a column by Ian Goldin and Benjamin Nabarro for VOX: CEPR’s Policy Portal
Anti-migration sentiment has been rising across Europe.
This column shows that the economic impact of migration is positive, but depends almost entirely on the policies implemented to ensure that migrants can be productive and the extent to which the positive economic consequences of migration are distributed across individuals.
Unless the rhetoric of a perceived cultural and economic threat posed by migrants is countered effectively, economies stand to lose out substantially from the implementation of anti-immigration policies.
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Wednesday, 7 November 2018
Friday, 2 November 2018
Taking a couple of days off
Actually it will be five days including today.
I've got myself into a bit of a muddle mentally and need to take some time to sort myself out.
I'm sure that I will find what I need at Walsingham (two nights) and then seeing friends on Tuesday.
I've got myself into a bit of a muddle mentally and need to take some time to sort myself out.
I'm sure that I will find what I need at Walsingham (two nights) and then seeing friends on Tuesday.
Thursday, 1 November 2018
Is plagiarism unlawful?
an article by Owen Dean (Spoor & Fisher, Claremont, South Africa) published in WIPO Magazine (September 2018)
“Plagiarism” is a much misunderstood and misused term in common parlance. In layman’s terms, it is generally used to convey the notion of copying or reproducing the work of another in a clandestine manner, usually without the permission of the author. It is often used as a synonym for “copyright infringement,” and it is generally thought to amount to the same thing. Presuming that plagiarism is copyright infringement by another name, it would naturally be unlawful. But is this perception correct?
The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary defines the verb “plagiarize” as follows: “Take and use as one’s own (the thoughts, writings, inventions, etc., of another person); copy (literary work, ideas, etc.) improperly or without acknowledgement; pass off the thoughts, work, etc. of (another person) as one’s own.” “Plagiarism” is the noun form of this verb.
The term is said to have its origins in the writings of Martial(is), the Roman poet, who in one of his works drew a parallel between his poems and freed slaves; he termed another poet who had misrepresented his (i.e. Martial’s) works as being his own, a “plagiarius,” or, an abductor, of them.
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“Plagiarism” is a much misunderstood and misused term in common parlance. In layman’s terms, it is generally used to convey the notion of copying or reproducing the work of another in a clandestine manner, usually without the permission of the author. It is often used as a synonym for “copyright infringement,” and it is generally thought to amount to the same thing. Presuming that plagiarism is copyright infringement by another name, it would naturally be unlawful. But is this perception correct?
The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary defines the verb “plagiarize” as follows: “Take and use as one’s own (the thoughts, writings, inventions, etc., of another person); copy (literary work, ideas, etc.) improperly or without acknowledgement; pass off the thoughts, work, etc. of (another person) as one’s own.” “Plagiarism” is the noun form of this verb.
The term is said to have its origins in the writings of Martial(is), the Roman poet, who in one of his works drew a parallel between his poems and freed slaves; he termed another poet who had misrepresented his (i.e. Martial’s) works as being his own, a “plagiarius,” or, an abductor, of them.
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When It’s Time To Heal The Mother Wound: This Comes First
a post by Katherine Fabrizio (The Good Daughter Syndrome) via the World of Psychology blog
From my psychotherapy couch, I see your face fall and an unbearable sadness comes over you. Your heart is breaking in two.
The child in you is facing an unbearable loss. The love you want so very much to feel from your mother just isn’t going to be. Wishing it weren’t true, you have been hiding this from yourself for so long. You wish you had a mother who would see the best in you.
You don’t.
Instead, you feel criticized and controlled. You wish that mom would accept you for who you are, instead of continually trying to fix you.
You don’t.
Stuck in the role of the good daughter, you constantly wonder if you’ll ever be good enough for her? This is a torturous way to live. You bear the mark of your mother’s pain. Nevertheless, instead of feeling heartbroken, there is a part of you that would rather be angry, indignant… anything to keep from facing what a part of you has known all along.
You didn’t get the love you needed then. And you are never going to get it now. This is a hard truth to face. No matter how good you are for her, she may never give you the love you need. And it hurts badly. Hope against hope, you put yourself back together only to have the inevitable happen.
You give her one more chance, telling yourself that she means well or doesn’t mean what she says and … mom says something unspeakably self-centered or mean. Your defenses crack, and you let down your guard. The profound disappointment of your mother’s limitations come flooding through. You wonder if there is something seriously wrong with mom? The label Narcissistic seems to fit. Whether or not this is the case, what you feel is real. Loneliness overtakes you, and you sit there weeping as the truth rises in you.
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From my psychotherapy couch, I see your face fall and an unbearable sadness comes over you. Your heart is breaking in two.
The child in you is facing an unbearable loss. The love you want so very much to feel from your mother just isn’t going to be. Wishing it weren’t true, you have been hiding this from yourself for so long. You wish you had a mother who would see the best in you.
You don’t.
Instead, you feel criticized and controlled. You wish that mom would accept you for who you are, instead of continually trying to fix you.
You don’t.
Stuck in the role of the good daughter, you constantly wonder if you’ll ever be good enough for her? This is a torturous way to live. You bear the mark of your mother’s pain. Nevertheless, instead of feeling heartbroken, there is a part of you that would rather be angry, indignant… anything to keep from facing what a part of you has known all along.
You didn’t get the love you needed then. And you are never going to get it now. This is a hard truth to face. No matter how good you are for her, she may never give you the love you need. And it hurts badly. Hope against hope, you put yourself back together only to have the inevitable happen.
