Overview of those to come: Chinese "bricks" in the global economy - Li Peilin, MK Gorshakov, Celi Scalon, KL Sharma (eds.), Handbook on Social Stratification in the BRIC Countries: Change and Perspective, Zavod za udžbenike, Beograd, 2014

Abstract Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) – the progressive process by which microbes, such as bacteria, through evolutionary, environmental and social factors develop the ability to become resistant to drugs that were once effective at treating them – is a threat from which no one can escape. It is one of the largest threats to clinical and global health in the twenty-first century – inflicting monumental health, economic and social consequences. All persons locally and globally, and even all future persons yet to come into existence, all suffer the shared, interdependent vulnerability to this threat that will have a substantial impact on all aspects of our lives. For example, while reliable data are hard to find, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) has conservatively estimated that, in Europe alone, AMR causes additional annual cost to health care systems of at least €1.5 billion, and is responsible for around 25,000 deaths per year. Furthermore, AMR significantly increases the cost of treating bacterial infections with an increase in length of hospital stays and average number of re-consultations, as well as the resultant lost productivity from increased morbidity. With a combined cost of up to $100 trillion to the global economy – pushing a further 28 million people into extreme poverty – this is one of the most pressing challenges facing the world. Most troublingly, if we do not succeed in diminishing the progression of AMR, there is the very real potential for it to threaten common procedures and treatments of modern medicine, including the safety and efficacy of surgical procedures and immunosuppressing chemotherapy. Some experts are warning that we may soon be ushering in a post-antibiotic area.

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World Medievalism

10.1093/oso/9780198825944.001.0001 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Louise D'Arcens

Keyword(s):

Case Studies ◽

Middle Ages ◽

Global Economy ◽

Television Programs ◽

Indigenous Australia ◽

Global Modernity ◽

To Come ◽

Material Conditions ◽

Textual Culture ◽

The Middle Ages

World Medievalism: The Middle Ages in Modern Textual Culture explores the ways in which a range of modern textual cultures have continued to engage creatively with the medieval past in order to come to terms with the global present. Building its argument through four case studies—from the Middle East, France, Southeast Asia, and Indigenous Australia–it shows that to understand medievalism as a cultural idiom with global reach, we need to develop a more nuanced grasp of the different ways ‘the Middle Ages’ have come to signify beyond Europe as well as within a Europe that has been transformed by multiculturalism and the global economy. The book’s case studies are explored within a conceptual framework in which medievalism itself is formulated as ‘world-disclosing’—a transhistorical encounter that enables the modern subject to apprehend the past ‘world’ opened up in medieval and medievalist texts and objects. The book analyses the cultural and material conditions under which its texts are produced, disseminated, and received and examines literature alongside films, television programs, newspapers and journals, political tracts, as well as such material and artefactual texts as photographs, paintings, statues, buildings, rock art, and fossils. While the case studies feature distinctive localized forms of medievalism, taken together they reveal how imperial and global legacies have ensured that the medieval period continues to be perceived as a commonly held past that can be retrieved, reclaimed, or revived in response to the accelerated changes and uncertainties of global modernity.

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LONG-TERM VISION OF DEVELOPMENT IN POST COVID-19 ERA: A NORMATIVE THEOREM IN WORLD PERSPECTIVE.

Ensemble ◽

10.37948/ensemble-2021-sp1-a004 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol SP-1 (1) ◽

pp. 30-34

Author(s):

Somenath Halder ◽

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Sourav Paul ◽

Keyword(s):

Gross Domestic Product ◽

Human Resource ◽

Human Activity ◽

Global Economy ◽

Human Existence ◽

Global Village ◽

The World ◽

To Come ◽

World Perspective

The present study seeks to find a reliant philosophy of development in the post COVID-19 times to come. Since being contiguous, the Novelcoronavirus has switched almost every human activity uncertain all over the world. Rather the health emergency in this pandemic has strangled human existence on this planet which every country and government are fighting against. Like many others, global economy and development are under severe threat that tend us to chalk out a theorem to be mechanized for bringing the global village back into normalcy. The paper delves deeper to establish a connection of development with wellbeing, keeping human resource at the center of significance. It also measures the interrelation of wealth, economy and development with human resource and suggests a balanced prioritization of the same in terms of accelerating Gross Domestic Product (GDP). As the future after COVID 19 will not be the same like before, even after the pandemic being over, the proposed theorem tries to contemplate the global economy with a new outlook of long-term development.

