On Replacement
On Replacement

Author: Jean Owen

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-06-05

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 3319760114

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This book is an interdisciplinary study of the human drama of replacement. Is one’s irreplaceability dependent on surrounding oneself by a replication of others? Is love intrinsically repetitious or built on a fantasy of uniqueness? The sense that a person’s value is blotted out if someone takes their place can be seen in the serial monogamy of our age and in the lives of ‘replacement children’ – children born into a family that has recently lost a child, whom they may even be named after. The book investigates various forms of replacement, including AI and doubling, incest and bedtricks, imposters and revenants, human rights and ‘surrogacy’, and intertextuality and adaptation. The authors highlight the emotions of betrayal, jealousy and desire both within and across generations. On Replacement consists of 24 essays divided into seven sections: What is replacement?, Law & society, Wayward women, Lost children, Replacement films, The Holocaust and Psychoanalysis. The book will appeal to anyone engaged in reading cultural and social representations of replacement.

Adequacy of Pension Systems in Europe: An analysis based on comprehensive replacement rates
Adequacy of Pension Systems in Europe: An analysis based on comprehensive replacement rates

Author: Elsa Fornero

Publisher: CEPS

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 60

ISBN-13: 9290798793

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The aim of this paper is to develop indicators to highlight the ability of different national pension systems to enable individuals to maintain their living standards at retirement. Authors Margherita Borella and Elsa Fornero of the University of Turin and CeRP, perform the analysis using data and projections on different European countries and propose the use of a 'COmprehensive Replacement' (CORE) rate. Their aim is to compute, for a set of countries representative of the different European welfare and pension systems, both an actual (data-based) version of CORE, based on ECHP data, and to project its evolution into the future. The paper is organised as follows. Section 1 provides a theoretical framework as well as a review of the literature on the topic. Section 2 contains the computation of replacement rates based on ECHP data. In Section 3 CeRPSAM projections are used to compute COREs over time. Section 4 concludes.

Replace Me
Replace Me

Author: Amber Husain

Publisher:

Published: 2021-11-04

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 9781913512064

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In this wide-ranging and intellectually lively essay, Amber Husain asks if our obsession with replacement is the very thing that is keeping the world in stasis. And, if so, with what might we replace our obsession with replacement? With references spanning the avant-garde art tec--futurism, and Effective Altruism, and taking in writers from Aristotle to Anne Boyer, Replace Me is a celebration of the possibilities for political transformation inherent in the act of embracing one's own replaceability.

Kiplinger's Personal Finance
Kiplinger's Personal Finance

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1982-02

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13:

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The most trustworthy source of information available today on savings and investments, taxes, money management, home ownership and many other personal finance topics.