1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910778797303321

Autore

Kester Anne Y

Titolo

Following the money : U.S. finance in the world economy / / Anne Y. Kester and Panel on International Capital Transactions, Committee on National Statistics, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, 1995

ISBN

0-309-17690-5

1-282-08106-3

9786612081064

0-309-52163-7

0-585-14930-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (224 pages)

Disciplina

332.1/0973

Soggetti

Financial services industry - United States

Capital movements - Data processing

Automatic data collection systems

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 186-198) and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Front Matter""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""1 Summary""; ""2 Globalization of Financial Markets""; ""3 Current U.S. Data Systems""; ""4 Capital Account Data:  Gaps and Needs""; ""5 Financial Derivatives: Data Gaps and Needs""; ""6 Alternative Data Sources and Collection Methods""; ""Appendix A Monitoring Capital Transactions in the United Kingdom, Germany, and Japan""; ""Appendix B Views of Data Compilers, Filers, and Users""; ""References and Bibliography""; ""Biographical Sketches of Panel Members and Staff""; ""Index""



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910780457203321

Titolo

Postmodernism and the postsocialist condition [[electronic resource] ] : politicized art under late socialism / / edited by Ale?s Erjavec ; with a foreword by Martin Jay and contributions by Boris Groys ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2003

ISBN

1-282-35679-8

0-520-92855-5

9786612356797

1-59734-825-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (320 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ErjavecAle?s

Gro?isBoris

Disciplina

709/.171/709049

Soggetti

Art - Political aspects

Postmodernism

Socialism and art

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.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; The Other Gaze: Russian Unofficial Art's View of the Soviet World; Art as a Political Machine: Fragments on the Late Socialist and Postsocialist Art of Mitteleuropa and the Balkans; Neue Slowenische Kunst-New Slovenian Art: Slovenia, Yugoslavia, Self-Management, and the 1980's; Hungarian Marginal Art in the Late Period of State Socialism; The New Cuban Art; Post-Utopian Avant-Garde Art in China; List of Contributors; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

The Berlin Wall was coming down, the Soviet Union was dissolving, Communist China was well on its way down the capitalist path; the world was witnessing political and social transformations without precedent. Artists, seeing it all firsthand, responded with a revolution of their own. What form this revolution took-how artists in the 1980's marked their societies' traumatic transition from decaying socialism to an insecure future-emerges in this remarkable volume. With in-depth perspectives on art and artists in the former Soviet Union, the Balkans



and Mitteleuropa, China, and Cuba-all from...