms; it will not only enrich field of knowledge but also inspire the fresh graduates towards the culture of scientific research and thoughtful writings. If this publication contributed something to strengthen the culture, we will feel great satisfaction. It is, however, up to the reader to evaluate our endeavour.</p><p> It was not possible to offer this volume to the esteemed readers without the contributions of the authors of articles included in this issue. The board, therefore, reverentially acknowledge the authors who have contributed to the journal. We would also like to thank to those who have assisted us in the course of this publication. Special thanks go to the campus administration for encouragement and support in various ways. The editorial board welcomes all the noble thoughts, constructive comments an</p>

scholarly journals Editorial Vol.XII

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gehendreswor Koirala
Keyword(s):  
Management Practices ◽  
Financial Institution ◽  
Government Expenditure ◽  
Economic Knowledge ◽  
Economic Literature ◽  
Great Satisfaction ◽  
University Departments ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
General Advancement

<p>Editorial board has pleasure to release this issue of <strong><em>Economic Literature</em></strong>, an annual Journal of Department of Economics, Prithvi Narayan Campus, Tribhuvan University, Pokhara (Volume XII, December 2014). Through the publication of this journal. We have been making efforts to promote the general advancement of economic knowledge, information and techniques of analysis since 1981. Our aim is to continue this tradition by publishing highly academic and policy oriented research papers and to provide platforms for enthusiastic scholars who like to publish their scholarly and analytical paper based on fresh research on the issues of interest around the discipline of economics. This issue incorporates analytical articles of contemporary issues of Nepalese economy including deposit mobilization in a commercial bank, government expenditure, multi-dimensional poverty in rural area, impact of remittance, index of human development, financial institution and management practices of graduates.</p><p>We strongly believe that University Departments should engage in research and disseminate the ideas and findings obtained through research to the scientific community for the enlightenment of knowledge, not just to deliver the existing knowledge in class rooms. We have firmly believed that it will not only enrich field of knowledge but also inspire the fresh graduates towards the culture of scientific research and thoughtful writings. If this publication contributed something to strengthen the culture, we will feel great satisfaction. It is, however, up to the reader to evaluate our endeavour.</p><p>It was not possible to offer this volume to the esteemed readers without the contributions of the authors of articles included in this issue. We, therefore, reverentially acknowledge the authors who have contributed to the journal. We would also like to thank to those who have assisted us by encouraging the course of this publication. Special thanks go to the campus administration for encouragement and support in various ways. The editorial board welcomes all the noble thoughts, constructive comments and suggestions.</p><p>Economic Literature Vol.12 2014</p>

scholarly journals SAPERE ECONOMICO E METODO SCIENTIFICO NELL’ILLUMINISMO LOMBARDO: NOTE DA “IL CAFFÈ”

2011 ◽  
pp. 403-429 ◽  
Author(s):  
Germano Maifreda
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Method ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Economic Systems ◽  
Economic Knowledge ◽  
Important Research ◽  
Western Tradition ◽  
Research Topics ◽  
Political Sciences ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
The Social

Economic knowledge and scientific method in the lombard enlightenment. Notes from «Il caffè». The connections, emerging between the 16th and the 18th century, between the evolution of economic knowledge and the rise of the scientific method, are important research topics for historians of economic ideas. However, further research on the application of the scientific method is still needed, especially when we come to the analysis of how economic principles took shape in Lombardy during the Enlightenment. The same need for further research concerns the debates on economic policy during the Age of Reforms in the latter half of the eighteenth century. This is even more necessary for Milanese Enlightenment scholars, who have been relatively neglected in comparison to the contemporary Neapolitan writers. A first aspect, enphasized in this paper, is the admiration expressed by the Lombard authors toward achievements coming from elsewhere, and particularly from outside Italy. Reading “Il Caffè”, together with the works and correspondence of Pietro and Alessandro Verri, Cesare Beccaria, Paolo Frisi and many other scholars, gives immediate and clear evidence of the Lombard attraction for the scientific tradition in mathematics, physics, astronomy, and, more generally, for the western tradition of epistemology and philosophy of science rooted in the works of Galileo, Bacon, Newton, Petty, Harvey and others. However, admiration and attraction never boil down to a passive acceptance of ready-made recipes, nor do they lead to mechanistic interpretations of the working of social and economic systems. It must be said that one of the original traits of the Lombard contribution during the enlightenment is the inclination to draw the appropriate epistemic distinction between the natural sciences on one side and the social and political sciences on the other side. The Lombard writers were precocious in keeping aloof from any acritical scientistic drift.

