#public finance

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This “green production” requires mobilizing massive amounts of labour, factories, materials, engineering talent, and so on.  In a growth-oriented scenario, this is difficult to do because our productive capacities are already devoted to other activities (activities that are organized around profit and which may not contribute to social and ecological objectives). So we need to either compete with existing forms of production (for labour, materials, energy etc, which can drive prices up), or otherwise increase total productive capacity (i.e., grow the economy).  This cannot be done at just any desired speed.  Under these conditions, there are very real physical limits to how fast we can decarbonize. 

Jason Hickel on his blog. Accelerationist Possibilities in an EcoSocialist Degrowth Scenario

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Public Finance - Best colleges and online courses

Public finance is the branch of economics that deals with the study of government's revenue and expenditure. It involves the management of the public sector's financial resources, including taxes, borrowing, and spending on public goods and services.

The objective of public finance is to ensure the efficient and equitable allocation of resources within an economy, and to promote economic stability and growth. Governments use public finance to provide essential services such as healthcare, education, infrastructure development, and social welfare programs.

Public finance also encompasses the study of public budgeting, debt management, and financial regulation. It analyzes the impact of government policies on the economy and the distribution of wealth and income within a society.

In summary, public finance is concerned with how governments generate and allocate resources to meet the needs of the public and promote economic welfare.

Unlike International finance, public finance deals with the study of government revenue and expenditure within a particular country or region, while international finance focuses on the financial interactions between countries and the global financial system.

Best colleges to study public finance in Australia

Australia has many top-ranking universities that offer programs in economics and public finance. Here are some of the best colleges to study public finance in Australia:

Australian National University (ANU): ANU offers a Bachelor of Economics with a specialization in public policy, as well as a Master of Public Policy and a Master of Economic Policy.

University of Melbourne: The University of Melbourne offers a Bachelor of Commerce with a specialization in economics, as well as a Master of Economics and a Master of Public Policy and Management.

University of Sydney: The University of Sydney offers a Bachelor of Economics with a major in public policy, as well as a Master of Economics and a Master of Public Policy.

Monash University: Monash University offers a Bachelor of Economics with a specialization in economics and public policy, as well as a Master of Applied Econometrics and a Master of Applied Economics.

University of Queensland: The University of Queensland offers a Bachelor of Economics with a major in public policy, as well as a Master of Economics and a Master of Public Policy.

These universities are highly regarded for their academic excellence, research capabilities, and industry connections, making them excellent choices for students interested in pursuing a career in public finance in Australia.

Public Finance Courses

There are many online courses available for individuals who are interested in learning about public finance. Here are some online courses that may be of interest:

Introduction to Public Financial Management: This course is offered by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and covers the basics of public financial management, including budget preparation and execution, accounting, and financial reporting.

Public Financial Management: This course is offered by the World Bank Group and covers topics such as public expenditure management, revenue management, and debt management.

Public Economics and Finance: This course is offered by edX and covers the principles of public finance, including public goods and externalities, taxation, and public expenditure.

Public Financial Management in the Context of Fiscal Reform: This course is offered by the IMF and covers topics such as fiscal policy, budget formulation, and financial reporting.

Public Financial Management and its Emerging Challenges: This course is offered by the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI) and covers the basics of public financial management, as well as emerging challenges such as public-private partnerships and disaster risk management.

These courses offer a range of topics and levels of difficulty, so individuals can choose a course that is suitable for their needs and interests. Additionally, many of these courses offer certificates upon completion, which can be used to demonstrate proficiency in public finance to potential employers.

A popular platforms that offer such services is Student Assignment help. This website typically provides a range of services, including Public finance assignment help, essay writing, homework help, and one-on-one tutoring sessions.

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Inflationary pressures are challenging council on its plan to deliver a 'Fairer Westminster'

Councillor Paul Fisher (West End ward) chairs the cross-party Budget Task Group. Image: Westminster City Council webcast. Finance officers have told a cross-party group of councillors that the past year has been particularly “volatile”, with rising costs creating a challenging environment for the Labour-controlled council to deliver on its “Fairer Westminster” priorities when setting its budget…

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What is Public Finance | Public Financial Management System

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Develop sustainable finance initiatives.

The global wealth of US$430 trillion is not going where it is most needed under the current financial system. The current small, separate sustainable finance initiatives will not deliver the change at scale needed.

