Download or read book Recent Social Trends in Italy 1960 1995 written by Alberto Martinelli and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1999 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Italy remains an enigma for many observers. Recent Social Trends in Italy, 1960-1995, the sixth volume from the international Comparative Charting of Social Change program, provides a new and convincing schema for its comprehension. It shows that three essential institutions have structured and unified Italian society: the family, the church, and political parties. While the state remains a weak institution, it is important as a regulator of the economy and of society through the welfare state. The book, which contains a long introduction by Alberto Martinelli on the uneven modernization of Italy, shows the usefulness of analysing social change through study of a series of macro-social trends. These trends range from life-style structures to fertility, leisure, consumption, inequality, religion, and family, among others. This sixth national profile provides more arguements in favour of a hypothesis of diversification, rather than convergence, of modern societies. As Henri Mendras writes in the preface of the book, "The more we change, the more we remain ourselves: that is the conclusion of our comparative research, and the Italian study provides further ample proof of it."
Download or read book Paul Ginsborg and the Historiography of Modern Italy written by John Foot and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Banks and the Italian Economy written by Damiano Bruno Silipo and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-04-22 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Damiano Bruno Silipo In the 1990s the Italian banking system underwent profound normative, institutional and structural changes. The Consolidated Law on Banking (1993) and that on Finance (1998) instituted the legal framework for a far-reaching overhaul of the Italian banking and ?nancial system: signi?cant relaxation of entry barriers, the liberalization of branching, the privatization of the Italian banks, and a massive process of mergers and acquisitions. Following the Bank of Italy’s liberalization of branching in 1990, in 10 years the number of bank branches increased by 70% in Italy, while in the rest of Europe it declined. Over the decade the average number of banks doing business in a province rose from 27 to 31, while a wave of mergers (324 operations) and acquisitions (137) revolutionized the Italian banking industry, reducing the overall number of Italian banks by 30%. To a signi?cant extent this concentration represented take-overs of troubled Southern banks by Central and Northern ones. As a result of these developments (plus a rise in banking productivity and a fall in costs), the spread between short-term lending and deposit rates fell from 7 percentage points in 1990 to 4 points in 1999. And despite an increase in concentration in a number of local credit markets, the interest-rate differential between the locally dominant and other banks generally narrowed.
Download or read book How Global Institutions Rule the World written by Josep M Colomer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-19 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reviews bureau-type organizations delivering network goods, documenting how most global institutions greatly improved their effectiveness during the last few decades. In the current globalized world, the design and choice of appropriate institutional rules and procedures can result in effective and democratic global government.
Download or read book Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office written by United States. Patent and Trademark Office and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 1448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Racial Theories in Fascist Italy written by Aaron Gillette and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-08-29 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Racial Theories in Fascist Italy examines the role played by race and racism in the development of Italian identity during the fascist period. The book examines the struggle between Mussolini, the fascist hierarchy, scientists and others in formulating a racial persona that would gain wide acceptance in Italy. This book will be of interest to historians, political scientists concerned with the development of fascism and scholars of race and racism.
Download or read book Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 1228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Inequality and Poverty Re Examined written by Stephen P. Jenkins and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-09-20 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The issues surrounding poverty and inequality continue to be of central concern to academics, politicians and policy makers but the ways in which we seek to study and understand them continue to change over time. This accessible book seeks to provide a guide to some of the new approaches that have been developed in the light of international initiatives to reduce poverty and the notable changes in income inequality and poverty that have occurred across many western countries in recent years. These new approaches have to some degree been facilitated by the emergence of new techniques and a growing availability of data that enable cross national comparisons not only of income but also of measures of welfare such as educational achievement, nutritional status in developing countries and wealth and deprivation indicators in the developed world. Including specially commissioned research from a distinguished list of international authors, this volume makes a real contribution to the public debate surrounding inequality and poverty as well as providing new empirical information about them from around the world.
