1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910160276403321

Autore

Swirsky Seth

Titolo

21 ways to a happier depression : a creative guide to getting unstuck from anxiety, setbacks, and stress / / Seth Swirsky

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Naperville, Illinois : , : Sourcebooks, , [2017]

©2017

ISBN

1-4926-4815-9

1-4926-4814-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (114 pages)

Disciplina

616.8527

Soggetti

Depression, Mental

Depression, Mental - Treatment

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910820858203321

Titolo

Fairness in taxation : exploring the principles / / John G. Head [and four others] ; edited by Allan M. Maslove

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1993

©1993

ISBN

1-4426-5585-2

1-4426-2329-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (177 p.)

Collana

Research studies of the Fair Tax Commission of Ontario

Disciplina

336.2/94/0971

Soggetti

Tax incidence

Tax incidence - Canada

Tax incidence - Ontario

Progressive taxation

Progressive taxation - Canada

Progressive taxation - Ontario

Electronic books.

Ontario

Canada

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

Foreword / Monica Townson -- Introduction / Allan M. Maslove -- 1. Tax-fairness: a conceptual, historical, and practical review / John G. Head -- Fairness principles in general -- Principles of fairness in taxation -- The sacrifice doctrines -- The Haig-Simons approach -- Changing priorities and paradigms -- The public-choice critique -- The optimal-tax critique -- The comprehensive tax base -- Income base versus comsumption base -- The progressive rate structure -- The international tax kaleidoscope -- The personal expenditure tax -- Flat-rate indirect taxes on consumption and wage income -- Flate rate personal direct taxation -- Personal-wealth taxation -- The role of personal-wealth taxes under alternative systems of income and consumption taxation -- Alternative forms of personal-wealth taxation



-- Recent trends in personal-weatlth taxation -- Concluding reflections -- Note -- Bibliography -- 2. What's fair? The problem of equity in taxation / Lars Osberg -- 1. Examples of equity -- 2. Taxation and the voerall impact of government -- 3. The "sometimes" existence of trade-offs -- 4. Time and fairness -- 5. Horizontal equity -- 6. User fees -- 7. Vertical equity -- 8. Intergenerational equity -- 9. Process equity -- 10. Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 3. Concepts of equity in taxation / Leslie Green -- The primacy of fairness -- Horizontal and vertical equity -- Interstitial equity -- Distributive equity -- Libertarian views -- Utilitarian views -- Egalitarian justice -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 4. Equitable and fair: widening the circle / A. Marguerite Cassin -- Tax: the technical is political -- Women and tax: everyday world as problematic -- Women, tax, and the regime of rationality -- Conceptual practices of power -- Equity and fairness -- Widening the circle -- Notes -- Bibliograpy -- 5. Beyond the crisis of the tax state? From fair taxation to structural reform / Leo Panitch -- Introduction: states and taxes -- The crisis of progressive taxation -- "Fair taxation": getting beyond appearances -- What is fair in public finance? -- Distributive justice in political philosophy -- From fair taxation to structural reform -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Notes on contributors.

Sommario/riassunto

The papers in this volume explore the idea of distributive justice and fairness in taxation. The collection begins with Head's excellent presentation and analysis of equity in the public finance literature. The other authors, starting from this point, critique and amplify the concept from various philosophical perspectives and academic disciplines.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910851995903321

Autore

Taylor Stuart J.

Titolo

Mathematics in Postmodern American Fiction / / by Stuart J. Taylor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2024

ISBN

9783031486708

9783031486715

3031486714

Edizione

[1st ed. 2024.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (315 pages)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine, , 2634-6443

Disciplina

813.5409

Soggetti

America - Literatures

Literature, Modern - 20th century

Literature, Modern - 21st century

Electronic publishing

Literature - History and criticism

North American Literature

Contemporary Literature

Net Literature

Literary Criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- 1. Topological Structures and Allusion in Ratner’s Star -- 2. Algebraic Structures and Metaphor in Gravity’s Rainbow -- 3. Ordered Structures and Cognition in Infinite Jest -- 4. Conclusion: Literary Legacy of Mathematical Structures.

Sommario/riassunto

This book delivers an innovative critical approach to better understand U.S. fiction of the information age, and argues that in the last eighty years, fiction has become increasingly concerned with its representations of mathematical ideas, images, and practices. In so doing, this book provides a fuller, transnational account of the place of mathematics in understanding mathematically informed novels. Literature and science studies have acknowledged and situated historical points of cultural crossover; by emphasising mathematics



within this larger intellectual context – and not as an unlikely and alien adjunct to post-war culture – this monograph clarifies how mathematically informed postmodern fictions work in a cognate fashion to other fields undergoing structuralist revolutions. This is especially evident in fiction by the key, mathematically-literate Postmodern authors upon whom this study focuses, namely, Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, and David Foster Wallace, through which recent the technological revolutions, facilitated by mathematics, manifest in cultural discourse. Stuart J. Taylor is a Lecturer at Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland, UK.