This book examines how economic knowledge shapes policy and society, challenging readers to consider not whether economics influences the real world, but how-through which models, experts, and institutions, and with what underlying assumptions and power dynamics. Drawing on the history and philosophy of economics, it moves beyond simplistic assessments of success or failure to explore the epistemic, political, ethical, and institutional conditions that grant economic expertise its authority.

The chapters trace economic ideas from theory to practice, investigating how models are constructed, negotiated, and deployed across central banks, international organizations, technology firms, and government agencies. Contributors examine the conceptual and institutional assumptions behind economists' interventions and reveal how they can constrain or expand democratic possibilities and human autonomy. The volume asks critical questions: for whom does economics work, and what consequences follow? By attending to historical trajectories and philosophical foundations, this collection offers a nuanced understanding of economics as a deeply embedded social science whose practices, assumptions, and power structures often remain hidden. It illuminates how economic ideas travel, transform, and quietly govern the societies they explain, making visible the complex processes through which technical knowledge becomes political action.

Spanning the history and philosophy of economics, political economy, economic methodology, science and technology studies, and critical policy analysis, this volume is essential reading for students, academics, and policymakers in government agencies, central banks, and international organizations.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Journal of Economic Methodology.

This volume uses classical liberal thought to present new theoretical and empirical perspectives on freedom of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) individuals and communities.

Rainbow Liberty emphasizes the institutions that sustain tolerance, pluralism, and freedom of association, which empower marginalized communities to build civil associations in the face of social and political pressures. Classical liberal methodological and normative studies on LGBTQ life have been conspicuously absent in scholarly literature but are applied in this volume to explore the circumstances and implications of queer agency and freedom. The ideas of Adam Smith, F. A. Hayek, James M. Buchanan, and Vincent and Elinor Ostrom, among other thinkers in the classical liberal tradition, give a unique and underappreciated perspective on LGBTQ issues.

This volume is an invaluable resource for scholars exploring sexuality and gender from a variety of disciplines, including economics, political science, philosophy, sociology, and related fields. Rainbow Liberty appeals more broadly to anyone interested in how queer freedoms have shaped, and continue to shape, our world.

This book critically interrogates sustainable business and finance practices within the unique African context. With increasing stakeholder pressure for sustainability adoption aligned with Agenda 2063 and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), sustainable finance emerges as the pathway to create resilient African economies. Sustainable practices in Africa are anchored on integrating environmental, social, and governance (ESG) tenets into business decisions, creating intersectionality between capital flows and sustainable business goals.

This edited collection delves deeply into sustainable business and finance mechanisms, systems, models, and processes, alongside international best practices. It offers comprehensive assessment of how green finance can unlock sustainable business value in Africa amid unprecedented geopolitical risks. Adopting transdisciplinary and multisectoral approaches with comparative case studies, this book provides practical insights into responsible financial investment models, financial sustainability, sustainable artificial intelligence, green leadership, SDGs, environmental stewardship, green business practices, carbon markets, climate change risks, and sustainability-linked loans from an African standpoint. It addresses regulatory and policy inconsistencies while bridging the gap between theory and practice.

Drawing on theoretical frameworks and empirical studies, this collection equips business practitioners, researchers, policymakers, and postgraduate learners with practical tools to navigate sustainable business and finance complexities in African economies, contributing significantly to global business sustainability discourse.

This book investigates Bion's enigmatic concept of Caesura-the gap that connects in multiple realms of human existence. The authors respond to Bion's challenge for future analysts to explore its significance and bridge the theoretical limitations he identified in his generation's understanding.

The contributors of this volume honor Bion's legacy by expanding his notion of caesura, demonstrating its still-untapped potential for inspiring new thoughts and original perspectives on a variety of psychoanalytic concerns. Among other issues, they explore the caesuras of birth, trauma, the formation of thought, the question of truth, the connective tissue between body and psyche, the powerful linking force of myths, and the tension between the personal and the socio-political in the consulting room.

