Climate Monitoring. Computable general equilibrium. Computable general equilibrium (CGE) models are a class of economic models that use actual economic data to estimate how an economy might react to changes in policy, technology or other external factors. CGE models are also referred to as AGE (applied general equilibrium) models.
Overview[edit] A CGE model consists of (a) equations describing model variables and (b) a database (usually very detailed) consistent with the model equations. The equations tend to be neo-classical in spirit, often assuming cost-minimizing behaviour by producers, average-cost pricing, and household demands based on optimizing behaviour. Non-market clearing, especially for labour (unemployment) or for commodities (inventories)imperfect competition (e.g., monopoly pricing)demands not influenced by price (e.g., government demands)a range of taxesexternalities, such as pollution A CGE model database consists of: CGE models always contain more variables than equations—so some variables must be set outside the model.
Worldometers - real time world statistics. What made New Zealand Labour different? (part two) « Policy Progress. Harry Holland, 1922 (Turnbull Library) In part one, I asked how the New Zealand Labour Party (NZLP) in the 1930s had avoided the mistakes of their British counterpart under Ramsay MacDonald, and rejected the orthodox ‘austerity’ prescription for the Depression. I started by looking at the roles of Savage, Fraser and Nash. In part two, I also consider generational and culture factors. I’ve argued previously that Ramsay MacDonald and his contemporaries’ fatal lack of engagement with how to manage a capitalist economy stemmed from a belief that their role was simply to usher in socialism when the conditions were right. As it turns out, NZLP leader Harry Holland suffered from the same mindset, according his biographer Patrick O’Farrell: The histories of the period recount both tensions between Holland and his three colleagues over policy directions and also a certain degree of disengagement from the weary Holland.
Further Reading: Infrastructural Ecologies: Principles for Post-Industrial Public Works. Originally published at Places/Design Observer. Reproduced with permission. Despite the recent infusion of federal stimulus funds into infrastructure projects across the country — part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, passed by Congress in February 2009, and also the prospect of additional funding announced by the Obama administration on Labor Day this year — the United States still awaits a meaningful new deal for public works. A next generation of ground-up or rebuilt bridges, power grids, waterworks, sewers, landfills, rail systems, ports and dams demands a new direction — bold strategies to bring about a future of multi-purpose, low-carbon, resilient infrastructure, tightly coordinated with natural systems, well integrated into social contexts, and capable of adapting to a changing climate.
My goal here is to describe this next generation of infrastructure, and to propose principles that might guide its development. Khaju Bridge, Isfahan [Figures 1, 2]. The Media, the crisis, and the crisis in media. The financial crisis and a series of aggressive wars have demonstrated beyond doubt how prevailing forms of media ownership in the west serve to buttress the power of elites and marginalise alternatives to the status quo. In his new book, The Return of the Public, Dan Hind argues that a system of public commissioning, which gives citizens the power to decide which issues are the subject of journalistic investigation, has the potential to reframe the terms of debate and make policy-making more democratic and accountable. Writing in the early days of the twentieth century the great anti-imperialist J.A. Hobson complained that a ‘small body of men’ had secured popular support for an aggressive war in South Africa ‘by the simple device of securing all important avenues of intelligence and using them to inject into the public mind a continuous stream of false and distorted information’.
The Boers, in modern parlance, were terrorists. Voltaire put it somewhat more succinctly - Go massive. 1.) Issues in Privatisation – Costs & Benefits. Details Category: Events Written by Bill Rosenberg This is the text of a seminar paper delivered on 6 October. You can Download a PDF or the Slides. New Zealand has had an appalling experience of privatisations.
The sale of New Zealand Rail and Air New Zealand went so wrong that renationalisation was an imperative. To give just two examples of the effect on New Zealand's liabilities: the Ameritech/Bell Atlantic/Fay, Richwhite, Gibbs,Farmer syndicate bought Telecom for $4.25 billion in July 1990, when the company had shareholder funds of $2.5 billion. The New Zealand Rail sale in 1993 was organised by Faye Richwhite who then proceeded to benefit from it hugely by taking a substantial shareholding – a conflict of interest fit for a post-Soviet state. The reason for this seminar is undoubtedly that there is concern that we will soon embark on the next wave of privatisation. What is privatisation? Arguments for and against That story is weakening. The politics of privatisation Who benefits? Home – Last.fm. Studyit: Studyit - for NCEA students.
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