Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: Women in Industry Abstract: Women in Industry is a critical examination of labor history of women in the United States from colonial times to the turn of the 20th century. Since its first publication a century ago, it has received hundreds of citations and had a formative influence in fields as diverse as labor history, gender studies, and economic history methodology. Women in Industry examines working conditions, wages and other forms of compensation across industries and professions. While firmly rooted in economics, Abbott does not overlook the social causes and implications of shifting patterns of female employment nor the organized opposition such changes attracted by established interests. Using masses of carefully compiled evidence, Abbott's work forcefully made the point that, contrary to popular belief, women did not suddenly replace men in industrial employment sometime in the 19th century. Rather, women and children were a regular and prominent feature of American industries in general and manufacturing in particular. Forming the first comprehensive account of female employment in a developing manufacturing economy, Abbott's extensive primary research and dispassionate interpretation make this essential reading for students of economic history. Academically rigorous yet accessible, Women in Industry remains unsurpassed in the reach of its coverage and the depth of its scholarship It is fairly recognized as a timeless work and a source of inspiration for contemporary economic historians everywhere. Keywords: women, industry Language: en Author-Name: Edith Abbott Edition: 1 Year: 2013 Month: July Publication-Status: File-Url: https://static-dev.vernonpress.com/files/public/1b1ea191-a4fd-4a90-a99a-564103459049/1388083687.pdf File-Size: 381504 File-Format: application/pdf Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/1 Creation-Date: 2013-05-13 ISBN: 978-1-62273-000-1 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:1 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: A Plan of the English Commerce Abstract: A Plan of the English Commerce is a rare piece of economic history covering the crucial period at the outset of the first Industrial Revolution and the early wave of globalization. Unlike other chroniclers of British economic development, Defoe was contemporary to and often had first-hand experience of important events. His account therefore offers an extraordinary vantage point, free from the distorting lens of modern theoretical explanations. An account rich in anecdotes and penetrating observations, Defoe’s work emphasizes neglected aspects of the world economy at the time, such as the interplay between industrial policy and international trade. Defoe argues that, under the Tudors, British industry developed under a heavily protected regime. Contrary to widespread belief, export controls, infant-industry subsidies, government-sponsored industrial espionage and aggressive technology transfer were routine. A Plan of the English Commerce is principal among Daniel Defoe’s works dealing with economic matters and remains of interest not only to economic historians but also to scholars concerned with economic development, international trade and industrial policy. This New Edition has been typeset with modern techniques and contains a newly compiled Index of important topics. Aiming for visual clarity and the minimization of redundancy, the New Edition drops the largely arbitrary italicization of words and applies a modern formatting style to the rudimentary tables found in the original. It has been painstakingly proofread to ensure that it is free from errors and that the content is faithful to the original, down to the unusually long chapter headings. Keywords: Language: en Author-Name: Daniel Defoe Edition: 1 Year: 2013 Month: July Publication-Status: File-Url: https://static-dev.vernonpress.com/files/public/d57e0783-68f3-4c70-9106-5584dfb941a7/1388082421.pdf File-Size: 107585 File-Format: application/pdf Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/12 Creation-Date: 2013-07-23 ISBN: 978-1-62273-001-8 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:12 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: Industrial Evolution Abstract: Industrial Evolution is Karl Bucher's most important book, and the foundational study of non-market (exchange and gift) economics. The book deals with the historical evolution of economic and industrial organization, with the transition from handicrafts to manufacturing, the rise of trade unionism and urban migration. This new edition is based on the third German edition of Bucher's original Entstehung der Volkswirtschaft and draws on the acclaimed translation by S. Morley Wickett, PhD. This new edition has been professionally typeset from the 1901 English original and includes a comprehensive index. Keywords: Language: en Author-Name: Karl Bücher Author-Name: S. Morley Edition: 1 Year: 2013 Month: July Publication-Status: File-Url: https://static-dev.vernonpress.com/files/public/b0531074-a698-48d7-8ec8-6675fb87f667/1393166585.pdf File-Size: 388877 File-Format: application/pdf Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/13 Creation-Date: 2013-07-23 ISBN: 978-1-62273-005-6 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:13 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: Risk, Uncertainty and Profit Abstract: In Risk, Uncertainty and Profit, Frank Knight explored the riddle of profitability in a competitive market profit should not be possible under competitive conditions, as the entry of new entrepreneurs would drive prices down and nullify margins, however evidence abounds of competitive yet profitable markets. To explain this seeming paradox, Knight uncovers the distinction between calculable risk and essentially unknowable uncertainty. Knight argued that risk stems from repeated events, which therefore allow probabilities to be calculated and factored into decisions, as for instance insurers do. Uncertainty however, stems from events that are unpredictable and as such cannot be prepared against. According to Knight, it is the interplay between risk and uncertainty on the one hand and competition between incumbent and new entrepreneurs that accounts for the enormous variation in profitability across firms and, for the same firms, over time. His insights on the sources of profit have been instrumental in shaping modern economic theory and to the development of a useful understanding of probability. This New Edition has been typeset with modern techniques and contains a newly compiled Index of important topics. It has been painstakingly proofread to ensure that it is free from errors and that the content is faithful to the original. Keywords: Language: en Author-Name: Frank Knight Edition: 1 Year: 2013 Month: July Publication-Status: Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/14 Creation-Date: 2013-07-28 ISBN: 978-1-62273-004-9 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:14 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: Introduction to Dynamic Macroeconomic General Equilibrium Models Abstract: This book offers an introductory step-by-step course in Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium modelling. Modern macroeconomic analysis is increasingly concerned with the construction, calibration and/or estimation and simulation of Dynamic General Equilibrium (DGE) models. The book is intended for graduate students as an introductory course to DGE modelling and for those economists who would like a hands-on approach to learning the basics of modern dynamic macroeconomic modelling. The book starts with the simplest canonical neoclassical DGE model and then gradually extends the basic framework incorporating a variety of additional features, such as consumption habit formation, investment adjustment cost, investment-specific technological change, taxes, public capital, household production, non-ricardian agents, monopolistic competition, etc. The book includes Dynare codes for the models developed that can be downloaded from the book’s homepage. Keywords: Language: en Author-Name: José Luis Torres Chacon Edition: 1 Year: 2014 Month: January Publication-Status: File-Url: https://static-dev.vernonpress.com/files/public/fd02eb05-2d80-44a6-9aab-89c263a433a3/1404690651.pdf File-Size: 376715 File-Format: application/pdf Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/18 Creation-Date: 2013-08-18 ISBN: 978-1-62273-007-0 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:18 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: The Great Illusion Abstract: International trade and the development of intertwined global markets makes inter-state war less profitable and probable. This is Norman Angell's simple hypothesis, vigorously defended in The Great Illusion and at the root of an enduring controversy, from the time of its initial publication - on the eve of the First World War - to this day. Well documented, logically argued and persuasive, The Great Illusion is a passionate defense of peace, attacking widely held, yet unquestioned assumptions about the gains from war and the costs of conquest. Keywords: Language: en Author-Name: Norman Angell Edition: 1 Year: 2013 Month: December Publication-Status: File-Url: https://static-dev.vernonpress.com/files/public/908ce679-9e1b-4e0a-b64a-5a3af1472ab3/1388083371.pdf File-Size: 56199 File-Format: application/pdf Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/20 Creation-Date: 2013-09-18 ISBN: 978-1-62273-009-4 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:20 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: The National System of Political Economy Abstract: In The National System of Political Economy, List provides a critique of the ideas of Adam Smith and David Ricardo that continues to resonate with policy makers concerned with industrial policy and national economic development. List argues that in contrast with the stylized view of classical economics, real-world economies are organized along national lines and that policy makers can ignore this reality to their peril. The benefits from trade are conditional, rather than universal and the development of sophisticated industry requires carefully designed and sequentially planned state interventions. List provides an early recognition of the existence of distinct stages of economic development, and of the interplay between military power, industrial development and national prosperity. List's work had a formative influence on subsequent strands of thought such as institutional economics and 'national systems of innovation' perspectives and is considered an exemplar of work in the tradition of realist international political economy. Keywords: Language: en Author-Name: Friedrich List Edition: 1 Year: 2014 Month: January Publication-Status: File-Url: https://static-dev.vernonpress.com/files/public/05729363-e5ca-4428-9c0a-05bfd24e2c9f/1388082146.pdf File-Size: 53775 File-Format: application/pdf Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/21 Creation-Date: 2013-09-18 ISBN: 978-1-62273-010-0 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:21 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: The Knowledge Plexus Abstract: This book is a collection of 5 essays on the economic geography of technological knowledge. Their common threads are (i) the quest for a new paradigm in economic geography, termed ‘systemic’, as an alternative to the neoclassical, based on the epistemological premise of emergence and the theories of evolution and complexity; and (ii) the intent to explain the process of technological knowledge production as a systemic phenomenon occurring in relational space subject to emergence and co-evolutionary dynamics. In this theoretical framework, the author analyses various European knowledge networks, and examines their effects on the production of technological knowledge as sources of relational cognitive capital and economies of complexity. He then poses a number of questions on the direction and instrumentalities of the European research, technological development and innovation policies, and in particular on the issues of cohesion and dynamic efficiency of the European research system. Keywords: Language: en Author-Name: George Chorafakis Edition: 1 Year: 2013 Month: December Publication-Status: File-Url: https://static-dev.vernonpress.com/files/public/656306a3-58b8-442e-b3c9-d4806f593f08/1404690569.pdf File-Size: 500836 File-Format: application/pdf Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/23 Creation-Date: 2013-09-21 ISBN: 978-1-622-73-006-3 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:23 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: The Collected Short Works of Thorstein Veblen - Volume I Abstract: This three-volume collection contains Veblen's publications in academic journals and other scholarly press. The articles are organized under major chapters covering Veblen's pioneering thoughts on social organization; economic theory; social theory; institutions, social organization and economic performance; contemporary policies and social movements; social applications of evolutionary reasoning. Veblen made numerous seminal contributions on issues as diverse as the social role of science, the economic and social competition between entrepreneurs and engineers as well as a sobering criticism of the still under-appreciated preconceptions of economics as a science. The collection brings together much work that has been inaccessible in print and provides instructive reading for researchers on institutional economics, evolutionary economics as well as those with an interest on the history of economic thought. This edition has been professionally typeset from the original articles for easier reading and includes a comprehensive index. It is printed on quality, hard-bound volumes, resulting in an indispensable contemporary edition of Veblen's timeless ideas. Keywords: Language: en Author-Name: Thornstein Veblen Edition: 1 Year: 2014 Month: March Publication-Status: Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/24 Creation-Date: 2013-10-01 ISBN: 978-1-62273-011-7 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:24 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: The Collected Short Works of Thorstein Veblen - Volume II Abstract: This three-volume collection contains Veblen's publications in academic journals and other scholarly press. The articles are organized under major chapters covering Veblen's pioneering thoughts on social organization; economic theory; social theory; institutions, social organization and economic performance; contemporary policies and social movements; social applications of evolutionary reasoning. Veblen made numerous seminal contributions on issues as diverse as the social role of science, the economic and social competition between entrepreneurs and engineers as well as a sobering criticism of the still under-appreciated preconceptions of economics as a science. The collection brings together much work that has been inaccessible in print and provides instructive reading for researchers on institutional economics, evolutionary economics as well as those with an interest on the history of economic thought. This edition has been professionally typeset from the original articles for easier reading and includes a comprehensive index. It is printed on quality, hard-bound volumes, resulting in an indispensable contemporary edition of Veblen's timeless ideas. Keywords: Language: en Author-Name: Thornstein Veblen Edition: 1 Year: 2014 Month: March Publication-Status: Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/25 Creation-Date: 2014-02-08 ISBN: 978-1-62273-012-4 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:25 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: The Collected Short Works of Thorstein Veblen - Volume III Abstract: This three-volume collection contains Veblen's publications in academic journals and other scholarly press. The articles are organized under major chapters covering Veblen's pioneering thoughts on social organization; economic theory; social theory; institutions, social organization and economic performance; contemporary policies and social movements; social applications of evolutionary reasoning. Veblen made numerous seminal contributions on issues as diverse as the social role of science, the economic and social competition between entrepreneurs and engineers as well as a sobering criticism of the still under-appreciated preconceptions of economics as a science. The collection brings together much work that has been inaccessible in print and provides instructive reading for researchers on institutional economics, evolutionary economics as well as those with an interest on the history of economic thought. This edition has been professionally typeset from the original articles for easier reading and includes a comprehensive index. It is printed on quality, hard-bound volumes, resulting in an indispensable contemporary edition of Veblen's timeless ideas. Keywords: Language: en Author-Name: Thornstein Veblen Edition: 1 Year: 2014 Month: March Publication-Status: Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/26 Creation-Date: 2014-02-10 ISBN: 978-1-62273-013-1 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:26 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: Supply Chain Optimization under Uncertainty Abstract: Drawing on cutting-edge research, this book proposes a new 'Supply Chain Optimization under Uncertainty’, technology. Its application can bring many proven benefits to supply chain entities, any associated service providers, and, of course, the customers. The technology can provide the best design and operating solution for a Supply Chain Network (SCN) that is subject to any prevailing conditions of Operational Uncertainty (OU). A SCN is defined as a network of production facilities, distribution centers and retail sales outlets. OU is defined as any relevant combination of i) multiple process objectives e.g. a business needs to maximize operating profits and to minimize inventory levels, ii) fuzziness (<, <=, >, or >=) e.g. sales <= 1500 t/mth and iii) probability e.g. sale of fertilizer is dependent on probabilistic rainfall. Following this method always enables the determination of realistic optimum supply chain solutions, since the effects of any operational uncertainties are always provided for. The book is arranged in two parts. The first part covers the theory and recent research into supply chain optimization under uncertainty. The second part documents the application of the newly proposed technology to an agricultural fertilizer’s (NPK, South Africa) supply chain. Keywords: Language: en Author-Name: Barrie Michael Cole Edition: 1 Year: 2014 Month: December Publication-Status: File-Url: https://static-dev.vernonpress.com/files/public/0074db59-2042-4e26-a970-c105c8ccf8a4/1425130787.pdf File-Size: 197611 File-Format: application/pdf Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/30 Creation-Date: 2014-04-21 ISBN: 978-1-62273-016-2 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:30 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: Value-based Marketing Strategy Abstract: This book offers novel methods for developing Value-based marketing strategies aimed at increasing revenue and profits. The Value concept relates all the benefits offered by a product with its price and the effort required to obtain it. Global competition requires managing Value rather than individual products or brands. This fosters customer loyalty, and provides a solid basis for relationship marketing. The book takes a practical, step-by-step approach to explain • How the forces of supply and demand interact with customer Value; • The relationships between benefits, quantities, prices and costs; • How to develop effective competitive strategies; • How to manage inventory and product mix efficiently; • How to apply the Value model to increase profitability, and solve major marketing problems. The book sets forth several new approaches for marketing and pricing decision-making • The concept of Value integrates marketing, finance, economics and accounting, in order to link Value-based pricing with relationship marketing. • The law of supply and demand is restated with quantity as a function of Value instead of price; this makes it a more realistic and practical tool for understanding today´s highly competitive business environment. • The confrontation and complementation concepts provide useful tools for guiding marketers into new segments, and pricing products accordingly. They play a key role for devising win-win strategies, not only with customers, but also with competitors. • The Value Matrix is a practical tool for understanding the product´s positioning, analyzing its competition, setting prices and developing strategy. It aims at achieving an optimal balance between customer loyalty and product mix profitability. • The Value Life Cycle illustrates how Value acts as a force that constantly changes revenue, providing insight for developing strategies in each phase of the product´s life cycle. • Analogies with physics illustrate how policy constraints create resistance to sales velocity, thereby determining the rate at which a firm advances towards its financial and marketing goals. • The strategy for pricing business services applies Value to balance supply with demand; this leads to increased revenue. • The marketing approach set forth unifies product portfolio and inventory management with Value-based pricing for maximizing income. Clear explanations and accessible language make this book ideal for marketing professionals and non-specialists. Advanced readers may refer to the appendices, where the subjects are analyzed further and the mathematical foundations are laid out; numerous solved problems of pricing and costs are included. Keywords: Language: en Author-Name: Santiago Lopez Edition: 1 Year: 2014 Month: December Publication-Status: File-Url: https://static-dev.vernonpress.com/files/public/026c687a-c8c9-417c-84a0-9cb9bd1c1ff5/1430718272.pdf File-Size: 305575 File-Format: application/pdf Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/32 Creation-Date: 2014-06-13 ISBN: 978-1-62273-020-9 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:32 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: Generational Poverty Abstract: Are the impoverished victims of circumstance or are they contributing to their situations through their own actions and principles? This perplexing question does not have a simple answer. "Generational Poverty An Economic Look at the Culture of the Poor" examines both sides of the coin. Written by an economist, the book provides a unique perspective into the study of this emotionally-charged issue. It shows that economic analysis can shed light on some of the roots of persistent poverty and may point to its potential solution. Generational Poverty covers the author’s eye-opening experiences with a young man named Jermaine and his family, initiated through the Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS) program. As someone who cares for Jermaine and his family, it was nothing short of a surprise to see first-hand some of the obstacles Jermaine’s family are creating for themselves, while at the same time battling many of today’s social constructs. In the course of the program, the author learned a great deal about Jermaine’s life, culture, and the obstacles he faces. This work identifies impediments that Jermaine has experienced as well as common challenges faced in his community. In the words of the author “Most of my research for this book is devoted to pinpointing these cultural issues and gathering varying opinions for each one. While I do detail each unique perspective, my goal is to align each argument to an economic fundamental. This creates a more consistent diagnosis that does not depend on a personal set of values. My hope is that future economists will continue to study this suffering portion of our population to determine the most effective way to remedy the continuingly increasing problem of poverty.” Keywords: Language: en Author-Name: Adam D. Vass Gal Edition: 1 Year: 2014 Month: November Publication-Status: File-Url: https://static-dev.vernonpress.com/files/public/ffb4d1b9-ad00-4e52-95d9-385ead365f43/1430717715.pdf File-Size: 189018 File-Format: application/pdf Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/33 Creation-Date: 2014-06-13 ISBN: 978-1-62273-018-6 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:33 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: Economic Growth Abstract: How does economic growth work? Beginning with the history of leading countries over the past 2000 years, Economic Growth finds which countries have achieved sustained growth and how they did it. The effects of growth are examined on a human scale. The benefits of growth are enormous in terms of life, health, education, leisure and opportunity, while the downsides can be managed by appropriate policies. Economic Growth develops a new theory of growth. This new theory is based on careful analysis of actual growth; it covers the causes and mechanisms as well as the results of growth. This new theory extends conventional theory by operating at the industry level and by placing demand considerations at the forefront of growth. Demand growth – based on product innovation, marketing, credit and the consumer society – drives the economy forward while supply growth – based on investment and process innovation – sustains the growth in spending and incomes. Growth is not automatic but, in the right conditions, demand and supply expansion work together to generate sustained growth. Economic Growth offers a new view of growth, unique in its combination of historical depth, intellectual clarity and practical relevance. Its original insights will interest academic and professional economists, while its comprehensive treatment and lucid explanations make it an excellent guidebook for anyone interested in economic growth. Keywords: Language: en Author-Name: Edward A. Hudson Edition: 1 Year: 2015 Month: January Publication-Status: File-Url: https://static-dev.vernonpress.com/files/public/168b4aa0-7d8f-4dbd-910b-3ca37d638345/1477482896.pdf File-Size: 500609 File-Format: application/pdf Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/36 Creation-Date: 2014-09-05 ISBN: 978-1-62273-021-6 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:36 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: Titans of the Forests Abstract: Instead of dwelling on the biological, physiological, or even the genetic aspects of our evolution, “Titans of the Forests” takes a completely different approach, which could be referred to as the unchartered and neglected field of macroevolution. Uniquely captivating, controversial, and very readable, it is the author’s contention that we as a species were continuously forced to change our way of obtaining nourishment, or rather our various economies, in order to adapt to the ever-changing world. And as a result of this economic adaptation, our species would then and only then begin to slowly change into the modern humans of today. For much too long, the world’s scientific community has directed the discussion of our incredible evolution. As a matter of fact, our species’ biological, physiological, psychological, and cultural evolution has been instigated, propelled, and shaped by our economic adaptation to a fluctuating environment. In a very real sense, the scientists are so far into the trees