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Mangrove ecosystems are being increasingly threatened by human
activities. Their biotic productivity supplies food and other
resources to the human populations that inhabit or make use of
them. This volume highlights the results of a ten-year German /
Brazilian research project, called MADAM, in one of the largest
continuous mangrove areas of the world, located in northern Brazil.
Based on the analysis of the ecosystem dynamics, management
strategies for the conservation and sustainable use of mangroves
are presented and discussed. Beyond the scientific results, this
book also provides guidelines for the development of international
cooperation projects.
Mangrove ecosystems are being increasingly threatened by human
activities. Their biotic productivity supplies food and other
resources to the human populations that inhabit or make use of
them. This volume highlights the results of a ten-year German /
Brazilian research project, called MADAM, in one of the largest
continuous mangrove areas of the world, located in northern Brazil.
Based on the analysis of the ecosystem dynamics, management
strategies for the conservation and sustainable use of mangroves
are presented and discussed. Beyond the scientific results, this
book also provides guidelines for the development of international
cooperation projects.
Karl Marx predicted a world in which technical innovation would
increasingly devalue and impoverish workers, but other economists
thought the opposite, that it would lead to increased wages and
living standards--and the economists were right. Yet in the last
three decades, the market economy has been jeopardized by a
worrying phenomenon: a rise in wage inequality that has left a
substantial portion of the workforce worse off despite the
continuing productivity growth enjoyed by the economy. "Innovation
and Inequality" examines why.
Studies have firmly established a link between this worrying
trend and technical change, in particular the rise of new
information technologies. In "Innovation and Inequality," Gilles
Saint-Paul provides a synthetic theoretical analysis of the most
important mechanisms by which technical progress and innovation
affect the distribution of income. He discusses the conditions
under which skill-biased technical change may reduce the wages of
the least skilled, and how improvements in information technology
allow "superstars" to increase the scale of their activity at the
expense of less talented workers. He shows how the structure of
demand changes as the economy becomes wealthier, in ways that may
potentially harm the poorest segments of the workforce and economy.
An essential text for graduate students and an indispensable
resource for researchers, "Innovation and Inequality" reveals how
different categories of workers gain or lose from innovation, and
how that gain or loss crucially depends on the nature of the
innovation.
This thoroughly revised and expanded edition includes an entirely
new introduction to Paul and the central issues surrounding his
writings, as well as several newly included sections of writings
from Paul's time to the present, among them "Annotated Text:
Pseudo-Pauline Writings"; "The Apocryphal Paul: Some Early
Christian Traditions and Legends," with writings by Jerome, Clement
of Alexandria, Ambrosiaster, and others; "The Martyrdom of Paul";
"Paul and His Pagan Critics;" "Valentinus and the Gnostic
Paul,"with writings by Theodotus and Elaine Pagels; "Paul and the
Christian Martyrs"; "A Sampler of Patristic Interpretations"; "The
Second Century Paul"; "Reading Romans," with writings from Origen,
Theodoret of Cyrus, Paul W. Meyer, Stanley Stowers, Ernst Kasemann,
and others; and "A Sampler of Modern Approaches to Paul and His
Letters," with writings by Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza, Abraham J.
Malherbe, Peter Lampe, Margaret M. Mitchell, and Dale B. Martin. A
helpful Epilogue-"The Christian Proteus," by Wayne A. Meeks-a
Selected Bibliography, and an Index are also included.
The general assumption that social policy should be
utilitarian--that society should be organized to yield the greatest
level of welfare--leads inexorably to increased government
interventions. Historically, however, the science of economics has
advocated limits to these interventions for utilitarian reasons and
because of the assumption that people know what is best for
themselves. But more recently, behavioral economics has focused on
biases and inconsistencies in individual behavior. Based on these
developments, governments now prescribe the foods we eat, the
apartments we rent, and the composition of our financial
portfolios." The Tyranny of Utility" takes on this rise of
paternalism and its dangers for individual freedoms, and examines
how developments in economics and the social sciences are leading
to greater government intrusion in our private lives.
Gilles Saint-Paul posits that the utilitarian foundations of
individual freedom promoted by traditional economics are
fundamentally flawed. When combined with developments in social
science that view the individual as incapable of making rational
and responsible choices, utilitarianism seems to logically call for
greater governmental intervention in our lives. Arguing that this
cannot be defended on purely instrumental grounds, Saint-Paul calls
for individual liberty to be restored as a central value in our
society.
Exploring how behavioral economics is contributing to the
excessive rise of paternalistic interventions, "The Tyranny of
Utility" presents a controversial challenge to the prevailing
currents in economic and political discourse.
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