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An analysis of ten international radio news broadcasts in English to Africa
In: Political Communication, Band 2, Heft 2, S. 159-176
ISSN: 1091-7675
Book Review: Community Development in America edited by JAMES A. CHRISTENSON & JERRY W. ROBINSON JR., Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University Press. 1980. pp. 245. $8.50
In: Urban studies, Band 19, Heft 1, S. 98-99
ISSN: 1360-063X
Personification and the pronoun problem
In: Women's studies international quarterly: a multidisciplinary journal for the rapid publ. of research communications and review articles in women's studies, Band 3, Heft 2-3, S. 149-163
ISSN: 0148-0685
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Is Cognitive Aging All Downhill? Current Theory versus Reality
In: Human development, Band 44, Heft 5, S. 288-295
ISSN: 1423-0054
The physical aspects of crude oil spills on northern terrain
In: Report 73,42
In: [IAND publication] no. QS-1537-000-EE-A-1
Chemical Partitioning to Foliage: The Contribution and Legacy of Davide Calamari
In: Environmental science and pollution research: ESPR, Band 13, Heft 1, S. 2-8
ISSN: 1614-7499
Development of continental scale multimedia contaminant fate models: Integrating GIS
In: Environmental science and pollution research: ESPR, Band 8, Heft 3
ISSN: 1614-7499
The Discussion of Public Works Programmes, 1917–1935: Some Remarks on the Labour Movement's Contribution
In: International review of social history, Band 11, Heft 1, S. 8-17
ISSN: 1469-512X
One of the by-products of the Keynesian Revolution has been a painstaking search for precursors of Keynes. Diligent academics have compiled an impressive array of "proto-Keynesians", although some have only slender claims to the title. There has been a preoccupation with those writers whose contributions were exclusively theoretical. This bias is surprising in view of the nature of Keynes' own approach which was to progress from policy prescription to theory. The "proto-Keynesians" in general failed to proceed to Keynesian policy prescriptions, being unable to withstand the attacks of orthodox theorists; yet some commentators, ignorant of theoretical niceties, intuitively arrived at policy programmes which Keynes later endorsed. This latter group placed particular emphasis on public works programmes as a method of combating unemployment. Economists have credited the Liberal Party, J. M. Keynes and H. D. Henderson with being the first, in the inter-war years, to emphasise public works as one solution to the problem of chronic unemployment. Klein, examining Keynes' and Henderson's arguments in support of the Liberal Party's 1929 General Election commitment to a public works programme, states that "no one was thinking seriously along these lines at the time of the Great Depression." Most other commentators have stressed the original nature of the Liberal programme of 1929, notably Harrod, Macgregor and Dillard. The purpose of this paper is to indicate the contribution of the Labour movement to the inter-war discussion of public works. It is contended that there has been undue emphasis on the Liberal Party's literature of the 1920S and early 1030s. In fact, the Liberal programme was in many respects similar to that which had been expounded by trade unionists and the Labour Party since 1917. To establish this argument it is necessary, first, to outline the historical background against which the inter-war discussion of public works took place.
BETR North America: A regionally segmented multimedia contaminant fate model for North America
In: Environmental science and pollution research: ESPR, Band 8, Heft 3
ISSN: 1614-7499