This book is ideal for psychoanalysts, scholars, and students seeking to explore the impact of caesural thought across psychoanalytic schools and disciplines. It appeals to those interested in post-Bionian field theories, relational thought, and existential psychoanalysis. Those who wish to explore the caesura between psychoanalysis and other fields of study, such as philosophy, modern medical outlook and Kabbalah research will find in this book a fruitful interdisciplinary dialogue, and a creative tension between past traditions and contemporary paradigms.

This book fills an existing gap in the history of the foundations and early developments of disability studies through analyzing the life and work of Steven J. Taylor, founder and chair of the first formal Disability Studies Program at Syracuse University, but who had already been teaching disability studies since the early 1980s "before it had a name".

Organized around the key themes of Deconstructing/Rethinking Disability; Incarceration and Deinstitutionalization; Disability Policy; and Disability Studies, each section has contributions from leading US-based and international scholars. The authors represent a range of disciplines in disability studies and related fields, reflecting on their work in the context of, and in relation to the scholarship of Steve Taylor, discussing the relevance of his work for their own scholarship as well as the field of disability research in general.

An important contribution to the field of disability studies, it grounds the vibrant and rapidly developing field of disability studies in its historical context, exploring the social and cultural environment which led to the establishment of this robust interdisciplinary field while also detailing how these early conceptualizations have set the stage for more critical theorizations of disability in sociology, education, social policy and other fields.

Exploring the fluidity of divine-human boundaries in ancient Judaism, Daniel Lam challenges the assumption of a rigid divide between God and humanity. Drawing on prototype theory and texts from across millennia of Jewish and Christian literature, Lam argues that divinity was conceived as a graded category rather than an absolute state, suggesting that figures such as Adam, Enoch, Moses, Elijah, and Jesus were imagined as crossing the divine threshold through immortality, metamorphosis, and exaltation. By situating these traditions within their wider Mediterranean context, Lam reframes debates on monotheism, deification, and early Christology.

Lam engages deeply with primary sources, including Genesis and Psalms, Wisdom of Solomon, and the Life of Adam and Eve; Enochic writings such as the Book of the Watchers and Book of Parables; and New Testament passages like Philippians 2 and Hebrews 1. In addition, he examines lesser-known materials such as the Testament of Abraham, Qumran fragments, and 2 Enoch, highlighting motifs of angelomorphism, luminous transformation, and enthronement. These case studies illuminate how ancient authors negotiated divine identity and challenge the notion that divinisation was exclusively a "pagan" concept, offering a fresh methodological framework for understanding divinity as a fluid and multivalent phenomenon.

This collection takes on one of the most important and vexing issues in African development - the role played by African states in under-development on the continent - and shows how empowering resilient precolonial communities offers under-explored routes forward.

Rather than comparing African states to states elsewhere, this book takes a unique bottom-up approach and compares how major ethnic communities within Africa have developed over time under various state systems. It begins with an investigation into major precolonial societies and the way in which they were affected by the slave trade and colonialism. It then offers individual case studies from the length and breadth of the continent, and in so doing, provides a near-comprehensive account of historical African community and state formation, including coverage of under-researched peoples such as the central African Fang, as well as of the Kongo, Benin, Akan, Kru, Oromo, and Ovambo communities. Each case study analyzes how postcolonial African states have functioned as self-interested political entities often times at the expense of the economic and political development of its Indigenous communities, who are forced into a pluralist state systems that set them in economic and political competition with each other. True improvement in the lives of everyday citizens proves to be possible only by empowering traditional knowledges and practices - and with that, Indigenous communities' capabilities for economic and political self-governance.

Written by a significant contingent of African scholars, this collection contributes in its very practice to the decolonial policies it argues for, and is a must-read for researchers, upper-level students, and practitioners and policymakers interested in African development, African history, and post- and decolonial approaches to development.

This book offers a reappraisal of the central themes and problems animating the work of Vilfredo Pareto, reconsidering their place within contemporary social and political inquiry.

Emphasising the breadth and complexity of his thought, the book adopts a cross-cutting approach that brings its different dimensions into dialogue. Rather than offering a conventional introduction, it revisits Pareto through a critical engagement with established interpretations and contemporary debates. Moving beyond both celebratory and dismissive readings, it shows how Pareto's reflections continue to illuminate central tensions and contradictions of modern political life, demonstrating their continuing relevance to contemporary social and political sciences.

