A comprehensive scholarly edition of the writings and correspondence of Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine: Collected Writings is the first major new edition of Paine's works, bringing together all his writings in six breathtaking volumes that dramatically revise our previous understanding of his activities as a writer and his importance as a democratic theorist in the age of revolutions. It includes about 180 new letters and some two hundred works newly attributed to Paine, with twenty-nine works previously regarded as Paine's being deattributed. Drawing on pioneering computerized text analysis that makes possible for the first time attributions of anonymous and pseudonymous texts, this collection includes in volumes 5-6 newly identified pamphlets and newspaper and journal contributions, and suggests that Paine was extremely active as a Grub Street oppositional Whig writer in the decade prior to the American Revolution. Many writings from the period of his residence in France (1792-1802) and his subsequent return to the United States are also restored to his published output. Paine emerges as a much more consistent and serious democratic theorist than is often assumed, whose contributions to revolutionary debates in America, Britain, and France were unparalleled in their time.

The supplementary writings in this volume span the years 1758 to 1772, a formative period in which Paine honed his voice as a Grub Street writer and close confederate of Benjamin Franklin. Writing pseudonymously in journals and newspapers, he developed the narrative and ideological traits that would form the basis for his later social and political thought. Commentary by the editors provides invaluable historical context.

A study of the changes in wealth and its distribution in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Paris that maps the interplay among wealth, inequality, and welfare

Successful economies sustain capital accumulation across generations, and capital accumulation leads to large increases in private wealth. In this book, Gilles Postel-Vinay and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal map the fluctuations in wealth and its distribution in Paris between 1807 and 1977. Drawing on a unique dataset of the bequests of almost 800,000 Parisians, they show that real wealth per decedent varied immensely during this period while inequality began high and declined only slowly. Parisians' portfolios document startling changes in the geography and types of wealth over time.

Postel-Vinay and Rosenthal's account reveals the impact of economic factors (large shocks, technological changes, differential returns to wealth), political factors (changes in taxation), and demographic and social factors (age and gender) on wealth and inequality. Before World War I, private wealth was highly predictive of other indicators of welfare, including different forms of human capital, age at death, and access to local public goods. After World War I, public intervention reduced-but did not eliminate-the strong connection between wealth inequality and other forms of inequality. Over the two centuries covered, Paris and its wealth were on the vanguard of economic and social change that affected the rest of the country a generation later.

This book is an original interdisciplinary study of international environmental law, international investment law, and international politics. It aims to ?ll this gap in the academic literature with an examination of the application of China's state-centric CSR approach overseas (Africa). It contributes an innovative analysis of how China's SOEs and financial institutions pursue sustainable investment in Africa amid the latest reforms in the international investment regime, and it helps the international community understand the environmental and social impacts of China's investment on the continent.

This book delves into the devastating depths of acid attacks in India, unveiling the motives, the trauma, and the arduous road to rehabilitation. Unravelling the history and gendered aspects of acid violence, this book looks into the effects it leaves on individuals and society. It explores the complex motives driving attackers, from spurned love to property disputes, and dissects the weaponization of acid - a readily available item. Moving beyond sensationalized news headlines, it examines the nuanced portrayals of acid attacks in the media, from documentaries to memes, and exposes the cognitive biases that victimize survivors. Through extensive interviews and rigorous scientific analysis, this book explores the physical and psychological effects on the individual but also their resilience. Through powerful stories of coping, psychological rehabilitation, and post-traumatic growth, it delves into a model of rehabilitation based on extensive research, offering survivors hope. In order to aid future crime prevention, it profiles acid attack offenders, seeking to understand what fuels their actions. It critically examines the legal framework, analysing existing laws and advocating for stronger measures to combat this violence. It includes a section, 'Reclaiming Your Strength', which empowers survivors with a comprehensive guide with support and resources, and speaks to NGOs, protection officers and mental health professionals.

