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The Secret Life of Institutions: On the Role of Ideas in Evolving Economic Systems, Entretien avec Mark Blyth
No full textMark Blyth is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. He received his Ph.D in political science from Columbia University in 1999. His research interests lie in the fields of comparative and international political economy. He is the author of Great Transformations : Economic Ideas and Institutional Change in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2002). He has recently finished several joint projects. An edited volume o..
Five minutes with Mark Blyth: “Turn it into things people can understand, let go of the academese, and people will engage”
No full textMark Blyth became the accidental star of the political blogosphere last year when he appeared in a video promoting the key message behind his upcoming book ‘Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea’. Here he explains why being unreadable helps economists get their message across, how fan and hate mail have become part of his professional life and how his latest project illustrates that there is a market for academic ideas
Five minutes with Mark Blyth: “Turn it into things people can understand, let go of the academese, and people will engage”
No full textMark Blyth became the accidental star of the political blogosphere last year when he appeared in a video promoting the key message behind his upcoming book ‘Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea’. Here he explains why being unreadable helps economists get their message across, how fan and hate mail have become part of his professional life and how his latest project illustrates that there is a market for academic ideas
Austerity: the history of a dangerous idea
No full textAusterity is the order of the day in Europe, but Professor Mark Blyth argues that austerity is a very dangerous idea and does not work. While it makes sense for any one state to try and cut its way to growth, it simply cannot work when all states try it simultaneously: all we do is shrink the economy.
Presenter:
Paul Barclay
Guest:
Mark Blyth
Professor of International Political Economy at Brown Universit
The sense of a beginning : Bakhtinian dialogic criticism on 'the gospel' in Mark.
No full textContemporary literary approaches have caused paradigm shifts in Biblical Studies in the last two decades as it appears in a great deal of Markan studies using narrative, reader-response, deconstructive, feminist, and new historicist approaches. However, literary studies on the Gospel of Mark have not taken into account theoretical questions underlying those approaches. As a result biblical critics are driven by new trends without ever having a chance to examine the critical baggage of the approaches. Consequently, there is a gap of communication between the old and the new one. Therefore this thesis is an attempt to meet the need of enhancing the quality of critical endeavour in biblical studies. In the light of most recent competing critical theories of literature, the first contribution of this thesis is the methodological finding that Bakhtinian dialogic criticism contains the most profound philosophical and practical foundations for solving some crucial theoretical problems in contemporary literary theories. It is a critique to a Saussurian linguistic system of language which becomes the very foundation of modern and postmodern literary criticism. Bakhtinian literary theory shifts the foundation of literary criticism on linguistic signs into the creative activity of the socio-cultural production of human communication. The shift into socio-cultural reality of language communication makes the notion of 'genre' very important to unlock the problem of text and context in literary studies. Since the Gospel of Mark has fascinated most literary critics in Biblical Studies, the problem of 'genre' of this gospel is chosen as the focus of this study. Secondly, as no agreement is reached as to what 'genre' the Gospel of Mark belongs, this thesis makes its contribution to the discussion by locating the problem of 'genre' of Mark in the context of genre theories and argues that the Bakhtinian suggestion to find genre in the socio-cultural sphere by analysing artistic intercourse between narrative agents in Mark has freed the competing analysis from the unresolved problem between the kerygmatic (content oriented) approach and the analogical (form oriented) approach. To achieve finding 'genre' in the socio-cultural sphere, this thesis focuses on Bakhtinian analysis of the process of artistic intercourse between narrative agents. The narrative communicative interrelationships between narrative agents is constructed in this thesis as a 'stereophonic' Bakhtinian model of dialogic communication. This model is an original contribution of this thesis for revising the traditional two dimensional model of narrative communication. Based on this dialogical model of communication, a special role is given to the Bakhtinian 'author-creator' in the realization process of genre through the interaction of polyphonic voices. Through the interaction of voices of the author-artist and the hero we are led to discover a relatively stable type of portraying and controlling reality in Mark, known as the genre of Roman 'satire'. The closest literary affinity is Satyrica by Petronius. This narrative strategy of 'satire' in Mark has its root in the prophetic discourse of the Old Testament which is saturating the speech of the narrator, John the Immerser, the centurion, the people, and even Jesus. Finally, the whole search for Markan 'genre' culminates in the analysis of the realization of genre through the analysis of Bakhtinian chronotope. The reality of the genre of Mark is its social reality that is in its role as dpxrj/ 'beginning'. As the Gospel of Mark proclaims itself as 'a beginning', it defines its claim of socio-cultural 'authority' in early Christianity. It is this 'sense of beginning' which enables the narrating and the narrated world of Mark to interact dialogically
Entrevista a Mark Blyth : 26 de enero 2021
No full textMark Blyth es profesor de Economía Internacional William R. Rhodes '57, en el Instituto Watson de Asuntos Internacionales y Públicos, de la Universidad de Brown (EEUU). Se doctoró en Ciencias Políticas en la Universidad de Columbia en 1999. Después se incorporó a la Universidad Johns Hopkins antes de trasladarse a la Universidad de Brown en 2009. Su investigación se centra en las causas de la estabilidad y el cambio en la economía y en por qué la gente sigue creyendo en ideas económicas estúpidas a pesar de los cubos de pruebas en contra. El poder de las ideas económicas es un tema común en el trabajo de Blyth, como se ve en su reciente y premiado libro, Austeridad: Historia de una idea peligrosa (2015); The Future of the Euro (Nueva York: Oxford University Press 2015), y en su más reciente libro Angrynomics (Nueva York: Columbia University Press 2020).Facultad de Ciencias Jurídicas y Sociale
The Blyth Festival Theatre and the Imagined Rural Canada
No full textSince 1975, the Blyth Festival Theatre has produced a full summer season of Canadian plays, with an emphasis on new work which “put[s] all Canadians and certainly rural Canadians centre stage” (Blyth Festival Theatre). In response to the theatre’s fiftieth anniversary, this dissertation looks back at the Blyth Festival’s performance history to track and examine the theatre’s on-going representations of rural Canada on its stages. This study is created to add to the important decolonial work by BIPOC and white settler theatre artists, scholars, and activists such as Jill Carter, Cheryl Foggo, Rinaldo Walcott, Dylan Robinson, Cheryl Thompson and others who are critically engaging with colonial histories and retelling obscured or lost stories from equity deserving communities across Turtle Island. Throughout the Blyth Festival’s fifty year history, important productions have challenged past representations of the “imagined community” of rural Canada (Anderson 8). The dissertation’s chapters dig into key moments in Blyth Festival’s “performance of the imagined community” of rural Canada which confront previous depictions and/or erasures of rural settlers, settler women, Black settlers, and Indigenous people on the theatre’s stage (Filewod Performing Canada 1)
Democracy Sausage with Mark Kenny: How to be a liberal with Ian Dunt
No full textOn this Democracy Sausage Extra, Ian Dunt - host of the Oh God, What Now? podcast and author of How to be a liberal - joins Mark Kenny to discuss the history of liberal thought, how it has shaped present day politics, and the origins of the ‘culture wars’. Have the culture wars emerged out of the failures of liberalism? Why haven’t contemporary political actors done more to protect people from prejudice and the tyranny of the majority? And is liberalism a natural corollary to democracy? On this Democracy Sausage Extra, author, political journalist and broadcaster Ian Dunt joins Professor Mark Kenny to discuss the history of political thought, present day politics, and liberalism’s trajectory
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