A partir do início do século XXI, a nanociência e a nanotecnologia passaram a fazer parte de políticas de desenvolvimento por parte de Estados nacionais, principalmente os países do centro do sistema capitalista. As potencialidades trazidas pelas possíveis aplicações científicas e industriais da escala nano orientaram seu desenvolvimento em duas frentes: uma dedicada às aplicações e adaptações no ambiente econômico e outra interessada na análise dos impactos sociais de seu uso. Neste contexto, o trabalho inicia-se identificando os conceitos em disputa para a formação de sua ordem jurídica. Em seguida, identifica as principais questões sociais e econômicas relacionadas ao desenvolvimento das estratégias nacionais de nanotecnologia, analisando as políticas de desenvolvimento americana e japonesa para, posteriormente, estudar a política brasileira de nanotecnologia. O contorno teórico do tema baseia-se, do ponto de vista econômico, nas obras de Joseph A. Schumpeter e Celso Furtado e, do ponto de vista do direito, pela aplicação do direito econômico como método capaz de apreender a economia política inserida na forma jurídica. Assim, a análise da política brasileira é feita a fim de identificar as possibilidades de superação do desafio furtadiano, com vistas à autonomia tecnológica e homogeneização social. / From the beginning of the 21st century, nanoscience and nanotechnology have become part of nations development policies, particularly from countries in the center of the capitalist system. The potential brought by possible scientific and industrial applications of the nanoscale guided its development towards two fronts: one dedicated to applications and adaptations in the economic environment and the other interested in the analysis of the social impacts of its use. In this context, this work begins by identifying the concepts in dispute in order to form its legal system. Then, it identifies the social and economic key issues related to the development of nanotechnology national strategies, analyzing the development policies from USA and Japan, to, subsequently, study the Brazilian nanotechnology policy. From the economical standpoint, the theoretical outline of the subject is based on the theories of Joseph A. Schumpeter and Celso Furtado and then, from the standpoint of law, it is based on the application of economic law as a method capable of understanding the political economy embedded in the legal form. Thus, the analysis of Brazilian politics is done in order to identify the possibilities to overcome Furtados challenge, aiming at technological autonomy and social homogenization.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-25T20:21:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Fernando Sfair Kinker.pdf: 1600474 bytes, checksum: 102ff8855026256b6714c0dab0d11cf0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-04-09 / This dissertation has as its object the transformation experience of a psychiatric hospital located in an inland city of the Brazilian Northeast. It gives an account of the Federal Government intervention performed by the Ministry of Health in that hospital that took place in 2005 and makes some reflections about the role of the mental institutions in the contemporary society. We argue that nowadays psychiatric hospitals do not operate based on a disciplinary logic, that supported the development of the asylums for many years, but under a new logic of abandoning, tuned with the new forms of deregulation that characterize the new standards of sociability of the present times. The theoretic framework has contributions from Franco Basaglia and collaborators, in the perspective of practical-theoretical deinstitutionalization, and from Michel Foucault s works on the psychiatric hospital genealogy and the relation between power and knowledge. Also there are, although fragmentary and punctual, references to many others authors and concepts within which we highlight the Edgar Morin s concept of Complexity, that warn us to not simplify neither the madness phenomenon, nor the responds given to it. The body of the work is compounded by a logbook, written by the time of the events, and reflections related to it. The stake here is that demonstrating this new logic of abandoning of the mental institutions, this account may contribute to the practice and theory of the current psychiatric reform in Brazil / O objeto desta dissertação é a experiência de transformação de um hospital psiquiátrico localizado numa cidade do interior nordestino. Seu objetivo é relatar a experiência