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Journal of Baltic Studies 50/4 Available Now
The last 2019 issue of Journal of Baltic Studies (Vol 50, Issue 4) is now available online. The special issue, Europeanization and financial crisis in the Baltic Sea region: implications, perceptions and conclusions ten years after the collapse contains articles on the impact of Europeanization on small North European states after 2008; financialization, distribution, and macroeconomic regimes before and after the crisis in Denmark, Estonia, and Latvia; the strategies chosen for the economic crisis management and their effects in Latvia and Poland; whether the crisis of 2008–10 has led to policy learning in financial regulation and supervision by civil servants in Estonia, Latvia, and Sweden; an ethnographic perspective on the Latvian public's acceptance of austerity; and labor law reform and the return to "business as usual" in Lithuania. The issue also includes three book reviews and a list of recently published Baltic titles
Introduction: Europeanization and financial crisis in the Baltic Sea region: implications, perceptions, and conclusions ten years after the collapse
Leonardo Pataccini, Rainer Kattel & Ringa Raudla
The Europeanization of financial regulation and supervision on the Baltic–Nordic axis: the perspective of national bureaucracies
Egert Juuse, Ringa Raudla, Aleksandrs Cepilovs & Olga Mikheeva
This article presents a comparative case study about the impact of Europeanization on two types of small North European states after 2008. For our case study countries, this is mainly a process of Europeanization. Our analysis focuses on interpreting the Europeanization process from the perspective of bureaucracies: we attempt to understand financial bureaucracies' perceptions of, attitudes toward, and reactions to the post-2008 developments in financial regulation and supervision in Sweden, Norway, Estonia, and Latvia. This enables us to reflect on the implementation performance and embeddedness of post-2008 regulatory and supervisory principles in these countries.
KEYWORDS: Europeanization, financial bureaucracy, financial regulation, financial supervision, Estonia, Latvia, Sweden, Norway
Financialization, distribution, and macroeconomic regimes before and after the crisis: a post-Keynesian view on Denmark, Estonia, and Latvia
Petra Dünhaupt & Eckhard Hein
Since the early 1980s, financialization has become an increasingly important trend in developed capitalist countries, with different timing, speed, and intensities in different countries. Rising inequality has been a major feature of this trend. Shares of wages in national income have declined and personal income inequality has increased. Against this background unsustainable demand and growth regimes have developed that dominated the major economies before the crisis: the 'debt-led private demand boom' and the 'export-led mercantilist' regime. The article applies this post-Keynesian approach to the macroeconomics of finance-dominated capitalism of three Baltic Sea countries, Denmark, Estonia, and Latvia, both for the pre-crisis and the post-crisis period. First, the macroeconomics of finance-dominated capitalism are briefly reiterated. Second, the financialization-distribution nexus is examined for the three countries. Third, macroeconomic demand and growth regimes are analyzed, both before and after the crisis.
KEYWORDS: Finance-dominated capitalism, financialization, distribution, financial and economic crisis, Kaleckian theory of distribution
Austerity versus pragmatism: a comparison of Latvian and Polish economic policies during the great recession and their consequences ten years later
Leonardo Pataccini & Raul Eamets
Despite many initial similarities, Latvia and Poland represent two opposite extremes in terms of practical and theoretical approaches to the economic crisis. The Polish government applied a 'pragmatic' approach to fight the recession, based on expansionary fiscal policies and currency devaluation. Conversely, the Latvian administration opted for the Austerity and internal devaluation strategy. Consequently, the objective of this paper is to analyze, from the perspective of political economy, the strategies chosen for the economic crisis management and their effects in Latvia and Poland, in light of the main EU narratives about its causes and responses. The research contends that the economic performance of both countries during the crisis was due to their respective economic structures. On the one hand, Poland is a bigger, more diversified and industrialized economy, with fewer channels of vulnerability and could apply expansionary policies effectively. On the contrary, the economic model established in Latvia generated a high exposure to external shocks, in particular, with a double vulnerability in the banking sector. In this context, due to internal and external motives, the Latvian government decided to apply the austerity and internal devaluation strategy, worsening the economic decline and the subsequent recovery.
