scholarly journals Interdisciplinarity and the future of development studies after the 2019 Nobel Prize in economics

2021 ◽  
pp. 315-329
Author(s):  
Cristiano Lanzano ◽  
Cecilia Navarra ◽  
Elena Vallino
Keyword(s):  
Nobel Prize ◽  
Development Studies ◽  
The Future

Beyond Market: Institutions of Governance in the Complex World (Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics 2009 - Oliver Williamson and Elinor Ostrom)

2010 ◽  
pp. 82-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ya. Kuzminov ◽  
M. Yudkevich
Keyword(s):  
Economic Theory ◽  
Behavioral Economics ◽  
Nobel Prize ◽  
Organization Theory ◽  
Development Studies ◽  
Complex World ◽  
Market Institutions ◽  
Institutional Economic

The article surveys the main lines of research conducted by Oliver Williamson and Elinor Ostrom - 2009 Nobel Prize winners in economics. Williamsons and Ostroms contribution to understanding the nature of institutions and choice over institutional options are discussed. The role their work played in evolution of modern institutional economic theory is analyzed in detail, as well as interconnections between Williamsons and Ostroms ideas and the most recent research developments in organization theory, behavioral economics and development studies.

scholarly journals The relative (un)certainty of subnational population decline

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael P. Cameron
Keyword(s):  
Nobel Prize ◽  
Population Decline ◽  
Nobel Prize Winner ◽  
Niels Bohr ◽  
Costs And Benefits ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future Population

“Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.” This quote is attributed to Danish physicist and Nobel prize winner Niels Bohr, but the difficulty of making predictions does not stop us from making forecasts of economic, demographic, and other variables. Investors, businesses, policy makers and others use these forecasts to inform their decisions about investments and policy settings where understanding of the future trajectory and levels of costs and benefits are essential. One key example is forecasts of future population. The size and distribution (whether geographic, age, ethnic, or some other distribution) of the future population is a critical input into urban and other planning. Understanding the methods and limitations of forecasts is an important but often underappreciated task for planners and policymakers.

Hermann Joseph Muller, 1890-1967

1968 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 348-389 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Biology ◽  
Human Evolution ◽  
Nobel Prize ◽  
Public Mind ◽  
The Public ◽  
Publication Number ◽  
The Future ◽  
Ionizing Radiations ◽  
Mutagenic Effects ◽  
Heart Condition

Hermann Joseph Muller died on 5 April 1967, at the age of 76, after several years of struggle with a heart condition. Biology has lost one of its outstanding pioneers and leaders. His decisive contributions—both in theory and in experiments, many of them in advance of his time—opened and marked step by step the trail from the Mendelism of the 1910’s to the molecular biology of the 1960’s. His last two papers—prepared in 1965 and 1966—‘The gene material as the initiator and the organizing basis of life’ (369) * and ‘What genetic course will man steer?’ (372)—give a grand view of that trail, of where it has led and of which biological issues the knowledge so acquired presents to mankind. In the public mind Muller’s eminence is based on his vast and profound contributions to experimental genetics, his discovery of the mutagenic effects of ionizing radiations—which motivated the award of the Nobel Prize in 1946—and his efforts to make the genetic hazards of radiations understood and to limit these hazards. There is a widespread tendency to dismiss his concern for the future course of human evolution, and in particular his practical proposals for voluntary germinal choice, as senile deviations, amusing if they were not fraught with danger. Two facts show how wrong is this belief. * Numbers in parentheses refer to publication number in list of published works. Sentences in inverted commas without numbers are from two autobiographical manuscripts of 1936 and 1941, respectively.