da intervenção federal que lá se deu em 2005 e tecer reflexões relativas ao papel do manicômio na sociedade contemporânea. Partiu-se da hipótese de que o hospital psiquiátrico atual funciona nem tanto a partir de uma lógica disciplinar, que acompanhou durante anos o desenvolvimento do asilo, mas de uma nova lógica do abandono, em sintonia com as novas formas de desregulamentação que caracterizam os novos padrões de sociabilidade dos tempos atuais. Seu estofo teórico são as contribuições de Franco Basaglia e colaboradores, na perspectiva teórico-prática da desinstitucionalização, e a obra de Michael Foucault, no que se refere à genealogia do hospital psiquiátrico e às relações saber/poder. Estão presentes também, ainda que de forma fragmentada e pontual, vários outros autores e conceitos. Dentre esses conceitos, destaca-se o de complexidade, presente nas idéias de Edgar Morin, que alerta para a necessidade de não simplificar o fenômeno da loucura nem as respostas dadas a ele. O corpo do trabalho é composto por um diário de bordo , escrito à época dos acontecimentos, e de reflexões teóricas a ele associadas. A aposta é que, ao demonstrar na prática o significado dessa nova lógica do abandono, este relato possa também contribuir para a prática e a teoria da reforma psiquiátrica em andamento no Brasil

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因台灣全島具有許多地震斷層，各處均有可能發生地震，又大型地震易伴隨之地震變動，常有斷層、山崩、地裂、地盤隆起、陷沒、崩崖、噴沙、噴泥、土壤液化、井水變化之情形發生。地震所造成之損失相當嚴重，若僅賴政府之事後救濟，將造成納稅人及國家沉重之財政負荷，相形之下，使人民事前投保地震保險，共同分散損失，乃較佳選擇。有鑑於位於高地震風險地區之國家，例如，位於「環太平洋地震帶」之日本、紐西蘭、美國加州，及位於「歐亞地震帶」之土耳其等，均陸續發展地震保險制度，故本論文欲藉各國地震保險制度，探討我國目前住宅地震保險制度之完善性。 本論文以此為主題，探討之內容包含地震風險是否具可保性、政府是否應介入地震保險市場、綜合天災保險之可行性、地震保險保費釐定之考量因素、是否應強制投保地震保險、強制承保之必要性、目前之投保方式是否構成違法之搭售行為、及理賠標準之爭議等問題，於論文最後並提出相關條文之修正建議。 / Earthquakes occur frequently in Taiwan, and they always lead to catastrophic losses. If the government invests more taxpayer dollars into ex post compensation, it will be unfair to other taxpayers. For insurance plays an important role in the modern societies. It can successfully distribute the risks ex ante and contribute to make societies more stable. So this paper introduces Earthquake Insurance to solve the problem, discusses the topic from different aspects, and does a comparative research on legislation between America, Japan, New Zealand, Turkey and Taiwan. The outline of this paper discusses the insurability, the ways of risk management, the need of government intervention, whether to introduce mandatory insurance, the coverage extent the insurer can provide, and how to determine the premium. At the last of this paper, the author also raises some suggestions of Insurance Law.

From September 19th through October 3rd, 2008, Congress debated the largest government bailout in America history—the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act (EESA). Those sixteen days generated a vibrant conversation regarding the nature and severity of America’s economic crisis and the proper role of government in responding to such juggernauts. In this dissertation I explore the rhetoric generated by this bill and its context in hopes of illuminating the more general role of rhetoric in mitigating and exacerbating crises in capitalism. My hypothesis is that, in a global capitalist economy increasingly dependent on immaterial production (i.e., finance, the Internet, mass media, etc.), economic crisis rhetoric has become as essential to economic order as monetary and fiscal policy. To explore this claim, I focus on two key rhetorical tensions that drove much of the crisis rhetoric produced. The first of these battles is a rhetorical struggle over the spatial delineation between Wall Street and Main Street, while the second is a conflict between Keynesianism and neoliberalism in a rhetorical contest over the values of government interventionism. By analyzing a variety of policy and expert discourses that constitute the parameters of these discrete areas of debate, I argue that all rely on moral and ethical appeals to substantiate their meaning and validity. At the same time, I contend that these discourses are indebted to logics of institutional form and therefore cannot be abstracted from the financial and political contexts in which they reside. This insight leads me to forward a new theory of economic crisis rhetoric called the economic imaginary. By beginning with real economic events and then taking into account the discursive and extra-discursive forces that “overdetermine” its mediated understanding, the economic imaginary offers us a more empirical and cartographic account of how economic rhetoric actually operates in society. / text

