Locality And Inequality

Author : Linda M. Lobao
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0791404757

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Locality and Inequality by Linda M. Lobao Pdf

This book explores how the recent restructuring of farming and industry has affected economic and social equality in the United States. The author explains how the farm sector has undergone a dramatic restructuring with profound effects. Moderate-size family farms, the mainstay of American agriculture, have declined during the postwar period and are now under severe financial stress. Large-scale industrialized farms -- "the factories in the field," often run by corporations -- continue to expand their share of agricultural sales while small farms operated on a part-time basis appear to be replacing traditional family farming. Lobao shows that public concern about farm restructuring is indeed warranted and that the nation now appears to be losing its most beneficial farms as well as industries. While local and regional social and economic forces and state policy can be brought to bear on these trends, Lobao particulary focuses on how community empowerment and broad-based political coalitions offer the most promise for fundamental change.

Author : Linda M. Lobao
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0585055459

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Locality and Inequality by Linda M. Lobao Pdf

Author : Carlos Gradín,Murray Leibbrandt,Finn Tarp
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780198863960

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Inequality in the Developing World by Carlos Gradín,Murray Leibbrandt,Finn Tarp Pdf

Inequality has emerged as a key development challenge. It holds implications for economic growth and redistribution and translates into power asymmetries that can endanger human rights, create conflict, and embed social exclusion and chronic poverty. For these reasons, it underpins intense public and academic debates and has become a dominant policy concern within many countries and in all multilateral agencies. It is at the core of the 17 goals of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. This book contributes to this important discussion by presenting assessments of the measurement and analysis of global inequality by leading inequality scholars, aligning these to comprehensive reviews of inequality trends in five of the world's largest developing countries - Brazil, China, India, Mexico, and South Africa.

Author : F. Selleri
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781468487749

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Quantum Mechanics Versus Local Realism by F. Selleri Pdf

If you have two small objects, one here on Earth and the other on the planet Pluto, what would you say of the following statement: No modification of the properties of the object on the earth can take place as a consequence of an interaction of the distant object with a third body also located on Pluto? The opinion that the previous statement is correct is very natural, but modern quantum theory implies that it must be wrong in certain cases. Consider in fact two arbitrary objects separated by such a large distance that they are unable to exert any important mutual influence. It is possible to show rigorously that a measurable physical quantity exists, with a value more than 40% different from the value theoretically predicted by quantum mechanics. Necessarily then, either space is largely an illusion of our senses and it does not exist objectively, or information can be sent from the future to the past, or ... something important has to be changed in modern physics. This is the essence of the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) paradox. A paradox is an argument that derives absurd conclusions by valid deduction from acceptable premises. In the case of the EPR paradox the absurd conclusion is that Bell's observable d should have two different values d = 2.Ji and The "acceptable premises" are the following: 1. All the empirical predictions of the existing quantum theory are correct.

Author : Joachim Singelmann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780429715273

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Inequality In Labor Market Areas by Joachim Singelmann Pdf

During the past two decades, many attempts have been made to refocus stratification research and the study of inequality. The contributors to this volume have a long-term concern with the importance of space and locality. Many of them belonged to a research project during the early 1980s that had as one of its main aims the analysis of labor force

Author : Linda M. Lobao,Gregory Hooks,Ann R. Tickamyer
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780791479971

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The Sociology of Spatial Inequality by Linda M. Lobao,Gregory Hooks,Ann R. Tickamyer Pdf

2007 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Sociologists have too often discounted the role of space in inequality. This book showcases a recent generation of inquiry that attends to poverty, prosperity, and power across a range of territories and their populations within the United States, addressing spatial inequality as a thematically distinct body of work that spans sociological research traditions. The contributors' various perspectives offer an agenda for future action to bridge sociology's diverse and often narrowly focused spatial and inequality traditions.

