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Just Money

Mission-Driven Banks and the Future of Finance

How to use finance as a tool to build a more equitable and sustainable society. Money defines our present and will shape our future. Every investment decision we make adds a chapter to the story of what our world will look like. Although the idea of mission-based finance has been around for decades, there is a gap between organizations' stated intention to "do good" and meaningful impact. Still, some are succeeding. In Just Money, Katrin Kaufer and Lillian Steponaitis take readers on a global tour of financial institutions that use finance as a force for good.

How to use finance as a tool to build a more equitable and sustainable society. Money defines our present and will shape our future. Every investment decision we make adds a chapter to the story of what our world will look like.

Financial Structure and Economic Growth

A Cross-country Comparison of Banks, Markets, and Development

CD-ROM contains: World Bank data.

CD-ROM contains: World Bank data.

The Logic of Sufficiency

What if modern society put a priority on the material security of its citizens andthe ecological integrity of its resource base? What if it took ecological constraint as a given, nota hindrance but a source of long-term economic security? How would it organize itself, structure itsindustry, shape its consumption?Across time and across cultures, people actually have adapted toecological constraint. They have changed behavior; they have built institutions. And they havedeveloped norms and principles for their time. Today's environmental challenges -- at once global,technological, and commercial -- require new behaviors, new institutions, and new principles.In thishighly original work, Thomas Princen builds one such principle: sufficiency. Sufficiency is notabout denial, not about sacrifice or doing without. Rather, when resource depletion andoverconsumption are real, sufficiency is about doing well. It is about good work and goodgovernance; it is about goods that are good only to a point.With examples ranging from timbering andfishing to automobility and meat production, Princen shows that sufficiency is perfectly sensibleand yet absolutely contrary to modern society's dominant principle, efficiency. He argues thatseeking enough when more is possible is both intuitive and rational -- personally, organizationallyand ecologically rational. And under global ecological constraint, it is ethical. Over the longterm, an economy -- indeed a society -- cannot operate as if there's never enough and never toomuch.

Most likely , though , that neglect owes to the fact that social scientists and the policymakers who employ social science reasoning see no need for an alternative rationality . Economic and legal rationalities prevail in public ...

Logic Programming

Proceedings of the 1994 International Symposium

November 13-17, 1994, Ithaca, New York The 1994 International Logic Programming Symposium is one of two major international conferences sponsored by the Association of Logic Programming. It is held annually in North America. Theses tutorials, invited lectures, and refereed papers cover all aspects of logic programming including constraints, concurrency and parallelism, deductive databases, implementations and architectures, metaprogramming and higher-order programming, proof theory, and semantic analysis. Logic Programming series, Research Reports and Notes

Journal of Automated Reasoning , 11 ( 1 ) : 43–81 , August 1993 . ... A linguage for legal discourse I : basic features . In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law , pages 180-189 .

Logic Programming

Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference and Symposium

These two volumes collect papers presented at the first joint meeting of the two principal logic programming conferences, held in August of 1988. The more than fifty contributions cover all aspects of the field, including applications (particularly those that exploit the unique character of logic programming), the role of logic programming in artificial intelligence, deductive databases, relations to other computational paradigms, language issues, methodology, implementations on sequential and parallel architectures, and theory.Logic Programming is included in the Logic Programming series Research Reports and Notes, edited by Ehud Shapiro.

495-572 in Computing Power and Legal Reasoning ( Ed . Charles Walter ) West Publishing Company , 1985. This contains a fuller account of the process of normalization and the features of the NORMALIZER program .

Logic Programming

Proceedings of the 1990 North American Conference

OCTOBER 29 - NOVEMBER 1, 1990, AUSTIN, TEXASOCTOBER 29 - NOVEMBER 1, 1990, AUSTIN, TEXASTheory and Foundations. Metaprogramming. Constraints. Implementations, Architecture. Deductive Databases. Language Issues. Relation to Other Paradigms. Parallelism, Concurrency. Compilation Techniques. Applications.

Several researchers have investigated the properties of these " embedded implications ” [ 11 , 10 , 14 , 15 , 17 , 2 ) , and have shown them to be useful for hypothetical reasoning ( 3 ) , for legal reasoning ( 16 ) , for modular logic ...

Coll Sci Pap V5

"It is a measure of Professor Samuelson's preeminence that the sheer scale of hiswork should be so much taken for granted," observes a reviewer in the Economist who goes on to notethat "a cynic might add that it would have been better for Professor Samuelson to write less merelyto give others a chance to write at all."In fact, Samuelson's output, his "extraordinary mastery ofmethods, both mathematical and linguistic" (review of Volume 4 of The Collected Scientific Papers),have not diminished. Volume 5 collects 108 articles written since 1976, bringing the total to nearly400 important contributions to economics. As in earlier volumes, the papers are arranged by subject.They cover Economic Theory: Marx, Keynes, and Schumpeter; International Economics; StochasticTheory; Classical Economics; Mathematical Biology; Biographical and Autobiographical Writings; andCurrent Economics and Policy.Volumes 1 through 4 encompass more than 280 articles. The first twocontain virtually all of Samuelson's contributions to economic theory through mid-1964; Volume 3contains all the scientific papers written from mid-1964 through 1970, and the last volume bringshis work up to through 1976.Paul Samuelson received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1970 and isInstitute Professor of Economics Emeritus at MIT. Kate Crowley edited volume 4 of The CollectedScientific Papers with Hiroaki Nagatani.

