1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996247981403316

Autore

Porter John <1921-1979, >

Titolo

The vertical mosaic : an analysis of social class and power in Canada / / John Porter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1992

©1965

ISBN

1-282-03997-0

9786612039973

1-4426-8304-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (650 p.)

Collana

Studies in the Structure of Power: Decision-Making in Canada ; ; 2

Disciplina

301.440971

Soggetti

Social classes - Canada

Electronic books.

Canada Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE -- PART I: THE STRUCTURE OF CLASS -- I: Class and Power: The Major Themes -- The Canadian Middle Class Image -- The Ubiquity of Social Rank -- Classes: Real or Artificial Groups? -- The Experience of Social Class -- Class as Functional Inequality: The Conservative Ideology, -- Marx and Theories of Class Conflict -- The Post-Marxian Industrial World -- Elites and Non-Elites -- II: Class, Mobility, and Migration -- Uncertain Growth -- Social Psychology of Population Instability -- Migration and Occupational Levels

Professions and SkillsMobility Deprivation through Educational Deprivation -- Importation of Skill: An Earlier Period -- Migration and Class Structure -- III: Ethnicity and Social Class -- Charter Groups and the Mythology of Race -- Entrance Status and Ethnic Segregation -- Ethnic Affiliation and Occupational Class -- British and French: Higher and Lower Charter Groups -- Religion and Class: A Note -- IV: Classes and Incomes -- Taxation Statistics -- Sample Surveys: Inequalities in Incomes and Assets -- Middle Class and Middle Majority



A Note on 1959 Income DistributionV: Rural Decline and New Urban Strata -- Historical Sketch -- Off-Farm Migration -- Inter-provincial Migration -- Shape of Class Structure -- VI: Social Class and Educational Opportunity -- Social Barriers -- Psychological Barriers -- Canadian Education, 1951 to 1961 -- Class Origins of High School Students -- Class Origins of University Students -- Financial Considerations and School-Leaving -- Intelligence and Social Class -- PART II: THE STRUCTURE OF POWER -- VII: Elites and the Structure of Power

Social Necessity of PowerElites as the Holders of Power -- Degree of Co-ordination among Elites -- Recruitment of Elites -- The Collegia! Principle -- Elites and Their Bureaucracies -- The Legitimacy of Power -- VIII: The Concentration of Economic Power -- Some Measures of Concentration -- The Growth of the Larger Firms -- Social Structure and Economic Power -- Nuclei of Power -- IX: The Economic Elite and Social Structure -- An External Elite? -- Career Patterns and Education -- Ethnic and Religious Affiliation -- Class Origins

Political AffiliationsBeyond the Board Room -- The Elite as a Homogeneous Group -- X: The Structure of Organized Labour -- Trade Unions and Corporations -- Social Movement and Market Unionism -- National Unionism and International Unionism -- Labour Divisions in Quebec -- Craft and Industrial Unionism -- XI: The Labour Elite -- Social and Class Origins -- Labour Leaders and Politics -- The Union Leader's Career -- Top- Rankers -- The French Syndicates -- XII: The Canadian Political System -- The Political System

Sommario/riassunto

This book looks at two important aspects in Canadian society: its class structure and the composition of its elites or power holding groups. A recurring theme in the analysis of both class and elite groups is that Canada has found itself in the middle of the twentieth century with inadequate institutional arrangements for the industrial society it has become. Its educational systems have failed to provide the necessary skills which in large measure have been recruited through immigration. Its elites have been drawn largely from middle and upper class "British charter groups." The author further submits that the strong emphasis in the Canadian value system on regionalism and ethnic differentiation has resulted in the fragmentation of the society, particularly at the political level, and lef tit incapable of dealing with some of its major problems as an industrial society. Although this is a sociological study in which evidence in related to social theory, the author has tried to avoid technical terms, and this, together with the particular relevance at the present time of a discussion of the nature of Canadian society, will make this book interesting tolaymen as well as specialists.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910961191503321

Autore

Lee Jaewoo

Titolo

The Valuation Channel of External Adjustment / / Jaewoo Lee, Fabio Ghironi, Alessandro Rebucci

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2009

ISBN

9786612844621

9781462334568

1462334563

9781451874204

1451874200

9781282844629

1282844628

9781452767208

1452767203

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

40 p. : ill

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Altri autori (Persone)

GhironiFabio

RebucciAlessandro

Disciplina

658.29346

Soggetti

Valuation

Productivity accounting

Asset valuation

Asset-liability management

Consumption

Economics

Expenditure

Expenditures, Public

Exports and Imports

Finance

Financial Instruments

Financial Risk Management

Foreign assets

Institutional Investors

International economics

International Financial Markets

International Investment

Investment & securities

Investments, Foreign

Investments: Stocks

Long-term Capital Movements



Macroeconomics

Macroeconomics: Consumption

National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: General

Non-bank Financial Institutions

Pension Funds

Public finance & taxation

Public Finance

Saving

Stocks

Wealth

United States

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.

Nota di contenuto

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- I. Introduction -- II. The Model -- A. Households and Governments -- B. Firms -- C. Some Useful Properties -- D. The Steady-State Portfolio and the Role of Labor Supply Elasticity -- III. The Anatomy of Portfolio Adjustment and Valuation -- A. First-Order Portfolio Adjustment and Valuation -- B. Valuation, Portfolio Adjustment, and Macroconomic Dynamics -- IV. The Valuation Channel at Work -- A. Calibration -- B. A Productivity Shock -- 1. Impulse Responses, Productivity Shock -- 2. Comparison of Valuation Measures, Productivity Shock -- 3. Valuation, the Current Account, and Risk Sharing, Productivity Shock -- C. A Government Spending Shock -- 4. Impulse Responses, Government Spending Shock -- 5. Valuation, the Current Account, and Risk Sharing, Government Spending Shock -- V. Conclusion -- References -- Footnotes.

Sommario/riassunto

International financial integration has greatly increased the scope for changes in a country's net foreign asset position through the valuation channel, namely capital gains and losses on external assets and liabilities. We examine this valuation channel in a dynamic equilibrium portfolio model with international trade in equity. By separating asset prices and quantities, we can characterize the first-order dynamics of valuation effects and the current account in macroeconomic dynamics. Specifically, we disentangle the roles of excess returns, capital gains, and portfolio adjustment for consumption risk sharing when financial markets are incomplete.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910292842503321

Autore

Carré de Malberg, Raymond

Titolo

Della sovranità / Raymond Carré de Malberg ; a cura di Elena di Carpegna Brivio

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Seregno, : Herrenhaus, 2009

ISBN

88-87761-24-8

Descrizione fisica

77 p. ; 21 cm

Collana

Jus publicum ; 3

Disciplina

320.15

Locazione

FGBC

Collocazione

BUSTA 15 (14) 37

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia