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Sunanda Sen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the global crisis and the remedial actions a non Mainstream Perspective
Social Science Research Network, 2011Co-Authors: Sunanda SenAbstract:The global financial crisis has now spread across multiple countries and sectors, affecting both financial and real spheres in the advanced as well as the developing economies. This has been caused by policies based on “rational expectation” models that advocate deregulated finance, with facilities for easy credit and derivatives, along with globalized exposures for financial institutions. The financial crisis has combined with long-term structural changes in the real economy that trend toward underconsumption, generating contractionary effects therein and contributing to further instabilities in the financial sector.The responses so far from US monetary authorities have not been effective, especially in dealing with issues of unemployment and low real growth in the United States, or in other countries. Nor have these been of much use in the context of the lost monetary and fiscal autonomy in both developing countries and the eurozone, especially with the debt-related distress in the latter. Solutions to the current maladies in the global economy include strict control of financial speculation and the institution of an “employer of last resort” policy, both at the initiative of the state.
Tom Froese - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Enactive Approach to Habits: New Concepts for the Cognitive Science of Bad Habits and Addiction
Frontiers Media S.A., 2019Co-Authors: Susana Ramírez-vizcaya, Tom FroeseAbstract:Habits are the topic of a venerable history of research that extends back to antiquity, yet they were originally disregarded by the cognitive sciences. They started to become the focus of interdisciplinary research in the 1990s, but since then there has been a stalemate between those who approach habits as a kind of bodily automatism or as a kind of mindful action. This implicit mind-body dualism is ready to be overcome with the rise of interest in embodied, embedded, extended, and enactive (4E) cognition. We review the enactive approach and highlight how it moves beyond the traditional stalemate by integrating both autonomy and sense-making into its theory of agency. It defines a habit as an adaptive, precarious, and self-sustaining network of neural, bodily, and interactive processes that generate dynamical sensorimotor patterns. Habits constitute a central source of normativity for the agent. We identify a potential shortcoming of this enactive account with respect to bad habits, since self-maintenance of a habit would always be intrinsically good. Nevertheless, this is only a problem if, following the Mainstream Perspective on habits, we treat habits as isolated modules. The enactive approach replaces this atomism with a view of habits as constituting an interdependent whole on whose overall viability the individual habits depend. Accordingly, we propose to define a bad habit as one whose expression, while positive for itself, significantly impairs a person’s well-being by overruling the expression of other situationally relevant habits. We conclude by considering implications of this concept of bad habit for psychological and psychiatric research, particularly with respect to addiction research
Susana Ramírez-vizcaya - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Enactive Approach to Habits: New Concepts for the Cognitive Science of Bad Habits and Addiction
Frontiers Media S.A., 2019Co-Authors: Susana Ramírez-vizcaya, Tom FroeseAbstract:Habits are the topic of a venerable history of research that extends back to antiquity, yet they were originally disregarded by the cognitive sciences. They started to become the focus of interdisciplinary research in the 1990s, but since then there has been a stalemate between those who approach habits as a kind of bodily automatism or as a kind of mindful action. This implicit mind-body dualism is ready to be overcome with the rise of interest in embodied, embedded, extended, and enactive (4E) cognition. We review the enactive approach and highlight how it moves beyond the traditional stalemate by integrating both autonomy and sense-making into its theory of agency. It defines a habit as an adaptive, precarious, and self-sustaining network of neural, bodily, and interactive processes that generate dynamical sensorimotor patterns. Habits constitute a central source of normativity for the agent. We identify a potential shortcoming of this enactive account with respect to bad habits, since self-maintenance of a habit would always be intrinsically good. Nevertheless, this is only a problem if, following the Mainstream Perspective on habits, we treat habits as isolated modules. The enactive approach replaces this atomism with a view of habits as constituting an interdependent whole on whose overall viability the individual habits depend. Accordingly, we propose to define a bad habit as one whose expression, while positive for itself, significantly impairs a person’s well-being by overruling the expression of other situationally relevant habits. We conclude by considering implications of this concept of bad habit for psychological and psychiatric research, particularly with respect to addiction research
Achim Truger - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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austerity in the euro area the sad state of economic policy in germany and the eu
Research Papers in Economics, 2013Co-Authors: Achim TrugerAbstract:The Euro area is currently going through its worst period of recession and economic stagnation since the Great Depression and World War II. The article tries to give an impression of the extraordinary degree of fiscal austerity and the devastating economic effects it has already had and must be expected to have in the near future. In addition it is argued that both the lack of economic justification and the devastating consequences of the fiscal policies currently executed should have been absolutely obvious even from a Mainstream Perspective. Therefore the sad state of economic policies in the Euro area is that it did not even follow moderate Mainstream proposals but instead seemed to rely on radical and outdated theoretical or purely ideological foundations. Germany as the most economically and politically influential member state of the Euro area seems to be most infected by such radical ideas.
Ali Kadri - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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palestinian labour under occupation from a Mainstream Perspective
2020Co-Authors: Ali KadriAbstract:This chapter reviews the dual economy approach and how it corresponds to the West Bank. It emphasizes how conditions in the West Bank depart from the suppositions of the reviewed models. The structural differences between modern and rural sectors are brought to light. The findings are neoclassical reasoning over-generalises the concepts referring to facts, and subsequently, under-explains the case.
