The Blackwell Companion to Political Theology

The Blackwell Companion to Political Theology
Author: Peter Scott
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Total Pages: 580
Release: 2003-11-21
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780631223429

Written by a team of international experts, drawn from various traditions of political theology, this outstanding resource brings together 35 newly-commissioned essays in the field. Demonstrates that Christian theology is inherently political and shows how theology impacts on present-day political issues. Considers the interface of theology with political ideologies, including the contribution of theology to feminist, ecological, black and pacifist movements. Assesses the contribution of the major political theologians and theological movements. Explores the political aspects of Christian sources such as scripture and liturgy.

Class Wargames

Class Wargames
Author: Richard Barbrook
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014-12
Genre: Performance art
ISBN: 9781570272936

Why should radicals be interested in playing wargames? Surely the Left can have no interest in such militarist fantasies? Yet, Guy Debord - the leader of the Situationist International - placed such importance on his invention of The Game of War described it as his most significant of his accomplishment. Intrigued by this claim, a multinational group of artists, activists and academics formed Class Wargames to investigate the political and strategic lessons that could be learnt from playing his ludic experiment. While the ideas of the Situationists continue to be highly influential in the development of subversive art and politics, relatively little attention has been paid to their strategic orientation. Determined to correct this deficiency, Class Wargames is committed to exploring how Debord used the metaphor of the Napoleonic battlefield to propagate a Situationist analysis of modern culture and politics. Inspired by his example its members have also hacked other military simulations: H.G. Wells' Little Wars; Chris Peers' Reds versus Reds and Richard Borg's Commands & Colors. Playing wargames is not a diversion from politics: it is the training ground of tomorrow's communist insurgents. Fusing together historical research on avant-garde artists, political revolutionaries and military theorists with narratives of five years of public performances, Class Wargames provides a strategic and tactical manual for subverting the economic, political and ideological hierarchies of early-21st century neoliberal capitalism. The knowledge required to create a truly human civilisation is there to be discovered on the game board!

Agriculture and Economic Growth

Agriculture and Economic Growth
Author: Yair Mundlak
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 512
Release: 2000
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780674002289

Agriculture as a sector; Factor growth and allocation; Technology; Static and dynamic behavior.

Labor and Product Market Reforms and External Imbalances: Evidence from Advanced Economies

Labor and Product Market Reforms and External Imbalances: Evidence from Advanced Economies
Author: Mr.Romain A Duval
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Total Pages: 31
Release: 2021-02-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1513570749

We explore the impact of major labor and product market reforms on current account dynamics using a new “narrative” database of major changes in employment protection for regular workers and product market regulation for non-manufacturing industries covering 26 advanced economies over the past four decades. Our main finding is that product market deregulation is associated with a weakening of the current account, while labor market deregulation is associated with an improvement. These effects are transitory and driven by both saving and investment responses. Labor and product market reforms both have a more positive impact on the current account balance when implemented under weak macroeconomic conditions. Our results are broadly consistent with predictions from recent DSGE models with endogenous producer entry and labor market frictions.

A Game of War

A Game of War
Author: Alice Becker-Ho
Publisher: Atlas Press LLC
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007
Genre: Board games
ISBN: 9781900565387

Guy Debord is known principally for being the chief instigator and theorist of the Situationist International and as the author of The Society of the Spectacle. His first volume of autobiography, Panegyric, revealed his interest in classical war theory as espoused by Clausewitz, and A Game of War was written in collaboration with his future wife Alice Becker-Ho. This is the first version of the book to include a game board and counters, which allow the game to be played according to the instructions enclosed.

Research Handbook on Economic Models of Law

Research Handbook on Economic Models of Law
Author: Thomas J. Micell
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 383
Release: 2013-12-27
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1781000158

øOne of the great successes of the law and economics movement has been the use of economic models to explain the structure and function of broad areas of law. The original contributions to this volume epitomize that tradition, offering state-of-the-art