George Neil Jenkins

Discussion - Paul Jenkins

Central bank talk has been a topic of debate and empirical analysis within the central bank community and the economics profession for at least the thirty years that span Chuck’s career as a central banker. And what many regard as the seminal work in this area has a particularly Canadian connection. The work on bureaucratic theory and the choice of central bank goals by Acheson and Chant (1973)...

Neil Turnbull

This paper examines the way in which ‘authority’ and ‘authoritarianism’ have been confl ated in contemporary philosophical thought. More specifi cally, it will show how the psycho-social critique of political authority developed by the Frankfurt School in the 1930s established a paradigm for the critique of political authority as ‘authoritarian irrationalism’. The paper goes on to explore the l...

Jenkins on AWS - AWS Whitepaper

Although there are many ways to deploy the Jenkins open-source automation server on Amazon Web Services (AWS), this whitepaper focuses on two specific approaches. First, the traditional deployment on top of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). Second, the containerized deployment that leverages Amazon EC2 Container Service (Amazon ECS). These approaches enable customers to take advantage ...

Vulnerability W . Neil Adger

This paper reviews research traditions of vulnerability to environmental change and the challenges for present vulnerability research in integrating with the domains of resilience and adaptation. Vulnerability is the state of susceptibility to harm from exposure to stresses associated with environmental and social change and from the absence of capacity to adapt. Antecedent traditions include t...

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