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This article examines the role of investment in the development of economic indicators. The types of investments, their importance and role in the economies of countries are analyzed.

In this article, through personal narratives of three houses she knows, the authors asks, Can houses remember? She suggests that through processes of inhabitation, houses become "second bodies" that remember in two ways. Houses remember and haunt as they animate the memories of previous inhabitants, memories that become embodied by the houses and the current dwellers. Houses also embody histories of design, reflective of broader social attitudes toward intimate places. Second, houses remember as they are imbued with the responsibilities of representing in material form the virtualities of childhood, acting as Bachelard's "land of Motionless Childhood." More broadly, houses become dwelling places through processes of inhabitation and appropriation. These processes involve the synthesis of memories of others animated by a house and one's own experiences of inhabitation.

International audience ; This survey reviews the literature on the economic determinants of military expenditure and the economic foundations of armament and disarmament. It considers the main economic effects of military expenditure and disarmament in developed and developing countries, including impact on consumption, investment, growth, employment, inflation and the balance of payment. It concludes that the main dividend of disarmament is peace itself and that disarmament without development is not synonymous of a durable peace. Disarmament by a reduction of defence spending constraints will not be decided by a rule of proportionality and should be progressive and gradual. It implies controls of military technology, R&D and international trade. Finally, it is useful to bear in mind the costs of peace as well as the investment for peace.

International audience This survey reviews the literature on the economic determinants of military expenditure and the economic foundations of armament and disarmament. It considers the main economic effects of military expenditure and disarmament in developed and developing countries, including impact on consumption, investment, growth, employment, inflation and the balance of payment. It concludes that the main dividend of disarmament is peace itself and that disarmament without development is not synonymous of a durable peace. Disarmament by a reduction of defence spending constraints will not be decided by a rule of proportionality and should be progressive and gradual. It implies controls of military technology, R&D and international trade. Finally, it is useful to bear in mind the costs of peace as well as the investment for peace.

International audience ; This survey reviews the literature on the economic determinants of military expenditure and the economic foundations of armament and disarmament. It considers the main economic effects of military expenditure and disarmament in developed and developing countries, including impact on consumption, investment, growth, employment, inflation and the balance of payment. It concludes that the main dividend of disarmament is peace itself and that disarmament without development is not synonymous of a durable peace. Disarmament by a reduction of defence spending constraints will not be decided by a rule of proportionality and should be progressive and gradual. It implies controls of military technology, R&D and international trade. Finally, it is useful to bear in mind the costs of peace as well as the investment for peace.

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The paper is structured into four parts. Firstly I discuss the connection between the concept of injustice and the idea of human or individual rights. The claim is quite trivial: the language of rights has been and is still used as a strategy to demand correctives against injustice. Since this strategy has negative effects, of which concrete examples are given, I suggest a different grammar be adopted, the grammar of needs, which is what societies adopt in their justificatory discourses anyway. This leads into a consideration of how social criticism could start precisely from such discourses and why, under specific circumstances, the grammar of needs could represent a better strategy for this criticism than the language of rights does.

The Routledge Handbook of the Political Economy of Sanctions examines the core issues and debates surrounding this controversial topic, introducing readers to essential concepts and terms. It communicates the evolving character of international sanctions from diverse perspectives, with a particular emphasis on questions of efficacy, legality, and legitimacy of sanctions, as well as the mechanisms by which they are applied. This interdisciplinary book explores the international political economy of sanctions in the constantly changing context of geopolitical rivalry. The authors investigate various theoretical and historical approaches to sanctions and apply these to specific case studies, such as the African Union, China, Cuba, India, Russia, Turkey, and the United States. The book gives a voice to sanctioned states and considers the impact of secondary sanctions. It analyses sanctions with reference to wider political debates, such as national security, state sovereignty, economic warfare, and sustainability.

The Gospel of Matthew in Ge'ez has been handed down in two ancient Versions: A-text and B-text. The A-text is the earlier one, translated from the Greek and completed not later than the 6th century. It is a very 'free' translation, adapting the text not only to a Semitic vernacular but also to a new cultural background. The Vorlage of the A-text was rather close to the Byzantine type of text, but it has more readings in common with Greek manuscripts such as ﬡ, W and B, than those commonly understood as 'Byzantine.' The B-text, although strongly influenced by the A-text, removes practically all translational liberties of the A-text. It contains readings that seem to have originated from Syriac or Coptic Gospels and therefore is probably a medieval revision of the A-text on the basis of Arabic Gospels. Existing European editions of the Gospel of Matthew by and large exhibit a B-text.

This article sets to examine some of the impacts the notion of "political correctness" has on the art world today. It argues that what started as the noble attempts to compensate for the grievous history of racism by way of inclusive speech and affirmative action has, in the end, generated new forms of discrimination and closure. In this context, instead of pushing the boundaries of what is considered acceptable in social, moral or aesthetic terms, art is itself being pushed back within these boundaries and rendered inert and ingratiating.

A collection of the Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland previously owned by Sir Redmond Barry. Most volumes contain his Ex Libris and signature, with some being heavily annotated.

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This article surveys the dramatic sea change in the legal status of both the domestic and international cannabis trade over the past decade and asks whether legalization challenges or complements racial capitalism. As the changing status of prohibited drugs not only seeks to correct a historical wrong but also gives rise to a new, highly profitable cross-border commodities market, I analyse whether the variety of policies that are currently being implemented alongside cannabis legalization—from import restrictions to social equity licences—is sufficient to appease the demand for reparations by the communities who suffered the most through the past century of the 'War on Drugs'. This 'War on Drugs' was both historically and structurally weighted towards the reinforcement of racial hierarchies. As it enters into its twilight, I find that an overview of both the international and domestic laws that are being passed in order to introduce a new age of legal, commercial cannabis threatens to lock in the racial inequalities of our global economy, rather than serve as a tool for the advancement of reparative racial justice.