Special drawing rights and inflation

Policy Brief 09-11: Understanding Special Drawing Rights (SDRs)

John Williamson, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute, has been associated with the Institute since 1981. He was project director for the UN High-Level Panel on Financing for Development (the Zedillo Report) in 2001; on leave as chief economist for South Asia at the World Bank during 1996–99; economics professor at Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (1978–81), University of W...

A Special-Purpose Language for Picture-Drawing

Special purpose languages are typically characterized by a type of primitive data and domain-speci c operations on this data. One approach to special purpose language design is to embed the data and operations of the language within an existing functional language. The data can be de ned using the type constructions provided by the functional language, and the special purpose language then inhe...

Drawing the line between kinematics and dynamics in special relativity

Special relativity is preferable to those parts of Lorentz’s classical ether theory it replaced because it shows that various phenomena that were given a dynamical explanation in Lorentz’s theory are actually kinematical. In his book, Physical Relativity, Harvey Brown challenges this orthodox view. I defend it. The phenomena usually discussed in this context in the philosophical literature are ...

Psychology and Human Rights: Introduction to the Special Issue

This introduction serves to orient the reader to this special issue of Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology on the topic of psychology and human rights (HR). We provide a brief overview of the history of the concept of HR, the primary theoretical and empirical contributions to date within the field of psychology, and how various psychological organizations use the term today. We then...

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