This open access book presents a thorough, multidisciplinary examination of children's rights in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) with a focus on Lithuania. Pursuing a comparative approach, it explores various aspects of children's rights as established in constitutional, civil, administrative and criminal law in the region, while also discussing emerging issues. The book shares unique insights into the challenges and progress specific to individual CEE countries, many of which have undergone significant political, social, and legal transformations in recent decades.
The comparative analysis of practices and legal frameworks between Lithuania and other countries in the region and across various CEE countries is a key feature of the book. By comparing practices, case law and legal regulations across different CEE countries, it highlights both the diversity and the common challenges in the region. Moreover, such a comparative perspective is invaluable for policymakers, practitioners, and academics in terms of identifying best practices and learning from different countries' experiences. The respective chapters offer evidence-based insights and recommendations to guide the development of more effective and rights-based approaches to child protection.
While aiming to enhance awareness and understanding of children's rights, the book also seeks to fill a gap in the literature by focusing on the CEE region, an area often underrepresented and overlooked in global discussions on children's rights. Bringing together a wide range of theoretical and empirical research from Lithuania and other CEE countries, it features contributions by researchers from the Baltic states, Poland, Slovenia, Hungary, Croatia, and Romania to provide a more holistic understanding of the challenges and advances in children's rights in the CEE region.

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of legal theory tailored specifically to the unique challenges and opportunities faced by post-Soviet states. By presenting an innovative framework known as the "common theory of law", it ventures beyond the traditional statist and positivist perspectives that have long dominated legal education in the region. Instead, it views law as a dynamic societal phenomenon and a unifying force that transcends state-centric boundaries.

Grounded in a pluralistic approach, the book integrates insights from diverse legal traditions, including natural law, psychological theories, and libertarian perspectives. It systematically examines foundational concepts such as the nature and origin of law, its principles and functions, and its relationship with society, power, and the state. It also addresses practical dimensions, including the structure and sources of law, legal interpretation, and the major contemporary legal systems.

Designed to enhance legal awareness and foster critical thinking, this book is an invaluable resource for academics, instructors, and students of law, and each chapter concludes with a number of questions for students. Legal practitioners and researchers will also benefit from its holistic perspective and practical applications, making it a vital tool for advancing both a theoretical and practical understanding of law in the post-Soviet region.

Rustam Atadjanov is an Associate Professor of Law at KIMEP University, School of Law in Almaty, Kazakhstan. This is his first textbook for T.M.C. Asser Press; in 2019 his monograph entitled Humanness as a Protected Legal Interest of Crimes against Humanity - Conceptual and Normative Aspects was published in the ICJ Series, while in 2022 both as an editor and an author he contributed to the edited volume International Conflict and Security Law - A Research Handbook.

The book presents an innovative and rigorous framework for legal education and research in the 21st century. Rooted in the principles of transdisciplinarity, this guide explores how legal thinking can respond to complex global challenges, from institutional transformation to digital governance and climate justice.

Through conceptual depth and practical insight, this volume empowers researchers, educators, and legal professionals to cultivate anticipatory responsibility and methodological innovation. It is an important resource for shaping resilient legal systems and inclusive global governance.

Addressing the intersection of law, ethics, science, and policy, the book contributes directly to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), especially SDG 4 (Quality Education), SDG 16 (Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions), and SDG 17 (Partnerships for the Goals).

This book offers a new understanding of naturalism and normativity by integrating them within a process metaphysics framework. Rejecting all forms of transcendence, Dionysis Christias advances a conception of 'fractured immanence' in which mind and nature are not ontologically distinct regions of being (they are both ways of being processes) yet diverge in the order of understanding, a tension enabling their ongoing self-correcting interplay as concepts without presupposing transcendence or complete mutual transparency. Drawing on Deleuze, Sellars and Peirce, the book replaces substance metaphysics with an anti-representational, univocal process ontology which throws light on core problems in contemporary analytic metaphysics of powers and emergence. Normativity is embedded in this naturalistic process framework by being understood as an emergent intensive regime whose function is hyperstitional: it stabilizes and projects ideal possible worlds expressed by unactualized universals, and performatively makes them actual over time by collectively treating them as real.