The Material Roots of the Suspended African State: Arguments from Somalia

1987 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 669-690 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdi Samatar ◽  
A. I. Samatar
Keyword(s):  
African State ◽  
Development Studies ◽  
Structural Constraints ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Political Choices ◽  
Global Systems

In this historical conjuncture of profound socio-economic disorders, the condition of the peoples of the so-called periphery is as desperate as it has ever been. Understanding the making and nature of their predicament is certainly one of the most basic conundrums in development studies in general, and the study of Africa in particular. A useful way of looking at the continent's dilemma is to focus on two broad factors: structural constraints and subjective conditions. The first speaks to the complex of historical circumstances, habits, and rules bequeathed by the past – ‘the grid of inheritance’, to borrow from E. P. Thompson – and the overbearing logic of the contemporary global systems of production, exchange, and information. The second signifies political choices that are made as the battle with the past, the present, and for the future continues.

scholarly journals Book Reviews

2013 ◽  
Vol 24 (77) ◽  
pp. 40-46
Author(s):  
Jonathan Berry ◽  
Alan Hopkinson ◽  
Vanda Broughton ◽  
Charles Oppenheim ◽  
Claire Creaser ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Discovery ◽  
Information Sources ◽  
Information Service ◽  
Service Development ◽  
Bibliographic Databases ◽  
Development Studies ◽  
The Future

Sources of unofficial UK statistics. David Mort and Wendy Wilkins Information sources in development studies. Sheila Allcock (ed.) The future of classification. Rita Marcella and Arthur Maltby Knowledge discovery in bibliographic databases [Library Trends 48]. Jian Qin and Jay Norton (eds.) The integrated accessible library: a model of service development for the 21"'century [REVIEL Report]. Peter Brophy and Jenny Craven Disaster and after: the practicalities of information service in times of war and other catastrophes. Paul Sturges and Diana Rosenberg (eds.). Reading the Situation. Book Marketing Ltd & the Reading Partnership

scholarly journals Gertrude Belle Elion. 23 January 1918 — 21 February 1999

2008 ◽  
Vol 54 ◽  
pp. 161-168
Author(s):  
Mary Ellen Avery
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Nobel Prize ◽  
Freshman Year ◽  
Hunter College ◽  
School Subjects ◽  
Major Subject ◽  
The Future

In the spring of 1933 Gertrude Elion graduated from high school and that summer she had to select a major subject before she could begin her freshman year at Hunter College. This posed a quandary for the future Nobel Prize recipient, as well as holder of 45 patents, 23 honorary degrees, and a long list of other honours: she had liked all her school subjects, making it difficult to select just one. ‘Iloved to learn everything, everything in sight and I was never satisfied that I knew everything there was to know in each of my courses.'Fatefully, that summer her grandfather, whom she loved dearly, died of cancer. ‘I watched him go over a period of months in a very painfulway, and it suddenly occurred to me that what I really needed to do was to become a scientist, and particularly a chemist, so that I would goout there and make a cure for cancer.' (All quotations in this memoir are from the author's taped 1997 interview with G. B. Elion.)

scholarly journals „Zwykle traktuję siebie albo zbyt pochlebnie, albo mieszam z błotem” – strategie autoprezentacyjne stosowane przez Czesława Miłosza w listach do Jarosława Iwaszkiewicza

2021 ◽  
pp. 515-526
Author(s):  
Anna Majewska-Wójcik ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Nobel Prize ◽  
Nobel Prize Winner ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Czeslaw Milosz ◽  
The Future

“I usually treat myself either too flatteringly or mix myself with the mud” – self-presentation strategies used by Czesław Miłosz in his letters to Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz Summary The article concerns the self-presentation strategies with which Czesław Miłosz built his image in his letters to Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz. The tools of communicative psychology, sociology and pragmalinguistics were used for the analyses. The epistolographic material shows that Miłosz willingly used ingratiation, thanks to which he gained the favour of Iwaszkiewicz and his patronage. He juxtaposed compliments to the master with auto-invectives, he intertwined acts of self-depreciation with the images of narcissistic self-love. As a result, the correspondence shows a contradictory image of the future Nobel Prize winner, a self-portrait that evolves with age and experience. Fascinated by Iwaszkiewicz, full of complexes and selflessness, a novice writer, a sensitive and emotionally immature young man with narcissistic inclinations on the pages of his letters turns into a writer and faithful friend who is aware of his talent.

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