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The war chronicles, from flintlocks to machine guns : a global reference of all the major modern conflicts
The War Chronicles: From Flintlocks to Machine Guns adopts the innovative and accessible format of its predecssor, which spanned the period from 500 BC to the American Revolution, to chart the astonishingly rapid evolution of modern warfare. It also reiterates the constants of conflict: the slaughters and massacres, including the Holocaust the personal sacrifices made by those battling tyranny, among them the rebels of revolutionary France, Germany, and Mexico, and the influence of charismatic leaders, ranging from Napoleon and Pancho Villa to Hitler,
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Listening to the imagined sound of contemporary Australian literature
Listening and reading literature. These two activities are Maybe counter-intuitive partners. In sensual terms, one mostly concerns the ear, the other the eye. When we listen, it is, usually, mostly to sound, to resonance, physical vibration-although composer and sound theorist John Cage tells us we can also listen to silence. When we read, it is a silent activity. Of course, we can listen to words, to a reading or an audiobook, and we can listen to poetry. But often, perhaps mostly, we read in silence.
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The 'imagined sound' of Australian literature and music
'Imagined Sound' is a unique cartography of the artistic, historical and political forces that have informed the post-World War II representation of Australian landscapes. It is the first book to formulate the unique methodology of 'imagined sound', a new way to read and listen to literature and music that moves beyond the dominance of the visual, the colonial mode of knowing, controlling and imagining Australian space. Emphasising sound and listening, this approach draws out and re-examines the key narratives that shape and are shaped by Australian landscapes and histories, stories of first contact, frontier violence, the explorer journey, the convict experience, non-Indigenous belonging, Pacific identity and contemporary Indigenous Dreaming.
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The 'Imagined Sound' of Australian Literature and Music
'Imagined Sound' is a unique cartography of the artistic, historical and political forces that have informed the post-World War II representation of Australian landscapes. It is the first book to formulate the unique methodology of 'imagined sound', a new way to read and listen to literature and music that moves beyond the dominance of the visual, the colonial mode of knowing, controlling and imagining Australian space. Emphasising sound and listening, this approach draws out and re-examines the key narratives that shape and are shaped by Australian landscapes and histories, stories of first contact, frontier violence, the explorer journey, the convict experience, non-Indigenous belonging, Pacific identity and contemporary Indigenous Dreaming. 'Imagined Sound' offers a compelling analysis of how these narratives are reharmonised in key works of literature and music.
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Matching on Noise: Finite Sample Bias in the Synthetic Control Estimator
We investigate the properties of a systematic bias that arises in the synthetic control estimator in panel data settings with finite pre-treatment periods, offering intuition and guidance to practitioners. The bias comes from matching to idiosyncratic error terms (noise) in the treated unit and the donor units’ pre-treatment outcome values. This in turn leads to a biased counterfactual for the post-treatment periods. We use Monte Carlo simulations to evaluate the determinants of the bias in terms of error term variance, sample characteristics and DGP complexity, providing guidance as to which situations are likely to yield more bias. We also offer a procedure to reduce the bias using a direct computational bias-correction procedure based on re-sampling from a pilot model that can reduce the bias in empirically feasible implementations. As a final potential solution, we compare the performance of our corrections to that of an Interactive Fixed Effects model. An empirical application focused on trade liberalization indicates that the magnitude of the bias may be economically meaningful in a real world setting.
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'I turn up the volume and walk towards home': Mapping the soundscapes of 'Loaded'
One ventures from home on the thread of a tune. - Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari A Thousand Plateaus. Listening to music is listening to all noise, realising that its appropriation and control is a reflection of power, that it is essentially political. - Jacques Attali Noise: The Political Economy of Music
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Sustainable Industrial Development: Enterprise Policy and Financing Decarbonisation
Keywords: industry, decarbonisation, ESG, sustainability, Green Transition, industrial policy, corporate finance JELs: G0, G3, G38, H0, L10, L60, L61, L66, P1, P2
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The sound and silence of central Queensland: Listening to Alex Miller's soundscapes in 'Journey to the Stone Country' and 'Landscape of Farewell'
Australian novelist Alex Miller has written ten novels that interweave concerns with land, politics, art, old age, and memory. Listening to the sounds and silences that resound within Miller's landscapes opens up imaginative, post-colonial geographies, Australian spatialities that exceed the horizons of colonial vision. 'Journey to the Stone Country' (2002) and 'Landscape of Farewell' (2007), which in an interview on Radio National's Book Show Miller describes as being related like 'cousins', both present journeys into a web of interconnected central Queensland landscapes. A vital aspect of these landscapes is sound. The critical drive of this paper emerges out of the mutually informing encounter of Miller's use of sound, differently deployed in the two novels, with a critical listening practice that seeks to listen to how Miller's soundscapes construct the relations that resonate between his characters, and between the characters and the sonic landscape. Listening to the central relationships of the two novels, I argue that the unfolding of these relationships is within the resonance of the sounds and silences of Miller's landscapes. These characters are located in a sonic landscape that extends the dimensions of the visual landscape, instead existing, through sound and listening, in human/human and human/landscape relationships that exceed the spatiality and temporality that has traditionally, silently, produced the self/other structure of colonial mastery.
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Malthus, Wages, and Preindustrial Growth
Gregory Clark argued in A Farewell to Alms that preindustrial societies, including England, were Malthusian. Day wages show incomes were trendless: as high in Europe in the medieval era as in 1800, even in England. The opposed view is that England and the Netherlands grew substantially from 1200 to 1800. Early day wages overestimate living standards. Here we show that preindustrial farm employment shares can be estimated from probate occupation reports. These imply only 60 percent employed in farming in England in 1560–1579 and 1653–1660, consistent with the high incomes indicated by wages. Day wages do measure preindustrial living standards.
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