This book offers readers a comprehensive understanding of how legal frameworks shape sustainable practices and economic growth. The book provides valuable insights into the integration of law and economics to promote sustainable agricultural development, focusing on technological advancements and their economic impacts. Readers will gain a deep understanding of how legal structures support agricultural households and marginalized communities. In examining economic policies and trade, the book reveals the pivotal role of law in achieving sustainable development goals, balancing intellectual property rights, and managing environmental challenges like oil spills. This makes it an essential resource for grasping the complexities of global economic strategies and their sustainability implications. The section on labor law addresses contemporary issues in employment, such as the gig economy, income disparity, and workplace discrimination. By highlighting legal protections and social equity, the book underscores the importance of fair labor practices. Overall, readers will benefit from a detailed, interdisciplinary exploration of how legal and economic systems can collaboratively drive sustainable development and social justice.

A vivid new translation in which the Stoic philosopher argues that virtue is the only path to contentment

Why are so many people unhappy when happiness can be attained by anyone who simply lives virtuously? That question prompted Seneca, the great Stoic philosopher of the early Roman Empire, to write On the Happy Life, and he continued to seek answers in his Moral Epistles. In How to Live, Seneca biographer and translator James Romm presents vivid new versions of passages from both works, distilling Seneca's passionate and inspiring argument for a path to perfect contentment, no matter what befalls us.

As a Stoic, Seneca believed that only ethical virtue leads to happiness; all other goals, including wealth and success, are neutral in their effects-or, if they torment us with what we haven't achieved, sources of unhappiness. For role models, Seneca looks to Socrates, who embodied virtue and reason, and to a hypothetical sage who is always in tune with the divine mind that governs the cosmos. Extolling these paragons with nearly messianic fervor, Seneca urges us to imitate their example.

Featuring an inviting introduction and the original Latin on facing pages, How to Live captures the persuasive power of Seneca's argument that the universe wants us to be virtuous-and happy.

The new path for economic development that India must create

The whole world has a stake in India's future, and that future hinges on whether India can develop its economy and deliver for its population-now the world's largest-while staying democratic. India's economy has overtaken the United Kingdom's to become the fifth-largest in the world, but it is still only one-fifth the size of China's, and India's economic growth is too slow to provide jobs for millions of its ambitious youth. Blocking India's current path are intense global competition in low-skilled manufacturing, increasing protectionism and automation, and the country's majoritarian streak in politics. In Breaking the Mold, Raghuram Rajan and Rohit Lamba show why and how India needs to blaze a new path if it's to succeed.

India diverged long ago from the standard development model, the one followed by China-from agriculture to low-skilled manufacturing, then high-skilled manufacturing and, finally, services-by leapfrogging intermediate steps. India must not turn back now. Rajan and Lamba explain how India can accelerate growth by prioritizing human capital, expanding opportunities in high-skilled services, encouraging entrepreneurship, and strengthening rather than weakening its democratic traditions. It can chart a path based on ideas and creativity even at its early stage of development.

Filled with vivid examples and written with incisive candor, Breaking the Mold shows how India can break free of the stumbling blocks of the past and embrace the enormous possibilities of the future.

This open access book provides an overview of the credit distribution ecosystem in Europe, with a specific focus on the definitions, laws, and authorities related to the figures of credit intermediaries (credit agents and brokers). It explores the regulatory framework, market structures, and technological innovations in credit intermediation. The analysis draws on the authors' academic research in banking and finance, industry experience with institutional clients and financial product distribution, and the regulatory role of the OAM. The book defines and classifies credit intermediaries in different European jurisdictions, including the UK, and compares regulatory and legislative frameworks governing credit distribution across these markets. It also analyses the role of national supervisory authorities in this sector. Designed for finance professionals, regulators, and scholars, the book offers an in-depth examination of credit agents and brokers in the European market.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 new standard in interest rate modelling, called the multi-curve framework, emerged after the financial crisis. The framework covers two important market features: the collateralisation of derivative trades and the spread between different rate benchmarks. This book starts from the collateral mechanisms and builds the full framework from the foundations through all the technical and financial details. It kicks off with the collateral discounting in all its variants: domestic cash, foreign cash, or other assets and then introduces the different benchmarks and their associated spreads. Following the discontinuation of certain benchmarks, part of the book is dedicated to the transition and the emergence of the overnight benchmark dominance in certain currencies. Based on the theoretical framework of the first chapters, the important curve calibration mechanism is analysed in detail. Many instruments are investigated with all their practical peculiarities. Most of the book is dedicated to the understanding of the "static" interest rate curves. The book's last part deals with the building blocks of any dynamic model explaining their future behaviour and apply some of those models to the most liquid instruments. Based on more than 25 years of experience as a trader and quantitative analyst in the related markets, the author includes many details on implementation in libraries and using the framework in risk management, which will be of interest to traders, risk managers, quantitative analysts, and actuaries alongside professors, researchers, and students of banking, insurance, risk management, and quantitative finance.