By reopening exegetical questions, sketching possible directions for future research, and moving across disciplinary boundaries, Reintroducing Vilfredo Pareto will appeal to scholars and students of sociology, political sociology, political theory, and the history of political thought.

In this book, David Bell explores Freud's oeuvre starting with some of the earliest papers. He situates this work within the context of culture and the history of ideas. Covering such key topics as narcissism, the nature of truth and illusion, and what constitutes knowledge within and outside analytic settings, the chapters take one of Freuds key works and offers an exegesis of that work. With a deep understanding of Freud's work and its place in contemporary psychoanalytic and cultural spheres, this is key reading for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, historians of idea and anyone wanting to better understand the continued importance of Freud's enduring significance.

This book considers the future of Development Studies, centering the perspectives of Tanzanian and Zambian scholars and their collaborators, to address global challenges and search for the field's local relevance.

As the field continues to face multiple crises and transformative demands, especially from the push for its decolonization, this book embodies the co-construction of knowledge to provide nuanced understanding of current issues and future aspirations of Development Studies. The book presents perspectives from a collaborative project between academicians in Tanzania, Zambia, and Finland. Together, they critically reflect on the role of development studies for Africa through concrete ideas hinged on: decoloniality, epistemic justice, and contextual relevance.

Rather than merely advocating for the decolonization of development studies, this book foregrounds African insights in research and teaching Development Studies. Therefore, it will be of interest to development scholars, teachers and students, especially in Africa, but also around the world.

Drawing on new research, practice, and, crucially, lived experience of community members, this innovative edited collection explores the higher education experiences of Traveller, Gypsy, and Roma students in the UK.

With carefully collated chapters written by a wide range of academics, researchers and teaching staff, non-government organisations (NGOs), university professional services staff, graduates and students, including those from Gypsy, Roma, Traveller, and Showmen communities, this book is a vital resource. It is a call for discussion and critical reflection on how Traveller, Gypsy, and Roma students access university and have a successful and positive experience whilst studying. Divided into two parts, the first part focuses on critically exploring understandings of Romani history and the Romani-Traveller community, whiteness, racialisation and racism, and primary and secondary education. The second part focuses on higher education in more depth including personal reflections on higher education experiences. It explores topics such as the neoliberal university and aspirations; Roma in higher education in Europe; decolonising the curriculum; widening access, participation and engagement; career guidance and distance learning.

This important resource will be of interest to researchers and academics in higher education and for those who are interested in social justice, anti-racism and equality more generally. Moreover, this book will generate discussion and reflection on how Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller students can best be supported to access higher education and to have successful and positive experiences whilst at university.

Key Features:

• Presents case studies from diverse countries, regions, and continents
• Includes teaching notes alongside key discussion questions and recommended answers
• Bridges the gap between theory and practice by providing insights into responsible and irresponsible corporate activities

This engaging casebook is an essential resource for instructors, scholars and students of business management, CSR and business ethics. It may also prove useful to managers and professionals worldwide interested in the growing influence of sustainable development.

This handbook brings together scholarship from different disciplines, institutions and locations to contribute critically to how the social sciences think about - with, against, beyond - debt.

By bringing together the best specialists in the field, this handbook both captures and feeds the theoretical and political debates on a subject of burning relevance. Across the diversity of theoretical and methodological approaches, a common thread to the contributions is a concern with power relations and inequalities. Who owes what to whom? To what extent is debt both shaped by and constitutive of social and power relations while crystallizing or giving rise to individual and collective aspirations, resistances and struggles? How is debt structured by long historical trajectories and broad trends that operate at a global level, while at the same time intertwining with institutions, organizations and interpersonal relations specific to singular contexts and periods of history? The handbook features a combination of theoretical and empirical chapters, but overall their purpose is to make an analytical contribution to some of the most relevant public issues of our time. The volume gives empirical examples from a wide variety of geographical locations, moving away from a narrow Euro-American-centric vision. It also explores the case of countries whose banking and debt systems are relatively unknown.

