1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910452474603321

Autore

Hardt Michael

Titolo

Labor of Dionysus [[electronic resource] ] : a critique of the state-form / / Michael Hardt & Antonio Negri

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1994

ISBN

0-8166-8439-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (366 p.)

Collana

Theory out of bounds ; ; 4

Altri autori (Persone)

NegriAntonio <1933->

Disciplina

320.5/32

Soggetti

Communism

State, The

Electronic books.

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. [332]-345) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface: Dionysus; Part I; Chapter 1. Communism as Critique; Chapter 2. Keynes and the Capitalist Theory of the State; Chapter 3. Labor in the Constitution; Part II; Chapter 4. Communist State Theory; Chapter 5. The State and Public Spending; Part III; Chapter 6. Postmodern Law and the Withering of Civil Society; Chapter 7. Potentialities of a Constituent Power; Notes; Works Cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W

Sommario/riassunto

"Labor is the living, form-giving fire," Marx wrote. "It is the transitoriness of things, their temporality, as their transformation by living time." How is it, then, that labor, with all its life-affirming potential, has become the means of capitalist di



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910786617303321

Autore

Gerhardt Christine

Titolo

A place for humility : Whitman, Dickinson, and the natural world / / by Christine Gerhardt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Iowa City, Iowa : , : University of Iowa Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-60938-291-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (286 p.)

Collana

Iowa Whitman Series

Classificazione

LIT014000

Disciplina

811.009/36

Soggetti

American poetry - 19th century - History and criticism

Nature in literature

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 and index.

Sommario/riassunto

"A Place for Humility examines Dickinson's and Whitman's poetry in conjunction with this important change in environmental perception, and explores the links between their poetic projects in the context of developing nineteenth-century environmental thought. Gerhardt argues that Dickinson's and Whitman's poetry participates in this shift in different but related ways, and that their involvement with their culture's growing environmental sensibilities constitutes an important connection between their disparate poetic projects"--

"Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman are widely acknowledged as two of America's foremost nature poets, primarily due to their explorations of natural phenomena as evocative symbols for cultural developments, individual experiences, and poetry itself. Yet for all their metaphorical suggestiveness, Dickinson's and Whitman's poems about the natural world neither preclude nor erase nature's relevance as an actual living environment. In their respective poetic projects, the earth matters both figuratively, as a realm of the imagination, and also as the physical ground that is profoundly affected by human action. This double perspective, and the ways in which it intersects with their formal innovations, points beyond their traditional status as curiously disparate icons of American nature poetry. That both of them not only



approach nature as an important subject in its own right, but also address human-nature relationships in ethical terms, invests their work with important environmental overtones.  Dickinson and Whitman developed their environmentally suggestive poetics at roughly the same historical moment, at a time when a major shift was occurring in American culture's view and understanding of the natural world. Just as they were achieving poetic maturity, the dominant view of wilderness was beginning to shift from obstacle or exploitable resource to an endangered treasure in need of conservation and preservation.  A Place for Humility examines Dickinson's and Whitman's poetry in conjunction with this important change in American environmental perception, exploring the links between their poetic projects within the context of developing nineteenth-century environmental thought. Christine Gerhardt argues that each author's poetry participates in this shift in different but related ways, and that their involvement with their culture's growing environmental sensibilities constitutes an important connection between their disparate poetic projects. There may be few direct links between Dickinson's "letter to the World" and Whitman's "language experiment," but via a web of environmentally-oriented discourses, their poetry engages in a cultural conversation about the natural world and the possibilities and limitations of writing about it-a conversation in which their thematic and formal choices meet on a surprising number of levels. "--



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910968592303321

Autore

Gaspar Vitor

Titolo

Fiscal Politics / / Vitor Gaspar, Sanjeev Gupta, Carlos Mulas-Granados

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2017

ISBN

9781475589528

1475589522

9781475589566

1475589565

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (550 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

GuptaSanjeev

Mulas-GranadosCarlos

Disciplina

339.52

Soggetti

Fiscal policy

Political science - Economic aspects

Budgeting

Foreign Exchange

Macroeconomics

Public Finance

Taxation

Fiscal Policy

National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: General

Debt

Debt Management

Sovereign Debt

Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue: General

National Budget

Budget Systems

National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: Infrastructures

Other Public Investment and Capital Stock

Public finance & taxation

Budgeting & financial management

Currency

Foreign exchange

Labour

income economics

Expenditure

Public debt

Revenue administration

Fiscal rules



Expenditures, Public

Debts, Public

Revenue

Budget

Income economics

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 Fiscal Politics -- PART I: ELECTIONS, IDEOLOGY, AND POLITICAL FRAGMENTATION -- 2 Governments and Promised Fiscal Consolidations: Do They Mean What They Say? -- 3 Fiscal Policy over the Election Cycle in Low-Income Countries -- 4 Economic and Political Determinants of Tax Policies in OECD Countries -- 5 Now or Later? The Political Economy of Public Investment in Democracies -- 6 Do Elections Affect the Wage Bill? -- 7 Energy Subsidies and Public Social Spending: Theory and Evidence -- 8 It's Politics, Stupid! Political Constraints Determine Governments' Reactions to the Great Recession -- 9 Fragmented Politics and Public Debt -- PART II: INSTITUTIONS, RULES, AND FISCAL COUNCILS -- 10 Political Institutions, State Building, and Tax Capacity: Crossing the Tipping Point -- 11 Fiscal Discipline and Exchange Rates: Does Politics Matter? -- 12 Expenditure Rules: Effective Tools for Sound Fiscal Policy? -- 13 Fiscal Rules to Tame the Political Budget Cycle: Evidence from Italian Municipalities -- 14 On the Determinants of Fiscal Noncompliance: An Empirical Analysis of Spanish Regions -- 15 Budget Institutions in Low-Income Countries -- 16 Fiscal Watchdogs and Sound Fiscal Policy: Is the Barking Loud Enough to Tame Politicians? -- PART III: SUPRANATIONAL FISCAL POLITICS -- 17 The Making of a Continental Financial System: Lessons for Europe from Early American History -- 18 Fiscal Politics in the Euro Area -- 19 IMF Conditionality and Revenue Performance -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

Sommario/riassunto

Two main themes of the book are that (1) politics can distort optimal fiscal policy through elections and through political fragmentation, and (2) rules and institutions can attenuate the negative effects of this dynamic. The book has three parts: part 1 (9 chapters) outlines the problems; part 2 (6 chapters) outlines how institutions and fiscal rules can offer solutions; and part 3 (4 chapters) discusses how multilevel governance frameworks can help.