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W. E. B. Du Bois

A Political Companion to W. E. B. Du Bois ◽

10.5810/kentucky/9780813174907.003.0002 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Charles W. Mills

Keyword(s):

Political Philosophy ◽

Global Economy ◽

Political Equality ◽

Racial Categorization ◽

Du Bois ◽

American Capitalism ◽

Starting Point ◽

To Come ◽

Equal Citizenship ◽

Modern Form

In this essay, Charles W. Mills seeks to catalyze a comparable recognition of Du Bois’s theoretical achievements in political philosophy. Since Du Bois engaged critically with many different forms of political thought, his beliefs do not neatly align with any one political philosophy, challenging scholarly orthodoxies to the point of exclusion by mainstream scholarship. However, recent work in slavery, American capitalism, and global economy has aligned with Du Bois’s theories, and his influence is increasingly acknowledged in shaping discussions of race. Mills argues that Western political philosophy, especially in its modern form, is heavily dependent on racial categorization and subjugation, despite its supposed commitment to free and equal citizenship for all. Du Bois recognized the need to reframe Western philosophical concepts in order to establish black political equality and critiqued this framework, providing a starting point for the black political thinkers to come after him.

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Researching Forced Labour in the Global Economy

10.5871/bacad/9780197266472.001.0001 ◽

2018 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Keyword(s):

Supply Chains ◽

Global Economy ◽

Evidence Base ◽

Poor Quality ◽

World Cup ◽

Modern Slavery ◽

Vested Interests ◽

Media Reports ◽

Forced Labour ◽

To Come

By most accounts, forced labour, human trafficking, and modern slavery are thriving in the global economy. Recent media reports — including the discovery of widespread trafficking in Thailand's shrimp industry, forced labour in global tea and cocoa supply chains, and the devastating deaths of workers constructing stadiums for Qatar's World Cup— have brought once hidden exploitation into the mainstream spotlight. As public concern about forced labour has escalated, governments around the world have begun to enact legislation to combat it in global production. Yet, in spite of soaring media and policy attention, reliable research on the business of forced labour remains difficult to come by. Forced labour is notoriously challenging to investigate, given that it is illegal, and powerful corporations and governments are reluctant to grant academics access to their workers and supply chains. Given the risk associated with researching the business of forced labour, until very recently, few scholars even attempted to collect hard or systematic data. Instead, academics have often had little choice but to rely on poor quality second-hand data, frequently generated by activists and businesses with vested interests in portraying the problem in a certain light. As a result, the evidence base on contemporary forced labour is both dangerously thin and riddled with bias. Researching Forced Labour in the Global Economy gathers an interdisciplinary group of leading scholars to tackle this problem. It provides the first, comprehensive scholarly account of forced labour's role in the contemporary global economy and reflections on the methodologies used to generate this research.

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Monaco Leader Urges Climate Action, Calls on Trump to Help

Eos ◽

10.1029/2016eo064695 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Randy Showstack

Keyword(s):

Global Economy ◽

Low Carbon ◽

The World ◽

Climate Action ◽

To Come

HSH Prince Albert II cautioned that the world has to come to terms with the fact that we are facing severe challenges if we don’t move toward a low-carbon global economy.

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Colonial legacies and racial hierarchies in the global economy: a review article

Race & Class ◽

10.1177/03063968211060325 ◽

2022 ◽

Vol 63 (3) ◽

pp. 103-108

Author(s):

Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven

Keyword(s):

Social Stratification ◽

Global Economy ◽

Review Article ◽

Race And Class ◽

Stratification Economics ◽

Colonial Legacies ◽

Racial Hierarchies

This article reviews two recent books on persistent inequalities in the global economy and the role of colonial legacies and racial hierarchies in explaining them. Adom Getachew’s Worldmaking after Empire (2019) and Franklin Obeng-Odoom’s Property, Institutions, and Social Stratification in Africa (2020) draw on the Black Radical Tradition and stratification economics respectively to challenge mainstream understandings of racial hierarchies. After first outlining the strengths and key insights of each book, the author discusses how they could be expanded in a more radical manner, along the lines of anti-colonial, decolonial and black Marxism. She argues that in order to understand how racial hierarchies are connected to the development of capitalism, further engagement with radical scholarship that sees race and class as co-constituted would be required.

