712 research outputs found
Cosmopolitan ethics in global finance? : a pragmatic approach to the Tobin Tax
No full textThe thesis provides a critical analysis of the problems and possibilities for
developing cosmopolitan ethics in global finance. With reference to Ideas and
debates within the campaign for a Tobin Tax, it is argued that cosmopolitanism is
a promising, but limited, agenda for global reform. Extending principles of
justice to support the re-distribution of wealth from financial markets towards an
expanded program of global welfare provision is laudable. Likewise, the
possibility of improving accountability mechanisms and fostering democratic
inclusion in the global financial system should be supported. However, the thesis
identifies and reflects upon some important ethical ambiguities relating to
financial, institutional and democratic universalism. A requirement for capital
account convertibility, a cash-based approach to global justice and proposals for
state-centric world authority to administer the Tobin Tax infers that the proposal
would entrench many of the logics its supporters might oppose. The thesis
develops a pragmatic approach to these questions based on the philosophical
pragmatism of Richard Rorty. A pragmatic approach acknowledges the historical
and cultural contingency of cosmopolitanism, but questions how the ambiguities
and tensions that pervade global ethics can be engaged. In this sense, and
developing Rorty's concept of sentimental education, it is argued that the Tobin
Tax campaign has generated a broad-based public conversation about global
finance, increasing sensitivity to the suffering caused by global finance and the
ways in which it might be changed. While such conversation may not solve all
the dilemmas identified, it does allow for increased awareness of the ambiguity
of ethics. The thesis points to a number of instances in the campaign where the
constitutive ambiguities of the Tobin Tax have been questioned and alternative
practices suggested. A pragmatic approach to the Tobin Tax campaign therefore
situates cosmopolitan ideas in the extant dilemmas and indeterminacies of global
ethics, looking to suggest alternatives where possible
Shadows of the East; or slight sketches of Scenery, Persons, and cusoms, from observations during a tour in 1853 and 1854 in Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Turkey and Greece. By Catherine Tobin with maps and illustrations. London Longman, Brown, Green, and Lo
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On Exact and Approximate Solutions for Hard Problems: An Alternative Look
No full textWe discuss in an informal, general audience style the da Costa-Doria conjecture about the independence of the P = NP hypothesis and try to briefly assess its impact on practical situations in economics. The paper concludes with a discussion of the Coppe-Cosenza procedure, which is an approximate, partly heuristic algorithm for allocation problems.P vs. NP , allocation problem, assignment problem, traveling salesman, exact solution for NP problems, approximate solutions for NP problems, undecidability, incompleteness
Administrative Files - Conferences and Events - Visual Culture and Archives Symposium - April 04, 2013 - Part 19 - Introduction, "From Film to Screen: Images, Editing, and Archives"
No full textJim Tobin (Author, Historian, and Associate Professor of Journalism at Miami University of Ohio) introduces Jay Cassidy and his presentation "From Film to Screen: Images, Editing, and Archives"http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/97396/1/040413_19_Tobin.mp
Margaret Breen giving a talk on Edward Irenaeus Prime-Stevenson
No full textPhoto of Margaret Breen (University of Connecticut) discussing author Edward Irenaeus Prime-Stevenson. Breen gave a talk titled “Queer Translations: Prime-Stevenson’s Imre (1906) and The Intersexes (1908) and the Emergence of Homosexual Identity”. This talk was from the event German Discovery of Sex: Medicine, Activism, Literature which took place on April 16, 2011 as part of the Henry J. Leir Chair Programming for the 2010-2011 season. Robert Tobin was the Henry J. Leir Chair from 2008 up until his passing in 2022.
These are Robert Tobin\u27s photos, originally hosted on his WordPress site provided by Clark University.https://commons.clarku.edu/tobindiscphotos/1009/thumbnail.jp
Sophie Freud
No full textSophie Freud (granddaughter of Sigmund and noted professor, psychiatric social worker, and author) in the audience (bottom left) at the symposium Global Freud . This event, which celebrated the centennial of Sigmund Freud\u27s visit to Clark University by discussing his reception around the world, took place on November 21, 2009 as part of the Henry J. Leir Chair Programming for the 2009-2010 season. Robert Tobin was the Henry J. Leir Chair from 2008 up until his passing in 2022.