You give her one more chance, telling yourself that she means well or doesn’t mean what she says and … mom says something unspeakably self-centered or mean. Your defenses crack, and you let down your guard. The profound disappointment of your mother’s limitations come flooding through. You wonder if there is something seriously wrong with mom? The label Narcissistic seems to fit. Whether or not this is the case, what you feel is real. Loneliness overtakes you, and you sit there weeping as the truth rises in you.
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Why Your Positive Attitude Might Be Hurting You
a post by Ginelle Testa for the Tiny Buddha blog
What if I told you there may be a flaw in positive thinking?
How could being positive possibly be unhelpful?
To some extent, positivity can be beneficial. In my life I’ve found optimism to be quite wonderful, crucial even.
Being around people who are generally positive is just far more pleasant than being around people who are constantly negative. Life seems a little bit more manageable when you can practice gratitude. Smiles are had and spirits are lifted with simple platitudes like c’est la vie and it is what it is! Not only is it helpful, but optimism can actually provide a number of benefits.
There was a study done by the University of Kentucky where nuns were rated on a positivity scale based on their diaries in the 1930’s. Sixty years later researchers found that some of these ladies, aged seventy-five to ninety, were still alive. The survivors were mostly the women who scored high on the positivity test, insinuating that happiness leads to a longer life.
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What if I told you there may be a flaw in positive thinking?
How could being positive possibly be unhelpful?
To some extent, positivity can be beneficial. In my life I’ve found optimism to be quite wonderful, crucial even.
Being around people who are generally positive is just far more pleasant than being around people who are constantly negative. Life seems a little bit more manageable when you can practice gratitude. Smiles are had and spirits are lifted with simple platitudes like c’est la vie and it is what it is! Not only is it helpful, but optimism can actually provide a number of benefits.
There was a study done by the University of Kentucky where nuns were rated on a positivity scale based on their diaries in the 1930’s. Sixty years later researchers found that some of these ladies, aged seventy-five to ninety, were still alive. The survivors were mostly the women who scored high on the positivity test, insinuating that happiness leads to a longer life.
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Patterns of trade and immigration in historical perspective
a column by David Jacks and John Tang for VOX: CEPR’s Policy Portal
Foreign goods and workers are regularly blamed when the national economy is performing poorly. Economic theory suggests that trade and migration are substitutes – one can import cheaper products from a trade partner, or one can import the foreign workers themselves to narrow the difference in international factor prices.
Yet, empirically this is not obvious.
Based on available long-run data for international trade and migration since the late 19th century for the US and Canada, this column finds that during the interwar period, trade and immigration did in fact appear to be substitutes.
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Foreign goods and workers are regularly blamed when the national economy is performing poorly. Economic theory suggests that trade and migration are substitutes – one can import cheaper products from a trade partner, or one can import the foreign workers themselves to narrow the difference in international factor prices.
Yet, empirically this is not obvious.
Based on available long-run data for international trade and migration since the late 19th century for the US and Canada, this column finds that during the interwar period, trade and immigration did in fact appear to be substitutes.
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Who's in control? U of T researcher examines why it's so difficult to disconnect from social media
an article by Mary Gooderham for the University of Toronto News [with grateful thanks to ResearchBuzz: Firehose]
A new book by U of T Mississauga researcher Tero Karppi argues social media users' ability to control their digital lives is at risk (Photo by Future Image/C.Hardt/ullstein bild via Getty Images)
Academics have spent the last decade studying connectivity and social media – a trend that has more than two billion people around the world on Facebook and counting.
For Tero Karppi, however, the focus has instead been disconnection.
“I always tended to go against the grain,” says Karppi, an assistant professor at the University of Toronto Mississauga’s Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology who specializes in social media and media theory.
His new book, Disconnect: Facebook’s Affective Bonds, explores the challenges users face when they try to deactivate their Facebook accounts, and how efforts by social media companies to keep users logging in may be giving us less control over our digital lives.
Karppi started researching the topic in his native Finland, where a technology-savvy population enthusiastically began to use Facebook around 2010. “It was becoming a really big thing and expanding widely,” recalls Karppi, who was among the early adopters using the platform to stay current and in touch with far-flung friends, family and colleagues.
“It was an interesting phenomenon – how quickly it spread.”
But he noticed it was also difficult to say goodbye to this increasingly compelling platform. European media artists started to do special “Quit Facebook” projects, while many people tried to give it up simply to avoid the distractions of the medium.
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A new book by U of T Mississauga researcher Tero Karppi argues social media users' ability to control their digital lives is at risk (Photo by Future Image/C.Hardt/ullstein bild via Getty Images)
Academics have spent the last decade studying connectivity and social media – a trend that has more than two billion people around the world on Facebook and counting.
For Tero Karppi, however, the focus has instead been disconnection.
“I always tended to go against the grain,” says Karppi, an assistant professor at the University of Toronto Mississauga’s Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology who specializes in social media and media theory.
His new book, Disconnect: Facebook’s Affective Bonds, explores the challenges users face when they try to deactivate their Facebook accounts, and how efforts by social media companies to keep users logging in may be giving us less control over our digital lives.
Karppi started researching the topic in his native Finland, where a technology-savvy population enthusiastically began to use Facebook around 2010. “It was becoming a really big thing and expanding widely,” recalls Karppi, who was among the early adopters using the platform to stay current and in touch with far-flung friends, family and colleagues.
“It was an interesting phenomenon – how quickly it spread.”
But he noticed it was also difficult to say goodbye to this increasingly compelling platform. European media artists started to do special “Quit Facebook” projects, while many people tried to give it up simply to avoid the distractions of the medium.
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