The handbook is an invaluable resource for readers who-besides debt itself--are interested in money, banking, economy, social obligation, poverty, and inequality.

In this book, David Bell examines Melanie Klein's central contributions and their later evolution, contextualising them within a broader cultural and intellectual framework.

Klein, building on the foundations provided by Freud, provided a hugely influential reshaping of psychoanalytic theory and practice. Covering such key concepts as projective identification, unconscious phantasy, the nature of loss, and the death drive, Bell examines how Klein's contributions radically reshaped our understanding of the nature of the unconscious mental life both at the level of theory and of clinical practice.

This deep understanding of Freud and Klein's work and its place in contemporary psychoanalytic and intellectual culture, provides a key reading for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, historians of idea and anyone wishing to better understand the continued importance of the work of Freud and Klein.

Contributors explore a range of issues, including definitions of terrorism, human rights constraints, accountability mechanisms, and emerging threats. The Encyclopedia covers the full landscape of counter-terrorism measures, spanning criminal justice responses, investigatory powers, and prevention strategies. Forward-looking in approach, the text also investigates different theoretical approaches to counter-terrorism from a range of thematic perspectives and identifies key questions and challenges to inform future research.

Accessible and rigorous, the Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Terrorism Law is an essential resource for scholars and students of human rights as well as public, criminal, and international law. Practitioners and policymakers in politics and security will also benefit from its valuable insights.

Key Features:

• Written in engaging and clear text
• Draws on case studies and examples from jurisdictions around the world
• Addresses key contemporary challenges, from drones and space to online content and cyberterrorism
• Includes over 100 contributions from a range of experts across academic disciplines as well as key stakeholders

This book offers a fresh and comprehensive look at the creation of the South American states that broke away from the Spanish Empire.

Five distinguished historians from Argentina, Chile, Peru, and Colombia unite to explore the complex reality of independence and early republic formation. With a regional purview spanning the Andean regions, Caribbean coast, and River Plate territories, the book focuses on the vast South American territory where the Spanish crown dominated. It explores and examines independence as well as the process through which new republics were created without naturalising the nation-states that exist today. The five chapters that make up this volume reveal the diverse experiments carried out through the period and show how these republics emerged from repeated trial and error. This perspective allows for the complexity of these processes to shine through.

This book will be of interest to the wide community of students and scholars working on independence and the revolutionary era in the Americas and the Atlantic world.

Mobility and Migration in Antiquity investigates human movement in the context of the ancient world from the Iberian Peninsula to the Indian Ocean, addressing small-scale, everyday mobility as well as movement that engenders major socio-political change.

The volume's fundamental concern is to interrogate how historical transformations in Antiquity may be better understood once movement is recognised as a pervasive phenomenon. The chapters span a wide chronological and geographical range, collectively providing openings for a new history of societal change that takes movement as its starting point - in its myriad of forms - from personal to community, from local to long-distance, from temporary to permanent, from voluntary to forced. It is organised in seven sections: borders and boundaries; environmental adaptions; cosmopolitanism; forced mobility and displacement; trade, craft, and labour; journeys and pilgrimages; and sedentism, gender, and immobility. The final part of the volume pivots towards the future of these disciplines in their approach to mobility. Each of these sections is united by an overarching theme and focus while also addressing larger historical questions associated with mobility in the ancient world and explicitly placing approaches from classical literature, history and archaeological sciences side by side.

Mobility and Migration in Antiquity is an invaluable resource for anyone working on mobility and migration in the ancient Mediterranean world, as well as those interested in theories of migration across history, and societal change more broadly.

Waste is omnipresent, with consequences that are increasingly visible. Despite considerable efforts by the waste-management sector to keep waste out of sight and out of mind, current waste levels pose a challenge to the welfare of today and tomorrow, from the squandering of resources to lasting environmental harm.

Understanding Waste provides a multidisciplinary introduction to the diversity of waste, including its definitions, physical properties and governance. It describes the spatial rationales for waste from local to global levels, stressing the injustices that characterise how waste is collected and processed. It also explains why contemporary societies are so waste-intensive, demonstrating why so many have an interest in producing waste and suggesting that everyone is implicated in wastework. Furthermore, it suggests that waste is an underestimated source of knowledge and creativity. Readers are invited on an intriguing journey into the underworld of waste, which we all participate in constantly.

