745 research outputs found
Dasgupta Review Revisited
No full textA significant critique of the Dasgupta Review by authors Spash and Hache (2021) has been published in the journal Globalizations. The article is open access, so it is available for anyone to read. We would recommend it to anybody interested in ecological economics and the challenges of valuing Nature. The lead author (Clive Spash) is an ecological economist currently at the Vienna University of Economics and Business
Structural Adjustment, Global Trade and the New Political Economy of Development
No full textBiplab Dasgupta. Structural Adjustment Global Trade and the New Political Economy of Development. New Delhi. Sage Publications. 1998. Price Indian Rupees 450 (hardback). The author has written a very topical book the relevance of which cannot be understated. At the core of the book the author discusses the concept of the new political economy of development which forms the theoretical underpinnings that lie behind the structural adjustment/ stabilisation programmes of the international financial institutions such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Biplab Dasgupta has very concisely and succinctly analysed the new political economy of development which has, as its centre-piece, a blind faith in the operation of free-market forces. This can be traced back to the Reagan and Thatcher years, which saw a shift away from interventionist policies to allowing the markets to decide
The Long and Continuing Fight to Save Public Education
No full textEpisode · I Hate Politics Podcast · With school boards around the country under attack from right-wing extremists, a veteran Silver-Spring based education reporter and author, Karen Chenoweth, has founded a resource to help school board candidates and school board members fight back. Sunil Dasgupta talks to Chenoweth about her website democracy-education.org and her mission. Music from Finster.https://open.spotify.com/episode/7gUiArNXgofhVTx1vweJE
The Fight Against Government Secrecy
No full textLocal journalist and author Miranda Spivack has a new book out, Backroom Deals in Our Backyard: How Government Secrecy Harms Our Communities and the Local Heroes Fighting Back. Sunil Dasgupta talks to Spivack about the book, why transparency has been a persistent problem in government, and how the public can fight back. Music by Washington art-pop rock band Catscan!https://open.spotify.com/episode/1UrBdTiUInvcV3xXgjK1R
Review of \u3ci\u3e The Community in Canada: Rural and Urban\u3c/i\u3e Edited by Satadal Dasgupta
No full textThis book surveys studies of rural, small town, and urban community in Canada. The first third of the book, written by Dasgupta, provides definitions and perspectives of community. The remainder of the book contains a selection of studies of communities in Canada, mostly sociological and mostly from the 1960s and 1970s. Dasgupta begins with Hillery\u27s 1955 classification of ninety-four definitions of community, noting that all but three of these definitions involve a group of people in \u27social interaction.’” Theories and perspectives on community are organized into five categories: ecological, ethnographic, social system, social or interactional, and conflict approaches. The author examines theoretical approaches developed by social scientists, but more Canadian approaches and materials could have been introduced. For example, in the discussion of settlement patterns, Dasgupta makes no mention of the Canadian Frontiers of Settlement studies of Carl Dawson and associates in the 1930s
What AMZN HQ2 Search Tells Us About Government Transparency
No full textThere is a long tradition in political philosophy where democracy and transparency are equated. A new article in the Policy Studies Journal, by UMBC colleagues UMBC’s Eric Stokan, Ian Anson, University of Texas Austin’s Nathan Jensen studied the impact of government transparency on Amazon’s search for its second headquarters to find surprising conclusions: https://doi.org/10.1111/psj.70016 . Sunil Dasgupta talks with lead author Eric Stokan. Music by Frederick, MD,- based country-folk singer-songwriter Susanna Laird.https://open.spotify.com/episode/2bNPVzoK9pPWHkFYzINHU
Medical School Watercooler Newsletter - June 25, 2021
No full textThis is the June 25, 2021 edition of the Frederick P. Whiddon College of Medicine\u27s newsletter - Watercooler.
Contents Include: White Coat Ceremony marks transition for third-year medical students Faculty Spotlight: Santanu Dasgupta, Ph.D. Research on uterine cancer presented at ASCO USA medical students, alumnus win at regional emergency medicine conference Video online: \u27Eosinophilic Esophagitis in Children\u27 Faculty Spotlight: Rosa Vidal, M.D. Meet a Med Student: Lauren Mussel
The Case Against Localism
No full textThis year’s Fourth of July episode explores the ideology of localism, a foundational tenet of American political philosophy. Sunil Dasgupta talks with political theorist and author Trevor Latimer about his new book. Small Isn’t Beautiful, where he takes on the widespread presumption that the government closest to us is necessarily the best. Local news re LGBTQ+ book protests, Maryland opens to marijuana, and the Anacostia River opens to swimming after a half-century. Music from the band Finster. Their 2023 album, Crosswinds, now on vinyl: https://t.ly/-bAF. Latimer’s book: https://t.ly/YRjS. MD marijuana FAQ: https://t.ly/-CI6. Anacostia swim event: https://t.ly/KBDf.https://open.spotify.com/episode/7HziMV5wlstZ2D3higJl9
Schools: Leadership First, Then Budgets
No full textIn this episode, Sunil Dasgupta talks with education author Karin Chenoweth about her new book, Districts that Succeed, where she looks at five successful school districts that beat severe challenges, and with Richard Montgomery High School (MCPS) history teacher Jerome Price about how schools need to practice what they preach on anti-racism. Very local news. Music from The Airport 77s.https://ihppod.libsyn.com/schools-leadership-first-then-budget
Can Climate Action and Conservation Unite?
No full textTwo new books by local authors Paula Whyman’s Bad Naturalist and Mike Tidwell’s The Lost Trees of Willow Avenue grapple with the challenges and hopes of conservation and climate action. Sunil Dasgupta talks with climate activist and Takoma Park resident Tidwell and fiction-author-turned conservationist Whyman, a longtime Bethesda resident, about their approaches to saving the world. Books at Music by Washington art-pop rock band Catscan!https://open.spotify.com/episode/2wjaT48cLcxSUHS92ZSnZ
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