758 research outputs found
Modelling the US Federal Spending Process: Overview and Implications
The object of study is the US Federal budget process - an institutional process of increasing prominence in US and world affairs - which is unique in generating quantitative data for scholarly research. The authors first outline their rigorous, but simple, econometric models of how budget decisions are made, coordinated, and implemented and then trace the implications of their high-inertia view of the process for the US economic cycle. They propound a presidential and Congressional ambition model of current and postwar cyclical economic difficulties, including stagflation, in terms of a macroeconomic model of the US economy in which federal governmental expenditure is endogenous. The chapter concludes with speculation on the disastrous consequences for society of the growth of a sluggishly adaptable bureaucratic process operating in a rapidly changing economic and social environment
Toward a Socialism for the Future, in the Wake of the Demise of the Socialism of the Past
http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/51230/1/464.pd
The OECD and phases in the international political economy, 1961–2011
In 2011, the OECD turned fifty. To provide a broad foundation for further thinking on this organization, we analyse its evolution over half a century from two perspectives: phases in the international political economy and the literature on IPE. By so doing, we uncover two paradoxes. Firstly, we find that the organization’s evolution closely mirrored major phases in the postwar international political economy until recently. However, the OECD’s long-term dependence on theWest has now become an obstacle to its efforts to adapt to the latest phase, characterised by the rise of non-Western powers. Secondly, we show that, during the OECD’s “golden age”, scholars paid relatively little attention to the organization but, from the 2000s, as the organization faced an unprecedented challenge of its potential economic decline, IPE literature on the organization blossomed
Situational liminality: mis-managed consumer experience in liquid modernity
The purpose of the paper is to explore experience economy events from an abductive
interpetivist perspective. The empirical part of the study is based on the self-reflective anthropologic
inquiry method. This study sets out to propose that the awkwardness and setback
experienced by the client, customer or visitor, may generate his/her agency to establish a more
clear-cut construction of the experiential framework. However, if attempted the disambiguation
demands significant emotional and, sometimes, physical labour, typically not undertaken willingly,
and potentially resulting in the subject’s avoidance of exposure to similar experiences in
future. Introducing the notion of ‘situational liminality’, the paper re-focuses the critical edge of
inquiry away from agency-reducing aspects of experience economy, towards reflecting on their
enforced, albeit not deliberate, agency-inducing consequences. By exploring the ‘liquid’ underpinnings
of situational liminality, this study contributes to the ongoing discussion on liquid
modernity in organizational context
Розрахунок та проектування окремого фундаменту будівлі на природній ґрунтовій основі. Методичні рекомендації до виконання практичних завдань та курсового проекту з дисципліни «Механіка ґрунтів, основи і фундаменти» сту- дентами напрямів підготовки 6.060101 Будівництво та 6.050301 Гірництво
Подано методичні рекомендації до виконання практичних завдань та кур-
сового проекту з дисципліни «Механіка ґрунтів, основи і фундаменти» для сту-
дентів напрямів підготовки 6.060101 Будівництво та 6.050301 Гірництво.
Розглянуто порядок проектування фундаменту будівлі мілкого закладан-
ня на природній ґрунтовій основі.
Методичні рекомендації передбачають виконання курсового проекту
«Розрахунок та проектування окремого фундаменту будівлі на природній ґрун-
товій основі» як із викладачем, так і під час самостійної роботи.
Можна використовувати також у підготовці курсового та дипломного про-
ектування
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