The first twocontain virtually all of Samuelson's contributions to economic theory through mid-1964; Volume 3contains all the scientific papers written from mid-1964 through 1970, and the last volume bringshis work up to through 1976.Paul ...

Propaganda Technique In World War I

A classic book on propaganda technique proposes a general theory of the strategy and tactics of propaganda. This classic book on propaganda technique focuses on American, British, French, and German experience in World War I. The book sets forth a simple classification of various psychological materials used to produce certain specific results and proposes a general theory of strategy and tactics for the manipulation of these materials. In an introduction (coauthored by Jackson A. Giddens) written for this edition, Harold Lasswell notes that this study was partially an exercise in the discovery of appropriate theory. It raised the crucial questions of how to classify the content of propaganda—for instance, a distinction is made between "value demands" (war aims, war guilt, and casting the enemy as evil personified) and "expectations" (the illusion of victory)—and how to summarize the procedures employed in organizing and carrying out propaganda operations. Propaganda Technique in World War I deals primarily with problems of internal administration and lateral coordination rather than with the relationship between policymakers and propagandists. However, Jackson Giddens enumerates procedures in the book that illustrate an underlying assumption that decision makers were deeply involved in propaganda and influenced by considerations of public opinion. He takes the study of propaganda further by elaborating on the nature and meaning of the category of "war aims" and its relation to the propagandist, for this, more than any other category of content, "is the catalyst of transnational political action." Giddens's exploration of the development of a comprehensive theory of propaganda adds another dimension to Lasswell's study while confirming its value as outstanding groundwork for continuing research.

This classic book on propaganda technique focuses on American, British, French, and German experience in World War I. The book sets forth a simple classification of various psychological materials used to produce certain specific results ...

Citizenship

The story of citizenship as a tale not of liberation, dignity, and nationhood but of complacency, hypocrisy, and domination. The glorification of citizenship is a given in today's world, part of a civic narrative that invokes liberation, dignity, and nationhood. In reality, explains Dimitry Kochenov, citizenship is a story of complacency, hypocrisy, and domination, flattering to citizens and demeaning for noncitizens. In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Kochenov explains the state of citizenship in the modern world. Kochenov offers a critical introduction to a subject most often regarded uncritically, describing what citizenship is, what it entails, how it came about, and how its role in the world has been changing. He examines four key elements of the concept: status, considering how and why the status of citizenship is extended, what function it serves, and who is left behind; rights, particularly the right to live and work in a state; duties, and what it means to be a “good citizen”; and politics, as enacted in the granting and enjoyment of citizenship. Citizenship promises to apply the attractive ideas of dignity, equality, and human worth—but to strictly separated groups of individuals. Those outside the separation aren't citizens as currently understood, and they do not belong. Citizenship, Kochenov warns, is too often a legal tool that justifies violence, humiliation, and exclusion.

The story of citizenship as a tale not of liberation, dignity, and nationhood but of complacency, hypocrisy, and domination.

Genomic Citizenship

The Molecularization of Identity in the Contemporary Middle East

An anthropological study based on ethnographic work in Israel and Qatar explores the relationship between science, particularly genetics, and national identity. Based on ethnographic work in Israel and Qatar, two small Middle Eastern ethnonations with significant biomedical resources, Genomic Citizenship explores the relationship between science and identity. Ian McGonigle, originally trained as a biochemist, draws on anthropological theory, STS, intellectual history, critical theory, Middle Eastern studies, cultural studies, and critical legal studies. He connects biomedical research on ethnic populations to the political, economic, legal, and historical context of the state; to global trends in genetic medicine; and to the politics of identity in the context of global biomedical research. Genomic Citizenship is more an anthropology of scientific objects than an anthropology of scientists or an ethnography of the laboratory. McGonigle bases his untraditional project on traditional anthropological methods, including participant observation. Some of the most persuasive data in the book are from public records, legal and historical sources, published scientific papers, institutional reports, websites, and brochures. McGonigle discusses biological understandings of Jewishness, especially in relation to the intellectual history of Zionism and Jewish political thought, and considers the possibility of a novel application of genetics in assigning Israeli citizenship. He also describes developments in genetic medicine in Qatar and analyzes the Qatari Biobank in the context of Qatari nationalism and state-building projects. Considering possible consequences of findings on the diverse origins of the Qatari population for tribal identities, he argues that the nation cannot be defined as either a purely natural or biological entity. Rather, it is reified, reinscribed, and refracted through genomic research and discourse.

Some of the most persuasive data in the book are from public records, legal and historical sources, published scientific papers, institutional reports, websites, and brochures.