that they have actually ignored the forest. Consequently, we teach human evolution as a hodgepodge of different theories within the realm of microevolution, thus failing to understand or even to recognize the economic thread that binds them altogether. By integrating the timeline of our prehistoric past with that of our earliest known economies (food gathering, scavenging, and nomadism), the author was able to synthesize a sequence of events that illustrates the economic basis of our remarkable ascension and the beginnings of our present day institutions. He not only reveals the genesis behind the cultural forces that exist within every human society, but for the first time, he has created a systematic and holistic approach in explaining the “how” and the “why” we have economically, physiologically, and then culturally evolved. For unlike the rest of the animal kingdom, we have possessed the extraordinary ability to change our economy, which has made us an extremely adaptable species. Keywords: Language: en Author-Name: Gregory V. Short Edition: 1 Year: 2015 Month: June Publication-Status: File-Url: https://static-dev.vernonpress.com/files/public/e6688933-8401-441f-8143-18f2bcef40e5/1430718756.pdf File-Size: 207858 File-Format: application/pdf Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/38 Creation-Date: 2014-12-18 ISBN: 9781622730278 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:38 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: Designing Technology, Work, Organizations and Vice Versa Abstract: The concept of design has been defined in a multitude of ways and used in a variety of academic fields, ranging from the classics of organizational and system design to studies on corporate culture, aesthetics and consumption. However, in mainstream organization and management studies, the concept of design has been ‘black-boxed’ and easily implied as an updated (and more fashionable) version of the traditional idea of structuring organizational processes. At the same time, working and organizing seem to be embedded nowadays in increasingly complex and situated technologies and practices. If the spreading of information and communication technologies (ICTs) has changed workplaces (and even the very meaning of 'workplace' as an area marked by the physical presence of different human actors), working and organizing mobilizes the joint action of humans, technologies and knowledges. The aim of the book is thus to discuss the relations among technologies, work and organisations from multiple theoretical perspectives and to engage with questions about design as well as the sociomaterial foundations of working and organising. The book focuses on the close study of practices and processes that inextricably link work and organisation to the use of artefacts and technological systems (and vice versa), exploring by means of different cases of organizational and design research articulations and disarticulations of daily work and design; the doing of objects and technologies in everyday organizational life; the reconstruction of organizational processes through technological and design practices; the relation between learning, innovations and technologies in organizational settings. The book is addressed to graduate students, PhDs, scholars and researchers interested in the fields of Organization Studies, Science and Technology Studies, Sociology and Design, as well as to professionals and practitioners interested in new methodological approaches towards the relations between technology, work and organization. Keywords: Language: en Author-Name: Enrico Attila Bruni Author-Name: Laura Lucia Parolin Author-Name: Cornelius Schubert Author-Name: Barbara Mellini Author-Name: Valentin Janda Author-Name: Teresa Macchia Author-Name: Mika Pantzar Author-Name: Sandra Plontke Author-Name: Sari Yli-Kauhaluoma Author-Name: Annamaria Recupero Author-Name: Yoko Akama Author-Name: Alessandra Talamo Author-Name: Enrico Attila Bruni Author-Name: Laura Lucia Parolin Author-Name: Cornelius Schubert Edition: 1 Year: 2015 Month: September Publication-Status: Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/39 Creation-Date: 2014-12-20 ISBN: 978-1-62273-028-5 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:39 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: Boom and Bust: Ecuador’s Financial Rollercoaster Abstract: Throughout the history of Ecuador, the ambivalent evolution of major political and social events such as the stability of serving presidents, coups and even war, has coincided with changes in the financial environment. The product of careful historical study, "Boom & Bust Ecuador’s Financial Rollercoaster" combines evidence from prior studies with original research, including data from the Central Bank of Ecuador, unpublished diplomatic papers and documents from the personal archives of relevant historical figures. A central finding is that the export performance of Ecuador's three primary commodities - cacao, bananas and oil - has significantly shaped 20th-century Ecuadorian history. Synthesis of old and new insights reveals how the state of the nation’s economy has frequently determined the outcome of critical events. All the while, the strength, immediacy and direction of the relationships examined has varied. The book would appeal to anyone with an interest in Ecuador's recent history as well as specialists and scholars of Latin American economic and political history. Keywords: Language: en Author-Name: Pablo R. Izurieta Andrade Edition: 1 Year: 2015 Month: December Publication-Status: File-Url: https://static-dev.vernonpress.com/files/public/232d190a-c852-4d41-b20a-63b1eb3d5441/1457445692.pdf File-Size: 372588 File-Format: application/pdf Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/52 Creation-Date: 2015-04-23 ISBN: 978-1-62273-470-2 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:52 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: Introduction to Dynamic Macroeconomic General Equilibrium Models Abstract: This book offers an introductory step-by-step course in Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) modelling. Modern macroeconomic analysis is increasingly concerned with the construction, calibration and/or estimation and simulation of DSGE models. The book is intended for graduate students as an introductory course to DSGE modelling and for those economists who would like a hands-on approach to learning the basics of modern dynamic macroeconomic modelling. The book starts with the simplest canonical neoclassical DSGE model and then gradually extends the basic framework incorporating a variety of additional features, such as consumption habit formation, investment adjustment cost, investment-specific technological change, taxes, public capital, household production, non-ricardian agents, monopolistic competition, etc. The book includes Dynare codes for the models developed that can be downloaded from the book’s homepage. The second edition is identical to the first with the exception of a revised appendix to Chapter 2. The revised appendix can be downloaded free of charge in the accompanying downloads section. Keywords: Language: en Author-Name: José Luis Torres Chacon Edition: 2 Year: 2015 Month: September Publication-Status: File-Url: https://static-dev.vernonpress.com/files/public/e9249256-5327-4412-940e-d69d29b0ce57/1442158460.pdf File-Size: 268108 File-Format: application/pdf Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/54 Creation-Date: 2015-05-31 ISBN: 978-1-62273-030-8 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:54 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: Network Society Abstract: The present volume attempts to critically evaluate claims that modern society may be read and understood as a network. Accepting that this perspective holds some potential, the question becomes how to best capitalize on it. To analyze society as a network means to respond not only to the “actual needs”, but also to highlight the "opportunities" and the "utilities", and to investigate whether society is increasingly relational or just perceived as such, as e.g. digital "social networks" and related concepts exemplify. From a strictly scientific perspective to answer the question "how to" read society as a network means to ask ourselves a) if the conceptual categories (especially the concepts of structure and exchange) and the paradigms of traditional analysis (holism and individualism, both in the functionalist and the conflictive versions) are still sufficient; b) if new conceptual categories/theories/instruments are needed to represent more properly the reality we face to investigate it, to explain it or, at least, to understand it. Starting from a reflection on already established social networks (Scott, 2003), the fundamental differences between groups and networks (Vergati, 2008), the logics of networks (Serra, 2003) as well as social capital formation and links (Di Nicola, 2006; Mutti, 1998), we seize the spatial dynamics, seemingly following opposite paths, but which revert to a common denominator de-spatialization and re-spatialization, namely the processes of dematerialization of space(s) and its reconstruction by specific relational dynamics and forms. The study of networks is therefore not attributable to a single theory but to several theories converging towards a unique perspective (spaces) and logical reasoning (Serra, 2001) each one with its own uniqueness. The strength of this volume and the difference with respect to other attempts at explaining the Network Society lies in the multidimensional and interrelated perspectives it offers emerging from converging multidisciplinary perspectives (sociological, anthropological and linguistic), and from applications that the Network Society provides, namely, international (European Governance), institutional, public (linguistic landscape of the city of Rome) and mediated ones (communication technology). Keywords: Network society, social capital, social space, social landscape analysis, sociolinguistics landscape, constructivism. Language: en Author-Name: Roberta Iannone Author-Name: Manuela Ciprì Author-Name: Emanuela Ferreri Author-Name: Maria Cristina Marchetti Author-Name: Laura Mariottini Edition: 1 Year: 2016 Month: June Publication-Status: File-Url: https://static-dev.vernonpress.com/files/public/142cb2fe-6a74-4e11-adf7-a83ab197babf/1475065110.pdf File-Size: 241567 File-Format: application/pdf Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/66 Creation-Date: 2015-08-04 ISBN: 978-1-62273-040-7 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:66 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: Understanding DSGE models Abstract: While the theoretical development of DSGE models is not overly difficult to understand, practical application remains somewhat complex. The literature on this subject has some significant obscure points. This book can be thought of, firstly, as a tool to overcome initial hurdles with this type of modeling. Secondly, by showcasing concrete applications, it aims to persuade incipient researchers to work with this methodology. In principle, this is not a book on macroeconomics in itself, but on tools used in the construction of this sort of models. It strives to present this technique in a detailed manner, thereby providing a step by step course intended to walk readers through this otherwise daunting process. The book begins with a basic Real Business Cycle model. Subsequently various frictions are gradually incorporated into a standard DSGE model imperfect competition; frictions in prices and in wages ; habit formation; non-Ricardian agents; adjustment cost in investment; costs of not using the maximum installed capacity; and finally, Government. Keywords: Language: en Author-Name: Celso Jose Costa Junior Edition: 1 Year: 2016 Month: June Publication-Status: File-Url: https://static-dev.vernonpress.com/files/public/3bd39192-8d85-4bff-8c0c-38058534ba29/1471426409.pdf File-Size: 551566 File-Format: application/pdf Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/70 Creation-Date: 2015-09-19 ISBN: 978-1-62273-038-4 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:70 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: Public Assistance of the Poor in France Abstract: This book is a historical assessment of state institutions and other social arrangements put in place to alleviate poverty in France. It draws from both primary (notably archives of the Church) and secondary sources (such as Monnier’s Histoire de l’Assistance Publique). It offers a comparative perspective with respect to contemporary arrangements in Britain and the United States, including some early poverty statistics. The result is a useful and concise account of the history of social institutions which continues to be of relevance over a century after its initial publication. This New Edition has been typeset with modern techniques. It has been painstakingly proofread to ensure that it is free from errors. Keywords: Language: en Author-Name: Emily Greene Balch Edition: 1 Year: 2015 Month: October Publication-Status: Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/73 Creation-Date: 2015-10-18 ISBN: 978-1-62273-041-4 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:73 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: The Challenge of Credit Supply Abstract: This book is for anyone seeking a succinct and accessible treatment of the most pivotal financial and monetary policies throughout American history from 1650-1950. But it is especially written for those who desire an intricate and detailed knowledge of how and why these policies worked with respect to the supply of adequate credit for economic development. A thorough examination of key credit institutions and their specific powers, functions, mechanisms, context, and economic impact brings the reader to a recognition of which policies and institutions were successful and unsuccessful in supporting the economy and preventing crisis. Its extensive use of primary sources, period literature, and carefully chosen quotations allows the reader to participate in the original discussion and issues that faced Americans in each era. This vivid account leads to a unique grasp of relationships between essential facts, ideas, and time periods. The reader is rewarded with the rare experience of seeing the evolution of three hundred years of policy development as an integrated process. The book’s content will be new and provoking to the academic, policy maker, and economist, but is presented in a manner and style ensuring comprehension for a general audience and those new to the topics involved. Many of the lessons learned in the course of the investigation are relevant and applicable to modern economic and financial policies. Keywords: John Quincy Adams, Balance of Trade, Bank credit, Bank of North America, Bank of the United States, Thomas Benton, Nicholas Biddle,Bills of exchange, Bills of credit, Eugene Black, John Blackwell, Salmon P. Chase, Langdon Cheves, Freeman Clarke, Colonial office, Stephen Colwell, Continental Congress, Alexander Dallas, Deposit and Distribution Act, Discounts, Domestic exchange, Marriner Eccles, William Elder, Federal Reserve Board, William Fessenden, Benjamin Franklin,Free banking, Foreign exchange, Funding system, funded debt,Alexander Hamilton, Hiland Hulburd, Andrew Jackson, Jesse Jones, Independent Treasury, Industrial Advances Act, Industrial credit, Investment banking, John Knox, David Lawrence, Legal tender notes, Abraham Lincoln, Loanable Funds, James Madison, Cotton Mather, Massachusetts Bay, Hugh McCulloch, James Mead, Means of payment, Medium of exchange, Gouverneur Morris, Robert Morris, National Bank, National Banking Act, National Banking System, James Polk, William Potter, Thomas Pownall, Promissory note, Public credit, Public debt, Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC), Specie, Specie Circular, Specie payments, Specie resumption, Menc Szymczak, Charles W. Tobey, Martin Van Buren, H. Parker Willis, James Wilson, John Jr. Winthrop, Waitstill Winthrop, Oliver Wolcott, John Woodbridge Language: en Author-Name: Michael Anthony Kirsch Edition: 1 Year: 2016 Month: March Publication-Status: File-Url: https://static-dev.vernonpress.com/files/public/c751eefe-9c93-41ff-a991-f59aa9daa474/1467374615.pdf File-Size: 301444 File-Format: application/pdf Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/91 Creation-Date: 2016-01-26 ISBN: 978-1-62273-056-8 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:91 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: Networks of International Trade and Investment Abstract: In recent decades, the international economy has witnessed fundamental changes in the way manufacturing is organised products are no longer manufactured in their entirety in a single location. Instead, the production process is often split across a number of stages located in countries that are frequently far apart from each other. By spreading out their manufacturing and supply chain activities globally through international investment and intra-firm trade, Multinational enterprises (MNEs) play a focal role in this reorganisation of production. Our ability to understand the global economy, therefore, requires an understanding of the interdependencies between the entities involved in such fragmented production. Traditional methods and statistical approaches are insufficient to address this challenge. Instead, an approach is required that allows us to account for these interdependencies. The most promising approach so far is network analysis. ‘Networks of International Trade and Investment’ makes a case for the use of network analysis alongside existing techniques in order to investigate pressing issues in international business and economics. The authors put forward a range of well-informed studies that examine compelling topics such as the role of emerging economies in global trade and the evolution of world trade patterns. They look at how network analysis, as both an approach and a methodology, can explain international business and economics phenomena, in particular, in relation to international trade and investment. Providing a comprehensive but accessible explanation of the applications of network analysis and some of the most recent methodological advances in its field, this edited volume is an important contribution to research in international trade and investment. Keywords: International networks, business groups, fragmentation of production, outsourcing, off-shoring, intra-firm trade, global value chains, network analysis, multilevel network analysis, brokerage, clustering Language: en Author-Name: Sara Gorgoni Author-Name: Alessia Amighini Author-Name: Matthew Smith Author-Name: Antoine Allard Author-Name: Marián Boguñá Espinal Author-Name: Bruce Cronin Author-Name: Luca De Benedictis Author-Name: Giulia De Masi Author-Name: Guillermo García-Pérez Author-Name: Raja Kali Author-Name: Massimo Riccaboni Author-Name: Giorgio Ricchiuti Author-Name: Stijn Ronsse Author-Name: Valerio Leone Sciabolazza Author-Name: M. Ángeles Serrano Author-Name: Silvia Sopranzetti Author-Name: Samuel Standaert Author-Name: Lucia Tajoli Author-Name: Ekaterina Turkina Author-Name: Ari Van Assche Author-Name: Benjamin Vandermarliere Author-Name: Zhen Zhu Author-Name: Sara Gorgoni Author-Name: Alessia Amighini Author-Name: Matthew Smith Edition: 1 Year: 2018 Month: March Publication-Status: File-Url: https://static-dev.vernonpress.com/files/public/85a3ea60-1df3-4146-b540-0d77a9ebb774/1528872547.pdf File-Size: 289007 File-Format: application/pdf Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/96 Creation-Date: 2016-02-25 ISBN: 978-1-62273-065-0 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:96 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: Marketing & Economics Abstract: This book bridges the disciplines of economics and marketing and brings them to bear on the analysis of contemporary business problems. The world has changed dramatically over the last four decades. Sociologically, technologically, economically and politically speaking the world is changing at an increasing pace. The spread of ideas and values are reinforcing the impact of globalization on various business operations and activities. As the late Peter Drucker once remarked “while you were out the world changed.” To make sense of to the world we live in, we are compelled to draw from diverse disciplines and subjects.This book focuses on the contributions of economics and marketing. The basic principles, theories and issues of economics are selected and are integrated with key elements and principles of marketing. Marketers, in conventional as well as in digital markets, are encouraged to integrate marketing with economics in order to make successful and effective business decisions. Marketing and Economics are subjects dealing with business – business of private firms, not-for-profit organisations and that of government. Economics involves allocation of scarce resources. Scarcity in economics is relative scarcity, scarcity in relation to demand. Written in a casual, accessible language and taking very little for granted, this book is for anyone who is curious about economics and marketing. It provides the essential analytical framework necessary for thriving in today's business. In its diverse chapters it covers topics such as offshoring, the circular economy, benchmarking, mergers and acquisitions, knowledge and innovation, services industries, customer relationships, advertising and communication, among others. It is particularly well suited to undergraduates in business or economics and its fresh perspectives on today's challenges would be of interest to business managers and marketing professionals. Keywords: Integration of Marketing and Economics. Language: en Author-Name: Sultan Kermally Edition: 1 Year: 2016 Month: July Publication-Status: File-Url: https://static-dev.vernonpress.com/files/public/ad80d1e0-221e-404f-911e-583d2eec0cdd/1467374575.pdf File-Size: 334929 File-Format: application/pdf Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/132 Creation-Date: 2016-03-17 ISBN: 978-1-62273-104-6 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:132 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: Intergenerational Responsibility in the 21st Century Abstract: Intergenerational responsibility is multi-faceted.This edited volume reflects intergenerational aspects in light of spatial, age and racial segregation, global warming, and the aging Western world population. Intergenerational global governance is addressed in the era of globalization and migration. The intergenerational glue, intergenerational crises resilience strategies and intergenerational responses to external shocks serve as innovative global responsibility implementation guidelines in the international arena. Fostering intergenerational harmony through intergenerational income mobility and intergenerational opportunities, environmental protection and sustainable development aids alleviate the most pressing contemporary challenges of humankind. Overall, this interdisciplinary and applied contribution to the scholarship on intergenerational responsibility supports the leadership and management of global governance agency in the private and public sectors. Keywords: Corporate Governance,Intergenerational Equity,Intergenerational Fairness,Intergenerational Responsibility,Migration ,Global Governance,Global Systemic Risk,Political Economy,Sustainable Development Language: en Author-Name: Julia M. Puaschunder Author-Name: Marta Gonçalves Pimenta De Brito Author-Name: Federico Perali Author-Name: Désirée Bussi Author-Name: Li-li Chen Author-Name: Veronika Eberharter Author-Name: Anastasia Golofast Author-Name: Lara McKenzie Author-Name: Antoine Verret-Hamelin Author-Name: Robert Williams Author-Name: Benjamin Wilson Author-Name: Douglas Bowles Author-Name: Peter Eaton Author-Name: Neal Wilson Author-Name: Natalie Brown Author-Name: Vera Ferreira Author-Name: Julia M. Puaschunder Edition: 1 Year: 2018 Month: January Publication-Status: File-Url: https://static-dev.vernonpress.com/files/public/1eb6fe75-2c34-4c9f-b541-bd85d41267d8/1531231637.pdf File-Size: 255616 File-Format: application/pdf Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/135 Creation-Date: 2016-03-18 ISBN: 978-1-62273-102-2 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:135 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: Stock-Flow-Consistent Models and Institutional Variety Abstract: Orthodox macroeconomics is founded on microeconomics. Heterodox economists either reject micro foundations or experiment with behavioural relationships without paying attention to the principles that generate them. The book takes off from Michal Kalecki’s aphorism about economics being a science that confused stocks and flows. Kalecki was famous for presiding over a marriage between Marx and Keynes and all three figure prominently in the volume. However, the first part of the title is a homage to Wynne Godley who pioneered stock-flow-consistent modeling in our times. The authors exploit lagged values of variables emerging from the definitions. Lags also emerge in so-called stock-flow norms connecting the aggregates. Some moving and shaking of identities and a difference or differential equation emerges. The requirements for stability of the dynamic systems are illuminating and the reader can stop at structure and history with the first half of the book. The conversation with orthodoxy begins with the second part. The equivalent equation systems of the first part throw up different pairs of characters whose happiness must be maximised over time. The price to pay through the solution process is the confrontation with many ugly expressions but the explicit calculations are undertaken repeatedly only to reassure students through drillwork that tedium is not the same as difficulty. The payoffs are that variable transitions in capitalism (the second part of the title) are captured from a small clutch of identities. The movements from backward agriculture to capitalism, from ‘golden age’ capitalism to ‘financialization’, are modeled. A separate chapter is devoted to Europe. The policy prescriptions of heterodox economics do not compare with the richness of critique and positive analysis. ‘Positive’ and ‘normative’ are one in this work, the combination of stock-flow norms along with ‘forgotten’ policy variables like the tax rate promising order and stability to economies. Keywords: political economy; monetary macroeconomics Language: en Author-Name: Romar Correa Author-Name: Amelia Correa Edition: 1 Year: 2017 Month: May Publication-Status: File-Url: https://static-dev.vernonpress.com/files/public/0830be1c-0020-4a04-9414-3ab3aa9646dc/1497002299.pdf File-Size: 229774 File-Format: application/pdf Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/209 Creation-Date: 2016-04-19 ISBN: 978-1-62273-181-7 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:209 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: Financial reforms, stabilization and development in 21st-century Turkey Abstract: The central argument of this book is that while central bank independence can contribute to stabilization, inflation-targeting monetary policy is quite powerless in promoting economic development. The basic message is simple Policy makers should not strive to achieve price stability at any cost, as stability in product markets does not necessarily translate into economic development. The recent experience of Turkey is illuminating and other developing