Civil society and financial markets : what is not happening and why

Why have commercial financial flows – as a major force in contemporary society with a number of significant problematic consequences – attracted relatively little effective public-interest response from civil society? Change-oriented NGOs, labour unions, faith-based organisations and other social movements have mostly remained in the shadows vis-à-vis private financial markets. Impacts from these citizen associations have not gone beyond promoting modest rises in public awareness, certain limited policy shifts, and minor institutional reforms of a few public governance agencies. The reasons for these scant achievements are partly related to capacities and practices in civil society groups, relevant governance agencies, and financial firms. Also important in constraining civil society impacts to reform and transform contemporary financial markets are deeper structural circumstances such as embedded social hierarchies (among countries, classes, etc.), the pivotal role of finance capital in accumulation processes today, and the entrenchment of prevailing neoliberal policy discourses

Essay Opmerking in Betrekking Tot De Landverhuizing Naar Noor-Amerika [Comments in Relation to the Emigration to North America]

An essay, Opmerking in Betrekking tot de Landverhuizing naar Noor-amerika [Comments in Relation to the Emigration to North America], published in De Reformatie, Tijdchrift ter Bevordering van Gods Koningrijk in Nederland, 3de Serie, IIde Deel, Amsterdam: Hoogkamer & Compe, 1846, pp. 296-299. The Rev. Hendrik P. Scholte is the author. He writes about financial aspects to consider if persons plan to emigrate to America and gives some ideas about the establishment of Christian colonies in America.https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/vrp_1840s/1076/thumbnail.jp

Tweede Stem Uit Pella Pamphlet

A pamphlet by Hendrik P. Scholte, entitled, Tweede Stemuit Pella, met twee platen. Te\u27 Bosch, bij II. Palier en Zoon. No date is given but 1848 is written by hand on the title page. In avoorwoord, the date, 29 November, 1848, is given. Detailed maps of both Amsterdam and Pella are appended to the pamphlet.https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/vrp_1840s/1204/thumbnail.jp

Pamphlet Eene Stem Uit Pella

A pamphlet by Hendrik P. Scholte, entitled, Eene Stemuit Pella, Amsterdam, Hoogkamer & Company, 63 pp. The appendices include: The Christian Intelligencer note regarding the settlement in Michigan under A. C. Van Raalte; in the same publication, a note from the Classis of Illinois which wants to help the large number of Dutch immigrants coming to the Middle West; notes from a letter of Rev. Thomas De Witt, of New York, January 27, 1848, to Scholte; an Act of the Iowa Legislature, authorizing elections in the Township of Lake Prairie [where Pella is located?], Jan. 22, 1848; a map of the State of Iowa, showing the County of Marion and the settlement of Pella; and a map of the Townships 76 and 77, Rage 18 North where Pella was located.https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/vrp_1840s/1281/thumbnail.jp

Experimental reconstruction of non-stationary sound and vibration sources by means of Transient Planar Near-field Acoustic Holography

A novel algorithm called Transient Planar Near-field Acoustic Holography is presented to analyse nonstationary sound and vibration sources. The method is able to obtain the time-dependent pressure, particle velocity and intensity field at the source plane without any pre-knowledge of the source by inverse propagation of measured pressure fields. This makes it possible to analyse phenomena like transients and run-ups for all kinds of vibrating and sound radiating objects. Transient responses of thin plates are analysed to experimentally validate the performance of the algorithm. The determined velocity at the center of the plate is validated using a laser vibro-meter directed at the center of the plate and the spatial fields are qualitatively compared with theoretical mode shapes. It is shown that the algorithm is able to analyse transient responses of plates with good quantitative as well as qualitative results.</p

Fragment of Letter from Hendrik P. Scholte to G. Groen van Prinsterer

A fragment of a letter of Hendrik P. Scholte to G. Groen van Prinsterer concerning emigration to North America or Java. We have come to the conclusion that this government is completely unwilling to promote any kind of emigration to Java even though the Minister admitted that vast land regions were lying unused... [The attitude of the government] does not help the urgent unemployment and poverty of the people in Gelderland....The stubborn opposition of the governemnt against freedom of religion and education encourages the wish to leave....In North America, the land lies empty, there is complete religious and educational freedom, even if the number of emigrants is large and they stay together with the acquisition of land the local government will remain in the hands of the colonists.https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/vrp_1840s/1075/thumbnail.jp