1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996582053203316

Autore

Fitzpatrick Kathleen

Titolo

Planned Obsolescence : Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy / / Kathleen Fitzpatrick

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [2011]

©2011

ISBN

0-8147-2896-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (254 p.)

Classificazione

AK 39950

Disciplina

070.50973

Soggetti

Communication in learning and scholarship - Technological innovations - United States

Scholarly electronic publishing - United States

Scholarly publishing - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-230) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Obsolescence -- 1. Peer Review -- 2. Authorship -- 3. Texts -- 4. Preservation -- 5. The University -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

Choice's Outstanding Academic Title list for 2013Academic institutions are facing a crisis in scholarly publishing at multiple levels: presses are stressed as never before, library budgets are squeezed, faculty are having difficulty publishing their work, and promotion and tenure committees are facing a range of new ways of working without a clear sense of how to understand and evaluate them. Planned Obsolescence is both a provocation to think more broadly about the academy’s future and an argument for reconceiving that future in more communally-oriented ways. Facing these issues head-on, Kathleen Fitzpatrick focuses on the technological changes—especially greater utilization of internet publication technologies, including digital archives, social networking tools, and multimedia—necessary to allow academic publishing to thrive into the future. But she goes further, insisting that the key issues that must be addressed are social and institutional in origin. Springing from original research as well as Fitzpatrick’s own hands-on experiments in new modes of scholarly communication



through Media Commons, the digital scholarly network she co-founded, Planned Obsolescence explores these aspects of scholarly work, as well as issues surrounding the preservation of digital scholarship and the place of publishing within the structure of the contemporary university. Written in an approachable style designed to bring administrators and scholars into a conversation, Planned Obsolescence explores both symptom and cure to ensure that scholarly communication will remain relevant in the digital future. Check out the author's website here. For more information on Media Commons, click here. Listen to an interview with the author on The Critical Lede podcast here. Related Articles: "Do 'the Risky Thing' in Digital Humanities" - Chronicle of Higher Education "Academic Publishing and Zombies" - Inside Higher Ed

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910965598403321

Autore

Eicher Theo

Titolo

In Search of WTO Trade Effects : : Preferential Trade Agreements Promote Trade Strongly, But Unevenly / / Theo Eicher, Christian Henn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2009

ISBN

9786612842535

9781462311385

1462311385

9781452787411

1452787417

9781451871784

1451871783

9781282842533

1282842536

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (32 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Altri autori (Persone)

HennChristian

Disciplina

382.3;382.30973

Soggetti

Terms of trade

Tariff preferences

Balance of trade

Commercial treaties

Empirical Studies of Trade

Exports and Imports

Imports

International economics

International Trade Organizations



International trade

North American Free Trade Agreement

Plurilateral trade

Trade agreements

Trade balance

Trade Policy

Trade: General

Luxembourg

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; I. Introduction; II. Data; III. Extending the Empirical Framework to Account for Individual PTA Effects; A. Results: WTO Trade Impact After Controlling for Multilateral Resistance and Individual PTA Effects (Hierarchical, Mutually Exclusive WTO Coding); B. Hierarchical, Mutually Exclusive Coding and SW's "Implicit Industrialized PTA Dummy"; IV. Individual PTA Effects, Multilateral Resistance, and Unobserved Bilateral Heterogeneity

A. WTO Trade Impact: Controlling for Multilateral Resistance, Unobserved Bilateral Heterogeneity and Individual PTA Effects (Hierarchical/Mutually Exclusive WTO Coding)V. Individual PTA Trade Effects, Multilateral Resistance, and Unobserved Bilateral Hetergeneity (Mutually Inclusive WTO Coding); A. WTO Trade Impact: Controlling for Multilateral Resistance, Unobserved Bilateral Heterogeneity and Individual PTA Effects (Mutually Inclusive WTO Coding); VI. Individual PTA Trade Effects: Sensitivity to Unobserved Bilateral Heterogeneity and Multilateral Resistance Controls; VII. Conclusion

ReferencesTables; 1. WTO and PTA Effects (Hierarchical, Mutually Exclusive Coding); 1.a. Raw Regression Output; 2. WTO and PTA Effects (Inclusive Coding); Appendices; A1. Membership in considered Preferential Trading Arrangements; A2. Bilateral Preferential Trade Agreements considered in BilateralPTAmxt; A3. List of Countries in sample and year of WTO accession; B1. De jure coding. WTO and PTA Effects (Hierarchical, Mutually Exclusive Coding); B1.a. Raw Regression Output De jure Coding; B2. De jure coding. WTO and PTA Effects (Inclusive Coding)

Sommario/riassunto

The literature measuring the impact of Preferential Trade Agreements (PTA) and WTO membership on trade flows has produced remarkably diverse results. Rose's (2004) seminal paper reports a range of specifications that show no WTO effects, but Subramanian and Wei (2007) contend that he does not fully control for multilateral resistance (which could bias WTO estimates). Subramanian and Wei (2007) address multilateral resistance comprehensively to report strong WTO trade effects for industrialized countries but do not account for unobserved bilateral heterogeneity (which could inflate WTO estimates). We unify these two approaches by accounting for both multilateral resistance and unobserved bilateral heterogeneity, while also allowing for individual trade effects of PTAs. WTO effects vanish and remain insignificant throughout once multilateral resistance, unobserved bilateral heterogeneity, and individual PTA effects are introduced. The



result is robust to the use of alternative definitions and coding conventions for WTO membership that have been employed by Rose (2004), Tomz et al. (2007), or by Subramanian and Wei's (2007).

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910272349603321

Autore

Gikandi Simon

Titolo

Writing in Limbo : Modernism and Caribbean Literature / / Simon Gikandi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cornell University Press, 2018

Ithaca, NY : , : Cornell University Press, , [2018]

©1992

ISBN

9781501722936

150172293X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (260 pages)

Disciplina

823

Soggetti

Caribbean fiction (English) - History and criticism

West Indian fiction (English) - History and criticism

Modernism (Literature) - Caribbean Area

Modernism (Literature) - West Indies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Modernism and the Origins of Caribbean Literature -- 1. Caribbean Modernist Discourse : Writing, Exile, and Tradition -- 2. From Exile to Nationalism: The Early Novels of George Lamming -- 3. Beyond the Kala-Pani: The Trinidad Novels of Samuel Selvon -- 4. The Deformation Of Modernism: The Allegory of History in Carpentier's El siglo de las luces -- 5. Modernism and the Masks of History: The Novels of Paule Marshall -- 6. Writing after Colonialism: Crick Crack, Monkey and Beka Lamb -- 7. Narration at the Postcolonial Moment: History and Representation in Abeng -- Conclusion -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

In Simon Gikandi's view, Caribbean literature and postcolonial literature more generally negotiate an uneasy relationship with the concepts of



modernism and modernity-a relationship in which the Caribbean writer, unable to escape a history encoded by Europe, accepts the challenge of rewriting it. Drawing on contemporary deconstructionist theory, Gikandi looks at how such Caribbean writers as George Lamming, Samuel Selvon, Alejo Carpentier, C. L. R. James, Paule Marshall, Merle Hodge, Zee Edgell, and Michelle Cliff have attempted to confront European modernism.