Accompanied by a series of practical exercises that encourage a reflexive engagement with waste, Understanding Waste: A Multidisciplinary Introduction offers a kickstart to the emerging fields of Waste Studies and Discard Studies.

This book explores blueish geographies: new ways of thinking with 'wet' space through a porous and open conceptualisation. Through critical ocean thinking, more-than-wet ontologies, blue humanities, blue economy and planning, the diverse chapters think the blueish as extension, relation and representation of water, extending the field and questioning its absences.

The book offers an original and interdisciplinary contribution to critical ocean and marine studies by expanding the 'disciplines' vocabularies, debates, possibilities, epistemologies and methodologies. By bringing together diverse critical perspectives on wet spaces, politics and their excess, this book provides new conceptual and methodological tools for understanding temporalities and counter-archives, more-than-human ecologies and possible future plannings. Combining established and early-career scholars from different disciplines and regions, the volume advances current debates in critical geography and ocean studies while remaining accessible for teaching and other applied purposes.

Blueish Entanglements and Transformations is intended for scholars, researchers and students in the field of critical ocean geographies, more-than-human geographies, maritime studies, hydrosocial studies, blue humanities, blue economy, political ecology and related water-related disciplines. It should also appeal to non-research readers working on water related policies, development and planning.

This book examines the justification for restitutionary awards for a failure of condition and considers when, given this justification, such awards should be made.

It argues that such awards give effect to, but do not enforce, an agreement between the parties. In recent years, this question has been the focus of more scrutiny and scepticism on the part of private law scholars. Adding to this scepticism, this study promotes a new 'agreement theory' of failure of condition, which offers a much less controversial way of understanding the role of restitution in such failures.

Innovative and thought-provoking, this is a significant new way of considering awards for failure of condition.

On the morning after September 11, 2001, Rev. Lyndon Harris pushed through smoke and ash toward St. Paul's Chapel, just blocks from the World Trade Center. He expected ruin. Instead, the historic chapel stood-scarred but intact-and soon became a sanctuary for exhausted, grieving recovery workers at Ground Zero.

For close to a year Harris led an extraordinary, volunteer-driven ministry that provided food, rest, prayer, and human connection to those laboring day and night on "the Pile." St. Paul's became known worldwide as "the little chapel that stood," a symbol of hope amid devastation.

But when the chapel closed in 2002, Harris's own life unraveled. Years of conflict and resistance within his church left him overwhelmed by anger, resentment, and a desire for retribution. He ultimately lost his faith, left New York, and entered a long, private struggle with grief and disillusionment.

This book is not only a firsthand account of one of 9/11's most enduring symbols, but a deeply personal story of what happens after the cameras leave. Harris traces his journey from idealistic small-town priest to Ground Zero leader, through spiritual collapse, and finally toward an unexpected healing grounded in forgiveness.

Drawing on pioneering research developed with Stanford psychologist Dr. Frederic Luskin, cofounder of the Forgiveness Project, Harris explores forgiveness not as "forgive and forget," but as a rigorous, transformative practice essential for recovery after trauma. His story speaks to first responders, faith leaders, and anyone carrying unresolved pain-offering rare insight into the emotional cost of service, the limits of institutional faith, and the resilience required to truly move forward.

Revealing how Heidegger's philosophy and the religious beliefs of Islam are fundamentally incompatible, this book challenges previous assumptions about Heidegger's relationship to Islam. This book takes the view that they in fact stand apart. A compelling and innovative comparison, this book explores how the two have been mistakenly woven together through the imaginations of certain scholars and how others continue to utilise Heidegger in that vein.

Exploring this, the book delivers an original study of Islam using Heidegger's philosophy. Starting from the premise that Heidegger's hermeneutic phenomenology establishes an important point of reference for thinking about society and politics as well as religion. Following this approach, this book analyses the thought of pivotal Muslim figures in relation to Heidegger's position to assess not whether they were "proto-Heideggerian" or "pseudo-Heideggerian" but rather to what extent these thinkers understood the problematics of religion, politics, and society as a hermeneutical problem.

