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Downward Mobility

The Form of Capital and the Sentimental Novel

By: Katherine Binhammer

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Downward Mobility

The Form of Capital and the Sentimental Novel

By: Katherine Binhammer

How do the stories we tell about money shape our economies? Beginning in the late eighteenth century, as constant growth became the economic norm throughout Europe, fictional stories involving money were overwhelmingly about loss. Novel after novel tells the tale of bankruptcy and financial failure, of people losing everything and ending up in debtor's prison, of inheritances lost and daughters left orphaned and poor. In Downward Mobility, Katherine Binhammer argues that these stories of ruin are not simple tales about the losers of capitalism but narratives that help manage speculation of capital's inevitable collapse. Bringing together contemporary critical finance studies with eighteenth-century literary history, Binhammer demonstrates the centrality of the myth of downward mobility to the cultural history of capitalism—and to the emergence of the novel in Britain. Deftly weaving economic history and formal analysis, Binhammer reveals how capitalism requires the novel's complex techniques to render infinite economic growth imaginable. She also explains why the novel's signature formal developments owe their narrative dynamics to the contradictions within capital's form. Combining new archival research on the history of debt with original readings of sentimental novels, including Frances Burney's Cecilia and Camilla, Sarah Fielding's David Simple, and Oliver Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield, Downward Mobility registers the value of literary narrative in interpreting the complex sequences behind financial capitalism, especially the belief in infinite growth that has led to current environmental crises. An audacious epilogue arms humanists with the argument that, in order to save the planet from unsustainable growth, we need to read more novels.

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1421437627

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9781421437620

Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease, Diabetes and Chronic Kidney Disease

Targeting Risk Factors

By: Katherine Faulks,Simone Littlewood,Naomi McIntosh,Claire Ryan,Anne-Marie Waters

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Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease, Diabetes and Chronic Kidney Disease

Targeting Risk Factors

By: Katherine Faulks,Simone Littlewood,Naomi McIntosh,Claire Ryan,Anne-Marie Waters

Cardiovascular disease (CVD), diabetes and chronic kidney disease (CKD) account for around a quarter of the burden of disease in Australia, and just under two-thirds of all deaths. These three diseases often occur together and share risk factors, such as physical inactivity, overweight and obesity, and high blood pressure. This report includes information on the national prevalence of the main risk factors for CVD, CKD and diabetes as well as population initiatives and individual services that aim to prevent or control these risk factors. It shows the prevalence of some risk factors is increasing-notably obesity, which rose from 11% of adults in 1995 to 24% in 2007-08. This is the first report to present a systematic approach to monitor prevention in Australia, providing a baseline for future monitoring.

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1740249844

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9781740249843

Incidence of Type 1 Diabetes in Australia, 2000-2006

First Results

By: Louise Catanzariti

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Incidence of Type 1 Diabetes in Australia, 2000-2006

First Results

By: Louise Catanzariti

Report presents the latest results, up to 2006, on new cases (the incidence) of Type 1 diabetes in Australia based on data from the AIHW's National Diabetes Register (NDR). The report provides incidence estimates for Type 1 diabetes by age, sex, year of first insulin use and state or territory of usual residence.

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Downward Mobility

Downward Mobility

Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease, Diabetes and Chronic Kidney Disease

Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease, Diabetes and Chronic Kidney Disease

Incidence of Type 1 Diabetes in Australia, 2000-2006

Incidence of Type 1 Diabetes in Australia, 2000-2006

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