This two-volume manual is a comprehensive, multidisciplinary guide to understanding the system of digital platforms, or the e-Agora of the third millennium, making it an essential resource for anyone seeking clarity in the digital world.
The handbook brings together the insights of eminent scholars and international experts to explore the legal, ethical, technological, philosophical, economic, and social aspects of platforms. The chapters take a multidisciplinary approach to topics such as AI and its training, data processing and protection, new digital subjects and assets, contract law, provider liability, soft law, and copyright, offering a comprehensive view of the entire digital ecosystem.
The authors' approach fosters a rich interaction among various disciplines, ranging from philosophy to civil law, from computer science to labor law, from industrial property law to public and administrative law, from international law to European Union law, and from economic policy to management. Particular attention is devoted to the European regulatory framework, to the role of artificial intelligence in content creation and decision-making processes, as well as to the implications of platformisation for public procurement and employment relationships.
The work also analyzes emerging issues such as algorithmic governance, digital identity, and digital succession, with an in-depth examination of the challenges of co-regulation and the application of current regulations such as the DMA and DSA, alongside the evolving role of national regulatory authorities.
It is aimed at researchers and scholars, while also offering essential guidance for professionals and policymakers working to shape the future of digital governance.
Volume 1 focuses on the technological, contractual, and legal foundations of digital platforms, offering an in-depth analysis of issues such as liability, intellectual property, and data protection.
Volume 2 broadens the perspective to include philosophical, economic, regulatory, and managerial dimensions, providing a holistic understanding of platforms as socioeconomic and political actors.

From Pulitzer Prize finalist Steven Nadler, a fascinating historical and philosophical narrative that unravels the mystery of whether Spinoza was an atheist

In 1656, a young Amsterdam merchant was excommunicated by his Portuguese-Jewish community in the harshest terms it had ever used. Baruch Spinoza was accused of unspecified "horrifying heresies," but the precise reasons for his expulsion remain a mystery. When he published his Theological-Political Treatise in 1670, which was condemned as "the most atheistic book ever written," he began to reveal to the world what his heresies may have been. Yet ever since the eighteenth century, most readers and scholars have assumed that Spinoza was a pantheist-even a "God-intoxicated man," as the poet Novalis put it. After all, how could a person whose books are suffused with talk of God be an atheist? In Spinoza, Atheist, Steven Nadler, one of the world's leading authorities on the philosopher, aims to settle the question and show that that's exactly what he was.

Nadler makes a powerful case that there is no real divinity for Spinoza. God is Nature, and isn't an object of worshipful awe or religious reverence but can only be understood through philosophy and science. There is nothing supernatural-no mystery, ineffability, or sublimity. Spinoza does speak of "blessedness" and "salvation," but these, too, are to be understood in natural and rational terms, as the peace of mind and happiness that come from understanding ourselves and the world.

Whether Spinoza believed in God is a fascinating and enduring controversy. Spinoza, Atheist promises to transform our understanding of his views and to make clear just how radical a thinker he was and remains.

This book conducts a comprehensive exploration of the intersection and integration of design and intellectual property in diverse fields. To begin with, it presents the concept, principles, types, and tools of design, along with the innovative integration within design. Subsequently, it discusses the relationship between design and innovation, emphasizing the connections and distinctions between them, and highlighting the significance of intellectual property protection for both. The ensuing chapters delve profoundly into specific domains such as product design, environmental design, visual communication design and service design, analyzing the characteristics, types of these fields and the legal framework of intellectual property protection within each. The final chapter centers on the impact of emerging technologies on design innovation and the challenges they pose to the intellectual property system, and proposes strategies for establishing a new type of intellectual property system to tackle these challenges. It aims to offer systematic and novel thinking to a broad spectrum of groups such as teachers, undergraduate students, postgraduate students who have an interest in intellectual property protection in the field of design innovation, as well as international students and foreign readers who are intrigued by the field of intellectual property protection in the Chinese design and creative sector.

This two-volume work explores how advanced, technologically orientated business research aims to foster organizational and industry evolution, along with sustainable progress of enduring societal implications. As businesses increasingly embrace transformative technologies, their profound and far-reaching societal consequences necessitate a cross-disciplinary scientific approach coupled with an artistic and imaginative lens.

Against this backdrop, authors in this book navigate the intricate web of impacts on employment and leadership, business model innovation, advanced data driven decision making, digital transformation, data ecosystems and analytics, AI-led e-commerce and branding, and virtual reality. The topics cover an array of geographic regions and industries, including professional services, education, fashion, sports, and hospitality & tourism. Business technology theory and science are ultimately geared towards practicable application, and are contextualized by sustainability and socioeconomic advancement.

This second volume explores the role of advanced business technologies in industry and policy, elucidating also the art and fiction of their societal impact, while the first volume investigates their strategic, managerial and marketing impacts.

