Download or read book The Road To Maastricht written by Kenneth Dyson and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 1999-10-28 with total page 881 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economic and monetary union in the European Union represents a massive change for Europe and for the world. The Road to Maastricht identifies why the agreement was possible and how the agreement was made. The book examines the motives that inspired European political leaders, the strategies that they pursued, and the institutions that were used to achieve monetary union. Drawing on a wide range of sources and unprecedented research and interviews, the book combines careful political analysis with new information about the way in which European Monetary Union was negotiated. It delves into the complex forces at work in Europe, including the cross-national political interactions, to produce an authoritative account of the boldest and riskiest venture in the history of European integration.
Download or read book The Euro written by David Marsh and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-23 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first comprehensive political and economic account of the birth and development of the Euro. Today the Euro is the supranational currency for sixteen European countries and the world's second-largest reserve currency. David Marsh tells the story of the rivalries, intrigues, and deal making that brought about a currency for Europe, and he analyzes the achievements and shortcomings of its first decade of existence. While the Euro represents a remarkable triumph of political will, great pressures are building on the single currency. Drawing on more than 100 interviews with leading figures associated with the Euro, and scores of secret documents from international archives, Marsh underscores the Euro's importance for the global economy, in particular for U.S. and British economic and political agendas. Hidden facts and fresh insights from The Euro --How the legacy of France and Germany's tortuous relations affects the Euro--Why the United Kingdom is unlikely to accept the Euro before 2025--The impact on the Euro of the U.S. credit crisis--How the Euro has rebounded against the aspirations of its founders--How Italy and Spain have massively lost competitiveness--Why radical changes must be adopted to prevent a European upheaval
Download or read book White Magic written by Lothar Müller and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-02-02 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paper is older than the printing press, and even in its unprinted state it was the great network medium behind the emergence of modern civilization. In the shape of bills, banknotes and accounting books it was indispensible to the economy. As forms and files it was essential to bureaucracy. As letters it became the setting for the invention of the modern soul, and as newsprint it became a stage for politics. In this brilliant new book Lothar Müller describes how paper made its way from China through the Arab world to Europe, where it permeated everyday life in a variety of formats from the thirteenth century onwards, and how the paper technology revolution of the nineteenth century paved the way for the creation of the modern daily press. His key witnesses are the works of Rabelais and Grimmelshausen, Balzac and Herman Melville, James Joyce and Paul Valéry. Müller writes not only about books, however: he also writes about pamphlets, playing cards, papercutting and legal pads. We think we understand the ?Gutenberg era?, but we can understand it better when we explore the world that underpinned it: the paper age. Today, with the proliferation of digital devices, paper may seem to be a residue of the past, but Müller shows that the humble technology of paper is in many ways the most fundamental medium of the modern world.
Download or read book World and Worldhood Monde et Mondan it written by Institut International de Philosoph and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-01-22 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book philosophers try to answer the following question: What is globalization and what does "globe" or "world" (monde) signify? Rémi Brague returns to the Greek idea of the cosmos in order to track the worldhood (mondanéité) of the world, that is, the process by which the idea of the world is formed. Don Ihde shows how a world has developed, in which technologies are no longer considered neutral means serving the ends of human action, but become the very means by which people exist in the world. Vittorio Mathieu describes the economical world at two levels – that of the individual and that of society. Tomonobu Imamichi analyses the capacity of aesthetic experience to disclose a world other than the world of technological efficiency. Francisco Miró Quesada C. emphasises that the great political questions are not solvable without worldviews that express value systems. David Rasmussen describes sensus communis as a cosmopolitan concept, which founds a political globalization of the world. And Peter Kemp attempts to grasp the meaning of that globalization upon which the destiny of our planet depends.
Download or read book Figures D Europe written by Luisa Passerini and published by Peter Lang Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this publication, scholars from various European countries address the 'symbolic deficit' of the EU, and the continent as a whole. They examine the history and meanings of various myths surrounding Europe, as well as discussing the cultural shift that will have to occur in order to give rise to a multicultural identity.