scholarly journals New Riffs on the Old Mind-Body Blues: “Black Rhythm,” “White Logic,” and Music Theory in the Twenty-First Century

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 321-348
Author(s):  
TOM PERCHARD
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Music ◽  
Art Music ◽  
First Century ◽  
University Departments ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Light Skin ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Whiteness Theory ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
European University

AbstractContemporary music historians have shown how taxonomic divisions of humanity—constructed in earnest within European anthropologies and philosophies from the Enlightenment on—were reflected in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century theories of musical-cultural evolution, with complex and intellectualized art music forms always shown as transcending base and bodily rhythm, just as light skin supposedly transcended dark. The errors of old and now disreputable scholarly approaches have been given much attention. Yet scientifically oriented twenty-first-century studies of putatively Afro-diasporic and, especially, African American rhythmic practices seem often to stumble over similarly racialized fault lines, the relationship between “sensory” music, its “intelligent” comprehension, and its analysis still procedurally and politically fraught. Individual musical sympathies are undermined by methods and assumptions common to the field in which theorists operate. They operate, too, in North American and European university departments overwhelmingly populated by white scholars. And so this article draws upon and tests concepts from critical race and whiteness theory and asks whether, in taking “black rhythm” as its subject, some contemporary music studies reinscribe what the sociologists Tukufu Zuberi and Eduardo Bonilla-Silva have called “white logic”: a set of intellectual attitudes, prerogatives, and methods that, whatever the intentions of the musicologists concerned, might in some way restage those division practices now widely recognized as central to early musicology.

scholarly journals The Environment of Creators and Consumers of Economic Knowledge of the Free Economic Society in the Ukrainian Historical Lands (the Last Third of the 19th — the Beginning of the 20th Centuries).

2021 ◽  
pp. 142-163
Author(s):  
Valentyna Shandra
Keyword(s):  
Initial Period ◽  
Local Administration ◽  
Economic Potential ◽  
Economic Knowledge ◽  
Agricultural Technologies ◽  
Demographic Situation ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
The Russian Empire ◽  
High Yields ◽  
Demographic Description

The Free Economic Society, created under Catherine II, was fully in line with the enlightenment intentions of the Empress and her desire to encourage landowners to arrange their estates based on knowledge. One of the factors of its establishment was the need to accelerate the colonization of the Ukrainian southern territories, where land was received by officials and officers without economic skills. The society was to promote the foreign experience and the experience of those landowners who had achieved certain successes in growing high yields, organizing work, using machines and tillage, and building outbuildings. At the same time, it sought to study local specifics by describing and accumulating information about the demographic situation and economic potential of all territories of the Russian Empire. How did the landowners of the Ukrainian lands react to the attempts of the VET to involve them in their own activities and did its recommendations for the introduction of new agricultural technologies, which were discussed in the company’s publications, become authoritative? The author’s observations of the initial period of his activity allowed us to draw the following conclusions. In order to attract enlightened businessmen to participate in the society, the supreme power mobilized the local administration, which in turn mobilized the nobility. However, landowners were in no hurry to share their own achievements, and the company’s printed works did not become widespread and respectively did not take advantage of VET recommendations. There were insignificant successes in the natural-economic and demographic description of the provinces. The most complete were the descriptions of the Sloboda-Ukrainian province, the rest either did not take part in this project at all, or were brief.

scholarly journals ECONOMIC KNOWLEDGE OPTIMIZATION IN UKRAINIAN AGRARIAN UNIVERSITIES: A KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT PERSPECTIVE

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 86-96
Author(s):  
Oleh Chornyi
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Knowledge Flows ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Economic Knowledge ◽  
Management Tools ◽  
University Departments ◽  
Knowledge Intensive ◽  
National Industry ◽  
Organizational Results