These are Robert Tobin\u27s photos, originally hosted on his WordPress site provided by Clark University.https://commons.clarku.edu/tobinglobalphotos/1003/thumbnail.jp
The Tobin site - 36Cw27: an archaic manifestation in northwest Pennsylvania
No full textAuthor presents the results of arhaeological excavations of the Tobin Site and concludes that this site represents a summer camp
of a small band or extended family group of the Brewerton
or closely related culture of the Late Archaic period. Illustrations and maps are included
The tobin tax: A review of the evidence
No full textAbstract: The debate about the Tobin Tax, and other financial transaction taxes (FTT), gives rise to strong views both for and against. Unfortunately, little of this debate is based on the now considerable body of evidence about the impact of such taxes. This review attempts to synthesise what we know from the available theoretical and empirical literature about the impact of FTTs on volatility in financial markets. We also review the literature on how a Tobin Tax might be implemented, the amount of revenue that it might realistically produce, and the likely incidence of the tax. We conclude that, contrary to what is often assumed, a Tobin Tax is feasible and, if appropriately designed, could make a significant contribution to revenue without causing major distortions. However, it would be unlikely to reduce market volatility and could even increase it. JEL Classification: G15, G18, H22, H27 Key Words: Tobin tax, financial transaction taxes, volatility, revenue, incidence, feasibility The corresponding author. We are grateful for the participants of a Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation workshop for useful comments and suggestions. Stacey Townsend has provided excellent administrative support. We gratefully acknowledge financial support from DFID for the research undertaken in this paper
Sexuality and Textuality (Fall 1999) (Whitman College)
No full textThis course was taught by Robert Tobin at Whitman College. Professor Tobin worked at Whitman for 18 years as associate dean of the faculty and chair of the humanities, and was named Cushing Eells Professor of the Humanities. Several of the courses he developed at Whitman would make the transition to Clark, where they continued to evolve.
Sexuality and Textuality seeks to examine the ways in which sexuality has an effect upon literary texts. It questions whether an author\u27s sexuality affects their writing, whether a reader\u27s sexuality affects their reading, and to what extent one can analyze the sexuality of literary characters or even works. Along these lines, it will ask whether it is fair to try to determine from a literary text whether its author is gay or not, or whether one can say that a particular work or aesthetic is in some way queer . At the same time, however, it will ask whether textuality , broadly defined as verbal constructions, affects sexuality. Can one say that certain linguistic, rhetorical, and literary formulations have changed and altered sexuality
Passage to the Center: Imagination and the Sacred in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney
No full textNobel Laureate Seamus Heaney, author of nine collections of poetry and three volumes of influential essays, is regarded by many as the greatest Irish poet since Yeats. Passage to the Center is the most comprehensive critical treatment to date on Heaney\u27s poetry and the first to study Heaney\u27s entire body of work (including his recent volumes, Seeing Things and The Spirit Level ). It is also the first to examine the poems from the perspective of religion, one of Heaney\u27s guiding preoccupations. According to Tobin, the growth of Heaney\u27s poetry may be charted through the recurrent figure of the center, a key image in the relationship that evolved over time between the poet and his inherited place, an evolution that involved the continual re-evaluation and re-vision of imaginative boundaries. In a way that previous studies have not, Tobin\u27s work examines Heaney\u27s poetry in the context of modernist and postmodernist concerns about the desacralizing of civilization and provides a challenging engagement with the work of a living master.
South Atlantic ReviewA thorough analysis of Heaney’s oeuvre to date, one that avoids the limitations of formalism and sectarian ideology. -- Irish Studies Review
World Literature TodayA valuable contribution to modern Irish literary scholarship. . . . Invigorating and commendable. -- Modern Language Reviewhttps://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_english_language_and_literature_ireland/1000/thumbnail.jp
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