... university and those who send their children to the university. The left hand side of (2.37) is average marginal social welfare from the former group, andthe right hand side of (2.37) is that ofthe ... at the university enjoy the quality of university, though the benefit of schooling differs as a function ofthe ability ofthe student. Quality of university in the model is determined by the ... andthe intercept ofthe ELe line is greater than the intercept ofthe ELh line. The ELh line is drawn to cross the upper boundary line, but not the lower boundary line. Conversely, the...
... force behind the success ofthe Reformation andthe secularisa-tion of European society. Printing also appeared to be a prerequisite of the evolution of new forms of political andsocial organisation, ... Britishprinces and ministers, various European diplomats, Tsar Paul I, the Duke of Brunswick, the Prince of Brazil and ‘many other persons of rank and of parliamentary and literary distinction’. The ... Altona and a handful of small states along the French frontier. These included the principal-ity of Bouillon; the Prussian enclave of Cleves (home to the Courier duBas-Rhin); the Duchy of Deux-Ponts...
... story ofthe fragmentation of the ideal of literature as a public sphere. The excesses gener-ated by the French Revolution, on the one hand, and by the infor-mation revolution, on the other, ... cheaply and quickly, but the virtual space ofthepublic The republic of letters 35connection between the ideal of liberty andthe improving powers of what Mary Wollstonecraft called the ‘rapidly ... from the super-stitions ofthe weak, andthe imposing craft ofthe subtle’ (323).Thomas Holcroft placed a similar emphasis on the art of printing’in the defence of this progressivist vision of...
... issues. The Wrst was the issue of trust in government in general, andof the president in particular, and how to restore it; the second was the issue of declining American power andthe problem of ... success. The Carter solutionCarter had a remarkably clear sense ofthe loss of trust andthe severing of power and virtue that Vietnam and Watergate had caused and thus of the damage done to the ... requires a balancing of tough realism on the one hand, and idealism on the other. Of our understanding ofthe world as it is, and as it ought to be. The question, I think, is whether in recent years...
... the Cold War andthe actions of previous presidents in the light of it. The pivotal moral, political and symbolical role ofthe presi-dency made it the natural focus ofthe crisis of faith and ... rolesin the American loss of moral capital: one was the symbolic legacy of continuity and connection with the martyred president; the second was the legacy ofthe assassination itself andthe general ... victorious and virtuous. Part of the legacy of Vietnam, then, was simple damage to pride, but the essentialmoral legacy was the radical severing of pride and virtue andthe problem of how to put them...
... combination of ‘ the rightness ofthe cause andthe swiftness of the victory.’’7Pride and virtue, in other words, power and goodness, hadat last been restored and reunited.Once the initial ... Despite the Gulf War, aremnant ofthe ‘‘Vietnam syndrome’’ still aVected citizens, Congressmen and the military (most notably in the case of sometime Chairman of the 244 Moral capitalandthe American ... authenticproduct ofthe same history that had bequeathed him a damaged institu-tion and a distrustful nation. The appropriateness of his matching to the nation’s Wrst oYce at the end of the...
... Other Citiesand Countries 25 3. Overview of Urbanization in Asia andthe Near East 29 Global Trends in Urbanization and Urbanism 29 Country Examples of Urbanization 31 4. Description ofthe ... in Asia andthe Near East”: trends and projections of urban growth and population density in three citiesand assessment ofurban poverty and size ofurban poor populations within urbanization ... incorrect as of May 2002). 173. Overview of Urbanization in Asia andthe Near East 3 Global Trends in Urbanization and Urbanism The world is urbanizing rapidly. Between 1950 and 2000, the percentage...
... professionalism; the released tensions and dynamics in the triangle of professions, the state andthe public; andthe potential, as well as the obstacles, of corporatism and professional self-regulation ... step of analysis to the next. The mediating role of professionsbetween the state and citizens andthe rise of new patterns of professionalism provide the connecting link between the chapters. The ... civilisations, and Weber (1978) related the rationalisation ofthesocial order to the rise ofthe legal profession.Thus, the professions themselves are a signifier of modernity and the main ‘translators’...
... ofthe bourgeoisie; as Bellsays, just as the struggle between capitalist and worker, in the locus ofthe factory,was the hallmark of industrial society, the clash between the professional and ... addition, the related arguments concerning the supersession of capitalism andthe convergence ofthe structures of industrialsocieties can be questioned (Davis and Scase 1985), even in the wake of the recent ... that the generalized and systematic knowledge in theirpossession is used for the benefit ofthe wider public. The parallel between the legitimizing altruistic ideologies of professions and the...
... effects ofthe years of schooling ofthe head of the household, the years of schooling ofthe money manager andthe average schooling of the heads ofthe village households are estimated.All ofthe ... addition to the average years of schooling of the household heads andthe years of schooling ofthe money manager, all ofthe village bankparticipation estimates also include the percentage ofthe surveyed ... effect is mitigated by the joint effect ofthe education ofthe money manager and the villagers. If the education of both the money manager andthe average education of the village heads are increased...
... brought out in the European semester will be put at the core of new national and regional programmes and where the focus will be on the finalisation ofthe country-specific mandates for the next ... final Vol. 1/2 COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, THE COUNCIL, THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC ANDSOCIAL COMMITTEE ANDTHE COMMITTEE OFTHE REGIONS Commission Work Programme ... fighting crime and corruption, controlling our external borders and ensuring the respect ofthe rule of law andof fundamental rights, with the right balance between security and mobility. It...
... established whether socialcapital is the result of good health whether good health is the result ofsocialcapital (Kawachi, 2007). The endogeneity issue ofsocial capital is still pending and little ... performance. The creation andthe used of socialcapital depend not only on thesocial environment but also on the institutional context. Therefore, mutual trust is both the result of institutional ... researcher on socialcapitaland especially because the concept ofsocialcapital was introduced to the economic field. According to Putnam, socialcapital “refers to features ofsocial organisation,...
... Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, the Slovak Republic, Spain, Sweden andthe United Kingdom). Some of them ... ensuring that the SBA is implemented close to entrepreneurs. The SME Envoy will be mandated with the task of monitoring the progress of the Member States in the implementation ofthe SBA and will ... EN 2 EN COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, THE COUNCIL, ECONOMIC ANDSOCIAL COMMITTEE AND THE COMMITTEE OFTHE REGIONS Review ofthe "Small Business Act"...
... architecture ofthe programmes and instruments is fragmented. They have been characterised by a proliferation of small-scale projects and some of them lack the EN 20 EN necessary for the next ... that the future legal bases of all sectoral programmes strike the right balance between the policy objectives, the means of delivery andthe cost of administration and control. In particular, the ... propose the extensive use of delegated acts to allow for more flexibility in the management ofthe policies during the financing period, while respecting the prerogatives ofthe two branches of the...