Download or read book Mario Botta written by Irena Sakellaridou and published by Universe Publishing(NY). This book was released on 2000 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume presents the work of the Swiss-born architect who worked as an assistant to such architecture giants as Le Corbusier and Louis I. Kahn before starting his own firm in 1970 and achieving international fame. Botta's characteristic respect for topographical conditions and regional sensibilities, his deft craftmanship, and the importance of geometric order in his work are evidenced in thiry projects that range from smaller residential buildings to such grandiose projects as the Church of San Giovanni Battista, the Jean Tinguely Museum and, most famously, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. This detailed study also includes the designs he created for furniture and the stage. Mario Botta: Architectural Poetics is a thorough survey of the architectural and design work that launched Botta into the pantheon of modern architecture."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Download or read book Roman Villas in Central Italy written by Annalisa Marzano and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-08-31 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, which was awarded Honorable Mention and a Silver Medal from the Premio Romanistico Internationazionale Gérard Boulvert, investigates the socio-economic role of elite villas in Roman Central Italy drawing on both documentary sources and material evidence. Through the composite picture emerging from the juxtaposition of literary texts and archaeological evidence, the book traces elite ideological attitudes and economic behavior, caught between what was morally acceptable and the desire to invest capital intelligently. The analysis of the biases affecting the application of modern historiographical models to the interpretation of the archaeology frames the discussion on the identification of slave quarters in villas and the putative second century crisis of the Italian economy. The book brings an innovative perspective to the debate on the villa-system and the decline of villas in the imperial period.
Download or read book Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Longman Companion to the First World War written by Colin Nicolson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new Companion covers one of the most devastating conflicts in modern history. The Great War traumatised a generation and shaped the whole of the twentieth century. Speaking as loudly as any first-hand account, the facts and figures laid out in this volume reveal the sheer massive destruction caused by the war. Covering all aspects of the conflict from its origins and course to the peace settlements and the crises they generated, Colin Nicolson unravels historical controversies and also considers the social, cultural and economic consequences of the war for the whole of Europe. Containing all the essential facts and figures this Companion will be greatly welcomed by teachers, academics and students alike.
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Download or read book Stratigraphy written by Wang Naiwen and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the proceedings of Symposium I "Stratigraphy" of the 30th International Geological Congress at Beijing. The proceedings aim to present a view of contemporary geology and should be of interest to researchers in the geological sciences.
Download or read book Recent Advances In Numerical Methods And Applications Ii Proceedings Of The Fourth International Conference written by Panayot S Vassilevski and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1999-07-05 with total page 925 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Numerical Methods and Applications. The major topics covered include: general finite difference, finite volume, finite element and boundary element methods, general numerical linear algebra and parallel computations, numerical methods for nonlinear problems and multiscale methods, multigrid and domain decomposition methods, CFD computations, mathematical modeling in structural mechanics, and environmental and engineering applications. The volume reflects the current research trends in the specified areas of numerical methods and their applications.
Download or read book The EU Budget The UK Rebate and the CAP Phasing them both out written by Jorge Núñez Ferrer and published by CEPS. This book was released on 2007 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The CEPS Task Force on the EU budget began its deliberations shortly after the December 2005 Council Decision, embracing all aspects of the budget and culminating, after more than a year of preparation, in this report. This report offers a structure for evaluating the EU's expenditures and future reform options based on a set of guiding principles drawn from the EU Treaties and precepts of good governance. It goes on to identify the misallocation of resources as a central cause of the net balance disputes that plague the system and undermine its fairness. To ensure that the EU is able to act in areas of real value, the report concludes that improvements in the rationale for the expenditures and an increase in the quality of interventions must occur in tandem with an elimination of distortions in the resources mechanism.
Download or read book International Financial Statistics May 2002 written by International Monetary Fund. Statistics Dept. and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The IMF’s principal statistical publication, International Financial Statistics (IFS) Online, is the standard source of international statistics on all aspects of international and domestic finance. For most countries, IFS Online reports data on balance of payments, international investment position, international liquidity, monetary and financial statistics, exchange rates, interest rates, prices, production, government accounts, national accounts, and population. Updated monthly.