The answer: an architecture for sustainable finance based on the SDGs

The world needs an economic governance architecture deliberately designed to support governments, development agencies, civil society and the private sector to make decisions that prioritize investment in the SDGs.

UNDP’s strengths: UNDP is uniquely positioned to realize a sustainable finance architecture by working with multiple partners through:

Mobilizing financial expertise to sustainable development

Bringing sustainable development expertise to the private sector

Providing access to private financial investors 

Designing instruments for the delivery of vertical funds and innovative instruments

Building a sustainable finance architecture at the country level

Facilitating South-South exchanges and horizontal knowledge-sharing on sustainable finance practices

UNDP ACCELERATES FINANCE FOR THE SDGS AND COVID-19 RECOVERY.

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14 million people voted for tax credits cuts and now want help with their energy bills. It doesn't make sense

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IASD passes no-tax-hike budget, authorizes bond issue | Local News

IASD passes no-tax-hike budget, authorizes bond issue | Local News

Indiana Area School District’s board of directors have given final approval to a $61,368,925 budget for fiscal 2022-23, and the issuance of general obligation bonds in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $12 million. “It represents a zero percent tax increase,” Board Vice President and Audit & Finance Committee Chair Julia Trimarchi Cuccaro said of the budget approved Monday night. Real…

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At long last, a meaningful step to protect Americans' privacy

This Saturday (19 Aug), I'm appearing at the San Diego Union-Tribune Festival of Books. I'm on a 2:30PM panel called "Return From Retirement," followed by a signing:

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/festivalofbooks

Privacy raises some thorny, subtle and complex issues. It also raises some stupid-simple ones. The American surveillance industry's shell-game is founded on the deliberate confusion of the two, so that the most modest and sensible actions are posed as reductive, simplistic and unworkable.

Two pillars of the American surveillance industry are credit reporting bureaux and data brokers. Both are unbelievably sleazy, reckless and dangerous, and neither faces any real accountability, let alone regulation.

Remember Equifax, the company that doxed every adult in America and was given a mere wrist-slap, and now continues to assemble nonconsensual dossiers on every one of us, without any material oversight improvements?

https://memex.craphound.com/2019/07/20/equifax-settles-with-ftc-cfpb-states-and-consumer-class-actions-for-700m/

Equifax's competitors are no better. Experian doxed the nation again, in 2021:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/30/dox-the-world/#experian

It's hard to overstate how fucking scummy the credit reporting world is. Equifax invented the business in 1899, when, as the Retail Credit Company, it used private spies to track queers, political dissidents and "race mixers" so that banks and merchants could discriminate against them:

https://jacobin.com/2017/09/equifax-retail-credit-company-discrimination-loans

As awful as credit reporting is, the data broker industry makes it look like a paragon of virtue. If you want to target an ad to "Rural and Barely Making It" consumers, the brokers have you covered:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/13/public-interest-pharma/#axciom

More than 650,000 of these categories exist, allowing advertisers to target substance abusers, depressed teens, and people on the brink of bankruptcy:

https://themarkup.org/privacy/2023/06/08/from-heavy-purchasers-of-pregnancy-tests-to-the-depression-prone-we-found-650000-ways-advertisers-label-you

These companies follow you everywhere, including to abortion clinics, and sell the data to just about anyone:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/05/07/safegraph-spies-and-lies/#theres-no-i-in-uterus

There are zillions of these data brokers, operating in an unregulated wild west industry. Many of them have been rolled up into tech giants (Oracle owns more than 80 brokers), while others merely do business with ad-tech giants like Google and Meta, who are some of their best customers.

As bad as these two sectors are, they're even worse in combination – the harms data brokers (sloppy, invasive) inflict on us when they supply credit bureaux (consequential, secretive, intransigent) are far worse than the sum of the harms of each.

And now for some good news. The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, under the leadership of Rohit Chopra, has declared war on this alliance:

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/08/16/cfpb-looks-to-restrict-the-sleazy-link-between-credit-reporting-agencies-and-data-brokers/

They've proposed new rules limiting the trade between brokers and bureaux, under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, putting strict restrictions on the transfer of information between the two:

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/15/tech/privacy-rules-data-brokers/index.html

As Karl Bode writes for Techdirt, this is long overdue and meaningful. Remember all the handwringing and chest-thumping about Tiktok stealing Americans' data to the Chinese military? China doesn't need Tiktok to get that data – it can buy it from data-brokers. For peanuts.