La tesi consisteix en quatre assaigs sobre les causes i conseqüències de la intervenció del govern en l'economia, i un assaig sobre els efectes de la immigració en el país amfitrió. El primer capítol quantifica els retorns econòmics de les connexions polítiques, i examina els canals a través dels quals aquestes afecten les empreses. El segon capítol estudia la relació entre la confiança entre els individus i les preferències d'aquests per la intervenció governamental, i utilitza aquesta relació per reinterpretar evidència existent sobre els efectes de les regulacions. El tercer capítol examina la substitució entre els mercats financers i les pensions publiques, com a dos alternatives per proveir la jubilació. El quart capítol estima els efectes de la fragmentació política sobre la velocitat de les reformes estructurals, centrant-se en el cas particular de les privatitzacions. Finalment, l'últim capítol investiga empíricament la relació entre immigració i crim. / The thesis collects four essays about the causes and consequences of government intervention in the economy and one essay about the effects of immigration. The first chapter quantifies the private returns and the social costs of political connections. The second chapter studies the relationship between individual trust toward the others and preferences for government intervention, and it draws the implications of this relationship for re-interpreting previous evidence about the effects of regulation. The third chapter examines the substitutability between financial markets and public pensions as two alternative ways to provide for retirement. The fourth chapter estimates the effect of political fragmentation on the timing of structural reforms, focusing in particular on privatization. Finally, the last chapter empirically investigates the relationship between immigration and crime.

A partir do início do século XXI, a nanociência e a nanotecnologia passaram a fazer parte de políticas de desenvolvimento por parte de Estados nacionais, principalmente os países do centro do sistema capitalista. As potencialidades trazidas pelas possíveis aplicações científicas e industriais da escala nano orientaram seu desenvolvimento em duas frentes: uma dedicada às aplicações e adaptações no ambiente econômico e outra interessada na análise dos impactos sociais de seu uso. Neste contexto, o trabalho inicia-se identificando os conceitos em disputa para a formação de sua ordem jurídica. Em seguida, identifica as principais questões sociais e econômicas relacionadas ao desenvolvimento das estratégias nacionais de nanotecnologia, analisando as políticas de desenvolvimento americana e japonesa para, posteriormente, estudar a política brasileira de nanotecnologia. O contorno teórico do tema baseia-se, do ponto de vista econômico, nas obras de Joseph A. Schumpeter e Celso Furtado e, do ponto de vista do direito, pela aplicação do direito econômico como método capaz de apreender a economia política inserida na forma jurídica. Assim, a análise da política brasileira é feita a fim de identificar as possibilidades de superação do desafio furtadiano, com vistas à autonomia tecnológica e homogeneização social. / From the beginning of the 21st century, nanoscience and nanotechnology have become part of nations development policies, particularly from countries in the center of the capitalist system. The potential brought by possible scientific and industrial applications of the nanoscale guided its development towards two fronts: one dedicated to applications and adaptations in the economic environment and the other interested in the analysis of the social impacts of its use. In this context, this work begins by identifying the concepts in dispute in order to form its legal system. Then, it identifies the social and economic key issues related to the development of nanotechnology national strategies, analyzing the development policies from USA and Japan, to, subsequently, study the Brazilian nanotechnology policy. From the economical standpoint, the theoretical outline of the subject is based on the theories of Joseph A. Schumpeter and Celso Furtado and then, from the standpoint of law, it is based on the application of economic law as a method capable of understanding the political economy embedded in the legal form. Thus, the analysis of Brazilian politics is done in order to identify the possibilities to overcome Furtados challenge, aiming at technological autonomy and social homogenization.