KEYWORDS: Global financial crisis, Poland, Latvia, economic policies, austerity, crisis management
Policy learning from crisis in financial regulation and supervision: comparative analysis of Estonia, Latvia, and Sweden
Ringa Raudla, Egert Juuse & Aleksandrs Cepilovs
The goal of the article is to explore comparatively whether the crisis of 2008–10 has led to policy learning in financial regulation and supervision by civil servants in Estonia, Latvia, and Sweden. The article discusses how various factors can influence policy learning, including the acknowledgment of failure, blame shifting, analytical tractability of the policy problems, and the influence of external actors. We show that although the experience of the crisis varied significantly between the three countries, the policy lessons learnt are broadly similar in all three countries, due to the external influence of the European Union.
KEYWORDS: Policy learning, crisis, Estonia, Latvia, Sweden, financial regulation, financial supervision
Embracing austerity? An ethnographic perspective on the Latvian public's acceptance of austerity politics
Liene Ozoliņa
Latvian austerity policy following the 2008 economic crisis has been touted as a success story by some and critiqued as a socially costly experiment by others. It has remained a puzzle, however, how such harsh socio-economy policies were possible without causing sustained popular protests. Drawing on ethnographic research at an unemployment office in Riga in the aftermath of the crisis, this article considers austerity as a political and moral phenomenon. I argue that welfare policies played an important role in disciplining the parts of the population most adversely affected by the crisis by framing post-crisis precarity as a matter of individual responsibility. Furthermore, this disciplining worked because it was underpinned by a particular moral discourse that I call 'a discourse of freedom.' Thus, this historically and culturally-shaped moral economy helped not only secure the implementation of post-crisis austerity in a way that yielded little sustained public resistance but also helped legitimate it.
KEYWORDS: Austerity, political ethnography, activation, workfare, moral economy, moral individualism, neoliberalism, Latvia
Resurgence of post-crisis neoliberalism: labor law reform and the return to "business as usual" in Lithuania
Arunas Juska & Romas Lazutka
The economic crisis of 2008–2010 revealed the extreme vulnerability of Lithuania to global financial shocks. However, instead of reforming Lithuanian capitalism, the domestic political and business elites chose to write off the enormous social and economic costs incurred during the 2008–2010 crisis as an expense of continuing doing business in a way that was typical to the pre-crisis, booming years of 'the Baltic tigers' (2000–2007), i.e., relying on the unstable and inequitable growth model based on foreign capital inflows and remittances, suppressing and keeping wages and taxes on capital low and exporting cheap-skilled labour to the core EU countries. We illustrate this return to business as usual in Lithuania by analyzing the political process of contestation and eventual consolidation of neo-liberal consensus among domestic political actors that resulted in the passage of the new Labour Code enabling creation of 'flexible' labor markets. Social and political implications of the resurgent neoliberal hegemony in post-crisis Lithuania are discussed.
KEYWORDS: Neoliberalism, labour code reform, post-crisis, Lithuania
BOOK REVIEWS AND RECENT PUBLICATIONS
History of Lithuania: from medieval kingdom to modern democracy
by Bronius Makauskas and Vytautas J. Černius, Shirley, NY, Lithuanian American Community, 2018, 686 pp., $50.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-692-23645-1
Virgil I. Krapauskas
Narratives of exile and identity: Soviet deportation memoirs from the Baltic countries
edited by Violeta Davoliūtė and Tomas Balkelis, Budapest, Central European University Press, 2018, 220 pp., $60 (hardback), ISBN 978-963-386-183-7
Leena Kurvet-Käosaar
Baltic socialism remembered: memory and life story since 1989
edited by Ene Kõresaar, London, Routledge, 2018.154 pp., ISBN 978-1-138-56005-5
Violeta Davoliūtė
List of books received and recent publications
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Sondheim benefit concert – watch it now!
April 22, 2021 April 27, 2020 by ASTEP
WATCH IT HERE! + DONATE TODAY!
We are grateful for the special collective of Angel Donors who matched the first $25,000 raised through this event!
Ben Whiteley
The Bisesto Family
Emily Grishman and Susan Sampliner
The Esposito Family
Jeffrey and Gheña Korn
Jim Jones and Joseph Langworth
Oda and Henry Sham
Sheri Sarkisian
Thanks to the incredible generosity of everyone who contributed to the Take Me to the World: A Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration, ASTEP's Arts Resilience Fund has raised $400,000 so far!
