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Edward M. Graham, Sr., on New Steam Turbine in Veazie
No full textEdward M. Graham, Sr., discusses the new steam turbine dedicated at Bangor Hydro’s Graham Station in Veazie in 1954.https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/wlbz_station_records/1128/thumbnail.jp
John R. Graham and the Bangor Railway and Electric Company
No full textThe story of the Bangor Hydro-Electric Company is more than an account of a successful enterprise. In its growth and development is reflected the history of a vigorous and changing world. It is the story of the State of Maine at the threshold of the Twentieth Century, at a time when the slow march towards industrial consolidation had become a rush. Furthermore it is a story of the men who pioneered and visualized this changing world. And among the pioneers in the Electrical Industry in the early part of the Century, John R. Graham played a most active role. He played this role, moreover, when he was no longer a young man. Approaching middle age, the founder of a lucrative and still flourishing shoe manufacturing business, Graham turned to the young world of rapid transit and electrical power -- a world in which he was to achieve outstanding accomplishment.
Edward M. Graham
This work provides a great overview and biography of John R. Graham, an innovator of and eventual president of the Bangor Railway and Electric Company, which would become the Bangor Hydro-Electric Company.
Edward M. Graham, son of John, later became president of the company as well. Edward presented these words at the 1950 Maine Luncheon of the Newcomen Society of New England, held at the Penobscot Valley Country Club in Bangor, Maine, on September 28, 1950.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/bangorhydro_news/1060/thumbnail.jp
Edward M. Graham: February 23, 1913 - February 23, 1938
No full textA book of photographs of employees circa 1938 of Bangor Hydro-Electric Company presented to company president Edward M. Graham on the occasion of Mr. Graham\u27s twenty-five years of service to the company.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/bangorhydro_news/1052/thumbnail.jp
Edward M. Graham: February 23, 1913 - February 23, 1933: Special Party Number
No full textA brief pamphlet commemorating the 20th anniversary of Edward M. Graham\u27s role as President of the Bangor Hydro-Electric Company. A drawing list all the invitees to a party in Graham\u27s honor. The hire date at Bangor Hydro-Electric Company for each invitee is listed.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/bangorhydro_news/1056/thumbnail.jp
Wilfred Edward Graham Salter: The Merits of a Classical Economic Education
No full textDuring his honours research on an index of industrial production at the University of Western Australia, Salter gained an understanding of the composite commodity theorem. The applied work on the index of industrial production provided him with the analytic foundations for his two famous contributions to economic theory, in capital theory and international trade theory. In his Ph.D. thesis at the University of Cambridge he agreed with Joan Robinson that it is impossible to measure the aggregate capital stock because the assumptions of the composite commodity theorem do not hold in a general equilibrium framework. But Salter was not bothered by the elusive nature of capital because he saw no need to measure the capital stock in the first place. He developed a vintage model of capital, in which technical progress occurs at the margin of the capital stock, when new investment goods are installed. In the dependent economy model Salter, however, accepted the aggregation of exportables and importables because in a small open economy the terms of trade are unaffected by domestic economic policy. Thus, Salter recognised that the capital stock is an invalid aggregate in a macroeconomic model, but internationally traded goods are a valid aggregate in the dependent economy model. His success as an economic theorist lies in the fact that he understood when to apply the composite commodity theorem as an analytic tool, and when to avoid it.
Reforming Korea's Industrial Conglomerates
No full textWhen what was to become the Asian financial crisis of 1997 broke out in Thailand, few analysts predicted that this crisis would spread to South Korea. Korea, after all, had risen from poverty to become one of the "Asian miracle economies". However, the crisis did not spare Korea, and the Korean government was forced to negotiate a bailout from the International Monetary Fund in late 1997. In 1998, the Korean economy went into the deepest recession recorded in that country since the Korean War. Many of the underlying problems were homegrown. Huge amounts of debt had been amassed by Korea's large industrial conglomerates (the chaebol), and often the funds had been invested in undertakings that were not earning satisfactory rates of return. By the end of 1998, a number of smaller conglomerates had failed and one of the top five (Daewoo) was in serious trouble and eventually would fail.* In this study, author Edward M. Graham examines how this situation arose, tracing its roots to the aggressive industrial policy begun by Korean strongman president Park Chung-hee during the late 1960s. Graham notes that a major failing of Korea during the "miracle-economy" years was that the financial sector in Korea remained underdeveloped and thus never was able to develop a counterweight to the economic and political power that, over time, the chaebol acquired. The crisis of 1997 can be seen as the culminating event of that asymmetry that was created by Korean industrial policy, i.e., very powerful industrial groups that operated without the countervailing power of financial institutions. Graham then looks at the efforts at reform since 1997, including reform of the financial sector and the chaebol themselves. He concludes that, while much progress has been made, the reform has been uneven and is far from complete.