La gestion du risque est un sujet primordial au niveau d’une entreprise et au niveau de l’Etat. Cette thèse investigue ce thème au travers de trois essais empiriques. Le premier essai s’intéresse à la gestion du risque de change par les entreprises. Les résultats montrent que les Fusions & Acquisitions transfrontalières offrent une couverture opérationnelle contre le risque de change. De plus, cette technique de couverture crée de la valeur pour les actionnaires. La baisse de l’exposition au risque de change (en valeur absolue) est positivement associée avec les rentabilités anormales cumulées (CAR) pour les acquéreurs. Le deuxième et le troisième essai se concentrent sur la gestion du risque au niveau de l’État - le plan de sauvetage (dit « plan Paulson ») pendant la crise financière récente aux États-Unis. Le deuxième essai confirme dans un premier temps l’effet positif du plan sur les CAR et la réduction des probabilités de défaut pour les banques participantes autour de son annonce initiale. Pourtant, l’effet du plan n’est pas neutre au sein des banques : les grands joueurs ont été les gagnants. Le dernier essai analyse les effets de bord du plan Paulson sur les pratiques d’octroi de prêts. Nos résultats révèlent qu’il y a un effet de bord positif et significatif de l’intervention gouvernementale sur la maturité des prêts syndiqués pendant la période postérieure à la crise, de 2010 à 2012. Néanmoins, cet impact positif n’apparaît pas pour la taille des prêts syndiqués. En somme, cette thèse empirique met en lumière d’une part les moyens efficaces d’une gestion du risque de change pour les entreprises, comme par exemple la couverture opérationnelle, et ses implications positives pour les actionnaires des acquéreurs, et d’autre part les résultats attendus d’une intervention de l’Etat, comme celle du plan Paulson, les effets de bord et les effets hétérogènes entre les établissements financiers. / The risk management is a crucially important topic at firm and country level. This thesis investigates this subject across three empirical essays. The first essay is interested in firm’s currency risk management. The results show that the cross-border Mergers & Acquisitions offer an operational hedging to the currency risk. Moreover, this hedging creates value for acquirers’ shareholders. The decrease in currency risk exposure (in absolute value) is positively associated with acquirers’ cumulative abnormal returns (CAR). The second and the third essay concentrate on the risk management at country level - the bailout plan (the Paulson plan) during the recent financial crisis in United States. The second essay in a first step confirms the positive effect of the plan on bank participants’ CAR and on the decrease of default probability around the plan’s initial announcement. Nevertheless, the effect of the plan is not neutral among banks and big players were the winners. The last essay analyzes the Paulson plan’s spillover effect on the loan supply. Our results reveal that there is a positive and significant spillover effect of the government intervention on syndicated loans’ maturities during the post-crisis period from 2010 to 2012. However, this positive impact is not found for the size of syndicated loans. In sum, this empirical thesis from one side sheds light on the efficient ways of firm’s currency risk management, such as the operational hedging, and its positive effect for acquirers’ shareholders; from another side for the country-level government intervention, it highlights the Paulson plan’s spillover effect on syndicated loans and the heterogeneous impact among financial institutions.

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The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of unemployment on the mental well-being of the South African working age population. The implication of exploring this relationship is to indicate the importance of good mental health among persons who are not employed. The present study also aimed atinvestigating the role that government can play in mitigating the impact of unemployment on mental health. This part of the research assessed the effectiveness of government’s social security system. The current study employs a mixed research design whereby both quantitative and qualitative methods of data analysis are used. The relationship between unemployment, mental well-being and government intervention is investigated using a cohort group in which the mental health of persons not employed, aged between 15 and 64 years, are followed over the period, 2004 to 2008. The results are presented using two types of data. First, secondary data from Statistics South Africa’s General Household Survey (GHS) were used to measure the impact of unemployment on mental health and to ascertain the impact of government social assistance on affected individuals’ mental well-being. Secondly, in order to explore individual perceptions around government intervention, the research employed a qualitative phenomenological design. This involved conducting semi-structured personal interviews with four unemployed women residing in Gauteng. The results showed that incidences of self-reported mental health illnesses were most likely to be found among individuals who were not employed as compared to those that were employed. This finding proved to be consistent using both descriptive and multivariate statistics which included predictive models. In terms of government intervention, positive mental well-being was shown to be positively related to access of social welfare services (in the form of social grants). This finding was true for all the years of reporting (i.e., 2004 to 2008). In conclusion, although unemployment was found to have a negative impact of mental well-being, government intervention was shown to positively mitigate this impact, thereby giving hope to an otherwise hopeless situation. Unemployment and its impact on mental well-beingalso proved to be a complex subject, requiring multidisciplinary intervening strategies to solving it. / Psychology / D. Litt. et Phil. (Psychology)