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[p. 3-64] Fish and game protection. Speech of the Hon. Jean Prevost. - [p. 65-107] Fish and Game Congress, held at the Windsor Hotel, Montreal, on December 13th-14th, 1905, at the call of Hon. Jean Prevost. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Why doesn't healthcare get better and cheaper like the cell phones we carry in our pockets? In this book, James B. Rebitzer and Robert S. Rebitzer argue that it's because the healthcare system generates the wrong kinds of innovation. Further, they show that incentive contracts, professional norms, social narratives, and the nature of competition and disruption in the health sector conspire against cost-reducing innovation. The book not only sheds new light on the trajectory of innovation in healthcare, but it also highlights how we can point innovation in a better direction to deliver more value to patients and society.

"Like many developing countries, China and India followed development strategies biased in favor of the urban sector over the last several decades. These development schemes have led to overall efficiency losses due to misallocation of resources among rural and urban sectors. It also led to large income gaps between rural and urban areas. The urban bias was greater in China than in India. Indeed, official data show that both the income gap and the difference in poverty rates between rural and urban areas are much larger in China than in India. Both countries have corrected the rural-urban divide to some extent as part of reform processes. But the bias still exists. Other studies also support the idea presented here that correcting this imbalance will not only contribute to higher rural growth, but also secure future urban growth (Fan and Chan-Kang 2005). More important, correcting the urban bias will lead to larger reductions in poverty as well as more balanced growth across sectors and regions. Correcting a government's bias towards investment in urban areas is one of the most important policies to pursue."-- from Authors' Abstract ; Non-PR ; IFPRI1; MP14; Theme 12 ; FCND; DSGD

Das Kommunistische Manifest wird als eine weitsichtige Prognose kapitalistischer Globalisierung angesehen. Andererseits haben sich anti-kapitalistische Revolutionen ganz anders entwickelt als vom Manifest erwartet. Der Kapitalismus hat sehr viel flexibler als angenommen auf die Herausforderungen sowohl seiner eigenen Dynamik als auch der Russischen und Chinesischen Revolution reagiert. Der Autor vertritt die These, dass vor allem die Vernachlässigung der Wechselbeziehungen zwischen Zeit und Raum diesen Fehlprognosen zugrunde liegen. Nach einer Übersicht über Ansätze der Prognose des sozialen und politischen Wandels (einschließlich Futurologie und Utopien), diskutiert er die Rolle von Prognosen in der globalen Umweltpolitik, ausgehend von einer umfassenden Studie der US-Regierung (Global 2000). Angesichts fehlender transformativer Visionen, wendet er sich der kritischen Kapitalismusanalyse zu und fasst die Beziehungen zwischen der Vision des Kommunistischen Manifestes, dem Wandel revolutionärer Konzepte und ihres Scheiterns zusammen. In seiner Vorhersage nationaler Revolutionen unterschätzte Marx den Wandel globaler Raumstrukturen im Verlaufe kapitalistischer Entwicklung, die zu einer Vertiefung der Globalisierung und zum Entstehen einer Arena globaler Politik führten. Die Regulationstheorie hat die Abfolge spezifischer Phasen kapitalistischer Akkumulation analysiert. Diese Entwicklung wird jedoch in jüngster Zeit von einer wachsenden Resilienz der Nationalstaaten begleitet, wobei Profite aus der ungleichen Entwicklung eine Quelle der Finanzierung sozialer Kompromisse in den fortgeschrittensten und mächtigsten Ländern darstellen. Schließlich stellt eine massive internationale Migration die Prinzipien einer globalen Kapitalmobilität und einer nationalen Kontrolle der Mobilität von Arbeitskräften in Frage. Während die globale politische Fragmentierung in vielerlei Hinsicht im Konflikt mit Menschenrechtsnormen und dem Kampf gegen den Klimawandel steht, stärkt eben diese Fragmentierung die nationale Identifizierung vieler Bürger im Globalen Norden. Das Schlusskapitel diskutiert die Probleme von Prognosen über die Zukunft des Kapitalismus sowie konkrete Utopien einer postkapitalistischen Gesellschaft vor dem Hintergrund von Konflikten zwischen einem humanitären und ökologischen Globalismus und der Resilienz nationaler Egoismen im Globalen Norden.

This open access book presents novel theoretical, empirical and experimental work exploring the nature of mental representations that support natural language production and understanding, and other manifestations of cognition. One fundamental question raised in the text is whether requisite knowledge structures can be adequately modeled by means of a uniform representational format, and if so, what exactly is its nature. Frames are a key topic covered which have had a strong impact on the exploration of knowledge representations in artificial intelligence, psychology and linguistics; cascades are a novel development in frame theory. Other key subject areas explored are: concepts and categorization, the experimental investigation of mental representation, as well as cognitive analysis in semantics. This book is of interest to students, researchers, and professionals working on cognition in the fields of linguistics, philosophy, and psychology.

Renaissance and 'magic realism' literature share many characteristics; among these are the prevalence of mythology and religion. It is no new observation to say that contemporary literature has strong and discernible connections to the earlier literature of the Renaissance; scholarship has long seen the parallels between eras that share the collapse of established values and beliefs. The use and treatment of mythology and religion in these respective categories of literature, however, invites a discussion yet to be made in scholarship. An examination of the form and function of mythology and religion in authors of both Renaissance and 'magic realism' literature shows how these shared conventions similarly address and respond to relevant social, political, and cultural tensions. While the comparison is not a one to one throughout, analysis will reveal how Renaissance authors of drama and authors of 'magic realism' in the late 20th and 21st-century evoke the same spirit in the use of these conventions. Both use these belief systems to explain relevant aspects of humanity, as was the intention of these systems in their original design.

Historically, small economies, especially resource-rich ones, underperformed on average relative to their larger counterparts. Small island economies appear still more disadvantaged due to remoteness from both markets and agglomeration economies. Yet a comparison of two small island economies with similar initial conditions other than their mineral endowment suggests that policy outweighs size, isolation and resource endowment in determining economic performance. Resource-poor Mauritius adopted an unfashionable policy of export manufacturing that systematically eliminated surplus labour, which drove economic diversification that sustained rapid GDP growth and political maturation. Like most resource-rich economies, Trinidad and Tobago pursued policies that absorbed rent too rapidly, which impeded diversification and created an illusory prosperity vulnerable to collapse.