Post-Brexit Industrial Strategy: a curious complacency hovers over the General Election

Unlike during the 2015 campaigns, the state of the economy is not at the forefront of this general election. Neither is one of the UK’s biggest economic problems: productivity. Peter Kenway and Dan Corry write that solving this problem should be the primary goal of the institutions responsible for industrial strategy

Managing youth transitions in the network society

Castells argues that society is being reconstituted according to the global logic of networks. This paper discusses the ways in which a globalised network logic transforms the nature of young people&rsquo;s transitions from school to work. Furthermore, the paper explores the ways in which this network logic restructures the manner in which youth transitions are managed via the emergence of a Vocational Education and Training (VET) agenda in Australian post compulsory secondary schooling. It also notes the implications of the emergence of the &lsquo;network society&rsquo; for locality generally and for selected localities specific to the research upon which this paper is based. It suggests that schools represent nodes in a range of VET and other networks, and shows how schools and other agencies in particular localities mobilise their expertise to construct such networks. These networks are networked, funded and regulated at various levels&mdash;regionally, nationally and globally. But, they are also facilitated by personal networking opportunities and capacities. The paper also points to the ways in which the &lsquo;refexivity chances&rsquo; of young people are shaped by this network logic&mdash;a situation that generates new forms of responsibility, for schools and teachers, with regard to the management of youth transitions.<br /

Not left behind? Five questions that need answering before the Copeland and Stoke by-elections

There will be two by-elections this month, yet the focus is more on who will win than on what policies they will adopt if they do win. Peter Kenway, Dan Corry, and Steve Barwick outline the main problems facing Stoke and Copeland, and set some key questions that will make for a more substantive debate

Household analysis identifies water-related energy efficiency opportunities

Water heating accounts for around one third of household direct energy use. This energy demand is some four times greater than lighting. Here we use detailed monitoring and modelling of seven individual households to quantify major factors. Using normalized sensitivity results we demonstrate (i) high variability and (ii) a large and consistent influence of shower duration, flow rate, frequency and temperature along with hot water system efficiency, adult population, and the temperature of cold water. A 10% change in these factors influenced 0.1–0.9 kWh/hh-person.d, equivalent to a 2–3% of total household energy use. We draw on 5399 shower events from a further 94 households, and 491 shower temperature measurements to understand the scope for changes to the households. Individual parameters variation guided by these larger datasets demonstrated shower duration and flow rate offer most scope for change. The work helps guide city-scale analysis of household water-related energy demand. It also supports the tailoring of behavioural and technological water-efficiency programs towards those with strongest potential to influence energy. Strong interaction between parameters suggests that programs aiming to influence water-related energy need to be aware of how this interplay either amplifies, or diminishes, the intended energy savings

Low-Carbon Sustainable Precincts: An Australian Perspective

Australia’s urban built environment contributes significantly to the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions; therefore, encouraging urban development to pursue low-carbon outcomes will aid in reducing carbon in the overall economy. Cities and urban areas are configured in precincts, which have been identified as an ideal scale for low-carbon technologies that address energy, water and waste. Even though new governance models and systems are being created to enable low-carbon precincts to operate with a degree of independence within a broader centralised utility structure, greater effort is required to refocus governance on this smaller scale of delivery. Furthermore, at this time, no consistent carbon accounting framework is in place to measure emissions or emission reductions at this scale, thereby limiting the ability to acknowledge or reward progressive, sustainable low-carbon developments. To respond to this situation, a framework is proposed that could form both the basis of a carbon certification scheme for the built environment and provide a platform for generating carbon credits from urban development