A university as knowledge-intensive organization is an important actor that has a powerful influence on knowledge-economy formation. Implementation of knowledge management in universities is inevitable by-product of economic grows and improvements in diverse branches of national industry complex. The aim of this paper is to analyze the economic knowledge functioning in Ukrainian agrarian universities. The author uses statistical analysis to measure the number of economic departments and academic disciplines in Ukrainian agrarian universities. The study shows that up to 37,5% of educational departments in Ukrainian agrarian universities consists of economic educational departments. The analysis of economic knowledge functioning in Vinnytsia National Agrarian University showed that within economic educational departments almost 55% belong solely to economic disciplines and almost 30% belong to interdisciplinary economic courses. The author also uses theoretical modeling to show the knowledge environment of the universities. Attention is focused on differentiation between the inner, micro and macro knowledge environments of the universities. The author strongly recommends the use of knowledge management instruments with the aim of improving economic knowledge. Improvement of knowledge flows between an agrarian university and other important stakeholders will allow the optimization of the knowledge infrastructure of the universities, including the structure of economic knowledge. Government bodies, managers of the universities, and heads of university departments should use knowledge management tools on the systemic basis in order to achieve significant organizational results and make progress. Universities should take into consideration the specificity of micro and macro environments. Factors of globalization, new technologies, politics and legislation, economics and finances, society and culture, nature and geography should be examined and included in the information infrastructure of a university. It is clear that macro environment information is already under the consideration of academic governing bodies.

scholarly journals FROM THE REVISION OF THE ECONOMIC THEORY TO THE REVISION OF THE ECONOMIC POLICY: THE TRAPS OF THE NEW MACROECONOMIC CONSENSUS

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (3) ◽  
pp. 19-40
Author(s):  
NATALIIA REZNIKOVA ◽  
◽  
Volodymyr PANCHENKO ◽  
Oksana IVASHCHENKO ◽  
Keyword(s):  
International Economic ◽  
Economic Theory ◽  
Economic Policy ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Policy Instruments ◽  
Economic Knowledge ◽  
Economic Theories ◽  
Global Recession ◽  
Theoretical Generalization ◽  
The Global Financial Crisis

Following on from categories of theoretical and empirical levels of learning, the revision of the modern economic policy instruments is made for the purpose of their compliance with the directions of the (macro)economic theories, determination of the objectives of its actualization, and also revealing its stabilizing and allocative functions in the process of its acquisition of the international economic policy attributes. It’s established that economic theory, which is per se a dynamic, open, and unstable system of the economic knowledge that is based on corresponding assumptions and presumes simplified modeling of the economic processes because of the limitations of the offered methods, demonstrates low explicative ability in the course of analysis requested when choosing one or another economic policy according to the challenges of times. It’s proved that although different economic theories can be an effective tool in the rivalry for unfair intellectual arguments in favor of one or another political decision in particular cases, the economic policy typically doesn’t look like a way of mechanistic implementation of theoretical generalization. Although the rivalry with the help of the analytical arguments between the followers of the fiscal and monetary instruments of the macroeconomic policy allowed to get the intermediate result within the New macroeconomic consensus (NMC) with regard to recognition of the monetary policy precedence in the realization of the low rate of the price advance, the experience of the global financial crisis in 2008 – 2010 and global recession in 2020 threw into question the ability of the stabilization programs developed on the basis of NMC recommendations to achieve the expected results. The experience of the last decade marked with combination of the instability of both cyclical and structural and systemic nature, formed the demand for recognition of the fiscal policy as the stabilization programs’ component of the full value. In a bid for interpretation of the ways and aftermaths of the realization of the international economic policy the demand is made for the forming of the new scientific consensual evaluations and theoretical generalizations.

scholarly journals L’ILLUMINISMO DELLE RIFORME CIVILI: DIVISIONE DEL LAVORO, COMMERCIO, PRODUZIONE DELLA RICCHEZZA

2011 ◽  
pp. 13-38
Author(s):  
Roberto Scazzieri
Keyword(s):  
Political Action ◽  
Division Of Labour ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
Central Position ◽  
Economic Knowledge ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Administrative Governance ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Administrative Structures