This book analyzes the relation between the Churches' official teachings regarding 'desired' and forbidden forms of sexual behaviour on the one hand, and mundane practice on the other hand, focusing on perspectives 'from below'. Since the very beginning, Christianity has sought to regulate the love lives of its believers. The clergy's growing influence on state institutions and the introduction of Christian sexual ethics left its mark on law, education and social norms. However, the everyday lives of most believers had little in common with the sexual norms propagated by clerics. The territory of Poland is especially interesting due to the fact that over the centuries different Christian confessions as well as distinct ethnic groups with various cultural norms co-existed there. Additionally, this edited collection looks at different groups of actors, such as peasants, the clergy or townspeople from the Early Middle Ages until the late twentieth century, and also includes different types of sources as well as of methodological approaches. This long-term perspective shows the impact and influence of Church teachings in a longue duree, and highlights social factors that both shaped discourses on sexuality and also indicated the changing power of the Church.

The first book-length study of dream interpretation in classical Greece

Long before Freud, dreams and how to make sense of them fascinated ancient thinkers. In The Ancient Interpretation of Dreams, Mirjam Kotwick traces a continuous intellectual practice of dream interpretation across a range of ancient Greek texts, including those from Homer, Aeschylus, Herodotus, Antiphon, the Hippocratic doctors, Plato, and Aristotle. In these works, dreams signify meaning in indirect, distorted, figurative, and metaphorical ways. The authors employ what Kotwick terms the "hermeneutics of similarity" to uncover the message of a dream by identifying (obvious or nonobvious) similarities between its literal expression and its hidden meaning. This method of interpretation remained consistent, whether authors understood dreams as messages from the gods or as results of physiological processes within the dreamer's body.

Kotwick shows that ancient Greeks used their study of dreams to reflect on larger questions of interpretation, figurative language, and metaphor-before the concept of metaphor existed. Philosophers and scientists connected their interest in dreams to their own theories in ethics, cosmology, medicine, biology, linguistics, and literary criticism. It is in the interpretation of dreams, Kotwick argues, that we can see early Greek hermeneutic thought develop. In uncovering the ancient discourse on dream interpretation, this study also outlines an early history of interpretation.

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.

Fermenting for the Future reveals the fascinating story of tsukemono, the rich variety of pickles that have been an integral part of the Japanese diet for over a thousand years. Today, industrial pasteurization and declining agrodiversity have led to the disappearance of many of the hundreds of traditional tsukemono along with their benefits to human health. While fermenting vegetables and fruit was once a task of domestic drudgery, Aya Hirata Kimura shows how the art of tsukemono can now be appreciated as a catalyst for sociocultural change amid a growing awareness of the drawbacks of antibiotic modernity. By examining the complex socio-environmental facets of tsukemono, Kimura deepens our understanding of how the modernization of food and agriculture transform not only human relationships to plants and the land but also the microbial diversity in our food systems and bodies.

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 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 how multilingualism and multiculturalism act as critical markers of glocalization, identity formation, and cultural preservation in a changing world. As a multi-ethnic and multicultural country marked by extensive linguistic and cultural diversity, the Namibian landscape is a unique context showcasing the benefits of multilingualism and multiculturalism. Through critical, empirical, practical and theoretically engaged debates, this book highlights issues around intercultural and multilingual education, the language question in Africa, cultural practices and their significance and preservation thereof, ways of fostering unity in diversity through languages, and the means to liberate the creative, artistic and cultural voices through self-publication. This book is useful for undergraduate and graduate students and researchers on Namibian and Southern African linguistics, multilingual and multicultural enthusiasts, anthropologists, and African studies scholars.