Localization and chiral symmetry in 2+1 flavor domain wall QCD

We present results for the dependence of the residual mass of domain wall fermions (DWF) on the size of the fifth dimension and its relation to the density and localization properties of low-lying eigenvectors of the corresponding hermitian Wilson Dirac operator relevant to simulations of 2+1 flavor domain wall QCD. Using the DBW2 and Iwasaki gauge actions, we generate ensembles of configurations with a $16^3\times 32$ space-time volume and an extent of 8 in the fifth dimension for the sea quarks. We demonstrate the existence of a regime where the degree of locality, the size of chiral symmetry breaking and the rate of topology change can be acceptable for inverse lattice spacings $a^{-1} \ge 1.6$ GeV.Comment: 59 Pages, 23 figures, 1 MPG linke

Marx, Keynes y la posibilidad de crisis

En este artículo Peter Kenway plantea que las teorías desarrolladas por Marx y Keynes para explicar el funcionamiento de la economía capitalista son complementarias. Debido a la existencia del dinero, en Marx la crisis económica es siempre una posibilidad que puede ocurrir cuando una ruptura en el circuito del capi tal separa el acto de compra del de venta. Esta posibilidad emerge de la anarquía de la producción capitalista, su característica fundamental, y plantea interrogantes sobre el nivel dedemanda requerido para realizarla. La teoría de la demanda efectiva en Keynes sostiene que la crisis ocurre cuando los flujos y escapes de inversión no proveen la demandaagregada suficiente para realizar el producto. Según el autor la característica común a ambos enfoques es así elintento por construir una teoría monetaria de la producción capitalista, en la que la teoría de la posibilidad complementa la de la demanda efectiva en la explicación de porqué el dinero desempeña un papel operativo en el proceso de producción. A su vez, la teoría de la demanda efectiva complementa a la teoría de la posibilidad para explicar el nivel de demanda que se requiere para la realización del producto entre los diferentes departamentos de laeconomía. Así, en el análisis de Kenway, Marx y Keynes comparten un mismo terreno en cuanto a la teoría de la posibilidad de crisis. La teoría de la realidad sería campo para otro análisis.In this article Peter Kenway states that the theories developed by Marx and Keynes to explain the operation of the capitalistic economy complement each other. Due to the existence of money, in Marx the economic crisis is always a possibili ty that may occur when a rupture in the capi tal circuit separates the act of purchasing from the act of selling. This possibilityarises from the anarchy of capitalistic production, its basiccharacteristic, and raises questions on the demand level required in orden to carry it out. Keynes' theory of the effective demand asserts that the crisis occurs when the inflows and outflows of investment do not provide the sufficient aggregated demand to carry out the productoAccording to the author, the common characteristic to both approaches in then, the attempt to build a new monetary theory of capitalistic production, in which the theory of possibility supplements that of effective pemand in the explanation of why money performs an operative role in the production process. In turn, the theory of effective demand supplements the theory of possibili ty to explain the demand level required to carry out the product between the various departments of the economy. Thus, in the analysis by Kenway, Marx and Keynes share the same area regarding the theory of a possibility of a crisis. The theory of  reality would be the subject for another analysis

Marx, Keynes y la posibilidad de crisis Marx, Keynes and the Possibility of crisis

