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In the half-century after 1913, approximately 5000 children were
sent from Britain to Australia, Canada, and Rhodesia under the
auspices of the Child Emigration Society, established by the
South-African born Kingsley Fairbridge in 1909. The Fairbridge
Society's child emigration scheme became the best known and most
celebrated of the 20th-century juvenile migration schemes from
Britain to the Imperial Dominions. This study investigates the
motives for the establishment of the Fairbridge child migration
scheme, examines its history in Australia and Canada, and outlines
the experiences of many of the former child migrants. The book is
based on material from Australia and Canada as well as archives of
the Fairbridge Society in England, Western Australia and New South
Wales, plus surviving records of the Society in British Columbia,
and on interviews with former Fairbridge children. It aims to place
the Fairbridge scheme in its historical context, and uses oral
history, interviews and photographs.
This book analyses the logic of applying the American
Post-Keynesian economist Hyman Minsky's Financial Instability
Hypothesis (FIH) to the financial crisis of 2007-08. Arguing that
most theories of financial crisis, including Minsky's own, only
describe events, but do not actually explain them, the book surveys
theories of financial crisis that have been developed to describe
instability in the post-WW2 US financial system and analyses them
in their historical context. The book argues that explanation of
the financial crisis of 2007-08 should involve interpretation of
the concept of 'risk', which guides the construction and pricing of
contemporary financial products such as derivatives and asset
backed securities, as a form of 'liquidity', the concept that
Minsky sought to explain the financial crises of the 1970s and
1980s with. The book highlights the continuing relevance of
Minsky's theory of liquidity crisis as "immanent", in a historical
sense, to the products and trading practices of modern finance,
because these products were developed to obviate the crisis
dynamics that Minsky described. Minsky's FIH can therefore inform
historical understanding of the crisis of 2007-08 but is not
directly explanatory itself. The book explores explanation of the
financial crisis of 2007-08 interpreting 'liquidity', in practical
historical terms, as involving a process of development out of
prior crisis dynamics. Seeking to contribute to debates over the
causes of the financial crisis of 2007-08 by blending a discussion
of historicizing philosophy, economic theory and contemporary
financial banking and trading practices this work will be of great
interest to scholars of international political economy, heterodox
economics and critical theory.
TV celebrity judge Farmer Chris on Channel 5 Star's Celebs On The
Farm and regularly featured farmer on Channel 5's The Yorkshire
Vet, Chris Jeffery tells his remarkable life story, born a farmer's
son who became a pig farm manager, milkman, insurance adviser, meat
humper, animal nutrition representative to farm supply shop owner,
before a career in television beckoned at 60. Chris' amazing
journey has taken him from a village near York and a now distant
world of Shire horses, girls, rugby and his close circle of pals to
a life map that includes Suffolk, Northern Ireland, a Russian love
affair, owning a racehorse and proposing to his third wife in the
Indian Ocean. Today he is back with his true first love - animals -
running a rare breeds farm with his beloved pedigree Whitebred
Shorthorn herd and his plum pudding pigs. Follow Chris' highs and
lows as he sometimes lurches from crisis to crisis but always comes
out smiling - and how a comic moment captured on Channel 5 sealed
his opportunity to become the man who calls the shots on the fate
of the famous on a celebrity show that has recently been nominated
in a series of TV awards.
This book analyses the logic of applying the American
Post-Keynesian economist Hyman Minsky's Financial Instability
Hypothesis (FIH) to the financial crisis of 2007-08. Arguing that
most theories of financial crisis, including Minsky's own, only
describe events, but do not actually explain them, the book surveys
theories of financial crisis that have been developed to describe
instability in the post-WW2 US financial system and analyses them
in their historical context. The book argues that explanation of
the financial crisis of 2007-08 should involve interpretation of
the concept of 'risk', which guides the construction and pricing of
contemporary financial products such as derivatives and asset
backed securities, as a form of 'liquidity', the concept that
Minsky sought to explain the financial crises of the 1970s and
1980s with. The book highlights the continuing relevance of
Minsky's theory of liquidity crisis as "immanent", in a historical
sense, to the products and trading practices of modern finance,
because these products were developed to obviate the crisis
dynamics that Minsky described. Minsky's FIH can therefore inform
historical understanding of the crisis of 2007-08 but is not
directly explanatory itself. The book explores explanation of the
financial crisis of 2007-08 interpreting 'liquidity', in practical
historical terms, as involving a process of development out of
prior crisis dynamics. Seeking to contribute to debates over the
causes of the financial crisis of 2007-08 by blending a discussion
of historicizing philosophy, economic theory and contemporary
financial banking and trading practices this work will be of great
interest to scholars of international political economy, heterodox
economics and critical theory.
Celebs On The Farm judge (C5 & MTV) and The Yorkshire Vet
regular (C5) Farmer Chris follows up his acclaimed autobiography
Farming, Celebs & Plum Pudding Pigs - The Making of Farmer
Chris with tales of hilarity, heartbreak, happiness, hopelessness
and his own refreshing honesty, best summed up with his personal
assessment 'Had I thought this through?' Big Tales From My Little
Farm sees Farmer Chris at home in North Yorkshire with his wife
Farmer Kate on their 40-acre farm and tells of how Chris finally
realised his dream of becoming a farmer and then realised just how
much he had to learn. Laugh out loud humour, cry out loud despair
and varying degrees of astonishment, frustration, achievement and
disbelief follow as Chris looks on as a massive cattle feeding ring
falls of the back of his trailer as he is going uphill, his tractor
steering fails on a country lane, his sheep escape again along with
his goats, his cattle win major prizes, his sow only has a litter
of one piglet and his Jack Russell terrier eats a whole Terry's
Chocolate Orange! Chris' good friend Julian Norton (The Yorkshire
Vet) provides the foreword plus an additional chapter. Farmer Kate
provides the words 'Oh Christopher!'
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