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The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
wiley   +1 more source

GLOBAL KEYNESIANISM AND BEYOND

open access: yesJournal of World-Systems Research, 2015
Something like "global Keynesianism" or "transnational socialism" has been mentioned as a desirable alternative to global neoliberalism (Redmond 1997). However, a definition of this kind of global Keynesianism is hard to find.
Gernot Kohler
doaj   +1 more source

The Ethics of Climate Policy: A Systematic Literature Review

open access: yesAccounting &Finance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Climate change as we know it is a significant social, economic, and environmental problem. As such, it must be considered above all an ethical problem, and climate policy initiatives must be considered through an ethical lens. Utilising a systematic literature review of the ethics of climate policy, this paper reveals six distinct areas in the
Damian J. Bridge
wiley   +1 more source

Working‐in‐Commons in the Middle of Precarity: The Legacy of the Urban Commons Movement of South Korea in the 1970s

open access: yesAntipode, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores the endogenous characteristics of commons within the frameworks of precarity and commons through the urban commons movement in 1970s South Korea. During Korea's compressed capitalist transformation, rural migrants became the urban poor, occupying the lowest position in urban labour hierarchies.
Didi Kyoung‐ae Han, Hyun Bang Shin
wiley   +1 more source

How Can Inflation Contracts Discipline Central Bankers When Agents Are Learning?

open access: yesBulletin of Economic Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper studies, in a new Keynesian model with a positive optimal output gap, how to design linear inflation contracts to shape the central bank's incentive structure when private expectations are based on adaptive learning. In this model, under rational expectations, inflation contracts could only partially deal with the time‐inconsistency
Marine Charlotte André, Meixing Dai
wiley   +1 more source

The Renaissance of Keynesian Economics

open access: yes, 2015
Not so long ago, Keynesian economists had the distinct feeling of being members of an endangered species, with the prospect of extinction in the face of the onslaught of Monetarism Mark 1 (the monetarism of Milton Friedman) and Monetarism Mark 2 (the new
A. Thirlwall
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Monster ‘Within’: Capitalist Urbanization as Geometabolic Escalation

open access: yesDevelopment and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article challenges prevailing approaches to urban sustainability by reconceptualizing capitalist urbanization as a planetary process of geometabolic escalation. Hegemonic visions of sustainable cities render invisible the non‐city sociometabolic preconditions and consequences of urban life under capitalism.
Neil Brenner, Swarnabh Ghosh
wiley   +1 more source

When in Doubt, Tax More Progressively? Uncertainty and Progressive Income Taxation

open access: yesInternational Economic Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We study the optimal income tax problem under parameter uncertainty about household preferences and wage dynamics. We derive conditions characterizing how such uncertainty affects optimal tax policy. To quantify the effect, we estimate a life‐cycle model using US data and a Bayesian approach.
Minsu Chang, Chunzan Wu
wiley   +1 more source

An Analysis of the Antecedents of Poverty Among Households Headed by Older People in South Africa

open access: yesInternational Social Science Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The effort to deal with poverty and end it in all its forms everywhere, as declared in the sustainable development goal, needs a strategic approach and a targeted global effort with a specific focus on vulnerable groups who may already be in poverty or are at risk of falling into poverty.
Steven Henry Dunga   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

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