The Enlightenment of Civil Reforms: Commerce, Division of Labour, and the Production of Wealth. The formation of political economy is closely associated with the intellectual traditions of the enlightenment. However, the economists’ enlightenment is a complex process characterized by a plurality of roots and expressions. It encompasses analyses and policy proposals remarkably distant from each other and yet pointing to a common matrix of concepts and beliefs. To take one example, the enlightenment of the Physiocrats, who take the standpoint of ‘external advisors’ to the Sovereign, is different from the enlightenment of those ‘cultivated traders’ who emphasize the relative autonomy of division of labour and markets relative to the state; as it is different from the standpoint of economists who focus on the middle ground between markets and governmental structures and explore their interdependence both at the level of analysis and at that of administrative and political action. The contributions of the Lombard Enlightenment are characterized by the ability to visualize both the ‘horizontal’ standpoint of division of labour and exchange, and the ‘vertical’ perspective of administrative structures. In this way, the Lombard economic enlightenment brings into focus a scheme of economic analysis and economic governance that is distinct from the radical Enlightenment of Condorcet, Morellet and Paine, as it is distinct from the ‘topdown’ laisser faire of Quesnay and Physiocracy in France, and from Genovesi’s, Galiani’s and Tanucci’s more active and context-dependent approach to economic policy in Naples. Many economists of the Lombard Enlightenment, such as Cesare Beccaria and Pietro Verri, were part of the Milanese social elite but were also active in the administrative structures of government. This makes their intellectual and policy activity of special interest. The principal objective of this paper is to discuss the contribution of the Lombard Enlightenment to the definition of a body of economic knowledge in which it is possible to see a clear overlap. between the point of view of commercial society and that of governmental structures (an overlap. that is characteristic of the intellectual make up. of civil enlightenment). This overlap. is of distinctive importance for investigating the relationship. between division of labour and markets, legal arrangements, and governance of the economy. Division of labour and markets are central to economists considering the initiatives of individuals and groups independently of political decisions and of their administrative consequences. This explains the central position of trade and division of labour in the writings of Beccaria and Verri. However, the perspective of the civil enlightenment suggests including division of labour within a complex organizational hierarchy of productive activities (Beccaria). The same point of view also calls attention to the need of investigating commerce and markets by focusing on institutional and administrative conditions rather than on choice criteria derived from abstract rationality principles (Verri). The Lombard enlightenment economists emphasize the central position of governmental actions as external interventions with respect to division of labour and markets, and for this reason capable of triggering the activation of possibilities existing within a given social context. Law, administration and monetary policy bring about an analytical and policy framework focusing on the process of wealth formation and considering this process as embedded in the institutional and administrative arrangements of society. In this way, the economists of the Lombard Enlightenment emphasize the mutual relationship. between administrative governance, economic improvement, and social structures, and take this relationship. to be at the core of the enlightenment of civil reforms.

REVIEWERS FOR VOLUME 73

2016 ◽  
Vol 73 (3) ◽  
pp. 375-375
Keyword(s):  
Advisory Board ◽  
Editorial Advisory

Many papers submitted to the Edinburgh Journal of Botany are reviewed by members of the Editorial Board and Editorial Advisory Board. The members of both Boards wish to express their thanks to the following, who have also kindly reviewed papers during the preparation of this volume.

Clinical Science in the 1990s

1990 ◽  
Vol 78 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-1
Author(s):  
M. J. Brown
Keyword(s):  
Medical Research ◽  
Review Process ◽  
Molecular Level ◽  
Short Interval ◽  
Clinical Science ◽  
Molecular Medicine ◽  
Mutual Benefit ◽  
Real Progress ◽  
General Journal

From this issue, Clinical Science will increase its page numbers from an average of 112 to 128 per monthly issue. This welcome change — equivalent to at least two manuscripts — has been ‘forced’ on us by the increasing pressure on space; this has led to an undesirable increase in the delay between acceptance and publication, and to a fall in the proportion of submitted manuscripts we have been able to accept. The change in page numbers will instead permit us now to return to our exceptionally short interval between acceptance and publication of 3–4 months; and at the same time we shall be able not only to accept (as now) those papers requiring little or no revision, but also to offer hope to some of those papers which have raised our interest but come to grief in review because of a major but remediable problem. Our view, doubtless unoriginal, has been that the review process, which is unusually thorough for Clinical Science, involving a specialist editor and two external referees, is most constructive when it helps the evolution of a good paper from an interesting piece of research. Traditionally, the papers in Clinical Science have represented some areas of research more than others. However, this has reflected entirely the pattern of papers submitted to us, rather than any selective interest of the Editorial Board, which numbers up to 35 scientists covering most areas of medical research. Arguably, after the explosion during the last decade of specialist journals, the general journal can look forward to a renaissance in the 1990s, as scientists in apparently different specialities discover that they are interested in the same substances, asking similar questions and developing techniques of mutual benefit to answer these questions. This situation arises from the trend, even among clinical scientists, to recognize the power of research based at the cellular and molecular level to achieve real progress, and at this level the concept of organ-based specialism breaks down. It is perhaps ironic that this journal, for a short while at the end of the 1970s, adopted — and then discarded — the name of Clinical Science and Molecular Medicine, since this title perfectly represents the direction in which clinical science, and therefore Clinical Science, is now progressing.

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