It’s time to reclaim the mantle of “Progress” for progressives. By falsely tethering the concept of progress to free market economics and centrist values, Steven Pinker has tried to appropriate a great idea for which he has no rightful claim.
Book edited by Emmanuel Alloa and Dieter Thomä: “This book critically engages with the idea of transparency whose ubiquitous demand stands in stark contrast to its lack of conceptual clarity. The book carefully examines this notion in its own right, traces its emergence in Early Modernity and analyzes its omnipresence in contemporary rhetoric.
Introduction by Jeremy L. Hall and R.
Book edited by Mahyar Arefi and Conrad Kickert: “Who shapes our cities? In an age of increasing urban pluralism, globalization and immigration, decreasing public budgets, and an ongoing crisis of authority among designers and planners, the urban environment is shaped by a number of non-traditional stakeholders.
Reposted from The Laura Flanders Show.
What would students in debt, worker coops, and entrepreneurs stand to gain from a public bank in the financial capital of the world? This week, putting communities over commodities with leading figures in the fight for a new economy for working people.
Shanna Hanbury: Rio de Janeiro is a city of extremes. Inequality is rampant, and while a small elite enjoy the “luxury” of housing, high quality education, and concentrated public funding, the majority of its citizens share the rest. The best examples of sharing are born not out of excess but from scarcity and collective problem solving. How do you build a house without money? How can you study if you can’t afford to pay for a bus to class?
International trade is a key driving force behind economic growth that since 1990 has listed more than a billion people out of poverty in Asia and the Pacific. However, in the years since the global financial crisis, trade growth has fallen behind GDP growth, after outpacing it for many decades. Despite early signs of a recovery in the growth of world trade, the global economic environment is still uncertain, and much remains to be done to realize potential trade outcomes for inclusive growth.
Seminário Direito e Desenvolvimento09h00 até 18h00O Evento: Por meio do seminário Direito e Desenvolvimento, a FGV Direito Rio celebra o lançamento de projeto de pesquisa que envolve, entre outras propostas, análises e discussões sobre os efeitos esperados de normas e de decisões judiciais no comportamento dos agentes econômicos no país. Trata-se de iniciativa inovadora que visa à difusão da Análise Econômica do Direito junto ao Poder Judiciário.
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The move comes at a time when user data of Indians is under threat from social media firms accused of data mining and sharing information with private companies for advertising and marketing purposes. There has also been a growing concern over Aadhaar.
The article by Vidhi Choudhury was published in the Hindustan Times on June 8, 2018. Sunil Abraham was quoted.
Today is an exciting day for the Internet Society. It gives me great pleasure to announce, on behalf of the Internet Society’s Board of Trustees, that Andrew Sullivan has been selected as the Internet Society’s new President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO). He will formally take up his position on September 1, 2018.
This selection now successfully concludes the CEO search process we began last November.
Naturalizadas como condiciones de vida de cierta parte de la población, ambos tipos de pobreza son hoy alertados e investigados por expertos y profesionales de la U. de Chile. El acceso a servicios como el agua caliente y a combustibles para calefaccionarse, y la posibilidad de realizar actividades recreativas y las horas de sueño adecuadas, son parte de la expresión de ambas.
"Por su impacto en la salud de las personas y en el conjunto de la sociedad, las demencias cumplen todos los criterios para ser consideradas una prioridad de la salud pública", plantea la académica de la Facultad de Medicina, Andrea Slachevsky, en esta columna publicada en El Mercurio. La también coordinadora de la Clínica de Memoria y Neuropsiquiatría de la U.
Michael Mohallem vai analisar de perto o processo eleitoral do paísO México vai às urnas no próximo dia 1º de julho para eleger seu novo presidente e representantes para as casas legislativas. O coordenador do Centro de Justiça e Sociedade (CJUS) da FGV Direito Rio, Michael Mohallem, foi convidado pelo Tribunal Eleitoral do México e pelo Instituto Eleitoral Nacional para exercer a função de observador eleitoral estrangeiro durante o pleito.
Evandro Carvalho participa de programa na ChinaO professor da FGV Direito Rio e coordenador do Núcleo de Estudos Brasil-China da Escola, Evandro Menezes de Carvalho, foi selecionado para participar do "Visting Program for Young Sinologists 2018". A seleção foi realizada pelo Ministério da Cultura e Turismo da República Popular da China (MOCT) e pela Academia Chinesa de Ciências Sociais (CASS) para o programa que visa apoiar os estudos sobre a China de acadêmicos do mundo todo.
Defendida en Roma la primera tesis doctoral sobre Luka Brajnović
El trabajo ha sido presentado esta semana por la periodista Matilda Kolić-Stanić y dirigido por el profesor Norberto González Garitano
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The amount and significance of data increases constantly. New data on consumer preferences and behaviour are gathered everyday and pave the way for individual pricing.Who benefits? This is one key question among several which will be dealt with at this conference.Register here!
Najbardziej kontrowersyjnym pomysłem w całej trwającej reformie prawa autorskiego jest artykuł 13 – nakładający na platformy internetowe obowiązek zapobiegania naruszeniom prawa autorskiego. W dyskusji pojawia się coraz więcej niedomówień, niepokoi nas, że merytoryczną wymianę opinii zastępują oskarżenia o manipulację. Europejski legislator nie stoi przed prostą decyzją, czy wprowadzić filtry i wynagrodzić twórców, lub ich nie wprowadzić i wzmocnić internetowych gigantów.
This is our final post on Patterns of Commoning, edited by Silke Helfrich and David Bollier. The book has been serialized over the last two years in the P2P Foundation blog.
Ministerin Pfeiffer-Poensgen informierte die Hochschulratsvorsitzenden unter anderem über die Novelle des NRW-Hochschulgesetzes. Rektorin Steinbeck berichtete anlässlich des Besuches über aktuelle Entwicklungen in der HHU und ein unlängst gestartetes, fakultätsübergreifendes KI-Projekt, das einen wichtigen Baustein der HHU-eigenen Digitalisierungsstrategie darstellt.
Joyful Militancy by carla bergmanand Nick Montgomery. Foreword by Hari Alluri, published by AK Press, in collaboration with the IAS.