countries, in particular those using inflation targeting monetary policy framework, can draw useful lessons from this experience. Early chapters summarize the deregulation process from 1980 to 2001. The Turkish Central Bank is placed at the center of the analysis as monetary policies have a significant impact both on stability and development. Although the 1994 and 2001 financial crises have been extensively studied elsewhere, they are nevertheless summarized to underscore the importance of central bank independence. Later chapters investigate the impact of an independent central bank on stabilization and development from 2001 onwards. Upon visiting the Turkish Central Bank's website, readers are greeted with the following statement "The primary objective of the Bank is to achieve and maintain price stability." By the end of this book the reader should be able to assess the relative merits of a monetary policy that focuses on price stability, versus an alternative where price stability is accompanied by other objectives targeting development, for instance, monitoring also unemployment rates, which would undermine its independence to some degree. The study aims to provide a perspective on the need for such an alternative in line also with the vision of some international agencies on development, such as the UNCTAD and the ILO. This is the first book-length study examining the financial reforms Turkey undertook in its path towards EU accession. This unique work will be of interest to economists and other experts in financial history, (de)regulation, institutional economics and economic development, as well as a broad range of scholars interested in the dramatic transformation of Turkey's economy and society in the 21st century. Keywords: Language: en Author-Name: Haluk Haksal Edition: 1 Year: 2016 Month: December Publication-Status: File-Url: https://static-dev.vernonpress.com/files/public/bec69b6e-0c4e-4d01-93ec-3a4ce99e5ff1/1491299334.pdf File-Size: 242997 File-Format: application/pdf Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/222 Creation-Date: 2016-07-19 ISBN: 978-1-62273-168-8 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:222 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: Freedom, Authority and Economics: Essays on Michael Polanyi's Politics and Economics Abstract: This edited volume of original contributions deals with the economic and political thought of Michael Polanyi. Requiring little prior knowledge of Polanyi, this volume further develops a somewhat neglected side of Polanyi's work. In particular it examines the 'tacit integration', of subsidiary details into focal objects or actions as central to all knowing and action. It traces ontological counterparts in the structures of comprehensive entities and complex actions, and a multi-level universe in which lower levels have their boundary conditions, the extents to which they apply, determined by those of the next higher level, whilst each possessing its own laws or operative principles. This schema of 'dual control' preserves the reality and relative autonomy of each level, and its interactions with others, against the various reductions. The essays in this volume also employ and develop important additional concepts and distinctions such as 'corporate' and 'spontaneous' order; 'public' and 'private' liberties; 'general' and 'specific authority'; and 'moral inversion'; which, as the essays show, are necessary for understanding and maintaining a free society and the freedom of institutions within it. Among the topics treated with them are more of the prerequisites of freedom in public liberties dedicated to principles and transcendent values; totalitarianism and society as spontaneous order; the balance of general and specific authority in society and particular institutions; reductionism, totalitarianism and consumption in consumer societies, as moral inversions; the mutual interactions of economics and politics as distinct and autonomous but interacting levels; the sociological aspects of economics; and Polanyi's own contributions to sociology. Although, as indicated, Polanyi has his special terms, the essays in this volume, like his works, give them meaning with concrete examples and so avoid merely shuffling a mass of abstractions. Together the essays show that his work is a rich seam of ideas and inspiration for yet further extension and application. Keywords: Language: en Author-Name: Simon Smith Author-Name: Klaus Allerbeck Author-Name: Tihamer Margitay Author-Name: Endre Nagy Author-Name: Viktor Geng Author-Name: R. T. Allen Author-Name: Richard W. Moodey Author-Name: Phil Mullins Author-Name: R. T. Allen Edition: 1 Year: 2016 Month: October Publication-Status: File-Url: https://static-dev.vernonpress.com/files/public/66022331-983e-4d87-9a1a-85c2da0763f6/1478255814.pdf File-Size: 310957 File-Format: application/pdf Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/232 Creation-Date: 2016-09-15 ISBN: 978-1-62273-131-2 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:232 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: Applied Economics for Development: Empirical Approaches to Selected Social and Economic Issues in Transition Economies Abstract: Transition economies experience transformation of their economic system. Following the disintegration of the Soviet Union, a number of former socialist countries underwent transitions from central planning to a market economy. More generally, many rapidly growing economies undergo no less profound transformations of their economic systems. Contrary to common misconception, the transition process cannot be simply reduced to eliminating state intervention and liberalizing the economy. Economies under transition exhibit a unique set of policy challenges. Unlike developed market economies, missing markets or market failures abound. Economic transformation takes the form of rapidly evolving patterns of international trade and investment, industrial structure and consumption. These changes call for appropriate public policies. A continuing flow of investment hinges on suitable institutions, the provision of public infrastructure and other public goods. Adequate regulation can be central in ensuring that environmental resources are sustainably managed. And sophisticated production systems, call for corresponding social institutions in terms of education, health and welfare provisions. In all these cases, accurate empirical assessments are central to the design of effective policy. This book presents a selection of pressing economic and social issues in transition economies. Selected issues include the development of particular industrial sectors, the drivers and consequences of foreign direct investment, public finances, urbanization, social indicators, environmental policy and energy diversification. In each case an original empirical analysis is performed, using a variety of advanced quantitative methods, applied to recent data. The book will be of interest to economists studying transition economies, economic development or having a general interest in applied economics. It will be of particular interest to applied economists, policy analysts and policy makers in transition economies, concerned with the shape and direction of appropriate economic reforms. Keywords: Transition Economies, Econometrics, International Economics, Statistics , Social and economic issues Language: en Author-Name: Hasan Arda Burhan Author-Name: Mahmut Zortuk Author-Name: Sema Behdioğlu Author-Name: Mustafa Kemal Beşer Author-Name: Yavuz Bozkurt Author-Name: Eylem Acar Author-Name: Noyan Aydın Author-Name: Erkan Arı Author-Name: Berna Hızarcı Beşer Author-Name: Seyhat Bayrak Gezdim Author-Name: Semih Karacan Author-Name: Neslihan Çilesiz Author-Name: Ayşegül Yıldız Author-Name: Fadime Çelik Author-Name: Hakan Acaroglu Author-Name: Eray Acar Author-Name: Mahmut Zortuk Edition: 1 Year: 2017 Month: August Publication-Status: File-Url: https://static-dev.vernonpress.com/files/public/390d6322-cf0f-4b23-8fa7-0ab6489f52e8/1499323132.pdf File-Size: 290776 File-Format: application/pdf Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/236 Creation-Date: 2016-09-27 ISBN: 978-1-62273-149-7 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:236 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: Generational Interdependencies: The Social Implications for Welfare Abstract: The issue of generational transfers is growing in importance. Populations are ageing, placing an increasing burden on provision of pensions, health care and other welfare services. In many nations the imbalance between a growing, older generation, supported by a shrinking younger generation, has fuelled debates about intergenerational justice. The key argument being that political and institutional developments over the last century have been to the advantage of older generations at the expense of current younger and future generations. But this only addresses half of the story, neglecting the flows of resources, through private, family channels. One key response to the growing fiscal problem of ageing societies has been to focus responsibility on self-funding and familial support. The growth of asset values, particularly housing, which are concentrated among the elderly, underpin such strategies. But this exposes new risks as potentially extractable resources are determined by wider fluctuations in the economy, and housing markets in particular. Clearly, these cohort effects, and responses to them, play out differently in different national developmental settings, depending on long-run patterns of economic, social and demographic change. This collection address these issues and provides original insights across different international contexts. The collection focusses on financial and non-financial transfers, generational interdependencies, and the role of labour and housing markets in welfare support, set against the changing economic landscape following the Great Financial Crisis of 2007. Although institutional and national differences exist the key emerging issues are the same the financial and welfare challenges of supporting aging in societies; inequalities in the availability of assets across individuals, families and nations; and the extent to which private asset accumulation can support families over the life course. Drawing from examples across European countries, this collection will nonetheless be relevant to researchers and policy makers in other nations addressing the complexities of providing welfare across the life course in the face of restricted financial resources. Keywords: asset-based welfare; property-based welfare; intergenerational justice; intergenerational transfers; wealth transfers; inter-vivo transfers; life-course; welfare; older people; younger people; comparative qualitative; quantitative Language: en Author-Name: Beverley A. Searle Author-Name: Rory Coulter Author-Name: Gabriel Amitsis Author-Name: Sally Bould Author-Name: Guiliana Costa Author-Name: Roxana Eleta De Filippis Author-Name: Tom Emery Author-Name: Lars Gulbrandsen Author-Name: Hans Sandlie Author-Name: Andrea Schäfer Author-Name: Gunther Schmaus Author-Name: Adriana Soaita Author-Name: Marco Tosi Author-Name: Peter Williams Author-Name: Caroline DeWilde Author-Name: Christa Hubers Author-Name: Beverley A. Searle Edition: 1 Year: 2018 Month: January Publication-Status: File-Url: https://static-dev.vernonpress.com/files/public/5d7761cd-3bc6-439c-81b2-0300d0f851b1/1506067889.pdf File-Size: 227849 File-Format: application/pdf Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/241 Creation-Date: 2016-10-20 ISBN: 978-1-62273-186-2 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:241 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: Fixed or Flexible Exchange Rates? History and Perspectives Abstract: The economy of the industrialized countries in the 21st century has already moved to a new level of mass production and technology never seen before, thanks in part to globalization, advanced technologies, new organization management methods, and innovative supply chain. A relatively large number of mass-produced commodities (characterized as non-premium) and services in Western economies are somehow sold at discounts rather than regular prices at a much higher frequency that was never seen before. This phenomenon has completely changed how we look at the theory of the firm in microeconomics. This book is indented to introduce new ideas and theories by challenging the current modern micro-and-macro economic theories. In a globalized world, the economies of advanced countries have entered a new phase called “economy pricing,” where most of the mass commodities are sold at a low price during certain periods of the year, called ‘sales events’. In addition to low prices, most industrialized countries have had record low inflation, low-interest rates, low growth, and low unemployment rates. This book will contend how the “Economy Pricing System” is about to revolutionize how people look at a real economy’s micro and macro effects. Keywords: Currency Depreciation, the Balance of Trade, Flexible Exchange rates, Fixed Exchange Rates, Gold Standard, International Monetary System, Trade Policies, Credibility and Optimization in Monetary Policy, Global Reserve Currency, Monetary Policy Coordination, Exchange Rate Regimes, Shock absorbers, Optimum Currency Areas, Monetary Unions, Fiscal Federalism, Eurozone, Monetary Blocks, Financial Crises, Debt Crisis, Quantitative Easing Language: en Author-Name: Marin Muzhani Edition: 1 Year: 2018 Month: March Publication-Status: File-Url: https://static-dev.vernonpress.com/files/public/9ffeca43-ae40-4d0d-a009-764dba08afe0/1520506723.pdf File-Size: 328779 File-Format: application/pdf Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/250 Creation-Date: 2016-11-09 ISBN: 978-1-62273-177-0 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:250 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: Global Responsible Intergenerational Leadership Abstract: Today's grand policy dilemmas, from climate change, to over-indebtedness, to demographic shifts, have momentous long-term implications. Future generations will be constrained by our present decisions to an extent that is without precedent in advanced capitalist democracies. This book is an extensively researched and reasoned appeal in favor of intergenerational fairness - the ability to provide to future generations an at least as favorable standard of living as that enjoyed today. Intergenerational equity is an essential consideration in finding lasting solutions to the multifaceted crises of our time. As an implicit contract and transfer between living and future generations, intergenerational equity avoids discriminating against future generations. The book aims to theoretically define intergenerational equity and to frame it as a natural behavioral law, capturing human ethicality bounds. It follows a long and distinguished tradition of scholarly discourse in turning to natural law for solutions to major social predicaments. Outlining some of the causes of the current intergenerational imbalances regarding climate change and over-indebtedness it sets the basis for understanding their drivers and implications. A central proposition is that the natural human drive towards intergenerational fairness can be the basis for the necessary behavioral responses the human-imbued moral compass of natural law can be a useful complement, if not alternative, to public policy. This book fills an important gap. Despite a resurgence of literature, the economic and social dimensions of intergenerational equity remain underexplored. Existing literature misses a holistic ethical framework of decision-making failures that addresses intergenerational concerns. Whilst evolutionary grounded, intergenerational fairness has not been recognized as a natural behavioral law – a human-imbued drive being bound by human fallibility. Practical implications and recommendations in advancing an agenda for the advancement of intergenerational equity are provided. Attention is drawn to the problem of providing the required leadership to promote the idea of intergenerational equity as a guiding principle in corporate, social and policy action. This book contributes both theoretical and practical insights and will be of interest to economists, sociologists, public policy makers and corporate executives tasked with tackling the most pressing contemporary challenges of mankind. Keywords: Language: en Author-Name: Julia M. Puaschunder Edition: 1 Year: 2017 Month: May Publication-Status: File-Url: https://static-dev.vernonpress.com/files/public/88159674-8ad6-493e-a725-06758ef8ece1/1503898434.pdf File-Size: 280608 File-Format: application/pdf Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/251 Creation-Date: 2016-11-24 ISBN: 978-1-62273-178-7 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:251 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: Memes of Misinformation: Federal Spending Abstract: In this first installment of the Misinformation series, the author tackles complex socio-economic and political topics related to the economy of the United States, such as the federal budget, wasteful spending, the national debt, unemployment and social security. By breaking down each subject into layman’s terms, the author clearly and concisely presents, in an unbiased manner, the facts behind the fake news, half-truths and general misinformation from the annoying headlines and memes cluttering social media on these volatile subjects. Keywords: Post truth, socio-economic, political, macroeconomics, national debt, federal budget, wasteful spending, social security, unemployment, wealth distribution, sources of revenue, gross domestic product, welfare entitlement, Federal Reserve, gold standard Language: en Author-Name: Julio C. Castañeda Jr. Edition: 1 Year: 2017 Month: March Publication-Status: File-Url: https://static-dev.vernonpress.com/files/public/0b598a1b-3883-4e41-ad0a-a85ecb6d885b/1488981344.pdf File-Size: 1257142 File-Format: application/pdf Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/304 Creation-Date: 2017-01-24 ISBN: 978-1-62273-251-7 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:304 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: Market Abuse Regulation in South Africa, the United States of America and the United Kingdom Abstract: This book provides a concise comparison of the regulation and enforcement of the anti-market abuse laws (insider trading and market manipulation) in South Africa, the United States of America (USA) and United Kingdom (UK). Bringing together a number of previously published articles, the book provides a novel discussion of the challenges associated with the enforcement of market abuse laws in both developing countries such as South Africa and developed ones such as the USA and the UK. This is primarily done to examine and expose the current strengths and weaknesses of market abuse laws in relation to certain aspects of the corporate, securities and financial markets environments in South Africa, the USA and the UK. Accordingly, chapters two to five of the book unpack the regulation and enforcement of market abuse laws in South Africa and the USA in a comparative perspective. Thereafter, chapters six to eight of the book discuss the regulation and enforcement of market abuse laws (Financial Markets Act 19 of 2012) and other related statutes in South Africa and the UK. The book proposes some measures that could be utilised to enhance the enforcement of anti-market laws in South Africa, USA and the UK. New market abuse-related challenges that occurred during the global financial crisis are also briefly discussed. The book further provides a relatively adequate overview of the comparative analysis of the regulation of market abuse in South Africa versus two key developed and respected jurisdictions, namely, the USA and the UK. Accordingly, it is hoped that the book can aid regulatory authorities, financial market participants, academics, students and other interested readers to understand market abuse offences and possible measures that could be employed to combat such offences. Keywords: Market abuse, Insider trading, Market manipulation, Regulation, Anti-market abuse laws, Enforcement Language: en Author-Name: Howard Chitimira Edition: 1 Year: 2018 Month: April Publication-Status: File-Url: https://static-dev.vernonpress.com/files/public/a6a5ad66-86c9-47fd-a181-b191b06525de/1512032954.pdf File-Size: 235610 File-Format: application/pdf Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/314 Creation-Date: 2017-02-22 ISBN: 978-1-62273-260-9 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:314 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: Imperative of Economic Growth in the Eurozone: Competitiveness, Capital Flows and Structural Reforms Abstract: European economic recovery appears to be taking hold. So is the European crisis over? The acute phase of the crisis passed, however a number of medium and long term issues remain. The policies of “internal devaluations” are working, albeit slowly, to restore competitiveness in the countries most affected by the crisis. However, growth remains at best sluggish. The medium and long term outlook remains highly uncertain, fomenting social tensions and endangering political stability. The restoration of economic dynamism is increasingly perceived as the answer to the question of the “European” future – economically, politically and socially. There is a broad consensus that dynamic structural reforms and the restoration of competitiveness at the level of the global economy are key answers to current European challenges. However, whatever the form these may take, the transfer of resources is implicit (and seemingly necessary), to underpin the current structure of eurozone. This indeed raises the question of governance – both fiscal and monetary. After all, the provision of resources implies an allocation – and it is hard to imagine that resources will be provided to the common pool unless the providers have some say with respect to allocation. And that requires some form of common (i.e. centralized) decision-making procedures, in all likelihood exceeding the common understanding of the acquis communautaire as it exists today – i.e. some form of the effective political arrangement. In this context, the basic idea which connects all contributions in this volume is the analysis of the problems which affected the Eurozone in the past decade and the challenges and dilemmas the Eurozone will face in the coming years. Keywords: Language: en Author-Name: Antonin Rusek Author-Name: Lubor Lacina Author-Name: István Benczes Author-Name: Carsten Colombier Author-Name: Zděněk Kudrna Author-Name: Gabor Kutasi Author-Name: Stanisław Kasiewicz Author-Name: Lech Kurkliński Author-Name: Jarosław Kundera Author-Name: Rajmund Mirdala Author-Name: Roman Stöllinger Author-Name: Václav Šmejkal Author-Name: Stanislav Šaroch, Author-Name: Antonin Rusek Author-Name: Lubor Lacina Edition: 1 Year: 2017 Month: November Publication-Status: File-Url: https://static-dev.vernonpress.com/files/public/cf27a249-8b06-4274-9ba7-d0bff06d90d3/1502272636.pdf File-Size: 271877 File-Format: application/pdf Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/318 Creation-Date: 2017-02-24 ISBN: 978-1-62273-263-0 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:318 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: The Political Economy of the Space Age Abstract: This book provides answers to the questions of why human-kind should go into space, and on the relative roles of governments and markets in the evolution of the space economy. It adopts an interdisciplinary approach to answer those questions. Science and technology define the boundaries of what is possible. The realization of the possible depends on economic, institutional, and political factors. The book thus draws from many different academic areas such as physical science, astronomy, astronautics, political science, economics, sociology, cultural studies, and history. In the literature, the space economy has been analyzed using different approaches from science and technology to the effects of public expenditures on economic growth and to medium term effects on productivity and growth. This book brings all these aspects together following the evolutionary theory of economic change. It studies processes that transform the economy through the interactions among diverse economic agents, governments, and the extra-systemic environment in which governments operate. Its historical part helps to better understand motivations and constraints - technical, political, and economical - that shaped the growth of the space economy. In the medium term, global issues - such as population changes, critical or limited natural resources, and environmental damages – and technological innovations are the main drivers for the evolution of the space economy beyond Earth orbit. In universities, this book can be used as a reference by historians of astronautics; for researchers in the field of astronautics, international political economy, and legal issues related to the space economy. In think tanks and public institutions, both national and international, this book provides an input to the ongoing debate on the collaboration among space agencies and the role of private companies in the development of the space economy. Finally, this book will help the educated general public to orient himself in the forest of stimuli, news, and solicitations to which he is daily subjected by the media, television and radio, and to react in less passive ways to those stimuli. Keywords: Language: en Author-Name: Andrea Sommariva Edition: 1 Year: 2018 Month: February Publication-Status: File-Url: https://static-dev.vernonpress.com/files/public/39745550-185b-451a-8f59-33b90d6b4b34/1519890538.pdf File-Size: 327741 File-Format: application/pdf Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/319 Creation-Date: 2017-02-24 ISBN: 978-1-62273-264-7 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:319 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: Climate Change and Sub-Saharan Africa: The Vulnerability and Adaptation of Food Supply Chain Actors Abstract: The adverse effects of climate change and climate variability have become some of the biggest environmental and socio-economic challenges for society, and for food supply chain actors, in particular. Serving as a serious inhibitor to the attainment of food security, climate change poses a fundamental threat to the availability, accessibility, stability and utilization of nutritious food and quality drinking water. The threat of this global phenomenon is not only apparent from the difficulties faced by all food supply chain actors, but is also felt acutely by households dependent on semi-subsistence agriculture. As evidenced by numerous studies conducted by the academic community, governmental and non-governmental organisations, climate change and climate variability will have disastrous effects on entire food supply chains across the world. This edited volume looks to address How vulnerable are food supply chain actors to climate change and climatic variability? What adaptation strategies are they adopting? How is the resilience of food supply chains being supported? Are they being financed and/or supported by international organizations to cope with climate change? And what governmental support are they receiving to help cope with climate change? This book is an essential resource for students, lecturers, researchers, agribusinesses, marketing