Fighting the Wrong Enemy: Antiglobal Activists and Multinational Enterprises
No full textAntiglobalist forces have been gaining greater momentum in recent years in their efforts to reverse what they view as the negative effects of an integrating global economy. Their influence wasfelt earlier when efforts to create a Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) ended in failure in 1998 after France left the bargaining table at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, effectively killing the initiative. * In this book, through an evaluation of the MAI itself and the issues raised by its opponents, Edward M. Graham takes a fresh look atthe growing backlash against globalization. He first explores whether the MAI negotiations failed due to political maneuvering by antiglobalist nongovernmental organizations (supported by US organized labor) or because of irreconcilable differences among the negotiating parties over the substance of the issue of foreign direct investment. He then objectively and thoroughly assesses antiglobalist assertions that the activities of multinational firms have had negative effects on workers both in the home (investor) and host (recipient) nations, with a special focus on developing nations. An important finding is that multinational firms tend to pay workers in developing nations wages that are significantly above prevailing wages. Graham then examines the issue of globalized economic activity and the environment, finding that economic growth in developing nations can lead to increased environmental stress but also finding that foreign direct investment can lead to reductions in this stress. He finds that the worry of many environmentalists of a "race to the bottom" is not borne out by the evidence. * The final chapters assess whether or not a negotiation to create a comprehensive agreement on investment should be included in a multilateral negotiating round at the World Trade Organization in the near future. The interests of developing nations in this agenda are given special attention. Graham indicates that, while many developing nations would accept such rules, it might nonetheless be premature to press for a comprehensive agreement at this time. Rather, a limited investment agenda might be both more feasible and more productive.
European duplicity and an occidental passion : Graham Greene and the limits of cultural translation
No full textIncludes bibliographical references.With an eye to the historical situation in which the novel is set, and into which it emerges, I examine the text’s negotiation of the problems of communication and communicability across different languages and cultures. I suggest Greene as, in this sense, occupied with many of the same concerns about the limits of representation of personal experience as are found in the "Modernist" movement. This reading of the text also takes into account an historically contextualised overview of the various colonial interests the novel presents - those of the "old colonial peoples" of Europe as opposed to the new American empire. In this light, I am interested in the text’s depiction of the meeting of characters of different cultural origins - specifically the encounter of the European and the American, and the "Westerner" and the "Oriental" - in order to investigate the pitfalls of communication
ds-doc-1-ann-10.1177_00027162211069717 – Supplemental material for Rural-Urban Variation in COVID-19 Experiences and Impacts among U.S. Working-Age Adults
No full textSupplemental material, ds-doc-1-ann-10.1177_00027162211069717 for Rural-Urban Variation in COVID-19 Experiences and Impacts among U.S. Working-Age Adults by Michal Grinstein-Weiss, Carol Graham, Edward F. Lawlor and Shannon M. Monnat in The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science</p
Foreign direct investment in the United States (Edward M. Graham et Paul Krugman) Globalisation financière : l'aventure obligée (Michel Aglietta, Anton Brender et Virginie Coudert) Market volatility (Robert J. Shiller)
No full textPisani-Ferry Jean. Foreign direct investment in the United States (Edward M. Graham et Paul Krugman) Globalisation financière : l'aventure obligée (Michel Aglietta, Anton Brender et Virginie Coudert) Market volatility (Robert J. Shiller) . In: Revue française d'économie, volume 5, n°3, 1990. pp. 187-203
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