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Social Exclusion: A Challenge to Macroeconomic Policy. NCRE Online Paper No. 02/01
Get PDF[From the Introduction]. As the conclusions from the Lisbon Council in 2000 make clear,2 the search for increased levels of employment with higher skills and increased economic growth has supplanted inflation as the key macroeconomic policy issue in the EU. This is part of a 10-year action programme to become the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world, capable of sustainable economic growth with more and better jobs and greater social cohesion. Increased employment participation is central for the wider goal of improving welfare by reducing social exclusion and hence increasing social inclusion. One of three principal action areas is modernising the European social model, investing in people and combating social exclusion. In implementing this, the Council decided to apply a new open method of coordination. There is potential conflict between achievement of the wider social objective and pursuit of prudent macroeconomic policy (Gold and Mayes 1993). Trying to improve the growth rate, investment and R&D tends to increase public spending. Tackling unemployment, deprivation and other forms of exclusion involves increased transfers through the tax/benefit system. Although the consequent ‘inflation bias’ is addressed by the monetary policy framework in the Maastricht Treaty, problems remain. At some point, below current levels in the EU, such increases in the role of the public sector can be counterproductive and by reducing incentives actually diminish the overall growth in GDP and employment (Koskela and Viren 2000)
Jane Mayes, 1953 Freshman Favorite
No full textJane Mayes was a student at Jacksonville State Teachers College (now Jacksonville State University). In 1952-1953 she was a Freshman Favorite.https://digitalcommons.jsu.edu/lib-ac-histimg/4063/thumbnail.jp
Buddy Mayes, 1955-1956 Basketball Player 1
No full textBuddy Mayes was a student at Jacksonville State College. In 1955-1956 he was a member of the basketball team.https://digitalcommons.jsu.edu/lib-ac-histimg/9479/thumbnail.jp
Buddy Mayes, 1956-1957 Basketball Player
No full textBuddy Mayes was a student at Jacksonville State College. In 1956-1957 he was a member of the basketball team.https://digitalcommons.jsu.edu/lib-ac-histimg/2925/thumbnail.jp
Confronting the 'Resource Curse or Cure' Binary
No full textThe use of the curse or cure dichotomy to frame a discussion around the impacts of mining is an oversimplification, not least in the emphasis on one or the other (as opposed to curse and cure). It is, however, a potent trope for engaging critically with the consequences of mining not only in narrow economic terms but also in regard to political, social and environmental costs and benefits. Further, as Goodman and Worth (2008: 201) point out, to engage with the resource curse or cure question is to also engage more broadly with "the internal contradictions of capitalist development" as evident, for example, in divisions "between those who benefit from and those who bear the costs of accumulation" and the many conflicts-political, social, economic, environmental-attending resource extraction. It is in this sense that this volume mobilises the 'resource curse or cure?' motif
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Freddie Hall and Buddy Mayes, 1954-1955 Baseball
No full textFreddie Hall and Buddy Mayes were students at Jacksonville State College. In 1954-1955 they were catchers on the Gamecock Baseball Team.https://digitalcommons.jsu.edu/lib-ac-histimg/6600/thumbnail.jp
Alice Mayes of Counseling Center with Student 2, circa 1976
No full textAlice Mayes, staff member within the Counseling Center at Jacksonville State University, is seated at her desk with a student in 1976-1977. (circa 1976)https://digitalcommons.jsu.edu/lib_ac_histimg_1970/3688/thumbnail.jp
Alice Mayes of Counseling Center with Student, circa 1976
No full textAlice Mayes, staff member within the Counseling Center at Jacksonville State University, is seated at her desk with a student in 1976-1977. (circa 1976)https://digitalcommons.jsu.edu/lib-ac-histimg/49304/thumbnail.jp
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