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Public service broadcasters frequently have to decide how to invest in digital to reach more diverse and younger audiences, whilst not alienating loyal audiences and political stakeholders or antagonising commercial providers. This working paper examines how one PSB, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), plans to respond to this challenge whilst faced with diminishing resources. The paper focuses on the organisation's first year under a new Managing Director, Michelle Guthrie, against the backdrop of the ABC's recent and often turbulent history, and makes comparisons with the BBC along the way. The future health of the ABC will largely depend on how well it can chart a path through its editorial, strategic and commercial challenges, whilst investing for the future with reduced real resources, and working to retain its reputation for trusted coverage, in the face of an increasingly polarised political environment.

SUPPOSE THE OPTIMIZING CONSUMER ONLY HAS LOCAL INFORMATION, THEN WHAT? OBVIOUSLY, THERE WILL BE A RANDOM ELEMENT OF CONSUMPTION. THE LINK BETWEEN THE FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTION OF CONSUMPTION BY PERSON AND PREFERENCE SURFACE IS WORKED OUT. UNDER CONVEX PREFERENCES THERE WILL BE A UNIMODAL DISTRIBUTION AND CONVERSELY. A LOCAL OPTIMIZING THEORY OF ADDICTIVE BEHAVIOR IS DEVELOPED FROM NONCONVEX PREFERENCES. THE RESULTING BIMODAL DISTRIBUTION OF CONSUMPTION IMPLIES A NONROBUST OUTCOME FOR MEDIAN VOTER POLITICS. SUCH A LOCAL OPTIMIZING MODEL OF ADDICTION IS COMPARED WITH GLOBALLY OPTIMIZING MODELS OF ADDICTION.

ECONOMISTS HAVE LONG BEEN PERSUADED THAT WHAT THEY SAY IS WORTH TAKING SERIOUSLY. FOR REASONS THAT WILL BE EXPLORED, THEY DO NOT OFTEN EXTEND THIS INTEREST TO THOSE PRONOUNCEMENTS OF THE SUBJECTS OF THEIR STUDY. HOWEVER, IF WE CONSIDER THE LANGUAGE OF INDIVIDUALS WITH THE SAME SORT OF ATTENTION THAT WE PAY TO THEIR CHOICES, WE CAN BRING AN ORDER TO PUBLIC OPINION, CORRESPONDING TO THE ORDER WHICH UTILITY THEORY BRINGS TO CONSUMER CHOICE.

Conventional development models refer to two sectors, public & for-profit private. Massive growth of nonprofit private activity undermines that picture. Latin American think tanks exemplify a nonprofit privatization that has an enormous impact on development & remolds intersectoral relationships overall. Four major dynamics acount for the spectacular growth of the region's nonprofit think tanks. Three push factors are state repression, state weakness, & public university problems, &, as epitomized by financial supply, a pull factor is also crucial to attract nonprofit growth. To conceptualize these findings, public failure theory is considered. Unhelpful regarding the pull factor, the theory otherwise works reasonably well, especially where there is visible movement from the public to the nonprofit sector. Beyond that, the evidence suggests ways to broaden the theory. Even a broadened formulation cannot fully capture the remarkable diversity & vitality of the growth in Latin America's think tanks. But the key growth factors that blend together to produce particular institutional & national configurations can be identified & analyzed. 53 References. Adapted from the source document.

CLIMATE CHANGE IS A GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEM OF POTENTIALLY DEVASTATING PROPORTIONS. CORPORATE PARTICIPATION IN THE INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE CHANGE NEGOTIATIONS HAS BEEN LEGITIMIZED THROUGH THE ECO-MODERNIST DISCOURSE OF ENVIRONMENT MANAGEMENT, WHICH CONSTRUCTS CORPORATIONS AS BENIGN STEWARDS OF THE EARTH WITH THE WILL AND RESOURCES TO SOLVE ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS. OVERALL, THE EVIDENCE DOES NOT SUPPORT THE NOTION THAT THE INTERNATIONAL ARENA OFFERS CAPITAL A SAFE HAVEN FROM ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS. WHILE THE AUTHORS ANALYSIS PROVIDES SUPPORT FOR THE CONTINUED RELEVANCE OF THE NATIONAL STATE WITHIN AN INTERNATIONALIZED CAPITALISM, IT ALSO POINTS TO THE CHANGING RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CAPITAL, THE STATE, INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS, AND SOCIAL FORCES.

Introduction / Edoardo Zamuner and D.K. Levy -- To represent as so / Charles Travis -- Mind -- Wittgenstein, qualia, and the autonomy of grammar / Julian Kiverstein -- Understanding (other) minds : Wittgenstein's phenomenological contribution / Daniel Zahavi and Søren Overgaard -- Wittgenstein, the secondary use of words and child psychology / Michel ter Hark -- Language -- Concepts and primitive language-games / Eva Picardi -- On the teaching and learning of words / Michael Luntley -- Meaning, rules, and conventions / Hans-Johann Glock -- Wittgenstein's critique of referential theories of meaning and the paradox of ostension : philosophical investigations 26-48 / David Stern -- The absolute -- The architecture of meaning : Wittgenstein's tractatus and formal semantics / Martin Stokhof -- De-transcendentalizing religion / Anat Biletzki -- Morality without agency / David Levy -- Afterword -- Wittgenstein passages / Denis Paul.

This report examines how the UK press covered the EU Referendum story, and looks at what the key arguments, spokespeople, tone of articles and areas of focus were during the referendum. The report is based on analysis of two days of press coverage each week for London editions of nine national newspapers over 4 months of the campaign. Of the 2378 articles analysed which were focused on the referendum 41% were pro leave as against 27% pro-remain. Press coverage focused heavily on politicians and campaign spokespeople with relatively little few analysts/experts, academics and foreign politicians cited, and with more attention to personalities and the contest than the issues The press reflected the generally negative tone of the campaign, but the Remain camp's future focussed messages were the most negative, particularly on the economy, compared to the Leave camp's more positive tone about a UK outside the EU.

We discuss case studies of three South Island small towns: Ashburton, Timaru and Oamaru and their wider local authority jurisdictions, focusing on how local stake holders are defining the issues facing these places and identifying, prioritising and investing in regeneration initiatives, sometimes with the support of central govern ment and other external agencies. Our key finding is that small-town regeneration is complex, demands a long-term local collaborative approach, and significant investment in skills, information sharing and programme development, some of which needs to be provided by external, central government, agencies.

"Simone Weil is one of the most profound thinkers of the twentieth century. Her writings encompass an extraordinary breadth of subjects, including philosophy, religion, sociology, and politics. A political activist and resistance fighter, her accomplishments are even more astonishing in light of her death in 1943 at the age of thirty-four. Whilst Weil was concerned with deep philosophical questions - the nature of human thought and human faculties, the limits of language, and thought's contact with reality through mediation, science and beauty - the full significance of her work has frequently been obscured by her categorization as a purely religious writer or Christian mystic. Simone Weil: Basic Writings is an expertly edited anthology of her most important writings, presenting Weil's philosophy as it relates to politics, the nature of work, human nature in its duality, necessity, beauty and goodness. D. K. Levy and Marina Barabas have translated all the extracts anew, including translations of important notes and references missing from existing English language editions of Weil's work. Following an extensive introduction by D. K. Levy which places Weil's life and thought in context, each section opens with a short introduction situating the chosen passages within Weil's oeuvre. Simone Weil: Basic Writings is an outstanding starting point for anyone seeking an introduction to Weil's philosophy, and also essential reading for students and scholars of Weil's thought in related disciplines"--