En este artículo Peter Kenway plantea que las teorías desarrolladas por Marx y Keynes para explicar el funcionamiento de la economía capitalista son complementarias. Debido a la existencia del dinero, en Marx la crisis económica es siempre una posibilidad que puede ocurrir cuando una ruptura en el circuito del capi tal separa el acto de compra del de venta. Esta posibilidad emerge de la anarquía de la producción capitalista, su característica fundamental, y plantea interrogantes sobre el nivel de&lt;br /&gt;demanda requerido para realizarla. La teoría de la demanda efectiva en Keynes sostiene que la crisis ocurre cuando los flujos y escapes de inversión no proveen la demanda&lt;br /&gt;agregada suficiente para realizar el producto. Según el autor la característica común a ambos enfoques es así el&lt;br /&gt;intento por construir una teoría monetaria de la producción capitalista, en la que la teoría de la posibilidad complementa la de la demanda efectiva en la explicación de porqué el dinero desempeña un papel operativo en el proceso de producción. A su vez, la teoría de la demanda efectiva complementa a la teoría de la posibilidad para explicar el nivel de demanda que se requiere para la realización del producto entre los diferentes departamentos de la&lt;br /&gt;economía. Así, en el análisis de Kenway, Marx y Keynes comparten un mismo terreno en cuanto a la teoría de la posibilidad de crisis. La teoría de la realidad sería campo para otro análisis.<br>In this article Peter Kenway states that the theories developed by Marx and Keynes to explain the operation of the capitalistic economy complement each other. Due to the existence of money, in Marx the economic crisis is always a possibili ty that may occur when a rupture in the capi tal circuit separates the act of purchasing from the act of selling. This possibility&lt;br /&gt;arises from the anarchy of capitalistic production, its basic&lt;br /&gt;characteristic, and raises questions on the demand level required in orden to carry it out. Keynes' theory of the effective demand asserts that the crisis occurs when the inflows and outflows of investment do not provide the sufficient aggregated demand to carry out the producto&lt;br /&gt;According to the author, the common characteristic to both approaches in then, the attempt to build a new monetary theory of capitalistic production, in which the theory of possibility supplements that of effective pemand in the explanation of why money performs an operative role in the production process. In turn, the theory of effective demand supplements the theory of possibili ty to explain the demand level required to carry out the product between the various departments of the economy. Thus, in the analysis by Kenway, Marx and Keynes share the same area regarding the theory of a possibility of a crisis. The theory of  reality would be the subject for another analysis. &lt;br /&gt

Marx, keynes and the possibility of crisis

In this article Peter Kenway states that the theories developed by Marx and Keynes to explain the operation of the capitalistic economy complement each other. Due to the existence of money, in Marx the economic crisis is always a possibili ty that may occur when a rupture in the capi tal circuit separates the act of purchasing from the act of selling. This possibilityarises from the anarchy of capitalistic production, its basiccharacteristic, and raises questions on the demand level required in orden to carry it out. Keynes' theory of the effective demand asserts that the crisis occurs when the inflows and outflows of investment do not provide the sufficient aggregated demand to carry out the productoAccording to the author, the common characteristic to both approaches in then, the attempt to build a new monetary theory of capitalistic production, in which the theory of possibility supplements that of effective pemand in the explanation of why money performs an operative role in the production process. In turn, the theory of effective demand supplements the theory of possibili ty to explain the demand level required to carry out the product between the various departments of the economy. Thus, in the analysis by Kenway, Marx and Keynes share the same area regarding the theory of a possibility of a crisis. The theory of  reality would be the subject for another analysis.En este artículo Peter Kenway plantea que las teorías desarrolladas por Marx y Keynes para explicar el funcionamiento de la economía capitalista son complementarias. Debido a la existencia del dinero, en Marx la crisis económica es siempre una posibilidad que puede ocurrir cuando una ruptura en el circuito del capi tal separa el acto de compra del de venta. Esta posibilidad emerge de la anarquía de la producción capitalista, su característica fundamental, y plantea interrogantes sobre el nivel dedemanda requerido para realizarla. La teoría de la demanda efectiva en Keynes sostiene que la crisis ocurre cuando los flujos y escapes de inversión no proveen la demandaagregada suficiente para realizar el producto. Según el autor la característica común a ambos enfoques es así elintento por construir una teoría monetaria de la producción capitalista, en la que la teoría de la posibilidad complementa la de la demanda efectiva en la explicación de porqué el dinero desempeña un papel operativo en el proceso de producción. A su vez, la teoría de la demanda efectiva complementa a la teoría de la posibilidad para explicar el nivel de demanda que se requiere para la realización del producto entre los diferentes departamentos de laeconomía. Así, en el análisis de Kenway, Marx y Keynes comparten un mismo terreno en cuanto a la teoría de la posibilidad de crisis. La teoría de la realidad sería campo para otro análisis