What has always made ASTEP unique is our ability to connect artists with community groups working in underserved communities. In this moment of crisis, our partners are serving youth who are navigating food scarcity, economic hardships and home safety, among a host of other issues. With these funds, ASTEP is immediately responding to the needs of these communities. In collaboration with the generosity of the Red Hook Container Terminal and the NYCEDC, ASTEP has helped to facilitate food donations to be delivered to our partner, Abraham House, in the South Bronx. The most recent donation of fresh fruit served over 900 families. There will be another generous food shipment reaching this community soon.
In this time of virtual learning, ASTEP is making sure the young people who have limited or no access to online platforms are not forgotten. We're teaming up with teachers and schools to build English and Spanish arts packets that support social and emotional development and academic curriculum. We're also reaching young people living with HIV/AIDS at the Incarnation Children's Center, a pediatric residential facility, through virtual open mic nights to remind them that the ASTEP community loves and cares about them, even when we must remain physically distant. To build mindfulness and resilience, ASTEP is connecting artists around the world through live and prerecorded #artistathome series and professional development workshops.
Now more than ever, ASTEP is using the arts to create a space for healing, a platform for connectivity and an outlet to express ourselves. Serving these communities has been ASTEP's primary mission for 14 years, and thanks to the Arts Resilience Fund, ASTEP will continue to be here for the needs of our students and our extraordinary partners, as we all learn to adapt to this precarious new reality. To contribute today, please visit give.classy.org/ASTEP.
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Charitybuzz Online Auction Benefitting ASTEP: Bid Now!
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Sondheim benefit concert – watch it live Sun Apr 26 at 8PM ET!
April 24,2020
Additional star performances were announced today for the all-star special virtual concert in celebration of Stephen Sondheim's 90th Birthday, "Take Me To The World: A Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration", this Sunday, April 26 at 8:00 PM ET. The free online event, hosted by Raúl Esparza, is set to take place on the exact 50th anniversary of the opening night of Sondheim's musical Company (the original production debuted on Broadway on April 26, 1970). Watch it live on the Broadway.com YouTube Channel.
Annaleigh Ashford, Laura Benanti, Melissa Errico, Beanie Feldstein, Josh Groban, Jake Gyllenhaal, Neil Patrick Harris, Judy Kuhn, Linda Lavin, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ben Platt, Randy Rainbow, and Lea Salonga will perform songs of inspiration from the Sondheim catalog. This once-in-a-lifetime event will also feature special appearances by Victor Garber, Joanna Gleason, Nathan Lane, and Steven Spielberg.
They are joining the previously announced artists, many who delivered iconic turns in Sondheim's shows, including Meryl Streep, Bernadette Peters, Patti LuPone, Audra McDonald, Mandy Patinkin, Christine Baranski, Donna Murphy, Kristin Chenoweth, Sutton Foster, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Kelli O'Hara, Aaron Tveit, Maria Friedman, Iain Armitage, Katrina Lenk, Michael Cerveris, Brandon Uranowitz, Stephen Schwartz, Elizabeth Stanley, Chip Zien, Alexander Gemignani and, from the cast of Pacific Overtures at Classic Stage Company, Ann Harada, Austin Ku, Kelvin Moon Loh and Thom Sesma.
Esparza, the evening's host and producer, starred as Bobby in the Tony Award-winning revival of Company in 2006 and in the Kennedy Center Sondheim Celebration productions of Sunday in the Park (George) and Merrily We Roll Along (Charlie) in 2002. He also headlined City Center's Encores! productions of Anyone Can Whistle and last year's Road Show.
"The world is in a hard place, and we are all searching for something great," says Esparza. "Well, Stephen Sondheim is greatness personified. So, we've assembled a group of people who love Steve and have worked with Steve and have been inspired by Steve to sing his music and share some joy and some heartache together. We may be far from Broadway right now, but Broadway is never far from us. Besides, Stephen Sondheim turned 90. How many times do you get to be 90? 11? So come on, say it, get it over with, come on, quick…happy birthday."
Directed by Paul Wontorek, Take Me to the World: A Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration is being presented in support of ASTEP, the organization conceived by the event's musical director, Mary-Mitchell Campbell, and Juilliard students to transform the lives of youth using the most powerful tool they had: their art. In times of turbulence and trauma, the arts provide a space for healing, a platform for connectivity and an outlet to express ourselves. They're also crucial to the development of mindfulness, an important element of mental health, especially in times of struggle. More than ever, ASTEP artists are needed to create that space for the most vulnerable among us. In this current moment of crisis, the youth we serve are navigating food scarcity, economic hardships and home safety, among a host of other issues. Serving them has been the primary mission of ASTEP for 14 years, and with your support, the organization will continue to be here for the needs of students and partners as we learn to adapt to this precarious new reality.