firms, agricultural institutions, climate change adaptation institutions, policymakers and many others with an interest in agricultural development and the global food industry. Keywords: Climate Change, Sub-Saharan Africa, Vulnerability, Adaptation, Food Supply Chains, Governments Language: en Author-Name: John K. M. Kuwornu Author-Name: Suiven John Paul Tume Author-Name: Moye Eric Kongnso Author-Name: Njodzeka Gilbert Njodzeka Author-Name: Derick T. Adu Author-Name: Yaw Bonsu Osei-Asare Author-Name: Mbu Dora Nyuykighan Author-Name: Bankui Andrew Dzeaye Author-Name: Mairong Frederick Nsaikii Author-Name: Ali Essossinam Author-Name: Sampson Osei Author-Name: Abdulrazak Karriem Author-Name: Armah Ralph Nii Armah Author-Name: Ramatu M. Al-Hassan Author-Name: Mustapha Abubakar Sadiq Author-Name: Suhiyini Issah Alhassan Author-Name: Mohammed Tiyumtaba Shaibu Author-Name: Franklin Kodzo Avornyo Author-Name: Elaine Tweneboah Lawson Author-Name: Adelina Mensah Author-Name: Christopher Gordon Author-Name: Joseph Amikuzuno Author-Name: Damba, T. Osman Author-Name: Avishek Datta Author-Name: John K. M. Kuwornu Edition: 1 Year: 2019 Month: May Publication-Status: File-Url: https://static-dev.vernonpress.com/files/public/4f37a578-7f39-4de9-8b13-857249aeaf2a/1543563106.pdf File-Size: 352447 File-Format: application/pdf Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/320 Creation-Date: 2017-02-24 ISBN: 978-1-62273-265-4 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:320 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: Agricultural Sector Issues in the European Periphery Abstract: Over the course of the past two decades peripheral European economies in the Balkans and in Eastern Europe have experienced significant structural changes and have adapted to the global economic environment. Agriculture and the processing, using and trading of agricultural products play an important role in their economies. This volume covers several issues facing the contemporary agricultural sector in these countries, such as the framework of the Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union, the identification of an opinion leader portrait in agriculture, the characteristics of using Information and Communication Technologies as tools in the partnerships and internal processes of enterprises throughout the whole agro-food supply chain, the increased need of small-scale artisanal food businesses to seek new markets abroad, the perceptions of Greek olive oil importers in the UK, the barriers that Greek yogurt entrepreneurs face during their export activities, the reasons for the differences in economic performance and the role of tangible and less tangible factors influencing development outcomes. It will be of interest to researchers studying economic development, agricultural economists, businesses active in the primary sector and students of applied economic analysis. Keywords: Economic development, Regional economic, Agricultural Cooperative, Farmer, Networking, Risk management, mutual fund, European Common Agricultural Policy. Language: en Author-Name: Persefoni Polychronidou Author-Name: Janowicz Lomott Marietta Author-Name: Krzysztof Łyskawa Author-Name: Tsimitri Paraskevi Author-Name: Michailidis Anastasios Author-Name: Partalidou Maria Author-Name: Belletti Matteo Author-Name: Loizou Efstratios Author-Name: Felföldi János Author-Name: Szilvia Botos Author-Name: Róbert Szilágyi Author-Name: László Várallyai Author-Name: Leighton Tyler Author-Name: Rogers Sarah Author-Name: Saikee Pabitra Author-Name: Bulled Nicola Author-Name: Hersh Robert Author-Name: Soulios Christos Author-Name: Bizmpiroulas Athanasios Author-Name: Rotsios Konstantinos Author-Name: Zacharias Papanikolaou Author-Name: Karelakis Christos Author-Name: Konstadinos Mattas Author-Name: Tandir Natasa Author-Name: Konakli Zafer Author-Name: Anastasios Karasavvoglou Author-Name: Persefoni Polychronidou Author-Name: Anastasios Karasavvoglou Edition: 1 Year: 2017 Month: May Publication-Status: File-Url: https://static-dev.vernonpress.com/files/public/bef602b5-74a8-4cf4-9dac-c56c63aaf391/1493374755.pdf File-Size: 234320 File-Format: application/pdf Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/329 Creation-Date: 2017-04-03 ISBN: 978-1-62273-272-2 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:329 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: Global Economy in Transition: the European Union and Beyond Abstract: This volume covers various issues in global development and global economic transformation including factors affecting economies and development in the European Union (EU), the Ukraine, select countries in Africa, the Caribbean, the South Pacific as well as India and the United States. The global economy is in transition, from the 1990s' status quo to the “new normal” with heavy reliance on the internet, rapid communications, sophisticated payment systems, diminishing importance of size and distance and changing notions of the market. This volume discusses how this process is affecting economies across the globe and why an appreciation of it will help efforts by governmental bodies and the private sector to reassess societal relationships - both economic and political. This volume shows that challenges to policy-making and the achievement of social consensus on development issues are often quite similar in all countries, irrespective of size, geographical location, endowment and developmental status. The chapters speak to concerns that touch on a cross-section of issues which are driving transition and transformation at multiple levels. As a group, they compare economic factors across transnational economic or political associations (OECD, European Union, G20) or make comparisons across or within emerging markets or small states (BRICS, various African countries, the Caribbean, South Pacific). They include the presentation of a new model for transnational agreements, discussions of policies related to labor compensation and corporate governance, comparisons of nations across the world using indices of economic development and governance, an analysis of gender inequality in employment in the European Union, comparisons of tax burdens across the European Union and the USA, discussions of employee representation in corporate governance, and a look at grass-roots development and markets in developing economies. As a whole, in its breadth and cross-national perspective, the volume represents an important scholarly contribution to international economics. Keywords: Global Development, Human Development Index, European Union, Ukraine, Grass-Roots Development, Barbados, Sub-Saharan Africa Development, Tanzania, India, South Pacific _ EU corporate governance , female employment rate, Poland, MIFID, transnational regulation, Tax wedge, OECD, G-20, investment climate, corruption, foreign direct investments, FDI Ukraine agricultural growth, Ukraine regional economy, econometric model, GRP, Ukraine production sectors, BRICS, India free enterprise, India ICE, India black economy, colonialism, NGOs, substantive versus formalist economics Language: en Author-Name: Linda Winkler Author-Name: Harold Codrington Author-Name: Anna Krajewska Author-Name: Walentyna Kwiatkowska Author-Name: Stanislaw Rudolf Author-Name: George Morgan Author-Name: Miron Wolnicki Author-Name: Ewa Bojar Author-Name: Fyodor Kushnirsky Author-Name: James West Author-Name: Cristanna Cook Author-Name: Jakub Bis Author-Name: Svitlana V. Maksymenko Author-Name: Andrij Razhyk Author-Name: Katarzyna Skorupinska Author-Name: Mark Thorum Author-Name: Linda Winkler Author-Name: Harold Codrington Edition: 1 Year: 2017 Month: July Publication-Status: File-Url: https://static-dev.vernonpress.com/files/public/c8e3d500-9bde-4293-a208-5662a1fa50a7/1500277325.pdf File-Size: 874680 File-Format: application/pdf Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/331 Creation-Date: 2017-04-24 ISBN: 978-1-62273-276-0 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:331 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: Political Routes to Starvation Abstract: This book seeks to reclassify famine by offering an in-depth look at the phenomenon that continues to affect millions of people across the world every year. Defined as a widespread scarcity of food, Dr. Basilio Dianda argues that the causes of famine cannot be reduced exclusively to a shortfall in agricultural output or to economic dynamics. Instead, an analysis of famine must take into account political and economic factors as well as agricultural, climatologic and demographic data. ‘Political Routes to Starvation’ is the result of an all-encompassing analysis of eighty famines from across the globe. This extensive piece of research demonstrates that there are not only multiple factors at play in the genesis of a food crisis, but also in its evolution to starvation. Dianda contends that in order to fully understand the causes of famine it is necessary to reinstate a hierarchy between foundation and concomitant causes, especially when cross-comparing cases. Importantly, Dianda maintains that only a comprehensive approach to famine can appropriately answer the questions What is famine? How does famine occur? Why does famine kill? Keywords: The concept of Famine and the concept of starvation, Evolution of Famine over time, Is Famine history?, Will be the future free from famines?, Famine natural or manmade disaster?, Double role of economic factors in the genesis and development of famine, Politics and famine, Famine as a weapon, Communist famines, Can the free-market economic model generate famines?, Colonial famines, Influence of demographic and climatological factors in the occurrence and development of famine, Volcanism and famine, Agricultural techniques development and famine, Food insecurity and famine, Historical famines Language: en Author-Name: Bas Dianda Edition: 1 Year: 2018 Month: April Publication-Status: File-Url: https://static-dev.vernonpress.com/files/public/ed0dd037-c15f-469f-b0be-4eefabb79ea7/1523515232.pdf File-Size: 709852 File-Format: application/pdf Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/365 Creation-Date: 2017-08-31 ISBN: 978-1-62273-309-5 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:365 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: Financial Innovation: Theories, Models and Regulation Abstract: Financial innovation is a regular feature of the global financial system. Financial innovation results in greater economic efficiency over time. In the process of creating a new financial product, besides basic theory of financial management, a financial engineer needs to acquire knowledge of optimization and financial modeling techniques. Modern financial innovation is underpinned by a rich literature including the seminal studies by Levich (1985), Smith, Smithson, and Wilford (1990), Verghese (1990), Merton (1992), Levine (1997), John D Finnerty (2002), Tufano (2003) and Draghi (2008), among many others. This book corresponds to the need to provide an integrated study on financial innovation and the economic regulatory mechanism. A key part of financial innovation covered in the book is the process of creating innovative financial securities and derivative pricing that offers new pay-offs to investors. The book also covers a selection of empirical studies corroborating financial innovation theories. It also exposes myths surrounding performance evaluation models. This book is presented in six chapters. The first chapter outlines important considerations on the application of financial innovation theories. The second chapter presents the theories that underpin financial innovation practice. The third chapter focuses on use of technology for financial modeling. The fourth chapter identifies the relationship between financial innovation and the wider economic system. The fifth chapter discusses the place of financial innovation in the global financial system. The sixth and final chapter presents a comparative analysis of India and the United States. Keywords: Financial Innovation, Financial engineering, Financial Modeling, Financial regulation, banking, financial instruments, valuation of stocks, measuring performance of financial instruments, fund management, economic regulations, global finance, regulation of stock exchanges Language: en Author-Name: G. V. Satya Sekhar Edition: 1 Year: 2018 Month: January Publication-Status: File-Url: https://static-dev.vernonpress.com/files/public/08fb6178-eb7d-4dd4-a482-cdf3a6d45adf/1511158537.pdf File-Size: 249234 File-Format: application/pdf Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/373 Creation-Date: 2017-09-11 ISBN: 978-1-62273-317-0 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:373 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: Political Corruption in a World in Transition Abstract: This book argues that the mainstream definitions of corruption, and the key expectations they embed concerning the relationship between corruption, democracy, and the process of democratization, require reexamination. Even critics who did not consider stable institutions and legal clarity of veteran democracies as a cure-all, assumed that the process of widening the influence on government decision making and implementation allows non-elites to defend their interests, define the acceptable sources and uses of wealth, and demand government accountability. This had proved correct, especially insofar as ‘petty corruption’ is involved. But the assumption that corruption necessarily involves the evasion of democratic principles and a ‘market approach’ in which the corrupt seek to maximize profit does not exhaust the possible incentives for corruption, the types of behaviors involved (for obvious reasons, the tendency in the literature is to focus on bribery), or the range of situations that ‘permit’ corruption in democracies. In the effort to identify some of the problems that require recognition, and to offer a more exhaustive alternative, the chapters in this book focus on corruption in democratic settings (including NGOs and the United Nations which were largely so far ignored), while focusing mainly on behaviors other than bribery. Keywords: Corruption, legal corruption, perceptions of corruption, abuse of power, patrimonialism, favouritism, patronage, access to power, bribery, state capture, lobbying, conflict of interest, clientelism, policies of influence, symbolic crusades, anticorruption policies, democracy, governance, state capacity, quality of government, legal code, social trust Language: en Author-Name: Jonathan Mendilow Author-Name: Éric Phélippeau Author-Name: Ezequiel Martins Paz Author-Name: Fernando Jiménez Sánchez Author-Name: Paulina Alvarado-Goldman Author-Name: Maria D. Bermudez Author-Name: Mónica García Quesada Author-Name: Olivia Newman Author-Name: Stanislav Balik Author-Name: Alix Meyer Author-Name: Roman Chytlek Author-Name: Petra Svacinova Author-Name: Frank Rusciano Author-Name: Michael Shafir Author-Name: Robert Boatright Author-Name: Sofia Wickberg Author-Name: Molly Brigid McGrath Author-Name: Jonathan Mendilow Author-Name: Éric Phélippeau Edition: 1 Year: 2019 Month: October Publication-Status: File-Url: https://static-dev.vernonpress.com/files/public/3e7decb0-df52-4e5f-a828-5a1eaed5d7b2/1560231700.pdf File-Size: 265468 File-Format: application/pdf Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/388 Creation-Date: 2017-10-06 ISBN: 978-1-62273-332-3 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:388 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: New Waves in Innovation Management Research (ISPIM Insights) Abstract: Launched in 2011 to recognize the prolific contribution that PhD dissertations make to the field of Innovation Management, the ISPIM Dissertation Award selects three winners from the possible 100+ entries every year. Aided in the selection process by the generous support of Innovation Leaders, the ISPIM presents the awards at their annual Innovation Conference. With only three finalists being selected each year, many excellent submissions do not receive the recognition they deserve. To rectify this, the 2018 ISPIM Dissertation Award cast its spotlight beyond the top three dissertations and onto a much greater number of entries. Compiling the top 28 submissions received this year, ‘New Waves in Innovation Management Research’ is organized into six thematic sections that cover areas such as investments, collaboration, and creativity. Presenting a broad range of case studies and data from across global, this edited volume illustrates the breadth of research potential in the coming wave of innovation management. This book will be of interest to students, researchers and professional managers, alike, who are interested in or actively involved in the latest research on innovation management. Keywords: Language: en Author-Name: Peter R.A. Oeij Author-Name: Margarethe Lombard Author-Name: Nisit Manotungvorapun Author-Name: Agnieszka Radziwon Author-Name: Rakhshanda Khan Author-Name: Wenjing Cai Author-Name: Pavan Soni Author-Name: Courtney Molloy Author-Name: Patrick Brandtner Author-Name: Amber Geurts Author-Name: Yuanzhu Zhan Author-Name: C. W. Chathurani Silva Author-Name: Bjørn J. M. Jensen Author-Name: Kelly R. Cowan Author-Name: Albert Lejeune Author-Name: Sheng Wu Author-Name: Fábio O. Paula Author-Name: Marine Hadengue Author-Name: Antonio Crupi Author-Name: Lamyaa El Bassiti Author-Name: Johan Netz Author-Name: Nadine Hietschold Author-Name: Alexandros Kakouris Author-Name: Eui Ju Jeon Author-Name: Roberta Pellegrino Author-Name: Cristina Páez-Avilés Author-Name: Nicolas Friederici Author-Name: Ethan A. Gifford Author-Name: Marcus Tynnhammar Edition: 1 Year: 2018 Month: December Publication-Status: File-Url: https://static-dev.vernonpress.com/files/public/a3e9b74b-7598-4296-943e-9695be3b66e8/1532584554.pdf File-Size: 290459 File-Format: application/pdf Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/487 Creation-Date: 2018-06-05 ISBN: 978-1-62273-434-4 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:487 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: Currency Risk Management Abstract: Currency Risk Management (CRM) is vital for any business engaging in international trade. Fluctuations and uncertainty within currency markets mean that businesses must seek to effectively manage and anticipate potential risks when striking international deals. In a rapidly changing and volatile global business environment, CRM is now more than ever of critical importance. However, what risks should businesses hedge – and how? With so many viable strategies for hedging currency exchange risk, it is crucial that businesses either outsource or have a specialized team to ensure effective and efficient management of currency exchange risks. But how does CRM operate in an emerging market? And what are the key factors that influence the chosen CRM strategies? Organized in association with Indian Bank, GITAM’s national conference on CRM sought to highlight the trends, problems, and prospects of CRM in India. Taken from the conference proceedings, this book presents 9 innovative research papers that consider differing CRM practices. From a comparative study of India and China to an assessment of CRM strategies used by commercial Indian banks, this book offers an invaluable insight into CRM from the perspective of an emerging market. As a whole, this book addresses India’s shift to a market-determined exchange rate regime and the inevitable problems caused the by the high volatility of exchange rates. Aimed at students enrolled in commerce and management courses, this collection of research papers will also be of interest to researchers in international finance. Keywords: Language: en Author-Name: Kamakshaiah Musunuru Author-Name: S. S. Prasada Rao Author-Name: Gangineni Dhananjhay Author-Name: K. Bhanu Prakash Author-Name: G.Santhoshi Kumari Author-Name: Chowdary Venu Gopal Author-Name: Satyanarayana Koilada Author-Name: Shaik Haniefuddin Author-Name: Tejswini Basatry Author-Name: P. Sheela Author-Name: Shaik Khadar Baba Author-Name: N.R.Mohan Prakash Author-Name: Koneru Kusuma Author-Name: V. Gowri Lakshmi Author-Name: G. V. Satya Sekhar Author-Name: M.S.V. Prasad Edition: 1 Year: 2019 Month: May Publication-Status: File-Url: https://static-dev.vernonpress.com/files/public/7a711b17-e763-47cd-8614-488552f5851a/1540883407.pdf File-Size: 141428 File-Format: application/pdf Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/499 Creation-Date: 2018-07-13 ISBN: 978-1-62273-443-6 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:499 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: Law and Economics: Market, Non-market and Network Transactions Abstract: It is well known that sustainable development practices, technological innovation and good governance play a major role in the accumulation of wealth in a knowledge economy. Hence, the state promotes competition, provides incentives to conserve resources and creates opportunities for citizens to push for innovation and invention. As a result, the formulation of efficient legal rules is essential for protecting intellectual property rights, fully specified contracts and effective ex-ante and ex-post systems. However, can efficient legal rules improve societal well-being by changing the behaviour of individuals and basic social structures and trends? And if so, how can these legal rules be formulated? In their Second International Conference on Law and Economics, the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur aimed to address the formulation and implementation of efficient legal rules while at the same time working towards a greater dissemination of law and economics-based research. This book is the final outcome of this conference that saw over thirty presentations take place. The twelve carefully selected contributions to this volume cover a broad range of topics within law and economics from engaging with decisions makers to create a process for the routine collection of empirical evidence to perceived gender discrimination and stress among working professionals. This book is not only an important contribution to law and economics scholarship but will also be of great interest to both universities and research institutions working within the field. Keywords: Sustainable Development, Law’s delay, evidence based legal studies, financial inclusion, bribery, gender discrimination, innovative leadership, barriers to entry/exit, medicines and the TRIPS, nanotechnology, social economics Language: en Author-Name: Uday Racherla Author-Name: Ramanand Mundkur Author-Name: Neha Jaiswal Author-Name: Indrajit Dube Author-Name: Navya Jain Author-Name: Meena Osmany Author-Name: Syed Hameedur Rahman Zaini Author-Name: Asif Akhtar Asif Akhtar Author-Name: Ravindra Tripathi Author-Name: Mohana Raje Author-Name: Kavita Kalyandurgmath Author-Name: Jagdish Raje Author-Name: Hardik H. Parikh Author-Name: Julian Schenten Julian Schenten Author-Name: Supruet Thavornyutikarn Author-Name: Upendra Baxi Author-Name: Priyanka Tandon Author-Name: Nikhil Yadav Author-Name: Panta Murali Prasad Author-Name: Ranita Nagar Edition: 1 Year: 2019 Month: May Publication-Status: File-Url: https://static-dev.vernonpress.com/files/public/e2f506ac-544b-41ed-83ad-20a9d8b7ac75/1543561801.pdf File-Size: 218739 File-Format: application/pdf Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/508 Creation-Date: 2018-08-07 ISBN: 978-1-62273-452-8 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:508 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: Rethinking Territorial Development Policies: A new framework for territorial stakeholders Abstract: This book provides an analytical framework and toolkit for anyone involved — theoretically or practically — with the economic, social, ecological or cultural development of a territory. This work provides an overview of the various territorial development processes, inclusive of both individual and collective actions. In pursuance of its objectives, the book re-examines the classical concepts of governance and regulation in order to position them in an integrative model of the initiatives which contribute dynamically to territorial development. According to this model, the concepts of governance and regulation become two axes, revealing four main reference situations which differentiate between the local initiatives (ground-up) and public actions (top-down) that coexist in a territory. The model emphasizes the need to consider the place of territorial stakeholders in regulatory processes. The book enriches this concept, familiar in a legislative context, and describes it as an area of influence of and negotiation with stakeholders. It contributes to a territorial governance system which encourages development offers. It reveals the inseparable link between influence and development processes that lead to value creation. The logic of governance specifies the various sources of value creation, while the logic of regulation seeks to maximize the acceptability of such value creation by making it into an attractive proposition for stakeholders. Keywords: Regulation, Governance, Value, territorial development, Institutionalism theories, territorial and services marketing, Bottom up and top down development, Social practices theory, Multi-Level Practices, Stakeholders theory, Potential Value, Value in exchange and Value in use, Value Co-production and value co-creation, value transfer Language: en Author-Name: Philippe Vaesken Author-Name: Michel Felix Edition: 1 Year: 2021 Month: July Publication-Status: File-Url: https://static-dev.vernonpress.com/files/public/d2656c2d-0724-4841-beaf-bd30345bcda4/1618230013.pdf File-Size: 197601 File-Format: application/pdf Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/577 Creation-Date: 2018-10-15 ISBN: 978-1-62273-525-9 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:577 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: Introducción a la Macroeconomía Computacional [Hardback, US] Abstract: Este libro presenta una introducción a la macroeconomía computacional, utilizando un nuevo enfoque para el estudio de los modelos macroeconómicos dinámicos. Para ello resolveremos numéricamente una gran variedad de modelos en tiempo discreto, utilizando como herramienta informática una hoja de cálculo; en particular, Excel de Microsoft. Los modelos resueltos incluyen tanto modelos macroeconómicos dinámicos con expectativas racionales no microfundamentados, como modelos microfundamentados, constituyendo un enfoque que facilita el aprendizaje y uso de los modelos de equilibrio general dinámico, los cuales se han convertido en la principal herramienta para el análisis macroeconómico en la actualidad. Las hojas de cálculo son ampliamente conocidas y relativamente fáciles de usar, lo que supone que los conocimientos informáticos necesarios para poder trabajar con modelos de equilibrio general dinámico son asequibles para alumnos de grado. Keywords: Macroeconomics, computational macroeconomics, dynamic general equilibrium models Language: en Author-Name: José Luis Torres Chacon Author-Name: Anelí Bongers Author-Name: Trinidad Gómez Edition: 1 Year: 2019 Month: January Publication-Status: File-Url: https://static-dev.vernonpress.com/files/public/121b7b1c-cff7-4a61-832e-7b910a1f193f/1549613208.pdf File-Size: 225667 File-Format: application/pdf Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/604 Creation-Date: 2018-11-29 ISBN: 978-1-62273-600-3 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:604 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: