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This Festschrift, Unimagined Futures – ICT Opportunities and Challenges, examines key challenges facing the ICT community today. While addressing the contemporary challenges, the book provides the opportunity to look back to help understand the contemporary scene and identify appropriate future responses to them. Experts in different areas of the ICT scene have contributed to this IFIP 60th anniversary book, which will be a key input to the ICT community worldwide on setting policy priorities and agendas for the coming decade. In addition, a number of contributions look specifically at the role of professionals and of national, regional, and global organizations in disseminating the benefits of ICT to humanity worldwide.

Computers. --- Application software. --- Software engineering. --- Artificial intelligence. --- Computing Milieux. --- Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet). --- Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems. --- Artificial Intelligence. --- AI (Artificial intelligence) --- Artificial thinking --- Electronic brains --- Intellectronics --- Intelligence, Artificial --- Intelligent machines --- Machine intelligence --- Thinking, Artificial --- Bionics --- Cognitive science --- Digital computer simulation --- Electronic data processing --- Logic machines --- Machine theory --- Self-organizing systems --- Simulation methods --- Fifth generation computers --- Neural computers --- Computer software engineering --- Engineering --- Application computer programs --- Application computer software --- Applications software --- Apps (Computer software) --- Computer software --- Automatic computers --- Automatic data processors --- Computer hardware --- Computing machines (Computers) --- Electronic calculating-machines --- Electronic computers --- Hardware, Computer --- Computer systems --- Cybernetics --- Calculators --- Cyberspace --- Information technology. --- Quantum computing. --- Computation, Quantum --- Computing, Quantum --- Information processing, Quantum --- Quantum computation --- Quantum information processing --- IT (Information technology) --- Technology --- Telematics --- Information superhighway --- Knowledge management

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"A bold history of the rise of central banks, showing how institutions designed to steady the ship of global finance have instead become as destabilizing as they are dominant. While central banks have gained remarkable influence over the past fifty years, promising more stability, global finance has gone from crisis to crisis. How do we explain this development? Drawing on original sources ignored in previous research, The Rise of Central Banks offers a groundbreaking account of the origins and consequences of central banks’ increasing clout over economic policy. Many commentators argue that ideas drove change, indicating a shift in the 1970s from Keynesianism to monetarism, concerned with controlling inflation. Others point to the stagflation crises, which put capitalists and workers at loggerheads. Capitalists won, the story goes, then pushed deregulation and disinflation by redistributing power from elected governments to markets and central banks. Both approaches are helpful, but they share a weakness. Abstracting from the evolving practices of central banking, they provide inaccurate accounts of recent policy changes and fail to explain how we arrived at the current era of easy money and excessive finance. By comparing developments in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Switzerland, Leon Wansleben finds that central bankers’ own policy innovations were an important ingredient of change. These innovations allowed central bankers to use privileged relationships with expanding financial markets to govern the economy. But by relying on markets, central banks fostered excessive credit growth and cultivated an unsustainable version of capitalism. Through extensive archival work and numerous interviews, Wansleben sheds new light on the agency of bureaucrats and calls upon society and elected leaders to direct these actors’ efforts to more progressive goals." -- Publisher's description.

Banks and banking, Central --- Banker's banks --- Banks, Central --- Central banking --- Central banks --- Banks and banking --- History. --- Bank of England. --- Bundesbank. --- Eurodollar. --- Federal Reserve. --- Financialization. --- Foucault. --- Inflation targeting. --- Infrastructural power. --- Michael Mann. --- Quantitative easing. --- Secular stagnation. --- State and globalization. --- Swiss National Bank. --- World Financial Crisis. --- Capitalism. --- Market economy --- Economics --- Profit --- Capital --- E-books --- Banks and banking, Central. --- Capitalism --- Monetary policy. --- Financial crises. --- Crashes, Financial --- Crises, Financial --- Financial crashes --- Financial panics --- Panics (Finance) --- Stock exchange crashes --- Stock market panics --- Crises --- Monetary management --- Economic policy --- Currency boards --- Money supply --- Government policy.

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C’est le journal de voyage de P. Dehon, quand, en 1906 il visita le Brésil, l’Argentine et l’Uruguay, publié en 1909. Le volume présente une information enthousiaste, mais sérieuse sur la réalité latino-américaine du début de notre siècle. Le P. Dehon, en fait, est un observateur attentif des problèmes sociaux, et cela lui permet de cerner efficacement la réalité socio-économique des populations qu’il visite. Il s’en dégage un tableau d’un grand intérêt aussi pour la réalité contemporaine : les analogies étroite avec la situation politique actuelle donnent au volume une actualité particulière. Il s’agit d’un texte de lecture facile, sans fioritures, qui se borne à l’essentiel et offre une information objective et de première main sur les populations de l’Amérique du Sud. Mais le volume est aussi une mine de notes sur les nombreux instituts religieux (Salésiens, Lazaristes, Jésuites, etc) qui, en Amérique Latine, ons travaillé ou travaillent encore à la propagation de l’Evangile.

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