Author : Symeon Bozapalidis
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-14
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540754138

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Algebraic Informatics by Symeon Bozapalidis Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Algebraic Informatics, CAI 2007, held in Thessaloniki, Greece, in May 2007. The 10 revised full papers presented together with 9 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 29 submissions. The papers cover topics such as algebraic semantics on graphs and trees, formal power series, syntactic objects, algebraic picture processing, infinite computation, acceptors and transducers for strings, trees, graphs, arrays, etc., and decision problems.

Author : Paolo Tombesi,Osamu Hirota
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2007-05-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780306471148

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Quantum Communication, Computing, and Measurement 3 by Paolo Tombesi,Osamu Hirota Pdf

This volume contains contributions based on the lectures delivered and posters presented at the Fifth International Conference on Quantum Communication, Measurement and Computing (QCM&C-Y2K). This Conference is the fifth of a successful series hosted this time in Italy, was held in Capri, 3-7 July, 2000. The conference was attended by more than 200 participants from all over the world. There was also a high level of participation from graduate students, who greatly benefited from the opportunity to attend world-class conferences. The Conference Hall was hosted in La Residenza Hotel in Capri, where part of p- ticipants where housed, while others where housed in various cozy nearby - tels. All enjoyed the pleasant atmosphere offered by the island of Capri. There were 59 invited lectures given as oral presentations of 30 minutes and 94 poster papers. The major topics covered at the Conference where new experimental and theoretical results in quantum information. They were divided in five parts; i) Quantum Information and Communication, ii) Quantum Measurement, - coherence, and Tomography, iii) Quantum Computing, iv) Cryptography, v) Entanglement and Teleportation. We were lucky in that almost all major - perimental groups in the world working in this area were represented, as were the major theoreticians. There was very active audience participation. A n- ber of graduate students and post-docs were able to present their contributions in four after dinner poster sessions.

Author : Gary P. Green,Steven C. Deller,David W. Marcouiller
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1845428072

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Amenities and Rural Development by Gary P. Green,Steven C. Deller,David W. Marcouiller Pdf

While many rural areas continue to experience depopulation and economic decline, others are facing rapid in migration, as well as employment and income growth. Much of this growth is due to the presence and use of amenity resources, broadly defined as qualities of a region that make it an attractive place to live and work. Rather than extracting natural resources for external markets, these communities have begun to build economies based on promoting environmental quality. Amenities and Rural Development explores the paradigmatic shift in how we view land resources and the potential for development in amenity-rich rural regions.

Author : Thomas A. Brody
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642789786

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The Philosophy Behind Physics by Thomas A. Brody Pdf

Thomas Brody had one of the most powerful and wide-ranging intellects of his generation. Although primarily a physicist who worked on statistical prob lems in nuclear physics, on probability theory and on computational physics he had an extensive knowledge of the philosophy of science and of philosophy, and was fluent in many languages. He is well-known among physicists for the Brody-Moshinsky transformation but his extensive work on probability and on the philosophy of science remained almost unknown. This was because the originality of his ideas entailed many lengthy battles with uncomprehending referees, and he frequently published in Mexican journals of limited circula tion. In addition, his strongly critical spirit inhibited his willingness to publish his ideas. He was always most concerned by the very unsatisfactory situation in the philosophy of physics, that is largely due to the generally poor knowledge that physicists and philosophers have of each other's disciplines. Philosophers of science write at length about physics without any detailed first-hand knowl edge of how research is actually carried out. Physicists, for their part, often implicitly assume naive or erroneous philosophical ideas, and this often hinders their scientific work, besides spreading further confusion if they try to give an account of what they are doing.

Author : Jefferey M. Sellers,Marta Arretche,Daniel Kübler,Eran Razin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137573780

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Inequality and Governance in the Metropolis by Jefferey M. Sellers,Marta Arretche,Daniel Kübler,Eran Razin Pdf

This book undertakes the first systematic, multi-country investigation into how regimes of place equality, consisting of multilevel policies, institutions and governance at multiple scales, influence spatial inequality in metropolitan regions. Extended, diversified metropolitan regions have become the dominant form of human settlement, and disparities among metropolitan places figure increasingly in wider trends toward growing inequality. Regimes of place equality are increasingly critical components of welfare states and territorial administration. They can aggravate disparities in services and taxes, or mitigate and compensate for local differences. The volume examines these regimes in a global sample of eleven democracies, including developed and developing countries on five continents. The analyses reveal new dimensions of efforts to grapple with growing inequality around the world, and a variety of institutional blueprints to address one of the most daunting challenges of twenty-first century governance.