"Sondheim shows us the depth of our hearts, the complexity of our minds, and all that it is possible to accomplish through his brilliant marriage of music and storytelling," Campbell adds. "Artists Striving to End Poverty aims to make sure that all children living in challenging situations have the opportunity to be transformed by the making of art. In my personal experience, encountering Stephen Sondheim's music has helped these children imagine an entirely different life and future for themselves. Linking Sondheim and ASTEP together during this very difficult time made perfect sense to us. Children and art."
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Imagine a whole site dedicated to books – a programme filled with talks by your favourite authors, the biggest bookshop tent ever, deckchairs made for lounging, fresh food from all around the world…well that's the Hay on Wye Book Festival and if you're a book lover then you have to add it to your travel plans immediately!
We visited this year after dreaming about it for decades. There always seemed to be an excuse – not enough cash, a small child, other holidays, but now that we've been it's going to be a firm fixture in our family calendar. This time we only booked a few sessions over three days – Cressida Cowell, Andy Stanton, Joe Todd-Stanton and Judith Kerr – all child-orientated but fun for adults too. The loose structure also gave us a chance to work out the logistics of the event – not quite as easy as the venue can get VERY busy. Here are my top tips for planning a visit to the Hay Festival.
Book your accommodation early. Staying in Hay can be expensive so unless you are camping, it's best to look outside of the town. We booked a weekend at the lovely Canal Boat Cottage in Crickhowell and were glad of the peaceful surroundings after the buzz of Hay. Sugar and Loaf have a whole selection of cottages on their website (2019 Hay on Wye Book Festival will run 23 May to 2 June). Alternatively you can view a range of properties on Booking.com.
Join the Hay on Wye Book Festival mailing list for ticket notifications. We booked as soon as the programme was released as big names sell out very quickly. Prices average at £7 – some more, some less. If you want to get in before the crowds you can pay extra to become a Friend of Hay Festival.
When packing for the festival include wellies, umbrella, sunglasses and suntan lotion. We saw all sorts of weather during our short stay. Take fold-up tote bags to minimise baggage.
There's plenty of parking in town, but we booked the parking via the Hay Festival website when we purchased tickets. It's more expensive than other options but part of the fee is donated to Macmillan and it's right next to the venue.
The festival suggests that you arrive at least half an hour before an event, but I'd recommend getting there an hour before if you're driving. Traffic can be slow-moving near the town and there are bag checks at the entrance.
If you need to buy books for signing then visit the shop straightaway and purchase all of them in one go. The queues can be long, especially after headline talks. The signings take place in the book tent too so try to get there quickly after the author session has finished. You can buy pre-signed copies but the big names sell fast!
If you have kids then there are free crafting activities available in the Make and Take and Mess tents. Our daughter is 5 and was just old enough to enjoy the experience, but I'd say that kids aged 7+ would get the most out of the programme.
The food hall is fantastic with dishes ranging from pizza to paella to falafel. It's also incredibly busy. If you decide to go, then try to avoid peak times (11.30-14.30) and find a seat beforehand – either in the tent or under one of the canopies outside then send out a foraging party! If you're planning a visit to the Hay Festival, this is one aspect that you want to keep on top of otherwise you could be waiting a long time for food.
If it's simply too busy to order in the food hall, there are little snack shacks on the road into Hay-on-Wye. There are also water fountains on site so you can fill up bottles.
You have to visit Hay-on-Wye while you're at the festival. It has tons of fantastic bookshops and is very pretty. My favourite is Addyman Books and everyone pops into Richard Booth's bookshop at least once. The town is a good 15 minute walk from the venue but you can catch a shuttle outside the festival entrance for £1.50 each way.
We hope this will post will enhance your planning for the Hay on Wye Book Festival. We're going again this year so will update this if there are any changes.
If you found this post handy, you can see our other Literary Travel features here.


