How queering economics will better serve society.

Despite its tremendous influence, economics is one of the least diverse and most exclusionary social science disciplines. In this book, Michael E. Martell and Leanne Roncolato reveal how economics has created a dangerous hierarchy that deters dissent and marginalizes underrepresented voices. They argue that diversification can benefit the field. By highlighting the voices of LGBTQ+ economists and utilizing qualitative and quantitative data, the authors accompany their call to action with a step-by-step plan for queering economics.

Drawing on critical race, feminist, and queer perspectives and movements, Queering Economics shows how making economics inclusive has multiple tangible benefits. Not only will the field benefit from attracting the best and most diverse talent, but the discipline will better represent the contrasting ways we experience the economy while promoting prosperity and inclusion for all, especially the most vulnerable.

"A piercing ethnographic study of the power dynamics and misunderstandings that plague 'food justice' nonprofits."-Publishers Weekly

Breaks open the privilege and promise of food justice to envision a radical liberatory future.

Food justice activists have worked to increase access to healthy food in low-income communities of color across the United States. Yet despite their best intentions, they often perpetuate food access inequalities and racial stereotypes. Hanna Garth shows how the movement has been affected by misconceptions and assumptions about residents, as well as by unclear definitions of justice and what it means to be healthy. Focusing on broad structures and microlevel processes, Garth reveals how power dynamics shape social justice movements in particular ways.

Drawing on twelve years of ethnographic research, Garth examines what motivates people from more affluent, majority-white areas of the city to intervene in South Central Los Angeles. She argues that the concepts of "food justice" and "healthy food" operate as racially coded language, reinforcing the idea that health problems in low-income Black and Brown communities can be solved through individual behavior rather than structural change. Food Justice Undone explores the stakes of social justice and the possibility of multiracial coalitions working toward a better future.

This book explores the legacy of economist Eugen Varga and the continued importance of his life and work. It examines the influence of Marx and Luxemburg on Varga's ideas, particularly his analysis of the capitalist mode of production and his theoretical work on the development of an alternative mode of production. How Varga found limitations in not just his own strongly empirical epistemology, but also in the anti-dialectic Stalinist system are discussed, alongside why these critiques remain relevant in relation to neoliberal theories, inequality, and ecological concerns. Varga's specific notion of the modern state, his political economy analysis, and his position within the Marxist economic tradition are also covered.

This book provides insight into the challenges faced when attempting to overcome the capitalist mode of production, as well as the historical limitations of scientific research and how ideas can be corrupted by personal, political, and societal forces. It will be relevant to students and researchers interested in Marxist economics, the political economy, and the history of economic thought.

This book mainly studies Shenzhen's continuous formation of a number of "Shenzhen experience," "Shenzhen Quality," "Shenzhen Standard," "Shenzhen sample," and so on in promoting industrial digital transformation, stimulating the potential of digital industrialization, strengthening the digital economy support system, and improving the digital level of public services.

What people believe about the economy-and why it matters

How do expectations about the future influence economic behavior? For decades, economists have known that beliefs play a central role-from how much households spend, to how firms set prices, to how central banks design policy. But figuring out exactly how expectations affect decisions has been one of the field's most persistent empirical challenges.

In this book, Olivier Coibion and Yuriy Gorodnichenko present a fresh empirical approach: using randomized controlled trials (RCTs) to study the causal impact of expectations. Drawing on more than a decade of their research, they show how targeted information treatments can generate experimental variation in beliefs-making it possible to measure how those beliefs influence real-world decisions. Along the way, they reassess the limits of the traditional rational expectations framework and offer a richer, evidence-based picture of how people form and act on their views about the economy.

Blending the credibility of field experiments with the big-picture questions of macroeconomics, the authors provide a clear, practical guide to this new methodology-from survey design to implementation to measuring how beliefs pass through into behavior. While much of the book focuses on inflation expectations, later chapters explore how this approach sheds light on the role of uncertainty in firm and household decision making, the influence of expectations on financial behavior, and how peer effects shape household spending. For economists and social scientists alike, this book offers a new lens on how beliefs work-and why they matter.