In the ever-evolving landscape of contemporary business, organizations encounter the perpetual challenge of re-evaluating and adjusting their business frameworks. This book presents a comprehensive guide to fortifying and adapting business models to meet this demand. This author elucidates how enterprises can enhance their competitive edge by methodically scrutinizing and accommodating megatrends such as digitalization, sustainability, and globalization. It integrates established business model stress-testing methodologies with pragmatic strategies for preemptively addressing forthcoming market dynamics. Through meticulous examination of case studies and actionable directives, this resource emerges as an essential asset for executives, strategists, and innovators striving to ensure the resilience of their enterprises. Offering not only profound insights into business model innovation, but also tangible counsel for navigating a swiftly evolving environment, it stands as an invaluable resource for those aiming to thrive amidst change.

This book provides a comprehensive account of the achievements of the economic regions set up in France after the First World War. It identifies exactly how they operated, as well as critical success factors such as effective leadership. Some recent historians have taken a very negative view of the part played by these regions in economic development. This new study instead argues that they made a significant contribution and laid the foundations for the regions created in France after 1945. The key areas which they identified: transport, power generation, and technical education, have remained the preoccupations of regional governments in France and elsewhere to this day. The author covers the needs of commerce and industry, but also agriculture and tourism. Based on fresh research using a wide range of primary sources, this book will appeal to economic historians, economists, and geographers, as well as historians with a particular interest in France.

This book explores the challenges and dilemmas faced by professional women in contemporary China. Through an interconnection of storytelling and academic analysis, the book unravels complex themes of gender discrimination, workplace dynamics, gender roles, and societal expectations of today's professional Chinese women in China. The author provides historical insights from the Women's Emancipation Movement in China and explores the challenges Chinese women continue to encounter as they strive for professional growth while navigating personal relationships and Chinese cultural norms. This book is ideal for academics, scholars, practitioners, and policy makers interested in the gender roles in the workplace in China.

This book explores multiple aspects of human-AI collaborations, especially human-centric design in organizations for creativity and innovation. It also examines how human-AI collaborations have and continue to change organizations and workplaces as well as their ethical, legal and regulatory challenges. In addition to fundamental topics, the book also demonstrates effective uses of human-AI collaborations for organizational innovation through real world case studies. Featuring unique contributions from professionals in various areas of innovation and technology, this book provides practitioners, leaders, tech experts, and inquisitive thinkers with a thorough understanding of human-AI collaborations, creativity, and innovation.

Business Innovation is key to the continuing prosperity of firms and to the resolution of environmental and societal grand challenges alike. It has, therefore, become one of the core fields of academic inquiry of our times. It is, however, also an inherently inter-disciplinary subject, inviting contributions from a variety of disciplines. Due to their diverse backgrounds, scholars interested in business innovation frequently lack a "common language" and a shared base of knowledge to integrate their individual contributions effectively.

This revised and updated edition starts with the fundamental considerations concerning the role of theories, different types of theories, and different forms of logical reasoning in this field. It goes on to present seven different schools of thought about business innovation, before concluding with the main theories currently used to study business innovation.

'Exploring the Field of Business Innovation' aims at making this domain more accessible to scholars irrespective of their background and career stage, fostering the inter-disciplinary debate, and inspiring researchers to look at this phenomenon from new and different angles.

Companies are no longer the only organizations thatdevelop mission statements; administrations, hospitals,universities, schools and associations are following. After a phase of euphoria in which true miracles wereexpected, mission statements have come underincreasing critique for their moralizing overtones. Byapplying new approaches from organizational research,this book shows how thedevelopment and disseminationof missionstatements can be arranged in sucha way that two seemingly contradicting goals areachieved. On the one hand the management of theorganization's "display side" to the outside world canbe supported, on the other hand new room can becreated for the analysis of the unavoidable structuralconflicts that emerge in organizations.

Quantum technologies (QT) are rapidly advancing from scientific propositions to commercial realities. QT leverage quantum mechanics, the physics of sub-atomic particles, to deliver functionalities and performance that are otherwise impossible to obtain. QT have already transformed our daily life but the next generation goes further by manipulating previously unexploited quantum phenomena to enable a wide range of new applications, which will have a transformative effect on production, business ecosystems and the innovation strategy of the coming decades. This open access book aims to provide the conceptual frameworks to better understand the economic and managerial implications of this dawning phenomenon.

Chapters include discussions of quantum computers, quantum communications, and sensing, imaging and timing technologies, providing succinct descriptions of the technology and theory and devoting analysis to the expected business and organisational impact of these breakthroughs. Also exploring strategy and innovation management, sustainability potential and ethics, it will be of great interest to scholars of innovation, strategy and entrepreneurship, as well as practitioners and policymakers looking to better understand the future of business.

