Economy & Finance

Many roads can lead to success but which comination of "ideas and strategy" will actually help you in achieving your dreams?In The Impatient Libertarian, Australian mining legend Ron Manners presents compelling accounts of how individuals with vastly different personalities, circumstances and strategies have successfully addressed threats to Australian liberty - apathy and complacency. In his markedly entertaining and informative fashion, Ron reveals the life-changing benefits of the libertarian philosophy of self-responsibility and the other proven approach to successful economic leadership.

The 2008 economic collapse in Iceland sent its residents into a destabilising crisis with far-reaching, temporal and affective consequences. Haunting Futures explores how the complex relationships of this unstable past and the anticipatory modes of the ongoing present keep Icelanders and the Polish migrant community in their midst alert to looming futures in crisis. It offers insights into timely crisis-ridden impacts and imaginings, migration processes and social understandings and practices. Through its attention to how people engage with crisis temporally and affectively, the book presents the crisis not simply as an isolated and distressing event but as a spectre embodied in time through ongoing anticipation.

Tracking Bengaluru's dramatic urban transformation through the entanglements of finance, land frenzy, real estate volatility, and livelihood upheavals Over the past two decades, Bengaluru's exploding real estate sector and massive infrastructure investments have led to land speculation targeting working-class neighborhoods and agricultural land for development. Chronicles of a Global City turns Bengaluru inside out to examine its "world-city" transformation that stimulated rapid urbanization and unbounded growth. Moving the spotlight away from the urban elites and "new middle class," this book explores how people caught up in the whirlwinds of change in Bengaluru-from construction laborers, street vendors, domestic workers, and platform delivery workers to small-time property brokers, petty landlords, and local politicians-experience, struggle, aspire, invent, strive, and speculate to make a livable city for themselves. Grounded in long-term ethnographic research and activist experiences, Chronicles of a Global City vividly illuminates the multifaceted entanglements of finance capital, real estate markets, livelihood struggles, and fraying ecologies in urban and peri-urban Bengaluru. Its anchoring concept, "speculative urbanism," provides a powerful, innovative lens for understanding the risk-laden practices of leveraging land, labor, and resources for the promise of future profit. Contributors: Hemangini Gupta, Pierre Hauser, Priyanka Krishna, Eesha Kunduri, Kaveri Medappa, Usha Rao, Shaheen Shasa, Swathi Shivanand, Vinay K. Sreenivasa.

This book analyses how tools of statecraft are being deployed by a range of key partners and Pacific Island states with contributions by scholars from the United States, Australia, China, New Zealand, and across the Pacific Islands region. A vital resource for scholars and practitioners in International Relations and diplomacy.

It is widely known that - at least in current societies - culture depends on money. Less attention has been given to the contrary fact: money also depends on culture. This interdisciplinary anthology scrutinizes this two-way connection between culture and money, and its implications for economic theory.

This book examines smart cities through the lens of the ICT-driven transformation of the economy and economic systems and the resulting changes influencing organizations (public, private, voluntary) and citizens in the smart city.

Decolonial Sweden exposes the social and political relevance of European colonialism to Sweden and its place in the world. This book is an essential read for Post- and Decolonial scholars and students of Critical Race Studies, Africana Studies, International Relations, Global Development, and Political Science.

Decolonial Sweden exposes the social and political relevance of European colonialism to Sweden and its place in the world. This book is an essential read for Post- and Decolonial scholars and students of Critical Race Studies, Africana Studies, International Relations, Global Development, and Political Science.

This book is a resource for engineers and researchers to develop intelligent, safe, and sustainable systems for urban air mobility.

In diesem Band werden die Erkenntnisse des 70. Baltischen Historikertreffens 2017 in Göttingen präsentiert. Er beleuchtet, wie sich die Staaten Nordosteuropas nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg entwickelten, wobei ein besonderer Fokus auf multiethnischen Gesellschaften und Methoden ihrer friedlichen Stabilisierung liegt. Es wird analysiert, wie die ehemaligen Imperien Koexistenz ermöglichten und wie die neugegründeten Nationalstaaten diesem Vorbild folgten. Abschließend betrachtet das Werk zwei Friedenskongresse, an denen die junge Sowjetmacht beteiligt war. Ein tiefgreifender Einblick in Staatsbildung und internationale Beziehungen im frühen 20. Jahrhundert.

This volume contains an Open Access chapter. This volume showcases original research using Big Data to gain fresh insights into how labor markets work, compiled by Solomon Polachek, a pioneer in gender-related labor market research, and Benjamin Elsner, an expert on causal inference and the economics of migration.

