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Bordering power Europe? The mobility-bordering nexus in and by the European Union
Full text linkThe EU has been built on the idea that enhanced transnational relations and free movement of persons between Member States have a positive impact on international cooperation and security. However, what we have witnessed in the past decade is a growing pressure to limit mobility, reinvigorated by the Covid-19 pandemic. Calls for a strengthened Schengen area go together with the externalization of European borders and the involvement of third states, but also with the reintroduction of border functions between Member States. Inside the EU free movement has been reduced if not stopped for fear of terrorism, irregular migration or the spread of viruses. Meanwhile, new techniques to govern mobility have emerged, affecting the role and meaning of borders. This article focuses on three dynamics of this process that entail a transformation of sovereignty, territoriality and rights: the externalization of borders, internal rebordering and logistification. The article argues that by focusing on what borders do rather than discussing what borders are, we can observe a more comprehensive transformation of borders within, around and outside the EU, a transformation that goes beyond the Westphalian imaginary and the simplistic alternative between hard and soft borders
When productivity is limited by the balance of payments. A reflection on the relationship between center and periphery in the european monetary union from the perspective of sylos labini’s productivity equation
No full textWhat does the productivity gap between core and peripheral countries in the Eurozone depend on? The article proposes a revisiting of Paolo Sylos Labini’s productivity equation aimed at analyzing the phenomenon of balance of payments constrained growth highlighted by Anthony Thirlwall. The analysis tries to verify whether the trade imbalances between the center and the periphery of the Eurozone are relevant to understand the increasing gap in productivity between the two areas. The results seem to confirm the presence of a foreign technological constraint on the periphery. This constraint exhibits a significant correlation with the productivity gap between the center and the periphery, even after the restructuring of production processes undergone in the peripheral countries
Handbook of European Union Governance
No full textThis expansive Handbook compares the global, milieu, security, economic and societal systems of EU governance. It identifies the theoretical underpinnings and characteristics of each governance system and examines how these ensure public safety, social welfare, sustainability, and economic competitiveness. Leading experts in the field explore how policy domains, institutions and instruments have evolved, and assess the levels of policy competence between the EU and its member states. They analyse how the transformation of EU governance has been influenced by security threats and economic disequlibria that endanger individual civil liberties and prosperity. The Handbook also provides useful insight into the prevalence of multilevel governance within the EU, from local to global structures, and outlines how the conflicting preferences of member states can impede global governance. The Handbook of European Union Governance is an enlightening read for students and academics in economics, law and political science. It is also a valuable toolkit for educators and policymakers in global politics and securit
MÁS ALLÁ DEL SALARIO. Lógicas de la explotación
No full textEl objeto analítico de este libro es la explotación
contemporánea o, mejor dicho, la investigación de
la misma a partir del arsenal conceptual de la crítica
política marxiana —particularmente de la noción
clave de subsunción— para seguidamente verificarlo
en la contemporaneidad y, en lo posible, actualizarlo.
En tal sentido, nuestro trabajo tiene sus raíces en
un debate nada reciente, al menos en lo que se refiere
a la galaxia del neo-obrerismo italiano
Cryptocurrencies, Monetary Policy, and New Forms of Monetary Sovereignty
No full textThe article aims to bring to light the limits and contradictions of cryptocurrencies, as well as to investigate possible alternative uses of them. Particularly focusing on Bitcoin, understood as a benchmark for the entire sector, the authors seek to answer the following questions: Should Bitcoin be considered a currency, an investment vehicle, or a speculative asset? On which factors does Bitcoin volatility depend? Do Central Banks effectively have no power to influence/stabilize Bitcoin volatility? Following the empirical strategy proposed by Baek and Elbeck, the article shows that Bitcoin returns merely depend on financial conventions and that the cryptocurrency is acting as a highly speculative asset. Sociotechnical innovations introduced by Bitcoin, the authors argue, have concretely opened the possibility of deeply rethinking money. However, several factors are currently negatively affecting the possibility of the cryptocurrency to function as an effective means of payment. Whether this experience can pave the way for the birth of new and more democratic monetary instruments, as the article discusses, is an issue that calls into question a whole combination of political, technical and social elements
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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