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UNINA9910451283503321 |
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Administrative aspects of investment-based social security reform [[electronic resource] /] / edited by John B. Shoven |
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Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, c2000 |
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1-281-22404-9 |
9786611224042 |
0-226-75481-2 |
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1 online resource (250 p.) |
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National Bureau of Economic Research conference report |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Privatization - United States |
Social security - United States |
Social security - United States - Finance |
Electronic books. |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Reforming Social Security. A Practical and Workable System of Personal Retirement Accounts -- 2. Administering a Cost-Effective. National Program of Personal Security Accounts -- 3. Mutual Funds and Institutional Investments What Is the Most Efficient Way to Set Up Individual Accounts in a Social Security System? -- 4. Administrative Costs and Equilibrium Charges with Individual Accounts -- 5. The Costs of Annuitizing Retirement Payouts from Individual Accounts -- 6. Panel Session: Industry Perspectives -- Contributors -- Author Index -- Subject Index |
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Social security reform in the United States continues to be a pressing and contentious issue, with advocates touting some form of a centralized or a privatized system of personal accounts. In general, centralized systems offer low administrative costs, but are potentially subject to political mismanagement and appropriation. Privatized account systems, on the other hand, offer higher yields with more flexibility, but may prove too expensive and logistically daunting to implement. Uniting learned and outspoken proponents on both sides of |
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the debate, this volume provides the first comprehensive analysis of the issues involved in administering a system of essentially private social security accounts. The contributors together come to startlingly similar conclusions, generally agreeing that a centralized system of accounts could deliver the benefits of privatization in a feasible and cost-efficient way by accessing administrative mechanisms already in existence. This is perhaps the most far-reaching synthesis yet envisioned of functional and implementable social security reform. |
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UNINA9910523796803321 |
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Advances in machine learning/deep learning-based technologies Selected papers in honour of Professor Nikolaos G. Bourbakis . Volume 2 / / George A. Tsihrintzis, Maria Virvou, Lakhmi C. Jain, editors |
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Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2022] |
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©2022 |
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1 online resource (237 pages) |
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Learning and Analytics in Intelligent Systems ; ; Volume 23 |
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UNINA9910787937903321 |
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Ancient plants and people : contemporary trends in archaeobotany / / edited by Marco Madella, Carla Lancelotti, and Manon Savard |
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Tuczon, Arizona : , : University of Arizona Press, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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1 online resource (329 p.) |
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Plant remains (Archaeology) |
Phytoliths |
Social archaeology |
Archaeology - Methodology |
Landscape archaeology |
Food crops - History - To 1500 |
Plants and civilization - History - To 1500 |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Preface / Martin K. Jones -- Introduction / Manon Savard, Marco Madella, and Carla Lancelotti -- Part I. Methodologies in Archaeobotany -- Sample-Size Estimation and Inter-Assemblage Quantification in Archaeobotany / Gyoung-Ah Lee -- Regional Exchanges in South Eastern Arabia During the Late Pre-Islamic Period : The Contribution of Phytolith Analysis of Ceramic Thin Sections from ed-Dur (Umm al-Qaiwain, UAE) / Luc Vrydaghs, Paul De Paepe, Kris Rutten, and Ernie Haerinck -- Examining Agriculture and Climate Change in Antiquity : Practical and Theoretical Considerations / Alexia Smith -- Part II. Case Studies in Archaeobotany and Vegetation History -- Swahili Food Production : An Interim Archaeotanical Report from Pemba Island, Tanzania, Seventh through Sixteen Centuries AD / Sarah C. Walshaw -- Plant-Food Subsistence in Context : An Example from Epipalaeolithic Southwest Anatolia / Daniele Martinoli -- Vegetation Proxy Data and Climate Reconstruction : Examples from West Asia / Naomi F. Miller -- The Significance of Prehistoric Weed Floras for the Reconstruction of |
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Interrelations of Environment and Crop Husbandry Practices During the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages (1600-700 BC) in the Near East / Simone Riehl -- Part III. Social Archaeobotany -- Historical Aspects of Early Plant Cultivation in the Uplands of Eastern North America / Kristen J. Gremillion -- Routine Activities, Tertiary Refuse, and Labour Organisation : Social Inferences from Everyday Archaeobotany / Dorian Q. Fuller, Chris Stevens, and Meriel McClatchie -- Of Crops and Food : A Social Perspective on the Agricultural Tradition of the Harappan Civilisation / Marco Madella -- Anthracological Research in the South-Southeastern Brazilian Coast : Palaeoenvironment and Plant Exploitation of Sambaqui Moundbuilders / Rita Scheel-Ybert and Maria Dulce Gaspar -- Part IV. Genetics in Archaeobotany -- Rice of Asian Origin / Yo-Ichiro Sato -- A Review on the Research on the Origin of Six-Row Barley / Ken-ichi Tanno -- Maize Cob Phytoliths as Indicators of Genetics and Environmental Conditions / Linda Scott-Cummings. |
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"Mangroves and rice, six-row brittle barley and einkorn wheat. Ancient crops for prehistoric people. What do they have in common? All tell us about the lives and cultures of long ago, as humans cultivated or collected these plants for food. Exploring these and other important plants used for millennia by humans, Ancient Plants and People presents a wide-angle view of the current state of archaeobotanical research, methods, and theories. Food has a public and private role, and it permeates the life of all people in a society. Food choice, production, and distribution probably represent the most complex indicators of social life, and thus a study of foods consumed by ancient peoples reveals many clues about their lifestyles. But in addition to yielding information about food production, distribution, preparation, and consumption, plant remains recovered from archaeological sites offer precious insights on past landscapes, human adaptation to climate change, and the relationship between human groups and their environment. Revealing important aspects of past human societies, these plant-driven insights widen the spectrum of information available to archaeologists as we seek to understand our history as a biological and cultural species. Often answers raise more questions. As a result, archaeobotanists are constantly pushed to reflect on the methodological and theoretical aspects of their discipline. The contributors discuss timely methodological issues and engage in debates on a wide range of topics from plant utilization in hunter-gatherers and agriculturalists to uses of ancient DNA. Ancient Plants and People provides a global perspective on archaeobotanical research, particularly on the sophisticated interplay between the use of plants and their social or environmental context"-- |
"Ancient Plants and People is a timely discussion of the global perspectives on archaeobotany and the rich harvest of knowledge it yields. Contributors examine the importance of plants to human culture over time and geographic regions and what it teaches of humans, their culture, and their landscapes"--Provided by publisher. |
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