Download or read book The Impact of Keynes on Economics in the 20th Century written by European Society for the History of Economic Thought. Conference and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers presented at a winter 1997 conference of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought reconsider the nature and significance of Keynes' theories and economic policies, and illustrate the diversity of Keynesianism in different European countries throughout the century. Main themes are Keynesian theory, Keynesian- type policies and theories throughout Europe, and how Keynesian policy has been used by government and non-governmental organizations in an attempt to deal with unemployment and deflation during the 20th century. Pasinetti is a professor of economics at Catholic University, Milan, Italy. Schefold is a professor of economics at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Aanwinsten van de Centrale Bibliotheek Queteletfonds written by Bibliothèque centrale (Fonds Quetelet) and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Histoire morale immorale de la monnaie written by René Sédillot and published by Bordas Editions. This book was released on 1989 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Les Etats sont-ils les plus grands faux-monnayeurs de l'histoire, et doit-on, comme on faisait à leurs semblables du Moyen Age, les mettre à bouillir dans des chaudières ? Lénine était-il communiste, lui qui écrivait qu'il valait "mieux marcher provisoirement avec les béquilles du capitalisme que de ne pas marcher du tout ?" Cambon, qui institua le Grand Livre de la Dette publique le 24 août 1793, songeait-il à la rembourser quand il s'exclamait: "L'or n'est que du fumier" ? L'intendant français du Canada, Jacques de Meulles, lorsqu'il imaginait en 1685, de donner une valeur marchande à des cartes à jouer pour suppléer à la rareté des moyens de paiement dans la colonie, se doutait-il qu'il inventait la première monnaie de papier du monde occidental ? Adorée ou détestée, proscrite ou imposée, la monnaie joue dans les nations le rôle du sang dans le corps humain. Avec une monnaie malade, les nations s'anémient; avec une monnaie saine, elles peuvent prospérer. En nous contant son histoire, René Sédillot renouvelle celle des peuples qui tous ont dû s'assigner des règles monétaires pour accéder à la civilisation de l'échange. Les aventures peu morales des grandes monnaies, l'inflation, la démonétisation de l'or, autant d'étapes vers un statut monétaire de plus en plus abstrait Demain, la monétique tuera-t-elle la monnaie ? En supprimant apparemment les espèces, elle ne remet pas en cause les fondements de l'économie.
Download or read book Origine radicale des crises conomiques written by Henri Savall and published by IAP. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is written in the french language. Henri Savall gives his insight on the economic crises in organizations.
Download or read book Human Kindness and the Smell of Warm Croissants written by Ruwen Ogien and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human Kindness and the Smell of Warm Croissants makes philosophy fun, tactile, and popular. Moral thinking is simple, Ruwen Ogien argues, and as inherent as the senses. In our daily experiences, in the situations we confront and in the scenes we witness, we develop an understanding of right and wrong as sophisticated as the moral outlook of the world's most gifted philosophers. By drawing on this knowledge to navigate life's most perplexing problems, ethics becomes second nature. Ogien explores, through experimental philosophy and other methods, the responses nineteen real-world conundrums provoke. Is a short, mediocre life better than no life at all? Is it acceptable to kill a healthy person so his organs can save five others? Would you swap a "natural" life filled with frustration, disappointment, and partial success for a world in which all of your needs are met, but through artificial and mechanical means? Ogien doesn't seek to show how difficult it is to determine right from wrong or how easy it is for humans to become monsters or react like saints. Helping us tap into the wisdom and feeling we already possess in our ethical "toolboxes," Ogien instead encourages readers to question moral presuppositions and rules; embrace an intuitive sense of dignity, virtue, and justice; and pursue a pluralist ethics suited to the principles of human kindness.
Download or read book Histoire morale et immorale de la monnaie written by René Sédillot and published by FeniXX. This book was released on 1989-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Des cauris antiques à la monétique contemporaine, recense tous les moyens de paiement ainsi que toutes les formes de transaction qui fondent les relations commerciales. « Copyright Electre »
Download or read book French Book plates written by Walter Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Five Continents of Theatre written by Eugenio Barba and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-02-11 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Five Continents of Theatre undertakes the exploration of the material culture of the actor, which involves the actors’ pragmatic relations and technical functionality, their behaviour, the norms and conventions that interact with those of the audience and the society in which actors and spectators equally take part. The material culture of the actor is organised around body-mind techniques (see A Dictionary of Theatre Anthropology by the same authors) and auxiliary techniques whose variety concern: ■ the diverse circumstances that generate theatre performances: festive or civil occasions, celebrations of power, popular feasts such as carnival, calendar recurrences such as New Year, spring and summer festivals; ■ the financial and organisational aspects: costs, contracts, salaries, impresarios, tickets, subscriptions, tours; ■ the information to be provided to the public: announcements, posters, advertising, parades; ■ the spaces for the performance and those for the spectators: performing spaces in every possible sense of the term; ■ sets, lighting, sound, makeup, costumes, props; ■ the relations established between actor and spectator; ■ the means of transport adopted by actors and even by spectators. Auxiliary techniques repeat themselves not only throughout different historical periods, but also across all theatrical traditions. Interacting dialectically in the stratification of practices, they respond to basic needs that are common to all traditions when a performance has to be created and staged. A comparative overview of auxiliary techniques shows that the material culture of the actor, with its diverse processes, forms and styles, stems from the way in which actors respond to those same practical needs. The authors’ research for this aspect of theatre anthropology was based on examination of practices, texts and of 1400 images, chosen as exemplars.
Download or read book Carmen Abroad written by Richard Langham Smith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-30 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A transnational history of the performance, reception, translation, adaptation and appropriation of Bizet's Carmen from 1875 to 1945. This volume explores how Bizet's opera swiftly travelled the globe, and how the story, the music, the staging and the singers appealed to audiences in diverse contexts.
Download or read book An Outline of French History written by René Sédillot and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-10 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Principes G n raux de Comptabilit written by Eugène Léautey and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