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Харекрушна Махатаб (, ; 21 ноября 1899, Бхадрак, Бенгальское президентство — 2 января 1987, Бхубанешвар) — активист движения за независимость Индии, общественный, политический, государственный и социальный деятель, член партии Индийский национальный конгресс. , , .

Один из создателей нынешнего восточно-индийского штата Одиша. С 1946 по 1950 год — первый Главный министр (премьер-министр) штата Одиша, повторно занимал этот пост в 1956—1961 годах. С 1950 по 1952 год — министр торговли и промышленности Индии в правительстве Джавахарлала Неру.

Биография

Представитель народа ория. Родился в аристократической семье. Поступил в колледж (ныне Университет Рэйвеншоу) в Каттаке. В 1921 году оставил учебу и присоединился к движению за независимость Индии.

В 1922 году по обвинению в подстрекательстве к мятежу был заключён в тюрьму.
Активист движения за независимость Индии, участвовал вместе с Махатмой Ганди в организации Соляного похода в Ориссе против британского режима, заложившего основы массовой кампании гражданского неповиновения английским колониальным властям в Индии. За свои действия был арестован и находился в заключении два с половиной года. В 1932 году, после запрета партии, был вновь арестован.

Участник движения против Неприкасаемости (с 1934) и Августовского движения, за что с 1942 по 1945 год, находился в заключении.

После освобождения из тюрьмы в 1945 году занялся объединением более двадцати малых орийских княжеств, управляемых местными князьками, в единый штат. Объединение прошло бескровном в 1947 году, хотя некоторые правители и выступили против этого.

В 1952 году стал генеральным секретарём Парламентской партии Индийского национального конгресса. С 1955 по 1956 год был губернатором Бомбея (теперь Мумбаи). Вице-президент Индийского национального конгресса в 1966 году.

Харекрушна Махатаб — писатель, автор произведений на орийском языке и «Истории Ориссы». В 1923 году основал еженедельный журнал Праджатантра. Работал главным редактором ежемесячного журнала «Джанкар». Издавал и редактировал еженедельную английскую газету The Eastern Times.

Награды
 Премия Литературной академии Индии
 Почётный доктор Университета Андхра
 Почётный доктор Уткальского университета

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Общественные деятели Индии
Историки Индии
Политики Индии
Главные министры штатов Индии
Министры торговли Индии
Губернаторы Бомбея
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Waco, county approve $450,000 in grants for companies bringing operations to Waco
Mike Copeland
The McLennan County Commissioners Court and Waco City Council approved $450,000 in deals Tuesday with Laminate Technologies of Texas and Ryonet Corp. that may bring 50 jobs to Waco paying a minimum of $13 per hour, fill two vacant buildings and generate more than $4 million in investments.
Ryonet Corp., which sells commercial screen-printing equipment, proposes to relocate operations in Atlanta, Georgia, and Edgerton, Kansas, to a vacant building at 215 Cotton Drive, behind the Allen Samuels Dodge Chrysler Jeep Ram Fiat dealership at 201 West Loop 340. Ryonet would get $110,000 from the Waco-McLennan County Economic Development Corp. in exchange for making at least $120,000 in property investments and hiring at least 10 people making a minimum of $13.50 an hour, plus benefits.
Laminate Technologies of Texas' $340,000 Economic Development Corp. grant would come with requirements to spend about $4 million renovating a building on 37 acres at 1001 West Loop 340, and to fill 40 new jobs paying a minimum of $13 and hour, plus benefits, with the average wage of the jobs hitting at least $35,000 per year.
The city and county split cost of the Economic Development Corp. grants evenly, and the city council and commissioners court each must approve use of the money. The city and county plan to increase their annual contributions to the economic development fund by $250,000 each next year, bringing each entity's contribution to $2.75 million for 2021.
SpaceX, Zinkpower
Also Tuesday, county commissioners finalized previously publicized deals with Zinkpower Waco and with SpaceX, which operates a rocket-testing plant in McGregor. Zinkpower is building a hot-dip galvanizing plant near 7500 Mars Drive that will employ at least 100 people. Structural steel is going up now, said Kris Collins, the Greater Waco Chamber of Commerce's industry recruiter.
SpaceX will spend at least $10 million on infrastructure improvements and sound-muffling equipment at its testing facility in McGregor's industrial park. Commissioners and the Waco City Council have pledged $2 million from the Waco-McLennan County Economic Development Corp. fund.
SpaceX also has pledged to fund a permanent exhibit at the Mayborn Museum Complex on University Parks Drive and to pursue a collaboration with local school districts to provide enhanced math and science instruction.
Commissioners and the Waco City Council have pledged $700,000 from the fund to Zinkpower Waco, which is investing $31 million.
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