福柯和自由主义:理性,革命和反抗

在1978-1979年法兰西学院的演讲中,福柯引入了"管治能力"的概念.这个概念来自于基督教的牧师形象.由此出发,与马克思主义的政治经济学批判不同,福柯对自由主义持一定的赞赏态度.福柯和马克思都参与了宏大叙事的一般构架的建立,但他们的政治和哲学前提是不同的.马克思根植于自然法的传统走向革命,福柯则继承了英国激进主义传统走向反抗.这两种传统是可以进行深入对话的.     

Biodiversity conservation in urban parks: a study of ground-dwelling ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Rio de Janeiro City

Urban Ecosystems - Urban green recreational spaces may provide habitat for animals and plants. We investigated the importance of urban public parks in the city of Rio de Janeiro with regard to the...     

Gini’s concentration index and the measurement of the distance between relative price vectors

A new measure is developed for the distance between relative price vectors. It is shown to be related to Gini’s Index of Concentration and is applied to cross-country data for the year 1975.     

Stable growth in native‐dependent multistate population dynamics

Users of multistate life tables and projections have recognized that the Markovian assumptions underlying such models are unduly restrictive and should be relaxed whenever data permit. Efforts to include the influences of previous occupancies have included the incorporation of place‐of‐birth dependence. This paper addresses the stable growth properties of such generalized multistate models. It shows how place‐of‐birth‐specific stable growth measures can be calculated without projection simply by solving the characteristic equation. An example using Canadian data illustrates the argument.     

The diversity of household assets holdings in the United States in 2007 and 2009: measurement and determinants

Review of Economics of the Household - We apply diversity indices, such as the Gini-Simpson index and entropy related indices, to the study of the distribution of individual asset holdings in the...     

The Politics of Reproductive Health in Peru: Gender and Social Policy in the Global South

This article analyzes the politics of reproductive health policy-makingin Peru in the context of healthcare reform initiatives undertakensince the early 1990s. In Latin America, women's body politicsare emerging within a complex architecture of institutionalizedsocial stratification and religious lobbies. The case of Peruis approached from a gendered, specifically South-World analysis,revealing the deep embedding of a vast constellation of reproductivehealthcare issues within the nascent social welfare policy-makingprocess. Through limited national public health insurance schemes,a new social policy model, based on a targeted poverty-reductionparadigm, is now partially addressing the reproductive healthneeds of the majority of Peruvian women. Policy implementation,however, is highly contested, fragile, and has been subjectto setbacks and deadly abuses. The article shows that, in addressingdeveloping countries such as Peru, the role of internationalactors and the impact of unconsolidated democratic institutionsare two key variables in the comparative analysis of socialpolicy regime formation.