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The Ireland Smart Ageing Exchange (ISAX), Ireland has established an independent network of businesses, academic institutions, government agencies and NGOs collaborating to fast-track research, development and commercialization of solutions for the global smart ageing economy. ISAX has developed Start Your Own Business programs for smart ageing and for 'mature' entrepreneurs aged 55+, developed a Smart Ageing Community (panel of 55+ age cohort interested in sharing their life experience to help design better products and services and is forging themed clusters among its members to pursue new business opportunities.

Intro -- Praise for You Always Hurt the One You Love -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction - Capitalism: Hubris and Nemesis - and Redemption? -- PART ONE -- CHAPTER 1: No Man Is an Island: Seeking Crusoe -- CHAPTER 2: Why Did It Go Wrong? Selective Amnesia -- CHAPTER 3: The Fed's Original Sin -- CHAPTER 4: A Foreign Virus - or a Cancer Homegrown in Princeton? -- CHAPTER 5: How the Fed Went From 'A Little Strange' to 'Pretty Silly' -- CHAPTER 6: Fending Off Liquidation, 2001-03 -- CHAPTER 7: Softly, Softly, Make a Ponzi Scheme: Gradualism -- CHAPTER 8: When You're in a Hole… -- CHAPTER 9: Finding a Home for Bernanke -- CHAPTER 10: Inflation-Targeting: Crushing Dissidents and Crashing the Economy, 2006-07 -- CHAPTER 11: Credit Where Blame Is Due -- CHAPTER 12: Teetering on the Edge -- CHAPTER 13: The Abyss, 2007-08 -- CHAPTER 14: Provoking a Collapse or Saving the World? -- PART TWO -- CHAPTER 15: Bubbles and Their Varieties -- CHAPTER 16: Credit, Debt and 'Wealth' - Up in Lights Again! -- CHAPTER 17: Nadir? -- CHAPTER 18: Trump and the Fed -- PART THREE -- CHAPTER 19: Fake News on Equilibrium -- CHAPTER 20: Covid-19: Speeding up the Conveyor Belt? -- CHAPTER 21: The Fed and Covid: Known Unknowns and Unknown Knowns -- CHAPTER 22: The Fed on the Ropes: Sua Maxima Culpa? -- CHAPTER 23: What Needs to Be Done - and Why -- Index -- Copyright.

Connolly draws on the recent changes in the Malaysian state of Penang to open up new perspectives on urban development, governance and the politics of place. Reviewing the role of residents, activists, planners and other experts in socio-natural changes and urban regeneration, it builds an important new framework of landscape political ecology.

In 21st century Britain, what does it mean to be working class? This book asks 24 working class writers to examine the issue as it relates to them. Examining representation, literature, sexuality, gender, art, employment, poverty, childhood, culture and politics, this book is a broad and first hand account of what it means to be drawn from the bottom of Britain's archaic, but persistent, class structure. --

Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- PART 1 Notions of risk in child protection -- 1 Concerns about risk as a major driver of professional practice -- Introduction -- The concept of risk -- Changing and competing conceptions of risk in child welfare and protection -- Conclusion -- References -- 2 The risk paradigm and the media in child protection -- Introduction -- 'The maiden tribute of modern Babylon: the report of our secret commission', July 1885 -- Media and the framing of child protection -- Moral panics, risk and child protection -- Case studies -- Impact on the worlds of policy and practice -- Conclusions -- References -- 3 Anticipating risk: predictive risk modelling as a signal of adversity -- Introduction -- From managing risk to preventing harm -- Development of PRM for child protection in New Zealand -- Reactions to the PRM initiative -- Surveillance and stigma -- PRM as a tool of early prevention -- Conclusion -- References -- 4 New knowledge in child protection: neuroscience and its impacts1 -- Introduction -- Neuroscience and child development -- The use of neuroscientific evidence in legal decision making -- Reasons for caution -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Cases -- 5 Disproportionality and risk decision making in child protection -- Defining disproportionality -- The problem -- Explaining disproportionality -- No differences -- Different rates -- Responding to disproportionality -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 6 Service users as receivers of risk-dominated practice -- Introduction -- The evolving relationship between the child protection system and families -- Disquiet about child protection systems -- The start of the reform process -- The bureaucratization of child protection work -- Conclusion -- Note -- References.

In 2011, I embarked upon doctoral research which set out to explore the experiences of health and weight management among, and from the perspectives of, "large" (clinically defined as morbidly obese) postpartum women. Previous studies, albeit limited, had tended to look at the experiences of women considered to be of "normal" weight and typically did so only at a single point in time neglecting to consider how engagements with health-related behaviors might conceivably evolve and change over time. My study not only set out to address these gaps in the literature by specifically seeking out the accounts of large women but also sought to explore change over time by interviewing women at three separate time points in the first 6 months following childbirth. The following case study provides a behind-the-scene? look at my experiences of using longitudinal qualitative methods. This account highlights some key considerations around the study design, in particular how I arrived at the decision to interview participants at certain key time points over others. Attention is also paid to the practical challenges I encountered when attempting to analyze longitudinal data. Finally, this case sheds light on the evolving and often contradictory nature of participant accounts told over time and in turn how those accounts might be understood and interpreted. In doing so, I hope to illuminate some of the benefits and challenges of using a longitudinal qualitative approach as a means of exploring aspects of health.