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Joseph Messner\u27s organ music: evolution of a style
Joseph Messner (1893-1969) achieved fame in Europe for his contributions to the sacred concerts of the Salzburg Festspiele following World War II. In his early career, however, Messner earned initial acclaim as a recitalist and renowned improviser on the organ. Messner composed and published several organ works prior to World War II which contain style elements of late-romanticism and an emerging neoclassicism. This paper analyses the works in regards to form, stylistic elements, and performance issues in addition to establishing the historical contexts from which they originated
Innovation and Tradition
Bohner G, Crutchfield RD, Messner SF, Zick A. Innovation and Tradition. International Journal of Conflict and Violence (IJCV). 2017;11
R&D Subsidies and Climate Policy: Is There a "Free Lunch"?
Because of the long-term nature of the climate problem, technological advances are often seen as an important component of any solution. However, when considering the potential for technology to help solve the climate problem, two market failures exist which lead to underinvestment in climate-friendly R&D: environmental externalities and the public goods nature of new knowledge. As a result, government subsidies to climate-friendly R&D projects are often proposed as part of a policy solution. Using the ENTICE model, I analyze the effectiveness of such subsidies, both with and without other climate policies, such as a carbon tax. While R&D subsidies do lead to significant increases in climate-friendly R&D, this R&D has little impact on the climate itself. Subsidies address the problem of knowledge as a public good, but they do not address the environmental externality, and thus offer no additional incentive to adopt new technologies. Moreover, high opportunity costs to R&D limit the potential role that subsidies can play. While R&D subsidies can improve efficiency, policies that directly affect the environmental externality have a much larger impact on both atmospheric temperature and economic welfare.
Shaheen Leads Poorly Known Republican Challengers in 2020 NH Senate Race 3/2/2020
Senator Jeanne Shaheen holds clear leads over prospective Republican challengers Former New Hampshire House of Representatives Speaker Bill O\u27Brien, Retired General Don Bolduc, and Attorney Corky Messner. As their reelection contests approach, Representatives Chris Pappas and Annie Kuster are viewed favorably by pluralities of their constituents, but many are neutral or are unaware of them
Poverty, Inequality, and City Homicide Rates: Some Not So Unexpected Findings
Messner\u27s recent investigation of homicide and relative and absolute economic deprivation is replicated here, but cities rather than SMSA\u27s and three years (1950, 1960, 1970) rather than one (1970) are considered. Because of tremendous intra-unit variation for SMSAs with respect to homicides and sociodemographic characteristics (an important variation that is masked when data are aggregated on a SMSA level), cities are a preferable unit of analysis in cross-sectional investigations of homicide. Where Messner found a significant negative relationship between percentage of poverty (absolute deprivation) and homicides, I consistently find the opposite pattern as predicted. In both studies, however, there is only a slight and nonsignificant relationship between relative economic deprivation (income inequality) and homicides. Unlike Messner, however, I do not consider this finding surprising. At best, there is only a weak theoretical linkage between homicide and relative economic deprivation. Accordingly, the results of this investigation for both absolute and relative deprivation are neither âperplexingâ nor do they warrant the âserious reconsideration of the linkages between poverty, inequality and the homicide rateâ that Messner (1982: 112) calls for
Learning by Doing vs Learning by Researching in a Model of Climate Change Policy Analysis
Many predictions and conclusions in climate change literature have been made on the basis of theoretical analyses and quantitative models that assume exogenous technological change. One may wonder if those policy prescriptions hold in the more realistic case of endogenously evolving technologies. In previous work we modified a popular integrated assessment model to allow for an explicit role of the stock of knowledge which accumulates through R&D investment. In our formulation knowledge affects the output production technology and the emission-output ratio. In this paper we make progress in our efforts aimed to model the process of technological change. In keeping with recent theories of endogenous growth, we specify two ways in which knowledge accumulates: via a deliberate, optimally selected R&D decision or via experience, giving rise to Learning by Doing. We simulate the model under the two versions of endogenous technical change and look at the dynamics of a number of relevant variables.Climate Policy, Environmental Modeling, Integrated Assessment, Technical Change
On the Economics of Regional Powers: Comparing China, India, Brazil, and South Africa
As the conception of and debates on regional powers have been led by political science, this pa-per aims to contribute to the discussion from an economics perspective. Based on the discussion of different concepts of economic powerâsuch as those of Schumpeter, Perroux, Predöhl, or Kindlebergerâconcepts of technological leadership, and the global value chain approaches, the paper develops a research framework for the economics of regional powers. This framework is then tested using descriptive statistics as well as regressions analysis, with a focus on the four regional powers Brazil, China, India, and South Africa. As economic power is relational, the re-lationship of regional powers to other nations in the region is analyzed. According to the findings, only limited statements on the economics of regional powers are possible: a regional power can be described as an economy with a relatively large population and land area which plays a dominant role in trade within the region and in the regional governance. The regional power develops its technological capacities, and its businesses act regionally and globally with increasing strength.Brazil, China, economic geography, economic leadership, economic power, growth, India, investment, public goods, regional powers, regression analysis, South Africa, technological change, value chain, trade.
Fixed-Connectivity Membranes
The statistical mechanics of flexible surfaces with internal elasticity and
shape fluctuations is summarized. Phantom and self-avoiding isotropic and
anisotropic membranes are discussed, with emphasis on the universal negative
Poisson ratio common to the low-temperature phase of phantom membranes and all
strictly self-avoiding membranes in the absence of attractive interactions. The
study of crystalline order on the frozen surface of spherical membranes is also
treated.Comment: Chapter 11 in "Statistical mechanics of Membranes and Surfaces", ed.
by D.R. Nelson, T. Piran and S. Weinberg (World Scientific, Singapore, 2004);
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