Author: Saskia Sassen File Type: pdf Soaring income inequality and unemployment, expanding populations of the displaced and imprisoned, accelerating destruction of land and water bodies todays socioeconomic and environmental dislocations cannot be fully understood in the usual terms of poverty and injustice, according to Saskia Sassen. They are more accurately understood as a type of expulsion--from professional livelihood, from living space, even from the very biosphere that makes life possible. This hard-headed critique updates our understanding of economics for the twenty-first century, exposing a system with devastating consequences even for those who think they are not vulnerable. From finance to mining, the complex types of knowledge and technology we have come to admire are used too often in ways that produce elementary brutalities. These have evolved into predatory formations--assemblages of knowledge, interests, and outcomes that go beyond a firms or an individuals or a governments project. Sassen draws surprising connections to illuminate the systemic logic of these expulsions. The sophisticated knowledge that created todays financial instruments is paralleled by the engineering expertise that enables exploitation of the environment, and by the legal expertise that allows the worlds have-nations to acquire vast stretches of territory from the have-nots. Expulsions lays bare the extent to which the sheer complexity of the global economy makes it hard to trace lines of responsibility for the displacements, evictions, and eradications it produces--and equally hard for those who benefit from the system to feel responsible for its depredations. **

Author: Charles C. Moul File Type: pdf This short handbook collects essays on all aspects of the motion picture industry by leading authorities in political economy, economics, accounting, finance, and marketing. In addition to offering the reader a perspective on what is known and what has been accomplished, it includes both new findings on a variety of topics and directions for additional research. Topics include estimation of theatrical and ancillary demand, profitability studies, the resolution of evident paradoxes in studio executive behavior, the interaction of the industry and government, the impacts of the most recent changes in accounting standards, and the role and importance of participation contracts. New results include findings on the true nature of the seasonality of theatrical demand, the predictive power of surveys based upon trailers, the impact of the Academy Awards, the effectiveness of prior history measures to gauge cast members and directors, and the substitutability of movies across different genres. **Review The coverage of topics seems quite complete. So, in general, my impression of the book is very favorable. These are first-class authors writing about areas in which they have made major contributions. They speak with the voice of authority on topics that will interest all scholars concerned with economic studies of the film industry. I applaud this well-conceived and well-executed concept. Morris B. Holbrook, Columbia University From Edisons invention of the Kinescope to the latest issues in the economics of digital distribution, these papers are an invaluable guide to the business of film. Bruce Owen, Stanford University Book Description What factors affect a movies theatrical run? How does the theatrical run affect the demand for video? What types of movies are most profitable? How informative are movie accounting figures? What theaters have the most appeal to consumers? This short handbook provides a deeper understanding of the economics of movies.

Author: Kōji Takazawa File Type: pdf div id=iframeContent dir=autoIn 1970, nine members of a Japanese New Left group called the Red Army Faction hijacked a domestic airliner to North Korea with dreams of acquiring the military training to bring about a revolution in Japan. The North Korean government accepted the hijackerswho became known in the media as the Yodogo group, based on the name of the hijacked planeand two years later they announced their conversion to juche, North Koreas new political ideology. Little was heard from the exiles until 1988, when a member of Yodogo was unexpectedly arrested in Japan, and communications with the group opened up in the context of his trial.As a former Red Army Faction member, journalist Koji Takazawa made several trips to North Korea, reestablished his ties to the groups leader Takamaro Tamiya, and helped to publish the groups writings in Japan. After Kim Il Sung revealed that Yodogo members had Japanese wives, Takazawa published a book of interviews with the women, but in the process became suspicious about the romantic stories they told. He also wondered about the members who were missing and learned more details in long, private conversations with Tamiya. After Tamiyas sudden death in 1995, Takazawa launched his own investigation of what the group had actually been doing for two decades, even traveling to Europe to follow traces there. An example of superb investigative journalism, Destiny The Secret Operations of the Yodogo Exiles offers Koji Takazawas powerful story of how he exposed the Yodogo groups involvement in the kidnapping and luring of several young Japanese to North Korea, as well as the truth behind their Japanese wives presence in the country. Takazawas careful research was validated in 2002, when the North Korean government publicly acknowledged it had kidnapped thirteen Japanese citizens during the 1970s and 1980s, including three people whom Takazawa had connected to the Yodogo hijackers. Embedded in his pursuit toward what truly happened to the Yodogo members is Takazawas personal reflection of the 1970s, a decade when radical student activism swept Japan, and what it meant to those whose lives were forever changed.ReviewTakazawa describes how the group, originally part of the Japanese New Left, was systematically brainwashed to be ardent followers of Juche, the official ideology of North Korea as established in 1972 by Kim Il Sung. . . . Takazawas detailed research, which included numerous trips to North Korea and interviews with Yodogo group members, makes this important reading for those who want to understand radical revolutionary movements, particularly in East Asia. Source Publishers WeeklyFrom the AuthorKoji Takazawa (Author) Koji Takazawa is a former student activist who later went on to become a prolific author, editor, and independent investigative journalist. He is a leading authority on the Japanese New Left and has close ties to some of its surviving participants and institutions. Patricia G. Steinhoff (Editor) Patricia G. Steinhoff is professor of sociology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Author: Peter Mandler File Type: pdf Written by a team of eminent historians, these essays explore how ten twentieth-century intellectuals and social reformers sought to adapt such familiar Victorian values as codecivilisation,codedomesticity, codeconscience andcodeimprovement to modern conditions of democracy, feminism and mass culture. Covering such figures as J.M. Keynes, E.M. Forster and Lord Reith of the BBC, these interdisciplinary studies scrutinize the children of the Victorians at a time when their private assumptions and public positions were under increasing strain in a rapidly changing world. After the Victorians is written in honour of the late Professor John Clive of Harvard, and uses, as he did, the method of biography to connnect the public and private lives of the generations who came after the Victorians.Review. . . the combination of richly-documented, detailed studies and a certain distance provided by the overwhelmingly North American perspective of the volume produces a particularly persuasive case . . ..*London Review of Books*As festschrifts go this volume is especially succesful...a well-conceived and executed collective work that deserves a wide readership among students of nineteenth- and twentieth-centure British history.*Albion*About the AuthorPeter Mandler is Senior Lecturer in History at London Guidhall University. Susan Pedersen is Associate Professor of History at Harvard University.