Selflessness in Business Abstract: The book deals with a controversial and seemingly paradoxical relationship between selflessness and business. It depicts the primary and lasting controversy between the selfish (egoistic, competitive) and selfless (pro-social, co-operative) behavior in view of social, organizational and individual benefits. Therefore, it takes a step towards finding a solution to some of the challenges of the twenty-first century, particularly sustainable growth. The miscellaneous and transatlantic background of the Authors origins (USA, Colombia, Germany, Poland, UK, Spain) and their various perspectives (psychological, economic or philosophical) guarantee multi-voiced argumentation for strong relationships between selflessness and business. Selflessness is understood from a social perspective as related to self-transcendence and connectedness to others. This perspective can be helpful in providing a deeper understanding of pro-social behavior in organizations and its implications for productivity and effectiveness. The manifestations of this approach can be found in acts such as organizational altruism, loyalty, quantum leadership, or pro-social vocational interests. One can make an in-depth analysis of selflessness’s manifestations on a social, organizational and individual level. The ensuing question is how to achieve self-regulation in order to maintain sustainable growth, and selflessness turns out to be the answer. This book offers strong evidence for high organizational and individual benefits stemming from selfless behavior. Therefore, it is not selfish behavior that enables and encourages productivity and effectiveness but rather selfless behavior. The book also tackles gender issues in business, especially regarding the social female role as being traditionally related to selflessness. The authors aim to reveal possible solutions to present and future challenges and enhance the meaning of positive outcomes of selfless behavior in business and work environments, which seems to be crucial and indispensable for future growth. The book will be useful not only for academic and business specialists but also for everyone interested in a broader perspective at contemporary challenges of business and organizational psychology. Keywords: organizational altruism, sustainable development, Corporate Social Responsibility, personalistic economics, blokchain, open source innovation, ethics in business, integral human development Language: en Author-Name: Dominika Ochnik Author-Name: Joanna M. Szulc Author-Name: Luka Boršić Author-Name: Ivana Skuhala Karasman Author-Name: Edward J. O'Boyle Author-Name: Monika Jakubiak Author-Name: Hector Alberto Botello Peñaloza Author-Name: Michael A. Piel Author-Name: Karen Putnam Author-Name: Karen K. Johnson Author-Name: Renata Rosmus Author-Name: Claudia Nelly Berrones-Flemmig Author-Name: Francoise Contreras Author-Name: Utz Dornberger Author-Name: Yonni Angel Cuero Acosta Author-Name: Lucía Pérez-Pérez Author-Name: Miquel Bastons Author-Name: Andreana Drencheva Author-Name: Dominika Ochnik Edition: 1 Year: 2019 Month: September Publication-Status: File-Url: https://static-dev.vernonpress.com/files/public/60081853-f8cd-4e50-99de-a88b5e94ee3c/1558941871.pdf File-Size: 229757 File-Format: application/pdf Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/699 Creation-Date: 2019-03-06 ISBN: 978-1-62273-639-3 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:699 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: An Introduction to Computational Macroeconomics Abstract: This book presents an introduction to computational macroeconomics, using a new approach to the study of dynamic macroeconomic models. It solves a variety of models in discrete time numerically, using a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet as a computer tool. The solved models include dynamic macroeconomic models with rational expectations, both non-microfounded and microfounded, constituting a novel approach that facilitates the learning and use of dynamic general equilibrium models, which have now become the principal tool for macroeconomic analysis. Spreadsheets are widely known and relatively easy to use, meaning that the computer skills needed to work with dynamic general equilibrium models are affordable for undergraduate students in Advanced Macroeconomics courses. Keywords: Macroeconomics, computational macroeconomics, dynamic general equilibrium models Language: en Author-Name: José Luis Torres Chacon Author-Name: Anelí Bongers Author-Name: Trinidad Gómez Edition: 1 Year: 2019 Month: December Publication-Status: File-Url: https://static-dev.vernonpress.com/files/public/3526530c-7717-4fc5-bc7f-8153e0b6a396/1580484652.pdf File-Size: 249501 File-Format: application/pdf Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/714 Creation-Date: 2019-03-13 ISBN: 978-1-62273-654-6 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:714 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: Market Orientation of Nonprofit Organizations: An Indian Perspective Abstract: This book is an insightful account on market orientation and how it enhances the performance of non-profit organizations in India. The book provides the readers with a succinct, yet comprehensive view of scholarly research on the concepts of market orientation, non-profit marketing, and organizational performance of non-profit organizations and demonstrates why and how market orientation can be an effective organizational orientation for Indian non-profit organizations. Despite the growing importance of non-profit sector in socio-economic well-being of societies, academic debate and research in developing economy context in this field is glaringly sparse. This book attempts to addresses this gap in literature by analyzing market orientation and related concepts against the background of environmental conditions in a typical emerging economy context. Therefore, it will be especially beneficial to academics, researchers, students and practitioners in the fields of non-profit management, strategic marketing and social work, desirous of advancing their knowledge in nonprofit market orientation in these settings. Keywords: Non-Governmental Organizations, Voluntary organizations, Not-for-Profit Organizations, Voluntary Sector marketing, strategic orientation of organizations, marketization, commercialization of nonprofit sector Language: en Author-Name: Renjini D. Author-Name: Mary Joseph T. Edition: 1 Year: 2020 Month: January Publication-Status: File-Url: https://static-dev.vernonpress.com/files/public/01637d0c-431d-443f-a3f6-484bd43be282/1559914177.pdf File-Size: 284202 File-Format: application/pdf Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/796 Creation-Date: 2019-04-23 ISBN: 978-1-62273-733-8 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:796 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: The Faces and Stakes of Brand Insertion Abstract: With traditional forms of advertisement facing increasing challenges, brand placement - the integration of a product or brand in a work of art - has exploded. It has become a lucrative phenomenon whose goal is to produce a reaction of purchase in the mind of the receiver (reader, viewer or listener). This volume seeks to complement extant studies of product placement strategies by introducing a methodology more systematically related to the field of cultural studies, especially where the reception and impact of product placement are concerned. It explores the many iterations of brand placement in popular culture, with a consideration of the crossover between advertisement and art in everything from Wes Anderson, "Blade Runner" and the "Fast and Furious" franchise, to music videos, late night shows and plastic art. The book considers the impact of brand placement in TV series on teenagers, as well as the evolution of such placement in literature. The originality of this volume is that, when the impact of the placement is mentioned, it is to be understood as an intended aesthetic impact at least as much as a prompt to buy a product. Consequently, the placement of consumer goods in a cultural production, the book suggests, may both increase the sales of specific products and positively impact the production’s ratings. This book is perfect for researchers and students interested in marketing, brand placement, mass media, art, film, and cultural studies. Keywords: Social Darwinism, Hollywood propaganda, capitalism, high concept, product placement, branding, box office, endorsement, merchandising, entertainment, by-products, cross promotion, brand reinforcement, animated catalogues, commercials Language: en Author-Name: Sébastien Lefait Author-Name: Sandrine Villers Author-Name: Joshua Schulze Author-Name: Boris Chapoton Author-Name: Delphine Le Nozach Author-Name: Julie Assouly Author-Name: Árpád Papp-Vary Author-Name: Gergő Novodonszki Author-Name: Laurent Salters Author-Name: Pauline Ziserman Author-Name: Veronika Cserényi Author-Name: Marina Ferreira Da Silva Author-Name: Pascale Ezan Author-Name: Sébastien Lefait Author-Name: Sandrine Villers Edition: 1 Year: 2022 Month: March Publication-Status: File-Url: https://static-dev.vernonpress.com/files/public/6642c3f1-605f-4003-96c3-da4b121e357a/1639394417.pdf File-Size: 256686 File-Format: application/pdf Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/862 Creation-Date: 2019-07-01 ISBN: 978-1-62273-795-6 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:862 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: New Asian Approaches to Africa: Rivalries and Collaborations Abstract: | Winner of the The Japan Consortium for Area Studies' 2021 Research Project Award | The 21st century has seen an increase in the presence and influence of Asian governments, firms and other stake-holders in Africa. With the changing times, changes in approaches to Africa by four major Asian countries (China, India, Japan and South Korea) have taken place. By tracing the history between these Asian countries and African countries, this collection reflects on the “new” phases of Asian Approaches to Africa. Composed by authors who are not only experienced expert scholars of African Studies, but also prominent specialists on African policies of Asian countries, this collection focuses on the official development assistance (ODA) as well as other crucial issues and actors such as business, civil society, and media to explore the new Asian approaches to Africa in a comprehensive manner. Organised into three sections, this collection explores the experiences of the “forums” (conferences, or summits) for Africa’s development hosted by four major Asian countries, reflects on Asian cultural influence in Africa, and highlights new phases of Asian approaches to Africa. This book looks to the future collaboration of Asian actors/ partners working in/ with Africa, rather than exaggerating rivalries and disputes in order to grasp the potentialities and challenges in the relationship between the two regions; an emerging and ongoing agenda that we will encounter further in the coming years. This book will be of interest to students, researchers and professors in universities, as well as research institutes on Asian and African Studies. It will also be of value to journalists, and government officials; particularly diplomats. Keywords: Asia-Africa relationship, Africa, China, India, Japan, South Korea, Foreign aid, Cultural influence, Soft power, Business, Civil Society, International organization Language: en Author-Name: Yu-Shan Wu Author-Name: Aparajita Biswas Author-Name: Hyo-sook Kim Author-Name: Motoki Takahashi Author-Name: Yongkyu Chang Author-Name: Huaqiong Pan Author-Name: Amakasu Raposo de Medeiros Car Pedro Miguel Author-Name: Scarlet Cornelissen Author-Name: Masumi Owa Author-Name: Takuo Iwata Edition: 1 Year: 2020 Month: March Publication-Status: File-Url: https://static-dev.vernonpress.com/files/public/8bf7a0c4-c024-4fb0-bbeb-69c36c341a65/1571053491.pdf File-Size: 240268 File-Format: application/pdf Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/875 Creation-Date: 2019-07-25 ISBN: 978-1-62273-809-0 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:875 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: Nigeria's Resource Wars Abstract: 'Nigeria’s Resource Wars' reflects on the diversity of conflicts over access to, and allocation of, resources in Nigeria. From the devastating effects of crude oil exploration in the Niger Delta to desertification caused by climate change, and illegal gold mining in Zamfara, to mention a few, Nigeria faces new dimensions of resource-related struggles. The ravaging effects of these resource conflicts between crop farmers and Fulani herders in Nigeria’s Middlebelt and states across Southern Nigeria call for urgent scholarly interventions; with the Fulani cattle breeders’ onslaught altering the histories of many Nigerian families through deaths, loss of homes and investments, and permanent physical incapacity. Currently, there is an almost total breakdown of interethnic relations, with political commentators acknowledging that Nigeria has never been so divided as it presently is in its history. The struggles have now degenerated into kidnaps, armed robbery, and incessant targeted and random killings across the country; compounding the already complex problem of insecurity in Nigeria. The chapters in this volume engage with these issues, presenting the different arguments on resource conflicts in Nigeria. They draw insights from similar conflicts in Nigeria’s colonial/post-independence past and events from around the world to proffer possible solutions to resource-related confrontations in Africa. By offering a collection of different intellectual perspectives on resource conflicts in Nigeria, this volume will be an important reference material for understanding the diversity of thought patterns that underpin the struggle and policy approaches towards resolving conflict situations in Africa. This volume will be of considerable interest to scholars of Africa, researchers in the humanities, social sciences, and conflict studies, and policymakers interested in understanding the resource crisis in Africa. Keywords: Africa, Nigeria, geo-political zones, regions, ethnic nationalism, subaltern, society, qualitative research, quantitative research, fisheries, engineering, bio resources, geography, environmental sciences, witness testimonies, archives, Hausa, Middle Belt, Yoruba, Igbo, South South Nigeria, South East Nigeria, South West Nigeria, North Central Nigeria, pastoralists, nutrition, opulence, penury, grazing, food science, contested spaces, children, insecurity, victimhood, veterinary services, national development, Niger Delta, Obudu resort, planning, policy, population, derivation principle, sustainable leadership, political consciousness, geopolitical alliance, statism, economics, financial bureaucracy, neo-militarist front, cultural anthropology, education, philosophy, minorities, politics, feudalism, bourgeoisie, wealth, capitalism, ideology, service delivery, enterprise, Fulani herdsmen, resource control, conflict resolution, conflict in Africa, internally displace persons (IDPs), refugees, , development/underdevelopment, climate change, Islamization, desertification Language: en Author-Name: Egodi Uchendu Author-Name: Adoyi Onoja Author-Name: Emmanuel M. Akpabio Author-Name: Ubong Hezekiah Udoudom Author-Name: Amuche Nnabueze Author-Name: Ozioma P. Nwokedi Author-Name: Kemi Abodunrin Author-Name: Collins Ikenna Ugwu Author-Name: Muhammed Sani Dangusau Author-Name: Victor S. Dugga Author-Name: Chukwuebuka Omeje Author-Name: Olawari D. J. Egbe Author-Name: Chiedozie Obia Author-Name: Blessing Chinweobo-Onuoha Author-Name: Chisom Uchendu Author-Name: Emmanuel T. Eyeh Author-Name: Chinonye Ekwueme-Ugwu Author-Name: Francis O. C. Njoku Author-Name: Sati U. Fwatshak Author-Name: Christopher Uchechukwu Ifeagwu Author-Name: Jan Patrick Heiss Author-Name: Peter Memga Kertyo Author-Name: Abraham Nabhon Thomas Author-Name: Onyekwere Ojike Author-Name: Olihe Ononogbu Author-Name: Blessing Nonye Onyima Author-Name: Uzoma Samuel Osuala Author-Name: Reginald Chikere Keke Author-Name: Zara Emmanuel Kwaghe Author-Name: Saheed Babajide Owonikoko Author-Name: Ezinne Ezepue Author-Name: Chukwuemeka Agbo Author-Name: Nnaemeka E. Enemchukwu Author-Name: Dmitri van den Bersselaar Author-Name: Emmanuel Ibuot Author-Name: Ibrahim Waziri Author-Name: Francis B. Ada Author-Name: David Imbua Author-Name: Odigwe Nwaokocha Author-Name: Sule Emmanuel Egya Author-Name: Preye Kuro Inokoba Author-Name: Egodi Uchendu Edition: 1 Year: 2020 Month: October Publication-Status: File-Url: https://static-dev.vernonpress.com/files/public/992ecedd-3ec6-4838-b86c-5af9a42ef5c6/1616505493.pdf File-Size: 1285705 File-Format: application/pdf Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/892 Creation-Date: 2019-08-22 ISBN: 978-1-62273-831-1 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:892 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: The Crest of the Innovation Management Research Wave Abstract: For the ninth year running, the ISPIM Dissertation Award has attracted a wealth of PhD dissertations from all over the globe, which have once again contributed significantly to the field of Innovation Management. Comprising of submissions from the 2019 ISPIM Dissertation Award deemed to be of both high quality and high interest, The Crest of the Innovation Management Research Wave offers readers insights into the depth and breadth of research potential in the latest wave of innovation management. This publication provides a window into what the latest generation of scholars are contributing to the innovation management field, as well as into what they find significant and what might become important for the field over time. The wide selection included in this book offers a strong insight into new and upcoming developments in innovation management, drawing attention to interesting empirical areas to research. This edited volume will be of particular interest not only to students but also researchers and professional managers either interested or actively involved in cutting-edge research in the field of innovation management. Keywords: Language: en Author-Name: Ioana Stefan Author-Name: Ana Paula F. Paes Leme Barbosa Author-Name: Juan R. Campos Author-Name: Manel González-Piñero Author-Name: Yasmina Khadir-Poggi Author-Name: George Martinidis Author-Name: Agung N.L.I. Fahrudi Author-Name: Mardeya D. Alblooshi Author-Name: Florian Müller Author-Name: Maria Real Perdomo Author-Name: Edgar Brea Author-Name: Marco Wirth Author-Name: Julian M. Müller Author-Name: Marta Morais-Storz Author-Name: Frauke Wolf Author-Name: Mehmet Tahsin Sahin Author-Name: Ekaterina Albats Author-Name: Marcus Tynnhammar Edition: 1 Year: 2020 Month: April Publication-Status: File-Url: https://static-dev.vernonpress.com/files/public/8adc3929-5dea-402f-947d-233685794c26/1573719782.pdf File-Size: 161387 File-Format: application/pdf Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/922 Creation-Date: 2019-09-18 ISBN: 978-1-62273-860-1 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:922 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: The Corporate Overlords will be Kind: Campaign Finance, Representation and Corporate-led Democracy Abstract: ‘The Corporate Overlords will be Kind’ is a unique book in that it makes use of a multi-pronged approach – journalistic, legal, theoretical – to find, document, and explain instances in which well-known corporations such as Wal-Mart, Uber, McDonald’s, Airbnb, Gillette, Nike and others have involved themselves, as ‘artificial persons’, in political and social debates involving aspects such as gender, racism, sexual minorities, and gun ownership. This book argues that these transnational, multi-billion-dollar corporations that thrive in the globalized world market are forced to take explicitly political stances by the very environment in which they activate and by the consumers whom they serve, taking on the latter’s values and opinions and representing them to retain them as customers. ‘The Corporate Overlords will be Kind’ advances that corporations are now – and will increasingly be – the loudest voices in the political market square of the United States, but that such a situation is not necessarily a cause for concern. This book thus departs from the traditional scholarly views of Citizens United (the 2010 landmark decision of the Supreme Court which granted free speech to corporations as persons) as a woe to democracy, and argues that the ageless, deathless, genderless, nationless corporations will be the political representatives of the futures, not political parties. This book will appeal to undergraduate and graduate students specializing in social sciences, particularly politics, history, sociology, and law. Political professionals and journalists may also be interested in the book, in addition to the general reader with interest in politics. Keywords: Citizens United, corporate social responsibility, post-democracy, political theory, personhood, representation theory, free speech, consumer boycott Language: en Author-Name: Radu George Dumitrescu Edition: 1 Year: 2021 Month: July Publication-Status: File-Url: https://static-dev.vernonpress.com/files/public/622782cc-61ba-466f-a3e9-840214205a48/1618300060.pdf File-Size: 291749 File-Format: application/pdf Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/942 Creation-Date: 2019-11-04 ISBN: 978-1-62273-879-3 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:942 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: Macroeconometric Models for Portfolio Management Abstract: ‘Macroeconometric Models for Portfolio Management’ begins by outlining a portfolio management framework into which macroeconometric models and backtesting investment strategies are integrated. It is followed by a discussion on the theoretical backgrounds of both small and global large macroeconometric models, including data selection, estimation, and applications. Other practical concerns essential to managing a portfolio with decisions driven by macro models are also covered model validation, forecast combination, and evaluation. The author then focuses on applying these models and their results on managing the portfolio, including making trading rules and asset allocation across different assets and risk management. The book finishes by showing portfolio examples where different investment strategies are used and illustrate how the framework can be applied from the beginning of collecting data, model estimation, and generating forecasts to how to manage portfolios accordingly. This book aims to bridge the gap between academia and practising professionals. Readers will attain a rigorous understanding of the theory and how to apply these models to their portfolios. Therefore, ‘Macroeconometric Models for Portfolio Management’ will be of interest to academics and scholars working in macroeconomics and finance; to industry professionals working in financial economics and asset management; to asset managers and investors who prefer systematic investing over discretionary investing; and to investors who have a strong interest in macroeconomic influences on their portfolio. Keywords: Econometric models , forecasting models, global economy models, asset allocation, portfolio management, systematic trading, quantitative investing, DSGE models, GVAR models, large scale models, time-series models Language: en Author-Name: Jeremy Kwok Edition: 1 Year: 2021 Month: May Publication-Status: File-Url: https://static-dev.vernonpress.com/files/public/5111770d-52df-4e91-b0f5-9ab2537709b4/1619099538.pdf File-Size: 532530 File-Format: application/pdf Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/947 Creation-Date: 2019-11-06 ISBN: 978-1-62273-884-7 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:947 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: Florentine Ariosto Jones: A Yankee in Switzerland and the Early Globalization of the American System of Watchmaking [Hardback, B&W] Abstract: This book recounts the story of Florentine Ariosto Jones, who after the Civil War decided to manufacture watches. Combining the cheap labor available at the time in Switzerland with US manufacturing technologies, Jones embarked on his venture to produce affordable watches for the American market. Consequently, he became a pioneer in the business of outsourcing labor for economic purposes through his contracting of labor to Europe. While the company still exists today, very little is known about Jones. The present book will undoubtedly change this by telling the fascinating story of an American adventurer and his pursuit to globalize American watchmaking at the end of the 19th Century. Keywords: global economic history, history of globalization Language: en Author-Name: Frank Jacob Edition: 1 Year: 2021 Month: September Publication-Status: Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/951 Creation-Date: 2019-11-18 ISBN: 978-1-62273-887-8 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:951 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: The Community and the Algorithm: A Digital Interactive Poetics Abstract: Digital media presents an array of interesting challenges adapting new modes of collaborative, online communication to traditional writing and literary practices at the practical and theoretical levels. For centuries, popular concepts of the modern author, regardless of genre, have emphasized writing as a solo exercise in human communication, while the act of reading remains associated with solitude and individual privacy. “The Community and the Algorithm A Digital Interactive Poetics” explores important cultural changes in these relationships thanks to the rapid development of digital internet technologies allowing near-instantaneous, synchronous, multimedia interaction across the globe. The radical shift in how we author and consume media as an online, electronic transmission effectively resituates the writing process across the liberal arts as less a solitary act of individual enquiry and reflection, and more an ongoing, collaborative process of creative interaction within a multimedia environment or network. Contributions in this anthology demonstrate a robust history and equally diverse contemporary approach to multimedia interaction for literary and artistic ends. Central to all media formats, computation is explored throughout this volume to critically examine how algorithmic procedures in writing help bring forward many key concepts to building creative communities in a digital environment. Each chapter in this book accordingly introduces readers to various new collaborative experiments using a broad range of different digital media formats, including VR, Natural Language Generation (NLG), and metagaming tools. This book will appeal broadly to students, instructors, and independent artists working in the digital arts, while its emphasis on social interactivity will interest theorists and teachers working in theatre, social media, and cyberpsychology. Its secondary focus on computation and media programming as a site of artistic experimentation will also interest programmers and web designers at various professional levels. Keywords: Electronic Literature, Procedural Poetics, Algorithmic Text Tools, Language Games, Metagaming, Improvisation, Social Network Theory, Cyberpyschology, Cybertexts, Social Media Language: en Author-Name: Andrew Klobucar Author-Name: Sharla Sava Author-Name: Maria Lantin Author-Name: Simon Overstall Author-Name: Esteban Morales Author-Name: Rachel Horst Author-Name: Maria Aladren Author-Name: Charles Baldwin Author-Name: Rob Wittig Author-Name: Anastasia Salter Author-Name: Anna Nacher Author-Name: Taeyoon Choi Author-Name: Rui Torres Author-Name: Effiam Yung Author-Name: Daniela Côrtes Maduro Author-Name: Andrew Klobucar Edition: 1 Year: 2021 Month: September Publication-Status: File-Url: https://static-dev.vernonpress.com/files/public/f1e11303-dfb6-4280-ba9f-cf4fdf05dcf8/1626091903.pdf File-Size: 333800 File-Format: application/pdf Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/1025 Creation-Date: 2020-03-16 ISBN: 978-1-62273-959-2 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:1025 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: Complex Society: In the Middle of a Middle World Abstract: The decreasing capacity to govern complex social processes results in negative trends that breach system thresholds in all main social domains with extreme economic stratification of society. Independent studies steadily report that a strong majority of the world’s population, between 60% and 80%, already feels excluded and no longer represented by their governments. The two prevailing concepts of complexity seem to overlook the central importance of mesoscopic complexity. Socially complex conditions call for a new kind of social thought specifically developed for a blinded generation that must be as different from modern and postmodern thoughts, as they were different from their middle-age precedents. 