Ten Years After

Editor\u27snote-The following was excerpted from the summary of the President\u27s Report, 1976-197

Chern-Simons Gauge Theory: Ten Years After

A brief review on the progress made in the study of Chern-Simons gauge theory since its relation to knot theory was discovered ten years ago is presented. Emphasis is made on the analysis of the perturbative study of the theory and its connection to the theory of Vassiliev invariants. It is described how the study of the quantum field theory for three different gauge fixings leads to three different representations for Vassiliev invariants. Two of these gauge fixings lead to well known representations: the covariant Landau gauge corresponds to the configuration space integrals while the non-covariant light-cone gauge to the Kontsevich integral. The progress made in the analysis of the third gauge fixing, the non-covariant temporal gauge, is described in detail. In this case one obtains combinatorial expressions, instead of integral ones, for Vassiliev invariants. The approach based on this last gauge fixing seems very promising to obtain a full combinatorial formula. We collect the combinatorial expressions for all the Vassiliev invariants up to order four which have been obtained in this approach.Comment: 62 pages, 21 figures, lecture delivered at the workshop "Trends in Theoretical Physics II", Buenos Aires, November 199

Ten Years After . . . Transition and Economics

This paper attempts to portray a synthesis of what has been learned in the past 10 years with regard to the transition process. It contrasts the mainstream "Washington consensus" view of transition with the "evolutionary institutionalist" perspective. It argues that the latter gives a more adequate and complete picture both of the transition processes and of economic systems and is of better help to prevent serious transition failures. Copyright 2002, International Monetary Fund

Gestapu--Ten Years After

March 1976 commemorates the 10th anniversary of the culmination of a series of events which is one of the watersheds of contemporary Asian history. These events began in October 1965 with an attempt by the Communist Party of Indonesia (PK!) to overthrow the government of President Sukarno and establish itself as a revolutionary power at a time when similar Communist attempts in Southeast Asia were not going well. Indonesian military forces under the skillful leadership of General Suharto quickly rallied and turned the tide against the Communists and in favor of the established political order

Roumania Ten Years After

"A commission of five prominent churchmen made a survey of matters pertaining to religious rights and expressed the hope that this report would be informative to the large committee in America who sent them.

Less Finance, Less Inequality? Ten Years After the Crisis

Drawing on his research on the structure of remuneration in the financial industry and on a collective project underway studying the evolution of inequalities in ten countries, Olivier Godechot, CNRS Senior researcher, codirector of the MaxPo, shows that the decline in financial activity following the crisis and the regulation of the sector did not necessarily reduce remuneration in finance and, consequently, the level of national wage inequality