This book is the first volume in the two-volume set Artifical Intelligence and Discourse. It examines how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is represented, debated, and imagined across diverse cultural contexts and global media. With contributions from eight countries, it explores how language, images, and stories shape public understanding of AI, professional identities, and visions of the future. Organised into three sections, the chapters move beyond utopian and dystopian views, analysing AI through metaphors, symbolic narratives, and collective imaginaries in news, literature, education, and the job market, while interrogating power, ideology, and governance. Case studies range from Australian moral panics in education to Brazilian radical ideologies, Romanian science-fiction legacies, Irish media framings, and the utopian construction of the "prompt engineer". Using methods from the humanities and social sciences-critical discourse analysis, multimodal analysis, and comparative studies-this volume offers perspectives for researchers, educators, and students interested in technology, media, culture, and society.

An inside look at the work lives of college interns and their uncertain path to paid employment

While generations of young adults used to spend their summers working as lifeguards or camp counselors, college students today are more likely to seek office experience as interns. Blame the Intern takes readers into the workspaces of the music industry to show how internships, especially unpaid ones, are problematic introductions to the working world that often provide little valuable training and are unlikely to lead to a job.

Since the 1980s, shifts in labor markets and careers have made employers less prone to invest in training entry-level employees who may quickly change jobs anyway. In recent decades, higher education has filled the gap, fueling an explosive growth of internships to facilitate the transition from college to a career. Drawing on in-depth interviews with interns, record label employees, and college personnel, as well as his own experiences as an unpaid intern at two music industry firms in New York City, Alexandre Frenette sheds light on who benefits from the intern economy, who suffers, and why. He finds that internships are rife with ambiguity because employers are neither trained nor greatly rewarded to mentor and colleges are ill-equipped to provide workplace guidance. As a result, there is little consensus about what interns should be doing or what benefits they should be gaining from their experience, which can often lead to inequality, exploitation, and disappointment.

Timely and provocative, Blame the Intern demonstrates how employers and institutions of higher learning are redefining what it means to break in-and reveals what happens when few can.

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.

Spanning the years 1765 to 1808, this volume brings together Paine's correspondence with such figures as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and Robert Morris. These letters reveal his deep engagement with diverse Enlightenment networks and his views on topics ranging from politics and science to religion and marriage. Commentary by the editors provides invaluable historical context.

This book provides essential insights into national income accounting, balance of payments, foreign exchange markets, money supply and demand, and monetary policy principles.

Econometrician Edward E. Ghartey begins the book by covering national income accounting and balance of payments. Chapters take readers through the foreign-exchange market and rational expectations, covering functions of money, monetary aggregates, and the determinants of money supply and demand. The text delves into the microeconomic foundations of money demand in developing countries, including an applied study using real data. It addresses the limitations of traditional IS-LM models and introduces a new aggregate demand curve using the Taylor principle. The book further explores the Phillips curve, and Okun's law to derive aggregate supply curve; and the effects of monetary policy in open economies.

Readers will gain a thorough understanding of complex economic concepts and models, including the development of new theoretical frameworks. The book provides practical examples and data analysis, making it a valuable resource for students and professionals seeking to deepen their knowledge of macroeconomics and monetary policy. It also includes discussions on exchange rate regimes, monetary policy interventions, and the role of central banks, offering insights into both theoretical and applied aspects of economics.

This book examines how power dynamics shape government policy, institutions, and economic strategies and define both development and economic growth. With a particular focus on Africa, it explores how power structures influence development outcomes and create a number of development challenges. Through the analysis of real world cases from both emerging and developing economies, an understanding of how power dynamics influence different countries and parts of the world in different ways is presented. The ways in which global power dynamics are shifting are also discussed to highlight future challenges the developing world will face.