In this book, Marius Mueller explores the distinct virtual and physical internationalization strategies of today's leading international e-commerce firms. By revealing previously unknown determinants of e-commerce firms' online geographic scope, foreign direct investments, and international performance, he contributes novel insights into how these digital firms successfully coordinate their virtual and physical presence across borders. Finally, he highlights the complex interplay between these international strategies and dynamic host country factors.

This textbook provides thorough exploration of international business concepts and theories alongside a detailed analysis of current trends and developments. Divided into three parts, the first section explores the evolution of globalization, the impact of regional economic integration, and the interplay between free trade and government intervention.

Part 2 delves into the formal and informal rules governing political and economic systems, and addresses ethical dilemmas faced in international business practices.

The final section focuses on strategic decisions for entering new markets, the role of foreign direct investment, and the management of global production and supply chains, while also emphasizing the need for effective marketing, R&D strategies, and performance control mechanisms.

Students can expect valuable insights into the transformative role of emerging technologies like AI, big data, and blockchain in driving global business expansion. They will also gain practical and up-to-date knowledge essential for thriving in today's global marketplace through the book's focus on evolving globalization patterns for technology companies and the actions taken by governments to address associated challenges.

With features like "In Focus" boxes and end-of-chapter cases, this text will offer effective resources for facilitating discussions and hands-on analysis of trends and developments in international business.

Although innovation is a necessity for growth, its journey is complex, uncertain and full of failures. This book takes a holistic approach to address innovation practices in different organizations and in different parts of the world. It highlights the interplay between the markets, technology, and the organization, while outlining the unique skill set required to manage innovation and innovation processes.

Including an analytical review of the current literature and theories, this book emphasizes practical, implementable, evidence-based tools and resources to manage innovation at all types of organizations, regardless of type, sector or size. The emphasis is on established entities, yet the guidelines shared in the book will also be applicable to both temporary organizations and start-ups in all or in part. It will be of interest to students and academics of strategic management and innovation strategy, as well as practitioners seeking an advanced understanding of innovation tools and strategy.

This book brings together innovative research at the intersection of data science, machine learning, and finance. Covering a wide spectrum of topics-including explainable AI, financial distress prediction, stock market forecasting, investment strategies, audit analytics, and economic modeling-it showcases both theoretical developments and applied case studies from around the world.
With chapters spanning predictive modeling, sentiment analysis, capital structure, IT governance, and Bayesian approaches to productivity, the book offers a multidisciplinary perspective on how data-driven tools are reshaping modern finance and accounting.
This book presents a timely resource for academics, practitioners, and graduate students seeking to understand and apply data science in financial and accounting contexts.

This book focuses on an integrated design sciences approach in developing an AI decision-support model to enhance an organization's decision-making function(s) and capabilities. In doing so, it elaborates on the programmability of decisions in the context of an AI culture (as embedded in the principles of Actor-Network Theory), and illustrates how AI technologies can bring profound societal changes, while balancing social and technical objectives given that AI cannot operate independent from human involvement.

Research in the book spans multiple disciplines, drawing insights from academic literature and industry experts across various business functions, including finance, logistics, manufacturing, marketing, distribution, infrastructure, and technological development.

With this, the book adopts an elaborated action design research (eADR) approach as its guiding framework, which employs a systematic, iterative approach for diagnosis and design to develop a decision-support model artifact in the context of programmable decisions. The empirical study included in the book involved data collection through interviews with senior managers, group discussions with middle management, and consultations with other industry experts.

This Open Access book examines how football's governing bodies translate their public CSR commitments into everyday practice. Focusing on UEFA, the German Football Association (DFB) and a representative regional federation, it traces CSR from continental headquarters to local grassroots, revealing where lofty pledges of sustainability, diversity and community engagement prosper-and where they falter. Drawing on fourteen semi-structured interviews with senior officials and practitioners, the study exposes a persistent gap between externally promoted initiatives and the internal processes that should sustain them. It shows that CSR only achieves lasting impact when it is embedded in strategic planning, aligned with core football operations and subjected to rigorous monitoring. By presenting a grounded framework and practical guideline for associations at every tier, the author offers both scholars and decision-makers a roadmap for moving beyond performative gestures towards genuinely responsible governance in the world's most influential sport.