Securing a sustainable act

Pure Food: Securing the Federal Food and Drugs Act of 1906

Pure food: securing the Federal Food and Drugs Act of 1906

In analysing the attitudes and activities ofthe reformers, Meckel makes little effort to measure the actual rates and trends of morbidity and mortality. He makes relatively little use of statistics, believing that the debates over the impact of specific reforms on infant mortality rates will necessarily be inconclusive. He tends to ignore the demographic and "child survival" literature concerne...

Securing Sustainable Livestock Production Systems in an Uncertain Economic Climate: Nurturing Flexibility and Resilience

Resilience is one of the three core properties of social‐ecological systems, mixing adaptability and transformability. Flexibility can be defined in terms of diversity of procedures and the speed at which they can be mobilized by one organization. The analyses performed are presented in terms of levers that farmers can deploy to protect their management systems against market uncertainty. These...

Securing sustainable price stability: should credit come back from the wilderness? - July 2004

We argue that in order to achieve price stability in a sustainable way, central banks should consider paying greater attention to credit in their monetary policy strategies than is generally the case at present. Specifically, simply setting monetary policy so that a two-year inflation forecast is at the central bank’s target may, on occasions, be less than optimal. In particular, the central ba...

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