'Complex Society In the Middle of a Middle World', addresses the concerns of the excluded majority by explaining how present complex social conditions work in favor of generational aspirations to achieve a more positive future. In the geometry of thinking, a complex matter is not comprehensible objectively, but only by evaluating overlaps between complexity domains on their periphery, which is in the area of their inconsistencies. The book first develops an evaluative methodology for studying complex social matters and then tests it with three case studies that reflect some of the most pressing problems in contemporary societies aggregation problem, integration problem, and organization problem. The obtained findings give grounds for the depiction of an outline for the ‘anti-postmodern’ ordering of contemporary societies. This ground-breaking text will be of particular interest for graduate and post-graduate level of social sciences, evaluators of project, program and policy impact evaluation, evaluators of philosophy of science, as well as methodologists of social research and public governance. Keywords: Social complexity; Evaluative thinking; Mesoscopic 'irrational rationality'; Anti-postmodern society Language: en Author-Name: Bojan Radej Author-Name: Mojca Golobič Edition: 1 Year: 2021 Month: April Publication-Status: File-Url: https://static-dev.vernonpress.com/files/public/f9bc91d6-c37d-44bd-884e-85194a1c0a21/1606463980.pdf File-Size: 316985 File-Format: application/pdf Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/1083 Creation-Date: 2020-04-21 ISBN: 978-1-64889-019-2 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:1083 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: Illusions of Location Theory: Consequences for Blue Economy in Africa Abstract: "Illusions of Location Theory Consequences for Blue Economy in Africa" questions the relevance of ‘location theory’ in explaining the coastal-hinterland continuum and the implications for the utilization of blue economy ecosystem in such a contested space in Africa. It pays more attention to territorial contestations, maritime disputes, vulnerabilities of landlocked states, and expansionist policies as displayed through spatial organizational regimes. These areas of investigation have previously been largely studied from the narrow perspective of ‘location’, unduly focusing on comparative advantages of ‘distance’, while neglecting the influence of ‘forces’ such as technology, ideology, and the power of mental mapping in spatial decision making. This volume puts forward the argument that the harmonious relationship between states, and efficient exploitation of the blue economy ecosystem in ways that promote peace between states, lies not only in the structural transformation of markets, but also in bridging the spatial and social divide between the coastal and hinterland societies. Thus, this work proffers possibilities for a holistic regime for managing Africa’s coastal-hinterland continuum through innovative strategies such as SMART blue economies and the infusion of the geopolitical dimension into the management of maritime and territorial diplomacy. The combination of theoretical and empirical analysis, buttressed by in-depth case studies of what works in the management of blue economy ecosystem and what does not work, make this volume ideal for researchers, students, and practitioners interested in African regional studies, African political economy, political geography, strategic military studies, governance of seas and oceans, and maritime science/diplomacy. Keywords: Location, Blue Economy, Geopolitics, Maritime diplomacy, Landlockedness, Mental Maps, Coastal space Language: en Author-Name: Douglas Yates Author-Name: Francis Onditi Author-Name: Christiane Rafidinarivo Author-Name: Giovanni Valensisi Author-Name: Alberto Munisso Author-Name: Vuyo Mjimba Author-Name: Raymond Steenkamp Fonseca Author-Name: James Moronge Author-Name: Edmond M. Were Author-Name: Shadrack Kithiia Author-Name: Jaimal Anand Author-Name: Ken Walibora Author-Name: George Atisa Author-Name: Simone Smith-Godfrey Author-Name: Dan Kuwali Author-Name: Israel Nyaburi Nyadera Author-Name: Douglas Yates Author-Name: Francis Onditi Edition: 1 Year: 2021 Month: January Publication-Status: File-Url: https://static-dev.vernonpress.com/files/public/d23bc97a-2d1a-47d7-b8ac-3e604866b3d7/1605000183.pdf File-Size: 264596 File-Format: application/pdf Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/1084 Creation-Date: 2020-04-23 ISBN: 978-1-64889-021-5 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:1084 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: Work Appropriation and Social Inequality Abstract: This volume is a collection of subject-oriented studies on paid work. Each chapter refers to the social structures that form conditions for peoples’ working contexts and interprets workers’ and employees’ narrations on work. Work appropriation—a process of formation of subjectivity, in which workers and employees relate to the social status of their occupations and the use-value of their work in actively dealing with the work’s content and conditions—serves as a comprehensive concept for each varying subject-oriented approach in the volume. ‘Work Appropriation and Social Inequality’ focuses on social inequality, understood as the distribution of life chances that privilege some and discriminate others and reveals the unequal conditions for, and outcomes of, work appropriation. By analyzing work appropriation, it uses a broader concept than that of ‘meaning of work’ or ‘meaningful work’ as it includes the practice and processes of working. The volume’s subject-oriented approach to work differs from the stream ‘subjectivation’ in going beyond individuals’ desires for self-realization in work and to companies’ requirements of accessing emotional and personal dimensions of their workforce. The volume contains three parts the first lays out basic approaches to work appropriation and social inequality, the second analyses current threats to work appropriation in the UK and Germany, and the third consists of a philosophical outlook on work in the Anthropocene. The book’s impact lies in pushing forward the debate on how work appropriations are linked to unequal social structures. It will therefore appeal to social scientists interested in social inequality, sociology of work and organization, as well as students and teachers at the undergraduate and graduate level in the areas of social sciences. Keywords: Class, Labor-process, Alienation, Subject, Recognition, use value, social inequality Language: en Author-Name: Paul Thompson Author-Name: Mirela Ivanova Author-Name: Antonia Kupfer Author-Name: Charles Umney Author-Name: Friedericke Hardering Author-Name: Stefanie Huertgen Author-Name: Wolfgang Menz Author-Name: Sarah Nies Author-Name: Silke Roth Author-Name: Stephan Voswinkel Author-Name: Ruth Yeoman Author-Name: Genevieve Coderre-LaPalme Author-Name: Felix Nickel Author-Name: Helene Thaa Author-Name: Antonia Kupfer Edition: 1 Year: 2021 Month: September Publication-Status: File-Url: https://static-dev.vernonpress.com/files/public/ab4b9e64-bf29-4435-aaf8-2390fee07a2d/1622199715.pdf File-Size: 237052 File-Format: application/pdf Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/1105 Creation-Date: 2020-04-30 ISBN: 978-1-64889-041-3 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:1105 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: Passion killers: The art of passion killing in the age of stress and anxiety Abstract: There is growing pressure and stress placed on organisations to fight for customers and service/product placement in an increasingly competitive global marketplace. It has, therefore, never been more important to get the best out of the workforce. To achieve this, the role of the leader can be a fundamental factor in organisational success or failure. Leaders need to have the requisite skills to reflect the demands placed upon them in the 21st century. There are the “accidental managers” who just drop into the role of leadership and others who may develop skills and knowledge in readiness for a leadership role. There are also those who may have the innate ability to lead. Within the mix are those who are characterised by traits associated with the “dark triad” or who may use “pathocratic influence” on others to conform, reinforcing values (or lack of values) associated with toxic leadership. They create damage and harm. They become “passion killers”. The result can lead to a “pathocracy”. This book discusses the role emotional intelligence plays in helping people deal with stressful and challenging experiences, suggesting different ways to cope. The author reflects on the values that are integral to the success or failure of an organisation. “Passion” is identified as an added value that can differentiate one organisation from another. If passion is harmed, it can affect motivation, creativity, output, performance, and productivity. Therefore, this book provides the reader with examples of “passion killing” while making suggestions as to factors that can be adopted to engage and encourage passion. Conclusions are drawn and recommendations made to support those faced with “passion killers”. This book is aimed at those of all ages and educational backgrounds interested in developing their leadership knowledge and skills. It is also aimed at those interested in learning more about differences in personality, emotional intelligence, stress, coping, values, and the importance of understanding the impact of “passion killers”. Keywords: Personality, well-being, emotional intelligence, leadership, stress, burnout, soul searching, exhaustion, psychological strain, coping, anxiety, values, the dark triad, narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy, pathocratic influence, pathocracy, passion killers, passion killing, paranoia, passion, management theory, toxic organisation, toxic leadership, organisational change, passion as a leadership skill, leadership styles, uncertainty, self-esteem, empathy, empathic blindness, inspirational, inspire, creative, dignity, respect, commitment, motivation, inclusive Language: en Author-Name: Phillip Walden Bowen Edition: 1 Year: 2021 Month: September Publication-Status: File-Url: https://static-dev.vernonpress.com/files/public/ca4fe3bc-2428-4c3e-8c9f-c7ee8b7bc952/1626940545.pdf File-Size: 1191883 File-Format: application/pdf Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/1106 Creation-Date: 2020-04-30 ISBN: 978-1-64889-042-0 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:1106 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: Topics on Art and Money Abstract: The title of this book is intended to be an honest one, far from exaggerated phrases and empty meanings. Three words, a preposition, and a coordinating conjunction ‘Topics on Art and Money’. A coordinating conjunction, not a subordinating one, since this book does not intend to express a hierarchical order. As all words united by a coordinating conjunction, this book intends to connect them. As simple as that. This book presents, through the chapters written by its authors, some of the ways in which Art and Money are linked. In order to observe this relationship, this book consists of authors whose analysis refers to political propaganda, historical events with artistic repercussions or strictly economic analysis of the art market, for example. “And” connects, “or” divides. This book not only presents a connection between Art and Money, but between academics from different fields and geographical areas. This humble book presents, precisely, how individuals from different specialties think of this relationship. It will appeal to academics dedicated to Arts Economics and Cultural Management, professionals from the art market/world with an interest in works of an academic nature, and general readers with an interest in this topic and a strong knowledge of Arts Economics. Keywords: Art Galleries Management, Art Market, Artistic Propaganda, Arts Economics, Arts Marketing, Contemporary Art Market, Contemporary Art, Creative Industries, Cultural Industries, Economic Sociology, Money, Museum Management, Sociology of art Language: en Author-Name: Mariano Turzi Author-Name: Gladys Pierpauli Author-Name: Irini Liakopoulou Author-Name: Nat Hardy Author-Name: Vladan Kuzmanovic Author-Name: Marek Prokupek Author-Name: Aritra De Author-Name: Kevin Xiong Author-Name: Adrià Harillo Pla Edition: 1 Year: 2021 Month: April Publication-Status: File-Url: https://static-dev.vernonpress.com/files/public/2a014c7d-5d6c-4ca3-b4b9-c8312175a3c0/1611131105.pdf File-Size: 147343 File-Format: application/pdf Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/1112 Creation-Date: 2020-05-07 ISBN: 978-1-64889-048-2 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:1112 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: Liberty & Prosperity: Liberal economics for achieving universal prosperity Abstract: ‘Liberty & Prosperity Liberal Economics for Achieving Universal Prosperity’ aims to illuminate alternative policy framework using liberal economic policies. The evolution of this book is grounded in the author’s personal and professional experience investigating economies around the world and therefore takes a global view. The ideas discussed are intended for countries currently under different stages of development and are not restricted to only developed countries or emerging economies. This book examines what we as a society can do to achieve universal prosperity with the recurring topic of the intertwining nature of liberty and prosperity; without prosperity, man cannot have true liberty, and the best way to achieve universal prosperity is by providing liberty to all. It identifies the appropriate measures from existing liberal theories that could help achieve this long-term goal, while also introducing contrarian ideas, including the elimination of income tax, denationalization of money, and the reduction in the role of central banks. The central theme is that liberty in all aspects of economic activity, coupled with universal basic income, could create universal prosperity. This book will particularly appeal to those with a general interest in the economy and business, as well as students who seek an overview of classical macroeconomic principles; however, the book’s innovative ideas may also be of interest to professional economists. Keywords: Free market economics, Austrian school of economics, Georgism, Libertarianism, Classical liberalism Language: en Author-Name: Gopi Krishna Suvanam Edition: 1 Year: 2021 Month: June Publication-Status: File-Url: https://static-dev.vernonpress.com/files/public/9dc0ec61-c9b5-4d2a-85eb-b2ee75cc1876/1614002446.pdf File-Size: 148433 File-Format: application/pdf Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/1266 Creation-Date: 2021-01-14 ISBN: 978-1-64889-198-4 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:1266 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: Florentine Ariosto Jones: A Yankee in Switzerland and the Early Globalization of the American System of Watchmaking [Hardback, Premium Color] Abstract: This book recounts the story of Florentine Ariosto Jones, who after the Civil War decided to manufacture watches. Combining the cheap labor available at the time in Switzerland with US manufacturing technologies, Jones embarked on his venture to produce affordable watches for the American market. Consequently, he became a pioneer in the business of outsourcing labor for economic purposes through his contracting of labor to Europe. While the company still exists today, very little is known about Jones. The present book will undoubtedly change this by telling the fascinating story of an American adventurer and his pursuit to globalize American watchmaking at the end of the 19th Century. Keywords: global economic history, history of globalization Language: en Author-Name: Frank Jacob Edition: 1 Year: 2021 Month: September Publication-Status: Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/1360 Creation-Date: 2021-06-28 ISBN: 978-1-64889-289-9 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:1360 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: The Changing Faces of Higher Education Abstract: In a time of rapid change and arising challenges, Millennials are the latest generation to enter high education institutions as junior faculty, administrators, researchers, and scholars. As with each generation they bring new values, perspectives, technological expertise, and expectations. Higher education is facing potentially overwhelming challenges in finances, student debt, relevance, non-traditional hiring, with some institutions facing closure. Academic leaders, often Baby Boomers, attempt to meet these challenges while still tied to traditions from a bygone time. The Changing Faces of Higher Education gives voice to Millennial academics and their perspective of higher education. This thought-provoking volume provides the insights and lessons from Millennials working in higher education across various subfields. The contributing authors speak from divergent institutions including small mid-western private colleges to larger East coast public institutions and many locations in-between. The contributing authors are not limited to faculty but covers a range of professionals working in higher education. While diverse, all the authors focus on the challenges in teaching, mentorship, and leadership, challenges related to diversity, and improving technology and research. The thirteen chapters in this book address ongoing challenges faced by Millennials working in higher education, offers advice and best practices, and addresses the ways that Millennials serve as a bridge between their “Boomer” colleagues and Gen Z who make up the majority of currently enrolled college students. Each chapter presents the experiences of the author(s) and the strategies utilized to navigate the increasingly fast changing landscape of higher education. Keywords: Language: en Author-Name: Lacey J. Ritter Author-Name: Anisah Bagasra Author-Name: M. Blair Thomas Author-Name: Catherine Lammert Author-Name: Andrea Malek Ash Author-Name: Amy Tondreau Author-Name: Zachary T. Barnes Author-Name: Matt Hiatt Author-Name: Jason DeHart Author-Name: Meagan Albrant Author-Name: Samantha F. Quinn Author-Name: Terra Rasmussen Lenox Author-Name: Marni E. Fisher Author-Name: Kimiya Sohrab Maghzi Author-Name: Erin L. Wisniewski Author-Name: Candace Lapan Author-Name: Paige Rawson Author-Name: Edward L. Case Author-Name: Sha Huang Author-Name: Jonathan Wesley Author-Name: Mitchell B. Mackinem Author-Name: Lacey J. Ritter Author-Name: Anisah Bagasra Edition: 1 Year: 2022 Month: May Publication-Status: File-Url: https://static-dev.vernonpress.com/files/public/9dfd799e-7c78-4a23-9d97-bc96e5cf7088/1642428642.pdf File-Size: 204868 File-Format: application/pdf Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/1426 Creation-Date: 2021-11-03 ISBN: 978-1-64889-350-6 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:1426 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: Leading and Managing Open and Distance e-Learning (ODeL) Institutions in Africa Abstract: 'Leading and Managing Open and Distance E-Learning (ODeL) Institutions in Africa' focuses on e-learning, especially in developing countries in Africa. The outbreak of COVID-19 has forced most educational institutions, including conventional institutions in higher education, to embrace e-learning as a tool to ensure that education is not paralysed but continues to thrive. However, the major challenge has been shifting focus from the conventional face-to-face mode to the e-learning mode. This calls for a change of mindset and a review of practices to ensure success in implementing e-learning. This book has 12 chapters that explore the leadership theories and approaches that influence administrative practices in ODeL institutions, as well as student support within library and information services, the complexities of student affairs, the inclusion of students with special needs, the contemporary issues of innovation and industrialisation, and effective marketing techniques for the survival and growth of tertiary institutions. It is hoped that the recipients of this book can acquire the theoretical and practical knowledge relevant to the successful implementation of e-learning. Keywords: Leadership in distance education, Management in distance education, Distance e-learning Language: en Author-Name: Cuthbert Majoni Author-Name: Richard Bukaliya Author-Name: Felix Chikosha Author-Name: Gilliet Chigunwe Author-Name: Kudzayi Chiwanza Author-Name: Crispen Chiome Author-Name: Ritta Kasowe Author-Name: Tichaona Mapolisa Author-Name: Moffat Tarusikirwa Author-Name: Cuthbert Majoni Edition: 1 Year: 2022 Month: September Publication-Status: File-Url: https://static-dev.vernonpress.com/files/public/2f8cac50-bce1-4e78-8e62-8ec4eec93b0b/1664199621.pdf File-Size: 173234 File-Format: application/pdf Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/1428 Creation-Date: 2021-11-11 ISBN: 978-1-64889-352-0 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:1428 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: Effective Corporate Governance: Theory and Best Practices Abstract: Corporate governance has attracted considerable attention worldwide, especially in light of the widely publicized, high-profile global corporate failures and scandals. Since Corporate Governance contributes to the success of any institution, it must therefore be prioritized. In this very practical book, 'Effective Corporate Governance' explores the theories and models of corporate governance as well as the regulatory framework in which corporate governance operates. The authors have also talked about the pillars and best practices for good governance, including what a good board looks like and, at the same time, giving practical ideas on how to measure corporate governance health and what to do to get back on track. In addition, it includes case studies from the African context where the authors have extensively consulted with both for profit, not for profit and government institutions. This book will keep you relevant and ahead of the game whether you are a leader or student of leadership in the public or private sector, a religious institution or even a small and medium enterprise. Keywords: Governance Relationships, Models of Corporate Governance, Board of Directors, Organizational performance, e-corporate governance Language: en Author-Name: Kirimi Barine Author-Name: David Minja Edition: 1 Year: 2023 Month: March Publication-Status: File-Url: https://static-dev.vernonpress.com/files/public/cdb68d2c-b982-4ec6-891f-3f7b4310460b/1678792147.pdf File-Size: 220979 File-Format: application/pdf Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/1609 Creation-Date: 2022-09-08 ISBN: 978-1-64889-531-9 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:1609 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: Advances in Brand Semiotics & Discourse Analysis Abstract: This volume addresses some of the most important conceptual, methodological, and empirical challenges and opportunities with which the sister disciplines of semiotics and discourse analysis are mutually confronted in the context of considering new avenues of cross-disciplinary application to distinctive branding research streams. In continuation of the collective volume 'Handbook of Brand Semiotics' (Kassel University Press, 2015), which sought to consolidate relevant scholarship and to identify the main territories that have been established at the cross-roads between branding and semiotic research, the current 'Advances in Brand Semiotics & Discourse Analysis' aims at accomplishing further strides in critical areas, such as the exigency for reconsidering the aptness of existing semiotic theories in the face of the radically shifting co-creative landscape of digital branding, the benefits of systematically micro-analyzing brand communities’ discourses by drawing on CAQDAS programs, the combination of big data analytics with discourse theory in corpus analysis, and the epistemological issues that emerge while combining discourse analysis with time-hallowed marketing qualitative and quantitative research methods. At the same time, the volume hosts a resourceful blend of empirical studies and novel conceptual frameworks in burgeoning streams, such as place, heritage, culinary, personal, and political branding. Keywords: Discourse analysis, brand semiotics, branding, digital branding, brand heritage, culinary branding, political branding, personal branding, corpus analysis, mixed methods, epistemology, interdisciplinarity Language: en Author-Name: Evinç Doğan Author-Name: George Rossolatos Author-Name: John A. Bateman Author-Name: Cinzia Bianchi Author-Name: Ruggero Ragonese Author-Name: Mercè Oliva Author-Name: Francesc Xavier Ruiz Collantes Author-Name: Susanne Friese Author-Name: Franco Zappettini Author-Name: Dimitris Serafis Author-Name: Kay L. O’Halloran Author-Name: Minhao Jin Author-Name: Francesco Mangiapane Author-Name: Davide Puca Author-Name: George Rossolatos Edition: 1 Year: 2023 Month: March Publication-Status: File-Url: https://static-dev.vernonpress.com/files/public/a4f25871-ff18-4284-9090-539c7d36551b/1672833802.pdf File-Size: 258103 File-Format: application/pdf Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/1669 Creation-Date: 2022-11-17 ISBN: 978-1-64889-591-3 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:1669 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: Reimagining Capitalism: Applying Negative Dialectics for a Better Future Abstract: The Covid-19 pandemic reinforced the perception that capitalism is in crisis, that the future is volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous, and that, increasingly, our thinking about it and ability to manage and organize ourselves within it, are challenges we are ill-equipped for. Despite the efforts of many writers, and a surfeit of