This book provides a practical framework of how to make economic policy and development outcomes resilient to power dynamics and outside influence. It will be relevant to students, researchers, and policymakers working within development economics and economic policy.

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.

This volume spans the years 1793 to 1809, a period that saw Paine's imprisonment in France in 1793-94 and his return to America, where he remained active until his death. The book includes The Age of Reason, Letter to George Washington, Letters to the Citizens of the United States, Agrarian Justice, and Examination of the Passages in the New Testament, with commentary by the editors providing invaluable historical context.

The book investigates the impact of recent policies and regulatory changes related to innovation on Indian organizations. The book keeps a sharp focus on tracking innovation-related public policy in India. Out of the three methods of looking into innovation (i.e., R&D expenditure, patents, and innovation survey), it adopts the innovation survey method. An innovation survey that traces innovation over almost a decade is a novel contribution of the book. Additionally, using quantitative and qualitative methods in the study makes it more dynamic and robust. The book helps to identify both the quantitative and qualitative trends and patterns of innovation in India. The book adopts the survey method to trace and identify the impact of changing policies and regulations related to innovation in India for almost a decade (i.e., 2016, 2020, and 2023). The book uniquely covers not only Indian manufacturing and non-manufacturing firms (i.e., micro, small, medium, and large) but also startups, HEIs, and R&D labs in its survey. The book is of interest to policymakers, academics, embassies, state-level government offices, researchers, and students.

An authoritative textbook based on the legendary economics course taught at the University of Chicago-now fully updated and expanded

Price theory is a powerful analytical tool kit for measuring, explaining, and predicting market outcomes. This expanded second edition of Chicago Price Theory offers a unique approach to the subject, emphasizing hands-on, practical applications that can help students adeptly integrate economic theory with real-world forces. A key distinction is its focus on market equilibrium and gains from trade. Unlike many microeconomics texts, this book emphasizes how, through markets, households and businesses adapt to conditions like price controls and externalities. It modernizes the Marshallian idea of forward-falling supply, especially for analyzing human capital, and makes use of the cost function and Hicks-Marshall laws to analyze a variety of economic phenomena. Rooted in Chicago's price theory tradition, this textbook enables students to understand human behavior through the lens of price theory, showing how a small set of well-mastered tools makes it possible to analyze a remarkably wide range of economic questions.

• Now includes a full chapter closely integrating economic reasoning with the treatment-control paradigm
• Covers topics such as occupational choice, the evolution of inequality, the value of a statistical life, prohibition, and competition
• Uses the economics of "nudges" to understand business contracts and the organization of civil society
• Features analysis of business-to-business transactions
• Discusses the future implications of artificial intelligence
• Comes with lesson plans for minicourses in industrial organization, health economics, macroeconomics, labor, public finance, and urban economics
• Accompanied by video lectures taught by Kevin M. Murphy, Gary Becker, Casey B. Mulligan, and Robert Minton

This book is designed to complement Microeconomics Made Simple: An ABC in 1-2-3. It features 65 carefully crafted exercises-five per chapter-aligned directly with the textbook content. Each question includes helpful hints to guide students through the problem-solving process before consulting the full, detailed solutions.

More than just practice, this book offers engaging applications and mathematical challenges that deepen understanding and bring economic theory to life. Whether used for self-study or in the classroom, it is an essential tool for mastering microeconomics.

Why does gender inequality persist in tech-even in workplaces that invest in fixing it? In Networking to Nowhere, sociologist Ethel Mickey uncovers the paradox at the heart of modern tech culture: Networking is hailed as the key to opportunity, yet it systematically works against women. Drawing on ethnographic research inside a top tech firm, Mickey reveals how "ideal" networking practices like informal referrals, after-hours schmoozing, and bro-bonding over sports reinforce old boys' clubs that exclude women and people of color. Women, encouraged to lean into formal events, conferences, and diversity programs, often find these efforts go unrewarded, networking them to nowhere.

