The billionaires boot boys start screaming – a critical analysis of economic policy discourses in reaction to Pikettys Capital in the Twenty-First Century

2019 ◽  
pp. 169-192
Author(s):  
Hendrik Theine ◽  
Maria Rieder
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
First Century ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Policy Discourses

On capital, saving, and investment in the twenty-first century: a reply to Hein

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 303-309
Author(s):  
Carl Christian von Weizsäcker ◽  
Hagen M. Krämer
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Interest Rates ◽  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Theoretical Explanation ◽  
First Century ◽  
Policy Recommendations ◽  
Low Interest Rates ◽  
Great Divergence ◽  
Twenty First Century

With our book Saving and Investment in the Twenty-First Century: The Great Divergence (published as open access), we present a comprehensive theoretical explanation as well as empirical evidence for the phenomenon of low interest rates observed in the OECD countries and China and make various economic policy recommendations based on it. We have developed a new capital-theoretical approach to address these important issues. In what follows, we will discuss some of the more critical parts of Eckhard Hein’s otherwise very sympathetic review of our book.

On Taking India into the Twenty-First Century (New Economic Policy in India)

1987 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. G. Patel
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
First Century ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
New Economic Policy ◽  
Very Old ◽  
National Leadership ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Large Sections

On one of his many visits to India Kingsley Martin was once asked how he saw the prospects for Western Europe. His reply was that he was very optimistic as most of the leaders of Western Europe then were very old. If the transition from age to youth in national leadership is a sufficient basis for hope, we certainly have much to be grateful for in India. And our young Prime Minister has already struck a very responsive chord among large sections of Indian society by his promise of change. His mother had won the 1980 election on the promise of a ‘Government that works’. Mr Gandhi promised in 1984 a ‘Government that works faster’—thus heralding a promise of greater efficiency in general. When asked about the objective of his new Government, he used the now famous phrase that his objective was to take India into the twenty-first century. Taken at its face value, this was a rather vacuous phrase. It is not necessary for anyone to carry India, Atlas-like, into the twenty-first century. It would arrive at our doorstep in due course, as it will at everyone else's, and most probably without even a whimper.

scholarly journals Atheneum Architektury XXI wieku. Rio de Janeiro

2020 ◽  
pp. 99-109
Author(s):  
Magdalena Jagiełło-Kowalczyk ◽  
Stanislav Avsec ◽  
Maja Leszczyńska
Keyword(s):  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
First Century ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
A Site

Artykuł przedstawia efekt badań dotyczących potencjału współczesnego Rio de Janeiro jako miejsca dla projektu XXI wieku. Analiza architektury miasta w kontekście uwarunkowań społecznych, przestrzennych i przyrodniczych oraz analiza istniejących tam najważniejszych miejsc kulturotwórczych stały się punktem wyjścia do określenia ideowych wytycznych do projektu konkursowego Atheneum Architektury w Rio de Joneiro, który został przedstawiony w publikacji. Badania prowadzono w oparciu o metodę analizy krytycznej literatury oraz badania in citu. Athenaeum of twenty-first-century architecture: Rio de Janeiro This paper presents the outcomes of a study on the potential of contemporary Rio de Janeiro to act as a site for a twenty-first century project. An analysis of the city’s architecture in the context of social, spatial and wildlife-related determinants and an analysis of extant major culture-forming places became the starting point for determining conceptual guidelines for the competition design of the Architecture Athenaeum in Rio de Janeiro, which has been presented in the paper. The research was based on critical analysis of the literature and on-site studies.

scholarly journals ‘Burn the Witch’: Decadence and the Occult in Contemporary Feminist Performance

2021 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 285-302
Author(s):  
ADAM ALSTON
Keyword(s):  
Critical Analysis ◽  
First Century ◽  
Aesthetics And Politics ◽  
Feminist Performance ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The Witch

This article introduces and theorizes ‘decadence’ as a key feature of Lauren Barri Holstein's performance Notorious (2017). The decadence of Holstein's work is approached in light of two main considerations: the spectacular presentation of witchcraft as an occult practice, and what Holstein ‘does’ with the staging of witches and witchcraft. Situated in light of performances associated with the neo-occult revival (Ivy Monteiro and Jex Blackmore), and a recent strand of feminist performance that revels in an aesthetics of trash, mess and excess (Ann Liv Young and Lucy McCormick), the article offers a close critical analysis of Notorious as a work that addresses and seeks to subvert gendered inequalities and forms of productivity in twenty-first-century capitalism. I argue that Holstein's overidentification with exertion and exhaustion as much as the subversive potentialities of witchcraft results in a decadent aesthetic, that her staging of the witch as a persecuted but powerful emblem of the occult sheds valuable light on the aesthetics and politics of decadence in performance, and that the subversive qualities of decadence emerge particularly strongly in its ‘doing’ as an embodied and enacted practice.

scholarly journals Reconciliation Paradigm in the Post Colonial Africa: A Critical Analysis

2012 ◽  
Vol 19 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 74-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julius Gathogo
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
First Century ◽  
Tropical Africa ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
African Theology ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Reconciliation Project ◽  
African Sample

Abstract The article sets out to stir up the debate on reconciliation project in the post colonial Africa. As we strategise on ways and means of delivering the promise of reconstruction, there is need to pay more attention on the reconciliation for individual and society. In other words, does reconciliation mean blanket forgiveness or reparation? How can we ensure that those who looted Africa account for their misdeeds without further complicating the situation? The article is set on the premise that even though there are many paradigms in African theology of the twenty-first century, minor paradigms (refer to reconciliation, liberation, inculturation, market-theology and charismatic among others) and the dominant paradigm (refer to reconstruction) are both critical in the holistic rebuilding of the post colonial Africa. This said; it is imperative to critically assess reconciliation as an important paradigm – as it runs concurrently with other paradigms in Africa today. In particular, are the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commissions taking place in various countries of the tropical Africa, since Tutu’s South African sample of 1995, rooted in African cultural and religious heritage, and hence authentic? How can Africa go about her reconciliative phase?

The fashion scandal: Social media, identity and the globalization of fashion in the twenty-first century

2021 ◽  
Vol 00 (0) ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Annamari Vänskä ◽  
Olga Gurova
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Emotional Responses ◽  
First Century ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Citizen Journalism ◽  
Cultural Appropriation ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The Way

During the latter part of the 2010s, many fashion brands – e.g., Gucci, Burberry, Dolce & Gabbana, Prada, Dior – have been caught up with scandals and called out for racism, cultural appropriation and other types of insensitivity towards vulnerable groups. This article will unpack, through critical analysis of some of these examples, the changing landscape of the ‘fashion scandal’ in the late-2010s. We understand fashion scandals as the fuel of fashion. They are debated in social media and they are controversial actions, statements or events that cause strong emotional responses. Even though scandal has been proven effective in fashion marketing for decades, and despite it is still frequently used, there might be a change on the way. Our examples suggest that with the rise of social media and its so-called ‘citizen journalism’ the tactics of creating scandals may have lost their lustre and can easily turn against the brand. We will also discuss new tactics that brands have adopted to escape undesired scandals by establishing new roles such as the ‘diversity consultant’.

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