A critical point of discussion for our age in light of the prominence of political Islam narrative, this book speaks to metaphysical blind spots of Islamic thought that have produced dangerous ideologies hostile to the West, which seem to reflect Heidegger's philosophy but are not based on it in reality.

A comprehensive analysis of Netflix, the prominent global and transnational subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) company.

By delving into the company's corporate divisions and international business relationships, this book highlights Netflix's pivotal role in shaping the landscape of audiovisual distribution and production on a worldwide scale. Designed to engage a diverse readership interested in topics ranging from ownership and financial performance to strategic alliances, audiovisual library development, and policy advocacy, this book explores how cultural diversity, audiovisual dynamics, and corporate influence intersect with broader realms such as politics, consulting, technological innovation, and financial transactions. Through its insightful examination, this book unveils the intricate connections between cultural and non-cultural factors, shedding light on the multifaceted impact of Netflix on our global media landscape.

This book is ideal for students and scholars of global media industries, critical political economy of media and communication, and international media, globalization and culture.

Using a combination of short case scenes and role-play opportunities, the authors allow readers to experience building an HR department. They demonstrate how role-play and simulations can be used to create effective, experiential learning environments for complex business topics, incorporating a variety of workplace contexts from startups to multinational corporations. Advocating for simulation-based approaches which align with modern executive education methods and support applied learning, the book imparts practical knowledge on how HR departments are established while developing applied skills in hiring, employee relations and workforce management.

Allowing readers to move beyond theory to practice real-world decision-making, Building Practical Skills in Human Resource Management is an essential resource for faculty members, aspiring HR professionals and instructional educators focused on simulation-based learning. Scholars and students of HR and business administration will similarly benefit from its novel conceptual approach.

With over 300 entries, the work offers in-depth coverage of the full spectrum of competition law - ranging from foundational concepts to the rules governing anticompetitive agreements, monopolistic practices, mergers, and state aid. Combining academic rigour with practical insight, the Encyclopedia reflects the diversity of perspectives and expertise within the competition law community. It captures the complexity and evolving nature of the discipline, making for an indispensable resource for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers alike.

Available both online and in print, the Encyclopedia provides a unique and up-to-date account of competition law, bridging theoretical and applied approaches in a truly pan-European context whilst also offering a range of key international perspectives.

Key Features:

• Over 300 entries
• Entries organized alphabetically for ease of navigation
• Fully cross-referenced
• Contributions by the world's leading scholars and practitioners of competition law

In this book, Mo Mandic explores the very phenomenon of therapy, based on the fundamental question of being human, in order that therapy itself might be better understood in the light of this.

Psychotherapy, historically understood as a theory and practice that has emerged and developed over the past 120 years, has made few attempts to explore what it is that most fundamentally constitutes therapy from an experiential perspective. This book offers a language in which readers can understand the way in which therapy unfolds, how it 'happens' and what gives it its essential character. It discusses the key elements of this form of caring for and towards the human being that distinguishes it from psychology, psychiatry, anthropology, and social care. The book is presented in fourteen main sections, each exploring a central feature that constitutes the essence of therapy. Concrete examples are also included where appropriate, in order to illustrate and emphasise the practical relevance and importance of another way of thinking both about and within therapy.

The book's contents will be accessible to new and experienced therapists, trainees, and students who wish to engage in a more primordial understanding of therapy.

Addressing discipline-specific challenges which have often been ignored in literature, leading experts demonstrate how inclusive, decolonial and anti-racist approaches can improve student engagement and educational outcomes. They also show how these approaches address long-standing inequalities within business education. The book looks to the future, revealing clear pathways for the transformation of business schools in line with principles of social justice and anti-racism.

Presenting evidence-informed frameworks and strategies, How to Embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the Business School is essential reading for educators, leaders and practitioners in higher education seeking to drive meaningful change. It will also be of value to scholars working across higher education, organisational development, management and social justice-focused research and practice, offering critical insights into EDI, anti-racist, and decolonial pedagogy and practice.