This book is the second volume in the two-volume set Artificial Intelligence and Discourse. It explores how generative AI tools such as ChatGPT-3, ChatGPT-4, Gemini, and CoPilot are transforming human-machine interaction and communication across institutions and individuals in education, journalism, policy, and creative industries. With contributions from nine countries, it examines GenAI not just as a tool but as an active conversational partner shaping language, identity, and professional practice. The chapters analyse anthropomorphism, algorithmic bias, and the challenges of meaning-making in contexts ranging from classroom writing and resume design to political speechwriting and STEM creativity. Case studies reveal how AI reshapes agency, creativity, authority, and self-perception, while exposing potential risks of miscommunication, bias, and cultural erasure. Drawing on discourse analysis, linguistic pragmatics, digital humanities and rhetoric, the volume offers accessible, interdisciplinary perspectives for researchers, educators, and policymakers seeking to understand and critically engage with the cultural and communicative consequences of AI in everyday life.

This book focuses on practical use of the Dominant Language Constellations (DLC) approach, not only in formal settings, but also in social and family domains. It addresses the daily needs of all those who deal with multilingual reality. The key unique feature of the volume is its focus on giving practical advice, recommendations, and suggestions that can help individuals deal with real-life multilingual situations. It covers multiple social and geographical contexts, bringing insights into working directly with family members, children and adults, and educational stakeholders. While based on DLC theory and empirical studies, this volume appeals directly to practitioners, both in-service and future teachers, as well as teacher educators, parents and social workers in multilingual settings.

This book offers an in-depth exploration of the genesis of Leon Walras's work and its impact on the history of economics. Through a thorough examination of both published and unpublished writings, correspondence, and personal notes, the book reveals new insights into Walras's intellectual evolution and his overall conception of economics. It traces the formation of his theoretical framework, the elements of his "political and social economy," and his aspirations for a "liberal and humanitarian scientific socialism."

The book is organized into five parts:

• Part I investigates the influences shaping Walras's thought, including his relationship with his father, Auguste Walras, and the intellectual legacy of Jean-Baptiste Say. This section also discusses Walras's views on the stages of historical development, reflecting on the industrial and commercial transformations of his time and his framework for categorizing the social and political sciences.
• Part II examines the development of Walras's general equilibrium theory, the role of free competition within a "pure economy," and the reception of his ideas in Italy and France. It highlights the historical and intellectual context surrounding his theoretical innovations.
• Part III addresses Walras's approach to the teaching of economics, with a focus on avoiding intellectual rigidity, particularly in France. It explores his work in social and applied economics at Lausanne and his efforts to shape academic resources, such as library acquisitions, to support this vision.
• Part IV critiques French liberalism, analyzing Walras's responses to figures like Louis Blanc and the Saint-Simonians, and discusses his editorial work with Le Travail, which advocated cooperative approaches.
• Part V highlights Walras's reformist ideas, including his vision for labor market organization, the state's role in land repurchase to replace taxes, the regulation of public services and natural monopolies, and his ideas on democracy, particularly his campaign for professional representation of interests.

This comprehensive analysis appeals to scholars and students of the history of economic thought and anyone interested in understanding the formation and legacy of Walras's work.

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.

This book offers a multidisciplinary exploration of how BRICS countries, namely Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, are addressing climate change through policy innovation, technological progress and collaborative governance. With contributions from academics in environmental science, education, marketing, energy and agriculture, the volume examines the link between climate and development in the Global South. The book opens with chapters on land use, agricultural practices and food systems, then moves on to discuss sustainable finance, disaster resilience, energy cooperation and education for sustainable development. The final chapters assess consumer behaviour, sustainable marketing strategies and circular economy practices within the BRICS context.

Using country-specific case studies and comparative analysis, this book highlights the importance of local responses to climate change, inclusive economic models and the role of developing nations in shaping global climate governance. It calls for stronger policy alignment, cross-border collaboration and context-sensitive knowledge creation and is a timely addition to climate scholarship. An invaluable resource for researchers, policymakers, postgraduate students and development practitioners who seek to understand how emerging economies can move towards low-carbon and resilient futures.