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An Alternative Future

The Journal of Portfolio Management, 2004
Hedge funds are supposed to make money all the time, and when they fail at this, their investors redeem and go to someone else who has recently been making money. Every three or four years they deliver a one in a hundred-year flood. They are generally unregulated and generally do not tell us what they do.
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Alternative Pasts, Future Alternatives?

Slavic Review, 2004
Georgi Derluguian writes that Cohen’s exposition of the alternatives facing Gorbachev as reformer misses key elements that would give his analysis a firm disciplinary foundation: the social mechanisms involved in formulating and spreading competing discourses, the structural coalescence of potentially contentious groups and their actual mobilizing, the
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Carbon dioxide—alternative futures

Atmospheric Environment (1967), 1974
Abstract The computer language DYNAMO II has been used in the simulation of the dynamics of the biospheric carbon. Special attention has been paid to anthropogenic emissions, which are critical in evaluating future atmospheric concentrations. Two extreme situations and a highly probable model indicate a rather broad span of possible future carbon ...
V, Smil, D, Milton
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Alternative Futures

2019
This chapter explores heritage landscapes through the lens of extractive economies and jurisdiction of forests and archaeological zones. This new body politic rallies around economic profit that is bolstered by Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programs, which enhance opportunities for social mobility and higher standards of living.
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Planning for Alternative Futures in the NHS

Health Services Management Research, 1988
‘The NHS needs the ability to move much more quickly’ (The Griffiths Report, 1983, p13) This paper grew out of preliminary research undertaken for the research project on which we both work, entitled the Management of Change in the NHS.
E, Ferlie, L, McKee
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Choosing Among Alternative Futures

2006
Non-determinism is a serious impediment to testing and debugging concurrent programs. Such programs do not execute the same way each time they are run, which can hide the presence of errors. Existing techniques use a variety of mechanisms that attempt to increase the probability of uncovering error conditions by altering the execution sequence of a ...
Steve MacDonald   +2 more
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The future of capitalism: a consideration of alternatives

Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2013
The article reviews three entry points into a discussion of alternatives to today’s neoliberal capitalism. The first examines the need for a green new deal from mostly UK-based think tanks positioning the household as central to the economy, posing new core values for the economy that respect the environment, the social economy as well as the ...
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Alternative Futures for Digital Governance

Proceedings of the 20th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research, 2019
Most academic literature on digital governance focuses on longer or short-term historical developments. This research will explore potential future developments in Estonia by using the scenario planning approach. As the future is uncertain, then development of wide range of scenarios carries greater relevance than relying on one vision or forecast ...
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Regenerating Imaginaries of An Alternative Future

Academy of Management Proceedings
In the midst of an ecological crisis, futures are typically imagined either as a doomsday dystopian scenario or an idyllic utopian one. This paper takes a practice perspective and examines how actors navigate the dystopian-utopian tensions in future making in the context of dairy farming.
Xu, Sunny Mosangzi, Feuls, Miriam
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