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Trends of Development of Higher Education in Generations Theory in Digital Global Economy

SHS Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/shsconf/20185001154 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 50 ◽

pp. 01154

Author(s):

Irina Savelyeva ◽

Oksana Falchenko ◽

Victor Kovalev ◽

Olga Pliusnina

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Critical Analysis ◽

Global Economy ◽

Interdisciplinary Approach ◽

Educational Process ◽

Traditional Teaching ◽

Present Stage ◽

Generational Theory ◽

Higher Education System ◽

To Come

The article studies the tendencies of the development of higher education in the era of the digital global economy on the basis of the interdisciplinary approach. A method of critical analysis is used to promote the disclosure of contradictions between the trends in the development of the digital global economy and the state of higher education at the present stage, as well as the method of interpretation that allows us to come closer to understanding the tasks that the higher education system must solve through studying the characteristics of the current generation of students. An interpretation of the features of the modern educational process in the era of digital economy through the prism of the theory of generations (The Strauss-Howe Generational Theory) is given. The problem of search for actual models of higher education is investigated, and the necessity of finding ways of adapting higher education to the global challenges of modernity in the situation of reducing the influence of traditional teaching technologies on the younger generation is proved.

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Cast Aside: Boredom, Downward Mobility, and Homelessness in Post-Communist Bucharest

Cultural Anthropology ◽

10.14506/ca29.1.03 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 29 (1) ◽

pp. 8-31 ◽

Cited By ~ 32

Author(s):

Bruce O'Neill

Keyword(s):

Global Economy ◽

Affective State ◽

Homeless Shelters ◽

Social Suffering ◽

Public Parks ◽

Downward Mobility ◽

Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽

The World ◽

To Come ◽

The City

The homeless, in post-Communist Bucharest, Romania, are bored. They describe themselves as bored all of the time. Drawing upon nearly three years of ethnographic fieldwork that moves between Bucharest’s homeless shelters and squatter camps, day centers and public parks, this article approaches the homeless’s boredom as an everyday affect structured by the politics of consumption in post-communist Bucharest. At the center of this study sits not simply the inability to consume but also the feeling of being cast aside, of being downwardly mobile in a neoliberal era of supposed ascent. In an increasingly consumer-driven society, boredom, I argue, is an affective state that registers within the modality of time the newly homeless’s expulsion to the margins of the city. In this sense, boredom is a persistent form of social suffering made possible by a crisis-generated shift in the global economy, one that has forced tens of millions of people the world over to come to terms with diminished economic capacities.

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Diversification and Division in the English Education System: Towards a Post-Fordist Model?

Environment and Planning A Economy and Space ◽

10.1068/a271595 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 27 (10) ◽

pp. 1595-1612 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

M Bradford

Keyword(s):

Education System ◽

Social Stratification ◽

Global Economy ◽

English Education ◽

Spatial Differentiation ◽

New Right ◽

Local Education Authority ◽

International Context ◽

Social Divisions ◽

Education Authority

After placing the education reforms in England in their international context, in this paper I analyse the basis of the reforms in terms of New Right thought and responses to the global economy. I identify an innovation which best typifies the particular combination of New Right thought underlying the reform, the introduction of grant-maintained (GM) schools. These form a major component of the recent diversification of educational provision. It is argued that the spatial unevenness of this diversification, represented by differential GM adoption, has replaced differences in local education authority policies and practices in forming the basis of spatial differentiation in the education service across England. It is argued that GM schools have produced political, educational, and social divisions. These have augmented the tendency for the diversification to lead to social stratification. Having analysed the restructured education system, I critically consider the degree to which it reflects a post-Fordist welfare state.

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