Author : Amoako-tuffour,Armah
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780739130032

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Poverty Reduction Strategies in Action by Amoako-tuffour,Armah Pdf

Since the inception of the HIPC Initiative, the story of the design and implementation of poverty alleviation strategies has largely been told through the filters of development partners and the Bretton Woods Institutions. Poverty Reduction Strategies in Action examines the efforts in Ghana to reduce poverty and initiate changes that it believes are essential to ensure a prosperous future for its citizens in the 21st century. It chronicles the achievements, pitfalls, and looming challenges of a government, its people, and its external partners in fashioning out and implementing anti-poverty and pro-growth policies. This edited volume, by a group of independent researchers, examines Ghana's experience: what was done, how it was done, what was left undone, the lessons learned, and fills the void in the development literature.

Author : M. Ferrero,Alwyn van der Merwe
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401585293

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Fundamental Problems in Quantum Physics by M. Ferrero,Alwyn van der Merwe Pdf

For many physicists quantum theory contains strong conceptual difficulties, while for others the apparent conclusions about the reality of our physical world and the ways in which we discover that reality remain philosophically unacceptable. This book focuses on recent theoretical and experimental developments in the foundations of quantum physics, including topics such as the puzzles and paradoxes which appear when general relativity and quantum mechanics are combined; the emergence of classical properties from quantum mechanics; stochastic electrodynamics; EPR experiments and Bell's Theorem; the consistent histories approach and the problem of datum uniqueness in quantum mechanics; non-local measurements and teleportation of quantum states; quantum non-demolition measurements in optics and matter wave properties observed by neutron, electron and atomic interferometry. Audience: This volume is intended for graduate students of physics and those interested in the foundations of quantum theory.

Author : W.M. de Muynck
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2006-04-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780306480478

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Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, an Empiricist Approach by W.M. de Muynck Pdf

Taking a new perspective provided by a generalization of the mathematical formalism encompassing positive operator-valued measures, this book views old and new problems of the foundations of quantum mechanics. It demonstrates the crucial role of the generalized formalism in fundamental issues and practical applications.

Author : George S. Greenstein
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780262549301

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Quantum Strangeness by George S. Greenstein Pdf

A physicist's efforts to understand the enigma that is quantum mechanics. Quantum mechanics is one of the glories of our age. The theory lies at the heart of modern society. Quantum mechanics is one of our most valuable forecasters—a “great predictor.” It has immeasurably altered our conception of the natural world. Its philosophical implications are earthshaking. But quantum mechanics steadfastly refuses to speak of many things; it deals in probabilities rather than giving explicit descriptions. It never explains. Einstein, one of its creators, considered the theory incomplete. Even now, many years after the creation of quantum mechanics, physicists continue to argue about it. Astrophysicist George Greenstein has been both fascinated and confused by quantum mechanics for his entire career. In this book, he describes, engagingly and accessibly, his efforts to understand the enigma that is quantum mechanics. The fastest route to the insight into the ultimate nature of reality revealed by quantum mechanics, Greenstein writes, is through Bell's Theorem, which concerns reality at the quantum level; and Bell's 1964 discovery drives Greenstein's quest. Greenstein recounts a scientific odyssey that begins with Einstein, continues with Bell, and culminates with today's push to develop an industry of quantum machines. Along the way, he discusses spin, entanglement, experimental metaphysics, and quantum teleportation, often with easy-to-grasp analogies. We have known for decades that the world of the quantum was strange, but, Greenstein says, not until John Bell came along did we know just how strange.