The US had NTSC –“Never Twice Same Colour” – long before the UK had PAL –“Pale And Lurid”, although the latter was developed by Telefunken in Germany in response to demands from European broadcasters such as the BBC for a better system. Those ironies are actually based on sound eng...
In the USA, use of the term “left” to describe one’s political orientation has always been ambiguous, due in large part to the absence of a stable, electorally viable socialist or labor-based party. Since the Great Depression, the Democratic Party has been the central vehicle for efforts...
Market socialism in retrospectAn account of the rise and fall of market socialism in the UK, its context and significance, through a study of the work of David Miller.doi:10.1080/13569770600704930GriffithsSimonRoutledgeContemporary Politics
socialist, the accumulated loss over the first five years amounts to almost 400 USD per inhabitant and more than twice that amount in lost labour productivity. …Overall, we document that implementing a socialist centrally planned economy in developing countries has had dire economic and social ...
True socialism disappeared as a separate current during the Revolution of 1848–49, which fully revealed its bankruptcy. In characterizing the true socialists, Lenin wrote in 1906: “The ‘true socialists’ … are something like peaceful Lavrovists, semiuplifters, nonrevolutionaries, heroes of abstr...
This paper employs critical discourse analysis to investigate the construction of ‘high-level talents’ within China’s Double First-Class Project, an educational initiative implemented in 2015 to establish first-class universities and disciplines and cultivate high-level talents. The study examines the...
Will nudge theory survive the pandemic?(UnHerd) From an ex-member of the UK Nudge Unit: [I]t may be worth reflecting on where we need to draw the line between the choice-maximizing nudges of libertarian paternalism, and the creeping acceptance among policy makers that the state should use...
Architecture in Global Socialism shows how their collaboration reshaped five cities in the Global South: Accra, Lagos, Baghdad, Abu ... (展开全部) 作者简介 ··· Łukasz Stanek is senior lecturer at the Manchester School of Architecture, University of Manchester, UK. He is the author ...
the international and intergenerational concerns of this year’s festival suggest different ways forward. Taken collectively, the festival seems to suggest that communities, often on a modest scale, can build new narratives and affinities that rehabilitate socialist agendas. In the UK at least, with ...
Becausethe Japanese government, like the governments of Canada, the UK, Australia, China, and others, is Monetarily Sovereign (it creates its own sovereign currency), Japan remains an economic powerhouse with high living standards. ” Japanese leaderswishthey would point somewhere else. ...