By exposing how gendered expectations, invisible cultural codes, and even well-meaning corporate DEI programs can deepen inequality, this book offers a powerful new framework for understanding gender and organizations in the contemporary economy-and what it will take to chart a new path forward.

This book presents an in-depth exploration of trade and development policies in the Central Asian Region (CAR) and South Asia (SA). It focuses on the experiences of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan in CAR, and Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka in SA. By examining historical contexts, current trends, and future prospects, it reveals how national, regional, and global factors shape their development paths.

The book highlights themes such as poverty reduction, inclusive growth, and environmental sustainability, offering valuable insights for policymakers, academics, and practitioners dedicated to fostering development in these regions. It provides practical recommendations, making it a crucial resource for those looking to promote sustainable development in Central and South Asia.

In addition to exploring the impact of regional trade agreements and the role of international organizations, it also examines the influence of geopolitical shifts. This book aims to enhance the understanding of the complexities and opportunities within these regions, contributing to the ongoing dialogue on effectively navigating and leveraging the challenges and opportunities in these rapidly evolving areas.

This book addresses the growing intersection of the aviation and tourism industries, providing a comprehensive guide on how these two sectors can collaborate to create more efficient, sustainable, and profitable travel experiences. The book focuses on key topics such as sustainable aviation fuels (SAF), digital transformation, airline logistics, tourism demand forecasting, and post-pandemic recovery strategies.

Readers will benefit from the book's practical, data-driven insights, which are supported by real-world case studies from leading airlines and tourism operators. These case studies demonstrate how airlines and tourism organizations can align their operations, optimize flight schedules with tourism demand, and adopt innovative sustainability practices. The book also emphasizes the use of emerging technologies like AI, machine learning, and blockchain to streamline operations and enhance customer experience.

The central theme of the book is the exploration and implementation of circular economy principles to transform urban waste management practices. The book focuses on how cities can move from a linear waste management model to a circular system that emphasises resource efficiency, waste reduction and sustainability. Covering innovative strategies, technologies and policies that support the integration of circular economy concepts into urban environments, the book aims to provide practical solutions and forward-looking approaches to creating a more resilient and environmentally sustainable urban future.

This book addresses the connections between food provisioning, natural resource extraction and the exploitation of human labor. Through a series of case studies, it tackles agricultural extractivist regimes in the Mediterranean, focusing on the socio-ecological and ideological practices that constrain or contribute to conflicting processes of social reproduction.
The book is divided into two parts investigating the two faces of agricultural production and opening the field of their inter-connections: (1) labor, nature and capital in food production, and (2) agricultural projects for a sustainable future. The contributed chapters provide insights into how valuation processes of human and non-human resources are entangled with economic valorization and capital accumulation. Bringing together studies based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork, Agricultural Extractivism in the Mediterranean Region bridges macro-level analyses and micro-level perspectives by tracing how structural constraints express themselves in concrete social relations. The reliance on detailed case studies facilitates the introduction of advanced topics in an accessible and engaging format. This book will be of interest to scholars in economic and environmental anthropology, agrarian studies and the anthropology of work, as well as sociologists and human geographers working in related areas.

A 2,500-year history of international currencies that reveals new insights about the future of the U.S. dollar-as well as crypto and central bank digital currencies

Doubts about the international dominance of the dollar are only growing amid worries about tariffs, political dysfunction, and fraying international alliances. Will the dollar continue to reign supreme? In Money Beyond Borders, the leading authority on international currencies, Barry Eichengreen, puts the dollar's prospects in deep historical perspective by chronicling the entire history of cross-border currencies, from the invention of coins in the seventh century BCE to the cryptocurrencies of today and the central bank digital currencies of tomorrow.

Money Beyond Borders recounts how Greek and Roman coins became the first true international currencies. It tells how the Florentine gold florin became the "greenback of the Renaissance," and how it was succeeded by Spanish silver and a Dutch fiat currency. The book explains why the British pound dominated the international economy in the nineteenth century, why the dollar rose to the top during World War II, and why the dollar has survived predictions of the imminent loss of its preeminence since the 1970s.