manuscripts concerning the need to rethink capitalism, questions concerning the struggle for social and economic justice remain unanswered. While some suggest that with corrective action, businesses can save the world, there is an acceptance that they cannot do so alone. However, while governments might strengthen their institutions, enacting more effective policies, the challenge is simply laid bare at the feet of industry and commerce. Is the challenge to confront the establishment just too big to face? Government institutions and the barons of industry and commerce are but interrelated, interconnected, interplaying components in one socio-economic system. This book offers readers a progressive, radical and academic provocation of that system; it also proposes a field of Applied Negative Dialectics. In 'Reimagining Capitalism', Atkinson confronts the need to rethink capitalism and presents an integrated range of thinking through a lens of applied negative dialectics, questioning how and why things might have occurred, and where and how we might begin to improve them. Keywords: Dialectics, Adorno, aesthetics, enterprise, future of work Language: en Author-Name: David M. Atkinson Edition: 1 Year: 2023 Month: April Publication-Status: File-Url: https://static-dev.vernonpress.com/files/public/7b63bf52-6281-4273-99cb-29f5b3a18453/1681476380.pdf File-Size: 710222 File-Format: application/pdf Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/1673 Creation-Date: 2022-11-21 ISBN: 978-1-64889-595-1 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:1673 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: Handbook of Research on Cross-culture Business and Management Abstract: As organizations and businesses continue to expand in the cross-border and multicultural markets, culture needs to be taken into consideration. At present, culture introduces significant changes in the core assumptions of business practices and skill expectations. Gaining cross-cultural compatibility is now a serious concern for businesses and organizations. Appreciating the overall view of cross-cultural business environment, 'Handbook of Research on Cross-culture Business and Management' is a significant attempt to contribute a piece of knowledge on different aspects of cross-cultural business and management, facilitating practitioners and academicians to explore different cross-cultural business practices and develop competencies. This book will be a unique source for cross-cultural business and management practices, helping people of both industry and academia to understand the cross-cultural business environment and improve management practices. Keywords: Cross-Cultural Business; Cross-Cultural Management; International Business; Managing Cultural Diversity; Cultural Barriers; Cross-cultural Competencies; Cross-Cultural Learning; Cultural Sensitivity; Multi-Cultural Organizations; Cross-Cultural Intelligence; Cultural Intelligence; Cross-Cultural Business Ethics; Cross-Cultural Workplace Conflicts; Inclusion Practices; Cross-Cultural Negotiation; Diversity Management Language: en Author-Name: Jeremy Kwok Author-Name: Chandan Maheshkar Author-Name: Vinod Sharma Author-Name: Yvonne Kamegne Author-Name: Joyram Chakraborty Author-Name: James Phelan Author-Name: Rupa Rathee Author-Name: Madhvi Lamba Author-Name: Tarika Nandedkar Author-Name: Amit Kumar Author-Name: Rachna Bajaj Author-Name: Gaurav Gupta Author-Name: Rachna Bansal Author-Name: Rauno Rusko Author-Name: Deepti Sinha Author-Name: Sachin Sinha Author-Name: Xiaodan Zhang Author-Name: Arti Sharma Author-Name: Sushant Bhargava Author-Name: Chandra Sekhar Patro Author-Name: Rifat Kamasak Author-Name: Mustafa F. Özbilgin Author-Name: Kurt April Author-Name: Meltem Yavuz Sercekman Author-Name: Joana Vassilopoulou Author-Name: José G. Vargas-Hernández Author-Name: Ernesto Guerra García Author-Name: Chandan Maheshkar Author-Name: Vinod Sharma Edition: 1 Year: 2023 Month: April Publication-Status: File-Url: https://static-dev.vernonpress.com/files/public/16871e03-b0ad-4b54-8dae-caa3f3befa62/1681476295.pdf File-Size: 553288 File-Format: application/pdf Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/1679 Creation-Date: 2022-11-22 ISBN: 978-1-64889-601-9 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:1679 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: Economics of Economy Pricing Abstract: The economy of the industrialized countries in the 21st century has already moved to a new level of mass production and technology never seen before, thanks in part to globalization, advanced technologies, new organization management methods, and innovative supply chain. A relatively large number of mass-produced commodities (characterized as non-premium) and services in Western economies are somehow sold at discounts rather than regular prices at a much higher frequency that was never seen before. This phenomenon has completely changed how we look at the theory of the firm in microeconomics. This book is indented to introduce new ideas and theories by challenging the current modern micro-and-macro economic theories. In a globalized world, the economies of advanced countries have entered a new phase called “economy pricing,” where most of the mass commodities are sold at a low price during certain periods of the year, called ‘sales events’. In addition to low prices, most industrialized countries have had record low inflation, low-interest rates, low growth, and low unemployment rates. This book will contend how the “Economy Pricing System” is about to revolutionize how people look at a real economy’s micro and macro effects. Keywords: Currency Depreciation, the Balance of Trade, Flexible Exchange rates, Fixed Exchange Rates, Gold Standard, International Monetary System, Trade Policies, Credibility and Optimization in Monetary Policy, Global Reserve Currency, Monetary Policy Coordination, Exchange Rate Regimes, Shock absorbers, Optimum Currency Areas, Monetary Unions, Fiscal Federalism, Eurozone, Monetary Blocks, Financial Crises, Debt Crisis, Quantitative Easing Language: en Author-Name: Marin Muzhani Edition: 1 Year: 2023 Month: August Publication-Status: File-Url: https://static-dev.vernonpress.com/files/public/c29dccd0-f2a8-4537-8e21-9c6392211d35/1684999691.pdf File-Size: 179632 File-Format: application/pdf Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/1750 Creation-Date: 2023-03-30 ISBN: 978-1-64889-670-5 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:1750 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: Cross-cultural Business and Management: Perspectives and Practices Abstract: Culture is a 'cumulative custom of beliefs, values, rituals, and sanctions practiced by a group of people, province or country'. It is a more sensitive dimension of internationalization of any business and making it perform in a culturally diverse environment. Sometimes, nations/states lose their normative significance in a cross-cultural setting (e.g., India, South America). It is because they undermine their earlier philosophies of norms, values, and beliefs or neglect the cultural significance of other nations. In the current business and workplace dynamics, cultural components introduced significant changes in the core assumptions of business practices and skill expectations. This paradigm shift has forced business executives and managers to know how cultural differences affect inter- and intra-organizational functioning. It has made gaining cross-cultural compatibility a serious concern for business and academic communities worldwide. Therefore, this book facilitates business leaders, expatriate managers, business executives, academicians and scholars to explore different cross-cultural business perspectives and practices. Keywords: Cross-Cultural Business; Cross-Cultural Management; International Business; Managing Cultural Diversity; Cultural Barriers; Cross-cultural Competencies; Cross-Cultural Learning; Cultural Sensitivity; Multi-Cultural Organizations; Cross-Cultural Intelligence; Cultural Intelligence; Cross-Cultural Business Ethics; Cross-Cultural Workplace Conflicts; Inclusion Practices; Cross-Cultural Negotiation; Diversity Management Language: en Author-Name: Chandan Maheshkar Author-Name: Suvro Parui Author-Name: Vinod Sharma Author-Name: José G. Vargas-Hernández Author-Name: Etayankara Muralidharan Author-Name: Wenxia Guo Author-Name: Hasan Koç Author-Name: Barıs Ülker Author-Name: Levent Arslan Author-Name: Lisa Gibson Author-Name: Nicole S. Knight Author-Name: Anuj Kumar Author-Name: Priyanka Chadha Author-Name: Raghavan Srinivasan Author-Name: Mladen Adamovic Author-Name: Jérôme Dumetz Author-Name: M. C. Omar C. Vargas-González Author-Name: Chandan Maheshkar Author-Name: Vinod Sharma Edition: 1 Year: 2023 Month: September Publication-Status: File-Url: https://static-dev.vernonpress.com/files/public/81128209-b515-4a19-9fff-0355a9cb2206/1685963604.pdf File-Size: 213251 File-Format: application/pdf Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/1776 Creation-Date: 2023-05-02 ISBN: 978-1-64889-694-1 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:1776 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: Mantha: Alchemies of the Cultural Turn Abstract: Set against the rich and troubled tapestry of the West’s Greco-Roman inheritance, the Sanskrit root 'manth/-', which roughly translates to “a churn” ('mantha') or “to churn” ('manth'), serves as a cauldron into which age-old binaries are blended. A mantha of the Greek metaphysical notion of the One and the Many drives explorations of a variety of themes, including the Feminine and the Masculine, Self and Other, East and West, Heroes and Monsters, Olympians and Titans, Creativity and Innovation. Accordingly, the psychoanalytic canon is (re)introduced to a diversity of perspectives, from linguistics and Translation Studies to educational theory and horror fiction. Guided by the 'Opus Contra Culturam', Warford, infusing his background in linguistics, Translation Studies, Spanish, Sociocultural Theory, and Global Humanities, demonstrates the importance of stretching beyond what is known in one’s cultural milieu, that “one” taking many forms the citizen, the student, the professional, the innovator, the scholar, and the infinite intersections of group identifications into which we are susceptible to being siloed. Specific topics include cultural complexes and trauma, Titanism, integrative approaches to human development and learning theory, the Monstrous, as well as creativity and innovation studies. Keywords: Jung, Archetypal psychology, Greek mythology, Cultural anxiety, Monstrous, Creativity, Innovation, Titanism, Wolfgang Giegerich Language: en Author-Name: Mark K. Warford Edition: 1 Year: 2023 Month: September Publication-Status: File-Url: https://static-dev.vernonpress.com/files/public/de3ca411-5bdb-4178-b91b-12f316df88cd/1692005045.pdf File-Size: 381023 File-Format: application/pdf Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/1813 Creation-Date: 2023-06-08 ISBN: 978-1-64889-733-7 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:1813 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: The theory of the kingdom: A unified model of human agency Abstract: This original monograph presents a comprehensive theory regarding the economy of the kingdom of God. The theory and associated model will help individuals make better choices. The research integrates fundamentals of the temporal real economy, and the permanent economy of the kingdom of God, to present a unified model of human agency. According to the model, effective agents are salt and light in the real economy, arresting corruption and revealing the truth. Effective agency produces life, peace, and growth. Individual and organizational practices that arrest corruption and reveal truth can resolve longstanding economic grievances. The list of spiritual credence goods is extensive and includes commonly known virtues such as humility, patience, and hope. Spiritual goods are allocated based on the owner-agent relationship. The quantity of goods the owner supplies is in proportion to an individual’s sacrificial offering of time and money. Spiritual goods are stored as heart capital. In a process analogous to the real economy, heart labor applied to heart capital produces desirable outputs. The owner relates to his agents through a heart-inscribed behavioral contract. The owner generally intervenes in the real economy by communicating with agents rather than by restricting choice. Prior studies across economics, finance, and sociology prove the efficiency of behavioral contracts and communication over restricted choice. Herein researchers will find new testable propositions, and practitioners will find new ideas and practices to live better, more consequential lives. Examples of practical applications include methods of resolving group-level bias and understanding the purpose of life’s difficulties. Keywords: Economy, non-monetary economics, kingdom of God, governance, objective function, agency costs, eschatology, heart capital, heart labor, bonding, credence goods Language: en Author-Name: Andrew Root Edition: 1 Year: 2024 Month: January Publication-Status: File-Url: https://static-dev.vernonpress.com/files/public/9db55024-0dad-4640-9bc1-c9054409c86a/1697448671.pdf File-Size: 358947 File-Format: application/pdf Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/1837 Creation-Date: 2023-07-07 ISBN: 978-1-64889-757-3 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:1837 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: Development in Africa's Informal Settlements: Below the Proletariat Abstract: This book discusses the effectiveness of international development programs in African informal settlements (slums). It also represents the voices of slum dwellers and how they view the programs offered. With over 60% of Africans living in slums, the book intends to foster dialogue among development professionals to determine how to improve service to their clients, people experiencing extreme poverty. This book examines the critical thinking disconnect between development professionals and slum dwellers. It enables practitioners, professors, and their students to investigate the gap between the types of development programs offered versus what is most beneficial to reduce extreme poverty in slum communities. With a sample of 500 residents from Mukuru Slum in Nairobi, Kenya, and 100 development professionals with expertise in poverty reduction in slums, this book sheds light on the similarities and differences between various programs. Most importantly, this book provides a theoretical way forward (The Theory of Extreme Poverty Reduction) based on Freirean pedagogy to stimulate discussion on how to program new strategies for authentic dialogue with slum dwellers that leads to the critical consciousness necessary for successful poverty reduction. Keywords: Extreme Poverty, Africa, Slums, Informal Settlements, UNSDGs, Development Language: en Author-Name: Angela R. Pashayan Edition: 1 Year: 2023 Month: December Publication-Status: File-Url: https://static-dev.vernonpress.com/files/public/7d9ae619-e106-472f-b23d-88d6ec3c9376/1700046097.pdf File-Size: 488973 File-Format: application/pdf Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/1854 Creation-Date: 2023-08-02 ISBN: 978-1-64889-774-0 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:1854 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: Transfiction: Characters in Search of Translation Studies Abstract: This book explores the uses of translation, translators, and interpreters in fiction as a gateway to introduce issues related to Translation Studies. The volume follows recent scholarship on Transfiction, a term used to describe the portrayal of translation (both a topic and a motif), as well as translators and interpreters in fiction and film. It expands on the research by Kalus Kaindl, Karleheinz Splitzl, Michael Cronin, and Rosemary Arrojo, among others. Although the volume reflects the preoccupation with translator visibility, it concentrates on the importance of power struggles within the translatorial task. The volume could be an invaluable tool to be used for pedagogical purposes to discuss theoretical aspects within Translation and Interpreting Studies. Keywords: court interpreting, ethics, fiction, gender, interpreter, intimacy, (in)visibility, subversion, transcreation, Transfiction, translator Language: en Author-Name: Yan Wu Author-Name: Marko Miletich Author-Name: Marella Feltrin-Morris Author-Name: Irem Ayan Author-Name: Caragh Barry Author-Name: Sheela Mahadevan Author-Name: Marko Miletich Edition: 1 Year: 2024 Month: January Publication-Status: File-Url: https://static-dev.vernonpress.com/files/public/abc5663d-1dc4-4be6-a17a-4af0916ebb52/1698318443.pdf File-Size: 180033 File-Format: application/pdf Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/1870 Creation-Date: 2023-09-12 ISBN: 978-1-64889-790-0 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:1870 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: New quality management for the nonprofit sector Abstract: For a long time, quality has been the center of attention in the nonprofit sector, influenced by all kinds of developments in society. Due to, among other things, the interference of the government and the increasing competition, all divisions in the nonprofit sector are obliged to work systematically with their quality. Quality has become necessary. However, as more people gain experience with quality assessments, visitations, and accreditations, so does the criticism. This has to do with how quality is assessed and with the criteria that are used. We will examine this critically in this book. Many questions remain unanswered, and contradictions have not been resolved. Moreover, it is no easy task to have all noses pointing in the same direction. In short, there is still work to be done. This book broadens the traditional vision of quality and quality assurance to a vision and approach that is compatible with the support of the organization’s missions in the nonprofit sector. Incidentally, we will speak of quality development rather than quality assurance. The use of the term ‘quality development’ hopes to inspire people to look differently at quality and how their organization deals with it. Furthermore, this book provides nonprofit organizations with methodologies and tools that can help in the process of permanent quality development. The pursuit of quality for nonprofit organizations is approached from a development perspective and a broader social context. This distinguishes it from the traditional quality management manuals. It offers a constructive and appreciative approach that is compatible with the specific mission of various nonprofit organizations (such as education, health care, social work, and government). The approach is also integral because everyone in the organization, as well as the external partners, is involved. Keywords: Quality development, quality management, relational practices, appreciative approach, quality culture Language: en Author-Name: Guido Cuyvers Edition: 1 Year: 2024 Month: January Publication-Status: File-Url: https://static-dev.vernonpress.com/files/public/c2a015b2-9947-4ad8-874c-a371e8b75e50/1701702629.pdf File-Size: 218289 File-Format: application/pdf Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/1886 Creation-Date: 2023-10-24 ISBN: 978-1-64889-806-8 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:1886 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: Whisk of the Red Broom: Stalin & Ukraine, 1928-1933 Abstract: Once Joseph Stalin took the lead of the Soviet Bolshevists after the death of Vladimir Lenin, he quickly turned away from Lenin’s New Economic Policy, with its many concessions to capitalism, to a policy of one-country socialism, driven by his first Five Year Plan (1928) and a plan that other Bolsheviks like Lenin and Trotsky thought impossible. That shift, radical, forced Stalin to “urbanize” the USSR’s vast rural areas—that is, to impose a factory-like model on the Soviet countryside to maximize its efficiency. That required collectivizing the numerous Soviet farms—making large farms of the numerous small farms. Ukraine was to be the model republic due to its vastness and black, fertile lands. Not only were the republics to be collectivized, they were also to be Russified for the sake of model efficiency and centralization of control. And so, while Stalin, early in his political life, preached respect for the cultural diversity of its many republics and the right of secession of any republic, the need to collectivize the Soviet farms for the sake of one-country socialism demanded compliance. Ukrainian peasant-farmers were non-compliant, for they readily saw that the State was asking them for everything and giving back nothing but the pledge of efficient farms to benefit the State, and non-compliance forced Stalin’s authoritarian hand. He imposed laws that brutally punished non-compliant peasants, called “kulaks.” The plan was dekulakization. The intransigents were dispossessed of their property, alienated from other villagers, exiled, and exterminated. The result in Ukraine was the gross inefficiency of both collective and individual farms. That led to intolerance of Ukrainian culture and theft of Ukrainian grain, and even all other findable foodstuffs, to punish Ukrainians. The end was a great famine in 1932 and 1933 in which some four million Ukrainians died. Did Stalin believe that he could urbanize the Soviet countryside? Did Stalin think that socialism could take root in the backwater Soviet Union without the aid of Western succor? Did Stalin hate Ukrainians because many pressed for a cultural identity separate from that of Russia? Had Stalin’s plan of dekulakization from the beginning been a policy of political genocide? Those are some of the many questions I aim to answer in this book. I focus much on Stalin’s writings in the efforts to ascertain his mindset as a dictator. Keywords: Russian Revolution, Ukraine, Bolshevism, Nationalism, Holodomor (the Great Famine of 1932-1933) Language: en Author-Name: M. Andrew Holowchak Edition: 1 Year: 2024 Month: May Publication-Status: File-Url: https://static-dev.vernonpress.com/files/public/5ad05a60-9284-4f7e-bf55-e5b2313172c7/1712577329.pdf File-Size: 258718 File-Format: application/pdf Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/1940 Creation-Date: 2024-01-26 ISBN: 978-1-64889-860-0 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:1940 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: Topics and approaches to studying intelligence Abstract: The goal of "Topics and approaches to studying intelligence" is to bring into sharper focus the evolving nature of intelligence studies, which is in the midst of a period of significant expansion that is taking place across a number of dimensions. Working on this foundation of past and contemporary analytic intelligence studies, the chapters in "Topics and approaches to studying intelligence" highlight areas of debate and disagreement, provide insight into new areas of study and broaden the methodological toolset used by researchers. Both qualitative and quantitative approaches investigate analysis, alliances, competitive/private sector intelligence, gendered practices of intelligence agencies, the nature of intelligence studies scholarship, accreditation, intelligence disclosure for diplomacy, and the sharing of nuclear-related intelligence. Keywords: Alternative analysis, intelligence analysis, intelligence cycle, open source, structured analytical techniques, Alliances, network analysis, Ford-Fulkerson Maximum Flow Minimum Cut algorithm, intelligence alliance dynamics, Competitive advantages, decision theory, risk management, strategic security intelligence teams, Gender, embodiment, organizations, division of labor, sociology of work, ethnography, Analysis, collection, HUMINT, intelligence studies, OSINT, Accreditation, continuous improvement, educational standards, occupational closure, workforce, Disclosure, information age, coercion, Intelligence-sharing, IAEA, open source intelligence, secrecy Language: en Author-Name: Robert Reardon Author-Name: Andrew Macpherson Author-Name: James D. Ramsay Author-Name: John J. Borek Author-Name: Katharine Cunningham Author-Name: Angela Miller Lewis Author-Name: Bridget Rose Nolan Author-Name: Doug Patteson Author-Name: Barry A. Zulauf Author-Name: Ofek Riemer Author-Name: Glenn P. Hastedt Author-Name: Andrew Macpherson Edition: 1 Year: 2024 Month: June Publication-Status: File-Url: https://static-dev.vernonpress.com/files/public/d7a50414-249c-47d4-a382-ab9d69ea9121/1714651228.pdf File-Size: 177244 File-Format: application/pdf Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/1963 Creation-Date: 2024-02-07 ISBN: 978-1-64889-881-5 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:1963 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: Pedagogy: Using Television Shows, Games, and Other Media in the Classroom Abstract: This book takes a dive into moving beyond the essay as the only method for teaching and learning content. Authors range from instructors in K-12 to instructors in higher education and look at concepts as varied as using VR technologies to provide immersive experiences to students to use an app to help supplement teaching. Instructors in a variety of fields, both in and out of the writing classroom, may find project and assignment ideas to argue in their own classrooms. Instructors looking to provide a transformative learning experience in a new way will find lots of options here. Keywords: Transformative learning; virtual reality; games as teaching methods; autism and teaching children with autism; podcasts as teaching tools Language: en Author-Name: Jeaneen Canfield Author-Name: Laura Dumin Author-Name: Jon Simmons Author-Name: Daniel Atwood Author-Name: Andrea Trudeau Author-Name: Jessica Wythe Author-Name: Anastasia R. Wickham Author-Name: Lia Schuermann Author-Name: Leeda Copley Author-Name: Laura Dumin Edition: 1 Year: 2024 Month: May Publication-Status: File-Url: https://static-dev.vernonpress.com/files/public/5d8e4718-1bcf-4793-a589-695bb3360218/1714128519.pdf File-Size: 185287 File-Format: application/pdf Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/1984 Creation-Date: 2024-02-15 ISBN: 978-1-64889-901-0 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:1984 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: Blockchain applications in agriculture: Revolutionizing the food supply chain Abstract: 'Blockchain applications in agriculture Revolutionizing the food supply chain' is your definitive guide to the transformative impact of blockchain technology on agriculture and the modern food supply chain. In this comprehensive volume, we begin with “Introduction to blockchain technology,” laying the groundwork for readers of all backgrounds. From there, we delve into the intricate relationship between blockchain and the agriculture industry in “Overview of the agriculture industry”. The heart of the book explores practical applications in agriculture and the supply chain, including “Blockchain-based supply chain management,” “Farming and crop management,” “Livestock management and animal welfare,” and “Food safety and quality assurance.” We also explore how blockchain revolutionizes “Agricultural finance and insurance” and fosters “Sustainable agriculture and supply chain sustainability”. Drawing on “Case studies and real-world examples,” you’ll see blockchain in action, offering invaluable insights for farmers, supply chain