Big Data Applications in Labor Economics showcases news original research using Big Data to gain new insights into how labor markets work. The volume is compiled by Solomon Polachek, a pioneer in gender-related labor market research, and Benjamin Elsner, an expert on causal inference and the economics of migration.

In this accessible and entertaining guide, readers can explore the key theories and ideas that famous thinkers have conceived to understand and improve the economy. From supply and demand to Keynesian economics, this essential guide will bring you up to speed on the core themes and theories of this ever-relevant subject.

This book examines the large-scale return migration of South and Southeast Asian workers triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic, exploring its causes, consequences, challenges, and policy responses. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.

In Marxism in the Age of Ecological Catastrophe, Eduardo Sá Barreto offers a stimulating discussion on the ecological unfeasibility of capitalist society. Marxism in the Age of Ecological Catastrophe will be of interest to scholars of political science, economics, ecology, climatology, demography, geography, and sociology.

This comprehensive guide seamlessly bridges the gap between theoretical concepts and practical implementations, providing you with the knowledge and tools to revolutionize industries and drive innovation.

As with the previous two editions, Evolution of International Aviation reviews the historical development of the international aviation system. From this foundation it then provides an updated and expanded account of the current state of the aviation and aerospace industry including profitability, consolidation, and merger activity.

This book offers a new perspective on French architecture, describing the impact of political history on the architectural development of Paris. Through various stages in history the book shows how the political power of monarchs, the aristocracy and church determined the pace and volume of building in Paris.

Originally published in 1966, this book takes a look at the ancient and traditional, as well as more recent procedures in parliament for controlling finance. It questions outdated procedures and also examines the tendency of the party leaders to restrict control and even debate of financial matters in the House of Commons.

The Handbook for the Future of Work offers a timely and critical analysis of the transformative forces shaping work and employment in the 21st century.

The strange and contested evolution of the management of banking riskBanks in America are private institutions with private shareholders, boards of directors, profit motives, customers, and competitors. And yet the public plays a key role in deciding what risks are taken as well as how, when, and to what end. Public-private negotiations over financial governance has evolved into an essential ecosystem of banking risk management. In Private Finance, Public Power, Peter Conti-Brown and Sean Vanatta offer a new history of finance and public policy in the United States by examining the idiosyncratic way the nation manages financial risk across the public-private divide. Covering two centuries, from the founding of the Republic to the early 1980s, Conti-Brown and Vanatta describe the often-contested, sometimes chaotic, engagement of bankers, politicians, bureaucrats, and others in the overlapping spaces of the public-private system of bank supervision. Conti-Brown and Vanatta trace the different supervisory frameworks that evolved over time, from the imposition of private liability on bank shareholders to the development of the central bank to the creation of federal deposit insurance. Negotiations took place at federal and state levels, but, over time, the federal government assumed most of the responsibility for managing financial risk. Moreover, federal supervisory officials began to undertake more varied tasks, including monitoring racial discrimination and managing financial concentration. Conti-Brown and Vanatta introduce a diverse cast of characters-bankers, politicians, bureaucrats, and others-and show how they navigated two hundred years of financial panics, scandals, and crises to build the system that structures modern America's banking system.

How to use nonlinear dynamic models in policy analysis. Policymakers need quantitative as well as qualitative answers to pressing policy questions. Because of advances in computational methods, quantitative estimates are now derived from coherent nonlinear dynamic macroeconomic models embodying measures of risk and calibrated to capture specific characteristics of real-world situations. This text shows how such models can be made accessible and operational for confronting policy issues. The book starts with a simple setting based on market-clearing price flexibility. It gradually incorporates departures from the simple competitive framework in the form of price and wage stickiness, taxes, rigidities in investment, financial frictions, and habit persistence in consumption. Most chapters end with computational exercises; the Matlab code for the base model can be found in the appendix. As the models evolve, readers are encouraged to modify the codes from the first simple model to more complex extensions. Computational Macroeconomics for the Open Economy can be used by graduate students in economics and finance as well as policy-oriented researchers.

In a candid account, James shares how he first got his feet wet as an investor, learned to swim among sharks in the commodity trading business, navigated the rough seas of futures and options markets, and captained one of the most innovative and respected firms in the industry.This book bares all, including the never-before-told real story of how OptionSellers.com sank in 2018. After a long period of reflection, James shares how he is applying lessons of the past to today's markets.

This collected edition delves into diverse aspects of agricultural economics and food security across various regions.