The long history of international currencies shows that the same factors that encourage their widespread use eventually lead to their abandonment. Money Beyond Borders makes a powerful case that the dollar is now on the downside of this cycle, and it considers who the winners and losers will be when there is flight away from the greenback. Revealing important patterns in the life cycles of international currencies over the past 2,500 years, the book offers valuable lessons and insights about how currencies rise-and why they fall.

A timely and urgent argument for preserving the work that connects us in the age of automation

"A compelling case for valuing care as a societal good and as skilled labor."-The Nation

With the rapid development of artificial intelligence and labor-saving technologies like self-checkouts and automated factories, the future of work has never been more uncertain, and even jobs requiring high levels of human interaction are no longer safe. The Last Human Job explores the human connections that underlie our work, arguing that what people do for each other in these settings is valuable and worth preserving.

Drawing on in-depth interviews and observations with people in a broad range of professions-from physicians, teachers, and coaches to chaplains, therapists, caregivers, and hairdressers-Allison Pugh develops the concept of "connective labor," a kind of work that relies on empathy, the spontaneity of human contact, and a mutual recognition of each other's humanity. The threats to connective labor are not only those posed by advances in AI or apps; Pugh demonstrates how profit-driven campaigns imposing industrial logic shrink the time for workers to connect, enforce new priorities of data and metrics, and introduce standardized practices that hinder our ability to truly see each other. She concludes with profiles of organizations where connective labor thrives, offering practical steps for building a social architecture that works.

Vividly illustrating how connective labor enriches the lives of individuals and binds our communities together, The Last Human Job is a compelling argument for us to recognize, value, and protect humane work in an increasingly automated and disconnected world.

Focused on urbanization in sub-Saharan Africa, this book deals with current challenges facing Africa's rapidly-growing cities. This book presents three studies conducted by Canadian researchers that explore the socioeconomic and political impacts of climate change, unplanned urban development, and renewable energy in the context of sub-Saharan African cities. This book brings together a wide range of facts and insights related to urbanization and climate change. It is relevant far beyond the study context of sub-Saharan African cities, with takeaways that can inform future research into the urban geographies and political ecologies of the developing world.

This book explores a humanistic approach to English for academic purposes pedagogy through the creation of a theory for the designing and planning of pedagogical activities. The theory proposes that by applying the concepts of people, place and compassion in planning and designing stages, learners will have the opportunity to take control of their learning and develop their skillset - this is power. This publication considers the reasons why English for academic purposes needs a humanistic approach to pedagogy with a focus on the contexts in which English for academic purposes takes place and profiling the student. The theory is presented is outlined and supported with a compendium of activities that could be used and adapted by practitioners in their teaching. This book will be of interest to applied linguists, language educators, EAP professionals, learning developers, researchers and anyone involved in the practice of teaching and learning in higher education.

This book provides a comprehensive examination of the economic disparities that have characterized the global landscape in recent years based on an international political economy perspective. Utilizing a blend of theoretical explanation and empirical analysis, the book will delve into the multifaceted causes and consequences of global imbalances, with a focus on the US and China as major sources of global imbalances. Finally, it will propose certain strategic measures that are required to achieve the sustainable development of the global economy, in a work that will interest journalists, economists and scholars of international relations.

This book analyses the reasons why many youths fail to obtain appropriate employment and end up working as gig workers. It also seeks to analyse the unique pattern of youth unemployment and its causes which would impact the level of youth unemployment. The book allows readers to gain a comprehensive understanding of how providing decent work for young people and establishing clear career paths can act as a catalyst for a strong economy and foster a productive and dynamic society. It also provides valuable insights into how policymakers can develop effective economic policies to enhance employment opportunities for young people. Furthermore, the book serves as an essential reference for analysing the various forms and complex dynamic patterns of unemployment in the labour market, making it a valuable resource for researchers, policymakers and practitioners alike.