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Cosmopolitan ethics in global finance? : a pragmatic approach to the Tobin Tax
Full text linkThe 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
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Richard L. Tobin to International Whaling Commission
No full textLetter from Richard L. Tobin, World Magazine to International Whaling Commission, June 18, 1973https://lawcommons.lclark.edu/iwc_correspondence_1-3/1023/thumbnail.jp
Richard L. Tobin to International Whaling Commission
No full textLetter from Richard L. Tobin, World Magazine to International Whaling Commission, June 18, 1973https://lawcommons.lclark.edu/iwc_correspondence_1-3/1023/thumbnail.jp
Richard Dorson (interview)
No full textThis interview is included in the American Folklore Society Oral History Project held at the Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. In this item, Richard M. Dorson is interviewed by Richard Reuss at the American Folklore Society annual meeting in Nashville, Tennessee for the American Folklore Society Oral History Project. Biography/History note: Richard M. Dorson, folklorist, author, and educator, was born in New York City in 1916 and died in 1981. He earned his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. at Harvard University and taught at Harvard and Michigan State University before becoming professor of history and folklore at Indiana University where he founded its Folklore Institute in 1963 and became the first director and first chair of the Folklore Department at Indiana University in 1978. This collection consists of 1 sound tape reel (40 min.) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, mono. ; 7 in. It was originally recorded on November 2, 1973 at the American Folklore Society annual meeting in Nashville, Tennessee by Richard Reuss on a Sony audiocassette. This is a first-generation copy
James Tobin : an appreciation of his contribution to economics.
Full text linkJim Tobin, who died on March 11, 2002 at the age of 84, was one of giants of economics of the second half of the twentieth century and the greatest macroeconomist of his generation. Tobin’s influence on macroeconomic theory is so pervasive - so much part of our professional ‘acquis’ - that many younger economists often are not even aware that it is his ideas they are elaborating, testing, criticising, refuting or re-inventing. In this Appreciation, I consider Tobin’s scholarly contributions, made over a period of more than 50 years. Tobin received the 1981 Nobel Memorial Prize “for his analysis of financial markets and their relations to expenditure decisions, employment, production and prices”. I consider his contributions to mean-variance portfolio demand and asset pricing theory, especially the Portfolio Separation Theorem; pitfalls in financial model building; portfolio balance and flow of funds models and the ‘credit channel’; the life-cycle model and social security; econometric methodology, including the Tobit estimator and his pioneering work using both time series and cross-sectional data to estimate food demand functions; economic growth; Tobin’s q; the ‘Tobin Tax’ ; the monetary and fiscal policy effectiveness debate, first with Milton Friedman and then with the New Classical Macroeconomics and Real Business Cycle schools; and Tobin’s approach to methodological questions including microfoundations and aggregation.
James Tobin: An Appreciation of his Contribution to Economics
Full text linkJim Tobin, who died on March 11, 2002 at the age of 84, was one of giants of economics of the second half of the twentieth century and the greatest macroeconomist of his generation. Tobin's influence on macroeconomic theory is so pervasive - so much part of our professional 'acquis' - that many younger economists often are not even aware that it is his ideas they are elaborating, testing, criticising, refuting or re-inventing. In this Appreciation, I consider Tobin's scholarly contributions, made over a period of more than 50 years. Tobin received the 1981 Nobel Memorial Prize for his analysis of financial markets and their relations to expenditure decisions, employment, production and prices'. I consider his contributions to mean-variance portfolio demand and asset pricing theory, especially the Portfolio Separation Theorem; pitfalls in financial model building; portfolio balance and flow of funds models and the 'credit channel'; the life-cycle model and social security; econometric methodology, including the Tobit estimator and his pioneering work using both time series and cross-sectional data to estimate food demand functions; economic growth; Tobin's the 'Tobin Tax'; the monetary and fiscal policy effectiveness debate, first with Milton Friedman and then with the New Classical Macroeconomics and Real Business Cycle schools; and Tobin's approach to methodological questions including microfoundations and aggregation
Letter from Richard Tobin to B.D. Killian, January 16, 1866
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Folder 9: Schwiderski, Richard Craig v. State of Texas 2, 1979-1984
No full textPhotocopy of a section of an article written by New York author Richard Reeves and titled 'Too Late to Kill the Messenger' and dated 1979, and argues for the role of media during violent situations
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
Globalising pragmatism
Full text linkThe paper outlines a critique and reconstruction of Richard Rorty’s version of pragmatism. While sympathetic to many elements in Rorty’s philosophy, his recent creation of a dichotomy between state-level (read credible) and global-level (read utopian) politics is criticised. Patterns of governance in the global polity simply do not match. Decision-making prowes s within institutional and agent networks transcends exclusively state-centric cartographies and proffers the need to theorise global politics in a non-dichotomised, multi-level fashion. This is not to dispense with pragmatism. Rather, it is to extend it. By drawing on Rorty’s concept of sentimental education, a global pragmatic praxis is elaborated via a narrative of the Tobin Tax and its place in a burgeoning global civil society. In this way, Rorty’s oft-repeated claim that “we should start from where we are” is applied to the plurality of ‘we-groups’ and their multiple activities within an emerging global polity
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