Suchergebnisse

Two reasons are mainly brought to explain the recent increase in
intra-country wage inequality in favour of high-skilled labour: Skill-Biased
Technological Change (SBTC) and International Trade Liberalisation (IT).
Since few empirical studies have attempted to assess both interpretations
across a comprehensive sample of countries, we have analysed the impact of
both and added some new variables within a unified framework and across 30
OECD countries, between 2001 and 2015. Using panel data, results show that
both explanations are crucial. However, considering all 30 OECD countries,
the IT argument dominates. Further, we show that seven clusters must be
considered in which at least one theory influence the wage gap.

This essay aims to reflect on the political and ecological future of Europe, starting with the figure and the democratic values of David Sassoli.

"O Esplendor do Caos" (1998) is the book by Portuguese thinker Eduardo Lourenço (1923-2020) that I return to most often, and I suppose that no other work by the author of "O Labirinto da Saudade" (1978) will keep me busy as much over the next few years. As I hope to show in this article, this work is a remarkable reflection on the nature and functions of social and individual memory, and on the evil and its inscription in individuals and in society.

A genre of speech used by the speaker to access an essentially therapeutic power, but also traditionally to invoke a magical or divine power to destroy an opponent, the curse (in Portuguese "praga", from the Latin "plaga": "blow," "wound," "calamity," in the proper and figurative sense) is at the same time a discourse of threat and satire, a discourse of merciless predation by an adversary who employs the force of words and gestures invested with supernatural power. In this article, based mainly on the many dozens of curses spoken by characters in the works of the Portuguese novelist Aquilino Ribeiro, I propose to build a theory (literary, cultural and anthropological) of the curse.

In this article I address the problem of the definition, manifestations, characteristics, and causes of catastrophic evil (one that leads hundreds or thousands of people to exclusion, suffering and death in a short time). To this end, I start from a set of George Steiner's theses on the nature of evil that José Saramago's thought and literary discourse confirm and support with an eloquence and depth that is rare in both the history of ideas and and in universal literature.