The Effects of a Declining Housing Market on the U.S. Economy

Longstanding speculation about the likelihood of a housing market collapse has given way in the past few months to consideration of just how far the housing market will fall, and how much damage the debacle will inflict on the economy. This paper assesses the magnitude of the impact of housing price decreases on real private expenditure, examines the role of new types of mortgages and mortgage-related securities, and analyzes possible policy responses

Masalah kesehatan : lingkungan sebagai sumber penyakit

ix, 220 p.; 20 cm

MASALAH KESEHATAN: Lingkungan Sebagai Sumber Penyakit

ix; 220 hlm;20 x 14 c

The Picture of Health : Environmental Sources of Disease

New York256 p.; 21 c

Masalah kesehatan : lingkungan sebagai sumber penyakit

ix, 220 p.; 20 cm

Losing Ground : Environmental Stress and World Food Prospects

New York223 p.; 21 c

Masalah Kesehatan : Lingkungan Sebagai Sumber Penyakit

Jakartaix, 220 hlm.; 21 c

Urban revolution and Chinese contemporary art: a total revolution of the senses

Urban transformation in China has been hailed as a revolution. The pace and scale of change as well as the grand narrative of transformation have been characterized in terms of superlatives – the tallest skyscrapers, the largest shopping malls, the longest bridges and highways, the fastest trains – testifying to the teleology and progress of China’s dream of prosperity. However, behind the sleek and glittering façade lies a story of exclusion, violence, dispossession, and destruction – the ruins of a civilization. This article engages with this side of the story by exploring the dialectic between urban transformation and the parallel development of the visual arts, which has created new regimes of visibility and new hierarchies of representation. In new and large cities alike, the visual arts have been manifesting affections that permeate the contemporary world, creating new possibilities for ‘distributing the sensible’. This article focuses on the artworks produced by Zhang Dali, Dai Guangyu and Jin Feng, whose subject matter involves common people, and it engages with three crucial discursive formations: violence, socio-economic inequality, and utopian dreams. These artists are producing a ‘history from below’ (to borrow E. P. Thompson’s expression): rescuing the common people from ‘the enormous condescension of posterity’. They are making ordinary people assume the importance of the extraordinary. From the point of view of aesthetics, they are enacting a total revolution of the senses and, in Rancière’s words, making ‘heard as speakers those who had been perceived as mere noisy animals’