1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910798230603321

Autore

Thurbon Elizabeth

Titolo

Developmental mindset : the revival of financial activism in South Korea  / / Elizabeth Thurbon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca, New York ; ; London, [England] : , : Cornell University Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-5017-0416-8

1-5017-0417-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (236 p.)

Collana

Cornell Studies in Money

Disciplina

332.095195

Soggetti

Finance - Korea (South)

Economic development - Korea (South) - Finance

Korea (South) Economic policy

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

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- 1. Rebirth of the Developmental State -- 2. Developmental States: Bringing Ideas Back In -- 3. Makings of a Developmental Mindset and Emergence of Strategy Mark I -- 4. Rise of Financial Activism -- 5. Fracturing Consensus and the Abandonment of Financial Activism -- 6. Return of the State -- 7. Emergence of Strategy Mark II -- 8. Return of Development Bankers -- 9. Full Flowering of Financial Activism -- 10. What Future for Financial Activism in Korea and Beyond? -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

The Asian financial crisis of 1997-1998 was supposed to be the death knell for the developmental state. The International Monetary Fund supplied emergency funds for shattered economies but demanded that states liberalize financial markets and withdraw from direct involvement in the economy. Financial liberalization was meant to spell the end of strategic industry policy and the state-directed "policy lending" it involved. Yet, largely unremarked by analysts, South Korea has since seen a striking revival of financial activism. Policy lending by state-owned development banks has returned the state to the core of



the financial system. Korean development banks now account for one quarter of all loans and take the lead in providing low-cost finance to local manufacturing firms in strategic industries.Elizabeth Thurbon argues that an ideational analysis can help explain this renewed financial activism. She demonstrates the presence of a "developmental mindset" on the part of political leaders and policy elites in Korea. This mindset involves shared ways of thinking about the purpose of finance and its relationship to the productive economy. The developmental mindset has a long history in Korea but is subject to the vicissitudes of political and economic circumstances. Thurbon traces the structural, institutional, political, and ideational factors that have strengthened and at times weakened the developmental consensus, culminating in the revival of financial activism in Korea. In doing so, Thurbon offers a novel defense of the developmental state idea and a new framework for investigating the emergence and evolution of developmental states. She also canvasses the implications of the Korean experience for wider debates concerning the future of financial activism in an era of financialization, energy insecurity, and climate change.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910877700603321

Autore

Pratt Thomas H

Titolo

Electrostatic ignitions of fires and explosions / / Thomas H. Pratt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, N.Y., : Center for Chemical Process Safety of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, c2000

ISBN

9786612783241

9781282783249

1282783246

9780470935156

0470935154

9781591245803

159124580X

9780470935149

0470935146

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (198 p.)

Disciplina

628.9/2

Soggetti

Static electricity and fires

Explosions

Electric spark

Fire investigation



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. 171-176) and indexes.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Electrostatic Ignitions of Fires and Explosions; CONTENTS; 1 Basic Concepts; 1.1 The Electrostatic Charge; 1.1.1 Electrons, Protons, and Ions; 1.1.2 Charge Distribution: Point, Space, and Surface Charges; 1.2 The Electric Field; 1.2.1 Mapping Electric Fields; 1.2.2 Dielectrics; 1.2.3 Dielectric Breakdown; 1.3 Ground Potential; 1.3.1 Grounding; 1.3.2 Bonding; 1.4 Requirements for a Fire or an Explosion; 1.4.1 Ignitable Mixture; 1.4.2 Separation; 1.4.3 Accumulation; 1.4.4 Discharge; 2 Separation and Accumulation of Charge; 2.1 Mechanisms of Charge Generation; 2.2 Charge Alignment

2.3 Contact and Frictional Charging2.3.1 Surface Charging; 2.3.2 Powder Charging; 2.4 Double Layer Charging; 2.5 Charging of Drops, Mists, and Aerosols; 2.6 Two Phase Flow; 2.7 Charge Separation at Phase Boundaries; 2.8 Charge Relaxation; 2.9 Host Material; 2.9.1 Bulk Conductivity; 2.9.2 Surface Conductivity; 2.9.3 Apparent Conductivity; 2.10 Separation vs. Relaxation; 2.10.1 Constant Voltage Case; 2.10.2 Constant Amperage Case; 2.11 Induction; 3 Discharge; 3.1 Classification of Discharges; 3.2 Characteristics of Discharges; 3.2.1 Corona Discharge; 3.2.2 Brush Discharge

3.2.3 Bulking Brush Discharge3.2.4 Propagating Brush Discharge; 3.2.5 Spark or Capacitor Discharge; 3.2.6 Lightning; 4 Minimum Ignition Energies; 4.1 Testing of Materials; 4.2 Minimum Ignition Energy, MIE; 4.2.1 MIEs of Gasses and Vapors; 4.2.2 MIEs of Dusts; 4.2.3 MIEs of Hybrid Mixtures; 4.2.4 MIEs in Enriched Oxygen Atmospheres; 4.2.5 MIEs of Explosives; 5 Discharge Energies; 5.1 Ignitions by Electrostatic Discharges; 5.2 Capacitive Discharges; 5.2.1 Human Sparks; 5.2.2 Clothing; 5.3 Brush Discharges; 5.3.1 Brush Discharges in Spaces; 5.3.2 Brush Discharges at Surfaces

5.4 Bulking Brush Discharges5.5 Propagating Brush Discharges; 5.6 Corona Discharges; 6 Electrification in Industrial Processes; 6.1 Charges in Liquids; 6.1.1 Streaming Currents; 6.1.2 Charge Relaxation in Liquids; 6.1.3 Liquid Conductivity; 6.1.4 Antistatic Additives; 6.1.5 Sedimentation; 6.2 Charges in Mists; 6.2.1 Washing; 6.2.2 Splash Loading; 6.2.3 Steaming; 6.2.4 Carbon Dioxide; 6.2.5 Charge Decay from Mists; 6.3 Charges in Powders; 6.3.1 Streaming Currents in Powders; 6.3.2 Charge Compaction in Powder Bulking; 6.3.3 Charge Relaxation in Powders; 6.4 Surface Charges

6.4.1 Triboelectric Charging6.4.2 Humidity; 6.4.3 Conductive Cloth and Plastics; 6.4.4 Neutralizers; 6.5 Intense Electrification; 6.6 Phase Separation Charges; 7 Design and Operating Criteria; 7.1 Grounding and Bonding; 7.1.1 Insulation from Ground; 7.1.2 Spark Promoters; 7.2 In-Process Relaxation Times; 7.2.1 Quiescent Relaxations; 7.2.2 Relaxation Downstream of Filters; 7.3 Simultaneous Operations; 7.4 Sounding Pipes; 8 Measurements; 8.1 Multimeters; 8.2 Electrometers; 8.3 Electrostatic Voltmeters; 8.4 Fieldmeters; 8.5 Faraday Cage; 8.6 Radios; 9 Quantification of Electrostatic Scenarios

9.1 Approximations

Sommario/riassunto

Tom Pratt, a long-time process safety practitioner and lecturer in electrostatic safety, wrote this book to educate industry in the basics of electrostatics. It offers a selected collection of information designed to give readers the tools they need to examine the hazard potential of



common industrial processes. Among the topics addressed are separation and accumulation of charge, discharge, minimum ignition energies, discharge energies, electrification in industrial processes, design and operating criteria, measurements, quantification of electrostatic scenarios. A selection of case histories