The CFPB action is part of a muscular style of governance that is characteristic of the best Biden appointees, who are some of the most principled and competent in living memory. These regulators have scoured the legislation that gives them the power to act on behalf of the American people and discovered an arsenal of action they can take:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/18/administrative-competence/#i-know-stuff

Alas, not all the Biden appointees have the will or the skill to pull this trick off. The corporate Dems' darlings are mired in #LearnedHelplessness, convinced that they can't – or shouldn't – use their prodigious powers to step in to curb corporate power:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/10/the-courage-to-govern/#whos-in-charge

And it's true that privacy regulation faces stiff headwinds. Surveillance is a public-private partnership from hell. Cops and spies love to raid the surveillance industries' dossiers, treating them as an off-the-books, warrantless source of unconstitutional personal data on their targets:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/16/ring-ring-lapd-calling/#ring

These powerful state actors reliably intervene to hamstring attempts at privacy law, defending the massive profits raked in by data brokers and credit bureaux. These profits, meanwhile, can be mobilized as lobbying dollars that work lawmakers and regulators from the private sector side. Caught in the squeeze between powerful government actors (the true "Deep State") and a cartel of filthy rich private spies, lawmakers and regulators are frozen in place.

Or, at least, they were. The CFPB's discovery that it had the power all along to curb commercial surveillance follows on from the FTC's similar realization last summer:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/12/regulatory-uncapture/#conscious-uncoupling

I don't want to pretend that all privacy questions can be resolved with simple, bright-line rules. It's not clear who "owns" many classes of private data – does your mother own the fact that she gave birth to you, or do you? What if you disagree about such a disclosure – say, if you want to identify your mother as an abusive parent and she objects?

But there are so many stupid-simple privacy questions. Credit bureaux and data-brokers don't inhabit any kind of grey area. They simply should not exist. Getting rid of them is a project of years, but it starts with hacking away at their sources of profits, stripping them of defenses so we can finally annihilate them.

I'm kickstarting the audiobook for "The Internet Con: How To Seize the Means of Computation," a Big Tech disassembly manual to disenshittify the web and make a new, good internet to succeed the old, good internet. It's a DRM-free book, which means Audible won't carry it, so this crowdfunder is essential. Back now to get the audio, Verso hardcover and ebook:

http://seizethemeansofcomputation.org

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/16/the-second-best-time-is-now/#the-point-of-a-system-is-what-it-does

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Your Yearly Free Medical Care Checklist

If you are an American who is lucky enough to have health insurance, you almost certainly have free medical care coming your way.

Several annual and semi-annual services are available to you with no copay—and you have absolutely no reason not to use them. Technically, you have already bought them, as their cost is built into the premiums you’ve already paid. And your body will thank you for it! Even if you feel perfectly healthy, establishing a baseline of health will help your medical professionals detect problems early.

Pro-tip: don’t wait until the end of the year to do all this stuff! Every medical office I’ve ever been to is slammed during November and December as everyone tries to use up their benefits. Schedule it now to avoid the crush.

Here’s what you should be doing every year.

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What do you think would have happened if (somehow, idk how but somehow) Machete rose to the rank of pope?

To be perfectly honest? I think most realistically he would've ruled maybe six months at best and then keeled over from stress and exhaustion.

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BRO NOT STEAM HAVING "GAMES FROM RUSSIA" FESTIVAL AND HAVING 1-9 MAY DATES AS A RUNTIME I'm going insaneeee fuck offfff

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Focus on the alignment of public finance with the SDGs.

Official Development Assistance (ODA) while critical is not enough to address the development financing needs. UNDP’s public finance offer focuses on the alignment of public finance with the SDGs through

raising domestic revenues aligned with the achievement of SDGs 

raising public finances –SDG aligned bond issuances 

sovereign risk financing instruments to protect assets and enable investment

SDG aligned fiscal planning and expenditure management

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Nothing makes me feel better emotionally than seeing other adults that I admire also have to deal with their work clients being absolutely stupid or irrating. Like I know that's a weird statement but I'm glad it's not just me that feels like this.

This is about your rant about your client btw

LOL I usually try to keep a pretty decent separation between here and real life/career just so I can have a nice online space to exist in, but sometimes. Sometimes I just. Let me be clear, our clients routinely break little pieces of my remaining soul on the daily lmao but I tend to keep that bitching for my close friends. Sometimes that bitching breaks containment. Solidarity, friend. Make sure you have good non-work things to help regrow and feed your happiness outside of your job.