1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910788527403321

Autore

Ganelli Giovanni

Titolo

The International Effects of Government Spending Composition / / Giovanni Ganelli

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2005

ISBN

1-4623-3975-1

1-4527-8145-1

1-282-04432-X

1-4519-0559-9

9786613797469

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (19 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Soggetti

Government spending policy - Econometric models

Civil service - Econometric models

Fiscal policy - Econometric models

Labor

Macroeconomics

Public Finance

Macroeconomics: Consumption

Saving

Wealth

Employment

Unemployment

Wages

Intergenerational Income Distribution

Aggregate Human Capital

Aggregate Labor Productivity

National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: General

Labour

income economics

Public finance & taxation

Public employment

Consumption

Expenditure

Government consumption

Private consumption

Economics

Economic theory



Expenditures, Public

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"January 2005."

At head of title: Fiscal Affairs Department.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 18).

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""I. INTRODUCTION""; ""II. THE MODEL""; ""III. THE EFFECTS OF GOVERNMENT SPENDING COMPOSITION""; ""IV. CONCLUSIONS""; ""REFERENCES""

Sommario/riassunto

This paper helps resolve a paradox in the literature, noticed by Alesina and Perotti (1995), which is that, although government employment is an important component of public spending, the debate on the effects of fiscal policy focuses almost exclusively on shocks to non-wage government consumption. We incorporate the distinction between spending for government employment and spending for non-wage government consumption in a "new open economy macroeconomics" model. Our results show that a permanent reduction in public employment in one country reduces relative private consumption and appreciates the domestic exchange rate if it is matched by a reduction in taxes. When the reduction in public employment is used to finance increased non-wage government consumption, the macroeconomic effects results are ambiguous, and are affected by the initial level of the public wage bill.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910788421703321

Autore

Regev Eyal

Titolo

Sectarianism in Qumran [[electronic resource] ] : a cross-cultural perspective / / Eyal Regev

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York, : Walter de Gruyter, c2007

ISBN

3-11-089664-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (456 p.)

Collana

Religion and society, , 1437-5370 ; ; v. 45

Classificazione

BC 8920

Disciplina

296.8/15

Soggetti

Judaism - History - Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D

Jewish sects

Christian sects

Qumran community

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [391]-425) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: From Scrolls to Sects -- Part I Sectarian Ideologies in Qumran -- Chapter 1. Sectarian Ideologies and Social Theory: From Separation to Revelation -- Chapter 2. Abominated Temple and Moral Community: Purity, Morality and Sectarian Boundaries -- Chapter 3. Dynamic Holiness and Pre-Sectarianism in the Temple Scroll and MMT -- Chapter 4. Structure, Organization, and the Relationship between the yahad and the Damascus Covenant -- Part II. Related Movements: 1 Enoch, Jubilees and the Essenes -- Chapter 5. 1 Enoch and the Origins of Sectarian Tension -- Chapter 6. Jubilees' Reform Movement -- Chapter 7. The Essenes: An Outgrowth of the Qumran Movement? -- Part III. A Comparative Study of Sectarianism: The Qumran Sects and the Anabaptists, Mennonites, Hutterites, Amish, Puritans, Quakers and Shakers -- Chapter 8. Comparing Sectarian Rituals and Organizational Patterns -- Chapter 9. Gender and Sectarianism: Between Celibacy and Intimacy -- Chapter 10. Eliminating the Power of Wealth -- Chapter 11. Mysticism and the Holy Spirit -- Conclusions -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Sectarianism in Qumran: A Cross-Cultural Perspective explores the sectarian characteristics of the system of beliefs and laws of the two



major Qumran sects of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the yahad and the Damascus Covenant, using theories of sectarianism and related topics in sociology, anthropology and the study of religion. It discusses Qumranic moral and purity boundaries, cultic rituals, wealth, gender, atonement, revelation mysticism, structure and organization and compares them with those of seven sects of the same (introversionist) type: the early Anabaptists, Mennonites, Hutterites and Amish, Puritans, Quakers and Shakers. The sociological and historical relationship between the Qumran sects and the related movements of 1 Enoch, Jubilees and the Essenes are analyzed in detail, in order to understand the socio-religious background of sectarianism in Qumran and its subsequent variations. Throughout the chapters, differences between the yahad, the Damascus Covenant and the Essenes are observed in relation to social boundaries, social structure, gender relations, revelation and inclination towards mysticism. Points of resemblance and difference are traced between the Qumran sects and the early-modern Christian ones, and several different patterns of sectarian ideology and behaviour are noticed among all these sects.