professionals, academics, and policymakers. Our forward-looking chapter, “Future Trends and Challenges of Blockchain,” anticipates the evolving landscape of this groundbreaking technology. This book stands out for its depth, practicality, and relevance. It is equally suitable for reference, as a methodological guide, for classroom adoption, or as essential reading for researchers and practitioners in the fields of agriculture, technology, supply chain management, and policy. Whether you’re seeking to optimize farming practices, enhance supply chain transparency, or understand the regulatory implications, 'Blockchain applications in agriculture' equips you with the knowledge and inspiration needed to navigate the future of food production and distribution. Join the agricultural revolution today. Keywords: Accountability, Adoption, Agreements, Agricultural finance, Agricultural lending, Agriculture, Agriculture industry, Animal welfare, Authenticity, Blockchain technology, Carbon credits, Certifications, Challenges, Consensus mechanisms, Crop management, Data integrity, Data privacy, Data sharing, Decentralized ledger system, Distributed ledgers, Economic sustainability, Efficiency, Energy consumption, Environmental sustainability, Fair trade practices, Farming, Farming processes, Financial transactions, Food origins, Food safety, Food supply chain, Fraud prevention, Future trends, Handling, Implementation, Insurance, Insurance claims, Insurance processes, Intermediaries, Internet of Things, Lessons learned, Livestock health, Livestock management, Monitoring, Outcomes, Potential developments, Quality assurance, Quality control, Real-world use cases, Risk management, Scalability, Security, Sensors, Smart contracts, Social sustainability, Stakeholders, Storage conditions, Supply chain inefficiencies, Supply chain management, Supply chain sustainability, Sustainability, Sustainability metrics, Sustainability practices, Sustainable practices, Traceability, Tracking, Transparency, Trust Language: en Author-Name: Duong Hoai An Edition: 1 Year: 2024 Month: August Publication-Status: File-Url: https://static-dev.vernonpress.com/files/public/b42b5789-0207-4b88-9bd4-94c76ab78357/1721993513.pdf File-Size: 385591 File-Format: application/pdf Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/2035 Creation-Date: 2024-03-13 ISBN: 978-1-64889-949-2 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:2035 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: Nostalgia, Anxiety, Politics: Media and Performing Arts in Egypt, Central-Eastern Europe, and Russia Abstract: This volume shows that the cultural production of nostalgia is a major tool for structuring feelings of resentment and anxiety. The current volume is concerned with collective nostalgia as it has been elicited, channeled, and weaponized by media production agents. The book aims to analyze how the performing arts and media (music, cinema, TV, etc.) generate and shape the feeling of collective nostalgia. It shows how the cultural production of nostalgia reflects distinct social-political contexts and serves particular political purposes. The collective monograph prioritizes cases from the post-Soviet context. However, the authors do not argue that the collapse of the socialist bloc in general, and the USSR in particular, has established some unique nostalgic precedent. The book claims that mechanisms of producing nostalgia and marshaling it for political purposes are broadly similar in most (modern or postmodern) settings. It is not our intent to demonize Russia, nor do we want Russia to be our dominant frame of reference, even if, in most of our cases here, 'nolens volens' appeared first in Russia-centric post-Soviet discourse. The “Russian bloc” has been placed in the second part of the book in order to give primacy to non-Russian subjects. Keywords: collective nostalgia, anxiety, politics, film and TV production, sonic nostalgia, audio-visual nostalgia, tableu vivants Language: en Author-Name: James C. Pearce Author-Name: Karen Elizabeth Bishop Author-Name: Sasha Razor Author-Name: Tetyana Dzyadevych Author-Name: Yelena Severina Author-Name: Olha Voznyuk Author-Name: Miljana Niković Author-Name: Alexandra Bardan Author-Name: Natalia Vasilendiuc Author-Name: Anna Sbitneva Author-Name: Yelena Zotova Author-Name: Tetyana Dzyadevych Edition: 1 Year: 2025 Month: January Publication-Status: File-Url: https://static-dev.vernonpress.com/files/public/a2dd666a-380d-44b0-9fa2-e706e1a0cf2d/1730205844.pdf File-Size: 562019 File-Format: application/pdf Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/2099 Creation-Date: 2024-06-20 ISBN: 979-8-8819-0060-1 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:2099 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: The Digital Shift and the Social Research: Methods and Practices Abstract: 'The Digital Shift and the Social Research Methods and Practices' offers a comprehensive exploration of how the digital era, particularly in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, has transformed the field of social research. Drawing on both theoretical discussions and empirical studies, the book provides an in-depth analysis of the impact of digital tools on research methods, behaviour, and interactions, while addressing the ethical challenges that arise in online contexts. The first part of the book examines the expansion of traditional research methods through digital platforms, with a focus on how these innovations shape social norms and practices. The second part shifts attention to education, presenting strategies to improve student engagement and foster collaborative learning in the virtual classroom. The third part highlights groundbreaking case studies from the University of Salerno, illustrating innovative pedagogical approaches in teaching social research methodology. By integrating insights from across the fields of digital research, pedagogy, and ethics, this work challenges researchers and educators alike to rethink conventional approaches and adapt to the rapidly changing digital environment. Ideal for students, educators, and professionals, it serves as both a reference and a practical guide for navigating the evolving landscape of social research. Original and timely, this book will appeal to academics, practitioners, and researchers in social sciences, providing not only theoretical perspectives but also hands-on solutions for digital research and learning environments. Keywords: Online ethnography, virtual fieldwork, remote teaching tools, digital surveys, data privacy in research, e-learning platforms, hybrid learning models, digital literacy, social media analytics, computational social science, big data in social research, virtual collaboration, user-generated content, network analysis, asynchronous learning, algorithmic bias in research Language: en Author-Name: Paolo Diana Edition: 1 Year: 2025 Month: July Publication-Status: File-Url: https://static-dev.vernonpress.com/files/public/9bcd7a31-7ec1-4588-80b0-4ba43d5e061d/1753177946.pdf File-Size: 174803 File-Format: application/pdf Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/2117 Creation-Date: 2024-07-24 ISBN: 979-8-8819-0077-9 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:2117 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: Central Banking and Monetary Policy in the G20: Paradigms and Challenges Abstract: Behind productive and prosperous economies are independent central banks that implement effective monetary policies. This observation is especially valid for the G20, which comprises the world’s top twenty economies in terms of gross domestic product and the largest stakeholders of the global economic system. These economies include Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea, Turkey, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the European Union. Three features of this book, which focuses on central banking and monetary policy in the G20, an intergovernmental platform, stand out Firstly, as contemporary theories and global practices confirm, the main purpose of central banks is to ensure monetary and price stability, not despite the government but in cooperation with it. This principle is strongly emphasized here. Governments, which must maintain fiscal discipline, are key to the success of central banks in combating inflation and deflation. Secondly, since the authors of the book chapters come from various countries and academic institutions, the book offers a range of perspectives and intellectual richness. Without deviating from the book's main axis, the authors examine the changing paradigms in central banking and the increasing challenges of monetary policy. This examination is based on developed and emerging economies, integrations, financial organizations, and economic crises within the G20, informed by significant sources. Thirdly, this book offers university researchers, professional business practitioners, and curious readers the opportunity to explore and reflect on new concepts such as green central banking, digital money, and interest-free monetary policies, which have gained prominence in the wake of the global COVID-19 pandemic, alongside mainstream topics. It is hoped that this book, consisting of 14 chapters, will inspire those who wish to conduct new and renewed academic studies on global central banks and monetary policies and will fill a gap in the literature. Keywords: Bretton Woods System, Fixed Exchange Rate regime, Modern Central Banking, Central Bank Independence, Stress Testing, Climate Factors, Cyclical Green Capital Buffers, Differentiated Capital Requirements, Loan-to-value Ratio, Loan-to-income Ratio Limits, Large Exposure Controls, Micro-prudential Regulation, Financial Supervision, Disclosure Requirements, ESG Risk Management, Reserve Requirements, Green Asset Ratio Language: en Author-Name: Mehmet Kaya Author-Name: Jeremy Kwok Author-Name: Irfan Kalayci Author-Name: İlhan Eroğlu Author-Name: Nalan Kangal Author-Name: Fatih Yeter Author-Name: Necati Çoban Author-Name: John Marangos Author-Name: Nikos Astroulakis Author-Name: Themis Anthrakidis Author-Name: Angeliki Nestoroudi Author-Name: Paraskevi Kyrilla Author-Name: Sevgi İneci Author-Name: Aukje van Loon Author-Name: Hazik Mohamed Author-Name: Esra Güler Author-Name: Halil Seyidoğlu Author-Name: Aatos Hallipelto Author-Name: Cumhur C. Küçüközmen Author-Name: Mahir Fisunoğlu Author-Name: Metin Akyüz Author-Name: Gökhan Karhan Author-Name: Mücahit Çayın Author-Name: M. Ali Seyidoğlu Author-Name: M. Uzair Zulkifly Author-Name: İsmail Özsoy Author-Name: Birol Görmez Author-Name: Hatice Özkurt Çokgüngör Author-Name: Irfan Kalayci Edition: 1 Year: 2024 Month: September Publication-Status: File-Url: https://static-dev.vernonpress.com/files/public/16386a78-cf79-46b7-bcf4-1f8933c542c7/1727347134.pdf File-Size: 310803 File-Format: application/pdf Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/2122 Creation-Date: 2024-08-07 ISBN: 979-8-8819-0082-3 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:2122 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: Making of the Popular: Production of Culture and Discourses in Bangladesh Abstract: This book aims to illustrate how the 'popular' is not an arbitrary outcome as it is claimed to be, and how the project of constructing the popular functions as a web composed of different agents - governmental and state agencies, the media, corporate groups, development agencies, and the military with subtle nuances. Different agencies overlap in many aspects but work as a pact for making a national-popular. With specific references to Bangladesh, this book tends to illuminate how these agencies share similar missions and objectives, create spaces to collaborate with each other, and, regardless of specific disputes among them, maintain and manifest an oligarchic relationship. This is the flexible, yet definitive, location of the popularizing project - a 'cultural mission' of the ruling systems. It would deny a simplistic understanding of popular culture and posit the question of the popular within a complex web of social agencies in a particular space, at a specific historical juncture. Making popular here is integral to claiming populist credibility both as a cultural and political mission. It is cultural in the way the projects are launched and manifested and seek to reveal certain meanings. It is political in terms of configuring indoctrination over its subjects, mostly in the form of nationalist exhibitions. The project is becoming even more important for the corporate groups as it does not necessarily contest the state machinery but rather takes it as a 'de facto' ally. Keywords: Popular culture, Frankfurt School, nation-building, nationalism, hegemony, globalization Language: en Author-Name: Manosh Chowdhury Edition: 1 Year: 2025 Month: April Publication-Status: File-Url: https://static-dev.vernonpress.com/files/public/c896c10a-f119-4576-a8d9-5a9bd45a46ad/1743776691.pdf File-Size: 186206 File-Format: application/pdf Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/2274 Creation-Date: 2025-01-21 ISBN: 979-8-8819-0226-1 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:2274 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: Why Do Investors Act Irrationally? Behavioral Biases of Herding, Overconfidence, and Overreaction Abstract: 'Why Do Investors Act Irrationally? Behavioral Biases of Herding, Overconfidence, and Overreaction' explores the powerful psychological forces that drive investor decisions, often leading to irrational behavior and market turbulence. This book provides an in-depth analysis of three critical behavioral biases—herding, overconfidence, and overreaction—that influence investors across various financial markets. Drawing on cutting-edge research and real-world examples, it delves into why even experienced investors sometimes fall prey to these biases, challenging conventional financial theories that assume rational behavior. Designed for scholars, finance professionals, and advanced students, this book fills a gap in behavioral finance literature by examining not just the existence of these biases, but their consequences and the conditions that amplify or mitigate them. Unlike traditional finance texts, which focus primarily on quantitative models, this work bridges psychology and finance, making it uniquely suited for those interested in understanding the ‘why’ behind investor actions. It positions itself alongside essential readings in behavioral finance, offering original insights and a fresh perspective that will be invaluable to researchers, policy advisors, and practitioners alike. Its accessible yet academically rigorous content also makes it ideal for classroom adoption in advanced finance and behavioral economics courses, offering thought-provoking discussion points and practical implications. 'Why Do Investors Act Irrationally?' invites readers to rethink traditional assumptions about financial markets and provides actionable strategies to address the influence of irrational biases in investment decisions, making it an indispensable resource in the evolving field of behavioral finance. Keywords: Investor psychology, cognitive biases, financial decision-making, social influence, irrationality in markets, emotional finance Language: en Author-Name: Ooi Kok Loang Edition: 1 Year: 2025 Month: May Publication-Status: File-Url: https://static-dev.vernonpress.com/files/public/39e7101a-15e8-4aaa-aa2d-a5481fdae8de/1743777582.pdf File-Size: 191478 File-Format: application/pdf Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/2291 Creation-Date: 2025-02-14 ISBN: 979-8-8819-0242-1 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:2291 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: Total Marketing: The business of integrating consumers, employees, and company networks Abstract: Exponential technologies are giving superpowers to humans and data, unlocking tremendous value, with major efficiencies to be gained while running the planet. In today’s digital age, to use the marketing jargon, creating connections that are seamless, efficient, and technology-driven is not just an advantage; it’s a necessity for businesses of all sizes, public and private. Welcome to the world of Total Marketing, namely a comprehensive and holistic approach that brings together all stakeholders into a cohesive and interconnected ecosystem, powered by tech. A new marketing needs experiences that are heavily imbued with technology. To use Gartner’s terminology, it needs a Total Experience as its foundation. Total Marketing is created by an ever-changing layer of exponential technologies, among which AI, of course, and blockchains, and by the need for a culture change across the whole web of consumers, employees and suppliers. The truth is, we are all linked, and our goal should be to increase social capital for everyone and reach service excellence, with minimum impact on the outer community, and zero noise and negative externalities. Total Marketing means that our input, whoever we are in the food chain, is captured via a hybrid net of phygital interfaces and devices, and processed instantly and intelligently, with the final output being the result of the perfect allocation and use of available resources, served to anyone in a fair and ultra-personalized fashion, measured exactly against their needs and desires, present and future. There will be no other way to do business in the future. Keywords: Total Experience, Gartner, Total Marketing, Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Web3, Cultural Change, Digital, Multimodal, Channels, Product, Pricing, Placement, Promotion, Organization Language: en Author-Name: Frank Pagano Author-Name: Mara Cassinari Edition: 1 Year: 2025 Month: September Publication-Status: File-Url: https://static-dev.vernonpress.com/files/public/c680d555-7a5d-4e5a-a311-bf671622b0ee/1756993329.pdf File-Size: 165107 File-Format: application/pdf Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/2403 Creation-Date: 2025-07-14 ISBN: 979-8-8819-0349-7 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:2403 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: Macroeconomía: un enfoque cuantitativo Abstract: Este manual de macroeconomía ha sido diseñado para facilitar el aprendizaje de los modelos macroeconómicos básicos a través de un enfoque pedagógico que combina la modelización económica, la aplicación práctica, la calibración y la simulación. Dirigido a estudiantes de grado, este recurso busca que el alumno entienda el interés de los modelos, cuál es el sentido de su calibración y el papel que tienen los datos y el uso de la estadística y la econometría para evaluar y simular escenarios económicos. Basado en un álgebra sencilla y apoyado en Excel, su objetivo es desarrollar habilidades para el análisis técnico y la interpretación de fenómenos macroeconómicos. Además, fomenta la comprensión del trabajo del economista y la importancia de las herramientas cuantitativas para evaluar políticas y shocks. Este manual pretende sentar las bases para que, en cursos posteriores, el estudiante pueda abordar modelos más complejos, microfundamentados y con elementos estocásticos, cuando se potencien sus competencias en modelización, calibración y simulación. Keywords: Gran Depresión, economía clásica, economía keynesiana, demanda agregada, política fiscal, multiplicador, modelización macroeconómica, equilibrio económico, estabilidad, estática comparativa, modelo de 45º, aspa keynesiana, mercado de activos, curva IS, curva LM, política monetaria, equilibrio macroeconómico, tipos de interés, economías abiertas, balanza de pagos, tipo de cambio, mercado de divisas, movilidad de capital, modelo Mundell-Fleming, política comercial, coordinación internacional, inflación, oferta agregada, modelos dinámicos, mercado de trabajo, pleno empleo, políticas económicas, dinámica de transición, estanflación, expectativas de inflación, crecimiento económico, desigualdad, modelo de Solow-Swan, progreso tecnológico, capital humano, modelos endógenos, convergencia, contabilidad del crecimiento, extensiones del modelo de crecimiento neoclásico, innovación tecnológica, crecimiento endógeno, rendimientos, trampa de la pobreza, consumo intertemporal, renta permanente, ciclo vital, comportamiento del consumidor, políticas fiscales, propensión a consumir, paseo aleatorio, análisis económico en retrospectiva, historia del pensamiento, pensamiento neoclásico, revoluciones científicas, marginalismo, revolución keynesiana, síntesis neoclásica, nueva macroeconomía clásica, econometría, calibración, evaluación causal, aprendizaje automático Language: en Author-Name: Javier García-Clemente Author-Name: David Troncoso-Ponce Author-Name: Ana María Rodríguez-Santiago Author-Name: Nicola Rubino Author-Name: María Inmaculada Vílchez Author-Name: Emilio Congregado Author-Name: Concepción Román Edition: 1 Year: 2026 Month: January Publication-Status: File-Url: https://static-dev.vernonpress.com/files/public/1b698839-8742-42a8-9c9b-51a88a26bdde/1762864925.pdf File-Size: 249029 File-Format: application/pdf Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/2423 Creation-Date: 2025-07-25 ISBN: 979-8-8819-0368-8 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:2423 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: Financial Management [Revised Edition] Abstract: This book introduces key concepts and methods in business financial management. It consists of two parts. Part one is structured around start-up investments and key financing decisions facing entrepreneurs during their first year in business. The instruments examined include the investment budget, financing plan, the opening balance sheet, financial planning for profits and liquidity, the closing balance sheet and a complete treatment of ratio analysis. Part two is about cost prices, budgeting and variance analysis, profit calculation methods and break-even point and, finally, calculations of the returns to alternative investment options. All of these subjects are treated in an accessible, stepwise manner and are accompanied with illuminating examples. The combination of theoretical rigor and simple explanations makes the present volume indispensable for both students and entrepreneurs. Keywords: Language: en Author-Name: John Smeur Edition: 2 Year: 2017 Month: February Publication-Status: Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/40 Creation-Date: 2015-01-04 ISBN: 978-1-62273-023-0 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:40 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: Spoilt for Choice: How senior managers select professional advisors [Hardback, B&W] Abstract: How do senior executives, such as CEOs and CFOs, interact, select and appoint professional advisors? Based on a successful PhD project, the research in this book explores the interactions between advisors of large professional service firms and senior executive clients on an evidence-based academic level. The research journey and the author’s reflections are charted step-by-step, providing an example of how to analyse unstructured qualitative data, reach theoretical saturation and capture emerging substantive theories. Moreover, by taking a unique holistic and inductive approach, this study offers a series of practical insights on how to combine and apply Kathy Charmaz’ constructivist grounded theory with an auto-ethnographic stance. Divided into eight chapters, the author uses empirical data and rigorous analysis to uncover two distinct decision-making processes, namely (a) the client’s decision to develop and maintain a relationship with the advisor and (b) to select and appoint the advisor for a particular project or services. Mapping these to one common conceptual framework a second complementary model emerges - a type of decision-making matrix with the foci ’competitiveness, skills and merit’, ‘continuity and embeddedness’, ‘control and manage’ and ‘trust and empathy’ - which offers the reader an alternative perspective of client decision-making. This book will be useful for practitioners and researchers alike who have an interest in understanding either naturalistic decision-making processes, the complexities of relationship development and procurement dynamics, as well as applied qualitative research methods. Keywords: Constructivist grounded theory, grounded theory, image theory, NDM naturalistic decision-making, auto-ethnographic approach, inductive research, qualitative research, Professional services, Big Four, accounting firms, client relationships, appointment of advisors, professional advisors, selection of advisor, trusted advisor, procurement/purchasing of professional services, Kathy Charmaz, Tony Bryant, Lee Roy Beach, David Maister, Michael Mohe Language: en Author-Name: Wienke Seeger Edition: 1 Year: 2019 Month: May Publication-Status: File-Url: https://static-dev.vernonpress.com/files/public/be4cf2ea-9068-40d1-9283-84a0d7139b67/1546952895.pdf File-Size: 579465 File-Format: application/pdf Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/596 Creation-Date: 2018-11-21 ISBN: 978-1-62273-526-6 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:596 Template-Type: ReDIF-Book 1.0 Provider-Name: Vernon Press Title: Spoilt for Choice: How senior managers select professional advisors [Hardback, Premium Color] Abstract: How do senior executives, such as CEOs and CFOs, interact, select and appoint professional advisors? Based on a successful PhD project, the research in this book explores the interactions between advisors of large professional service firms and senior executive clients on an evidence-based academic level. The research journey and the author’s reflections are charted step-by-step, providing an example of how to analyse unstructured qualitative data, reach theoretical saturation and capture emerging substantive theories. Moreover, by taking a unique holistic and inductive approach, this study offers a series of practical insights on how to combine and apply Kathy Charmaz’ constructivist grounded theory with an auto-ethnographic stance. Divided into eight chapters, the author uses empirical data and rigorous analysis to uncover two distinct decision-making processes, namely (a) the client’s decision to develop and maintain a relationship with the advisor and (b) to select and appoint the advisor for a particular project or services. Mapping these to one common conceptual framework a second complementary model emerges - a type of decision-making matrix with the foci ’competitiveness, skills and merit’, ‘continuity and embeddedness’, ‘control and manage’ and ‘trust and empathy’ - which offers the reader an alternative perspective of client decision-making. This book will be useful for practitioners and researchers alike who have an interest in understanding either naturalistic decision-making processes, the complexities of relationship development and procurement dynamics, as well as applied qualitative research methods. Keywords: Constructivist grounded theory, grounded theory, image theory, NDM naturalistic decision-making, auto-ethnographic approach, inductive research, qualitative research, Professional services, Big Four, accounting firms, client relationships, appointment of advisors, professional advisors, selection of advisor, trusted advisor, procurement/purchasing of professional services, Kathy Charmaz, Tony Bryant, Lee Roy Beach, David Maister, Michael Mohe Language: en Author-Name: Wienke Seeger Edition: 1 Year: 2019 Month: May Publication-Status: Order-URL: https://vernonpress.com/book/599 Creation-Date: 2018-11-23 ISBN: 978-1-62273-547-1 Handle: RePEc:vpr:ecbook:599