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Originally published in 1997, the principal object of the editors in compiling this collection of Robert R. Sterling's work was to make more of his publications accessible in a convenient form to the academic and professional accounting communities, and to current and future generations of accounting students.

This book is designed as a short introduction to econometrics for economists and differs from existing texts in that: - it is succinct and user-friendly and is therefore more suitable for use on shorter modules lasting a few weeks.- it moves beyond being a mere applied statistics book and draws upon a wealth of real world examples from economics itself ¿ showing how econometrics can be brought to bear on the world we live in. - the concentration is on simpler cross section models without introducing the student to complicated time series modelsIn the same way that other mathematical disciplines such as game theory can be taught in a less technical way, so can econometrics. This book will allow the student to grasp the basic concepts without plunging them into a world of abstract mathematics.

Ready to stop letting money control your life? Unraveling Your Relationship with Money: Ditch Your Money Trauma So You Can Live an Abundant Life is the no-fluff guide to taking back your power. This isn't about spreadsheets or savings hacks-it's about smashing through the emotional roadblocks holding you back and finally creating the financial life you want. Shannah Game, financial expert and host of the hit podcast Everyone's Talkin' Money, delivers bold insights, relatable stories, and actionable steps to help you heal your relationship with money, ditch guilt and shame, and build unapologetic wealth. Whether you're drowning in debt, saving for your dream home, or just tired of feeling stuck, this book gives you the clarity and tools to take charge-and thrive. It's not just a book-it's your money revolution. "Shannah brilliantly unravels the strange and complex relationship we have with money. As someone who inherited a money mindset of fear and lack, Shannah's guidance has elevated my soul's self-worth, and is the balm to embracing a flourishing relationship with money." -J. KELLY HOEY, Author of Build Your Dream Network "I don't think anyone has had more public conversations helping people untangle their money stories than Shannah Game-and now she's packaged her wisdom into this generous, transformative guide for us all." -CARL RICHARDS, New York Times Sketch Guy Columnist and Author of The Behavior Gap and The One-Page Financial Plan

There has been an unprecedented shift in the attitudes of young individuals toward the key economic issues they encounter as they embark on their adult lives. Addressing a gap in the economic literature, this book uniquely bridges the current understanding of youth with empirical evidence from Poland, Czechia and Germany.

'As the pursuit of profit becomes increasingly surreal, virtual, and exotic by the day, the symbiosis between libidinal and financial flows demands to be rethought. Clickbait capitalism offers a stimulating and game-changing introduction to how the current confluence of economy and desire pre-empts our behaviour, structures our identity, influences our decisions, and tugs at our wallets.'>'Lie back on the couch with this book and let it analyse your triggers and traumas about debt and inequality. Ramble down the royal road of the unconscious, interpreting the collective delirium from Cryptokitties to cryogenics, Squid Game to GameStop. These bracing chapters, invoking theorists from Adorno to Zizek, fuse psychology and economics to diagnose the neuroses of our moment. The results are electric!'> Desire plays a crucial yet poorly understood role within economic life. This is increasingly untenable as potent new cultures of desire take shape around the intersection of digital technology and finance. Clickbait capitalism stages an encounter between psychoanalysis, political economy, and the calling cards of twenty-first-century capitalism. Drawing on a theoretical tradition known as 'libidinal economy', the book engages digital-economic life as a site of ongoing psychological capture and release. What emerges is a unique survey of the moods and structures of feeling that underwrite capitalism today, from online paranoia and the ecstatic mania of the crypto-boom to the escape and revenge fantasies of the indebted young. Adopting a pluralistic approach, the book offers a range of new perspectives on the psychological foundations and ongoing viability of capitalism as a social formation and economic system.

'This book, written in crystal-clear style, develops the most profound philosophical discussion ever held of ecological economics.'>'A brilliant contribution to a radical paradigm of social ecological economics concerned with both disciplinary and social-ecological transformation as necessary conditions for achieving a world in which we all, and all other species, can flourish.'>'The book is deeply rooted in the theory of science, offering a very enlightening text about fundamental issues for science that too often are glossed over or misunderstood.'>Exploring radical dissent from orthodox mainstream economics, this book presents a theoretically grounded vision for the emerging paradigm of social ecological economics. At its heart lies the paradigm-shifting acknowledgement that economies are inextricably embedded in biophysical reality and social structure. The struggle for revisioning in the face of environmental crises is articulated through a critical examination of economic thought, and a nuanced evaluation of contributions from Marxists, socialists, critical institutionalists, feminists and Post Keynesians. Synthesising diverse insights, the book navigates the philosophical underpinnings of a critical and realist revolutionary transformative science, emphasising the pivotal role of values and ideology. These radical and philosophical foundations establish a new preanalytic vision of economics, dismantling entrenched notions of growth and efficiency in favour of social provisioning and needs embedded in ethics. An agenda emerges that requires social ecological transformation and diverse alternative economies. This book provides a compelling call to action in the face of contemporary crises.

Imperial Inequalities takes Western European empires and their legacies as the explicit starting point for discussion of issues of taxation and welfare. In doing so, it addresses the institutional and fiscal processes involved in modes of extraction, taxation, and the hierarchies of welfare distribution across Europe's global empires. The idea of 'imperial inequalities' provides a conceptual frame for thinking about the long-standing colonial histories that are responsible, at least in part, for the shape of present inequalities. This wide-ranging volume challenges existing historiographical accounts that present states and empires as separate categories. Instead, it views them as co-constitutive units by focusing upon the politics of economic governance across imperial spaces. Authors examine the fiscal innovations that enabled European empires to finance their expansion, the politics of redistribution that were important to constructing the veneer of legitimacy of taxation, and the fiscal mechanisms that were established to ensure that the imperial contours of inequality continued to define the postcolonial world. These diverse contributions provide new resources for how we think about issues of taxation and welfare across the longue durée.

In the 1980s, Britain actively engaged with China in order to promote globalisation and manage Hong Kong's decolonisation. Influenced by neoliberalism, Margaret Thatcher saw Britain as a global trading nation, which was well placed to serve China's economic reform. With her conviction in free-market capitalism, Thatcher was eager to extend British rule in Hong Kong beyond 1997. During the 1982-84 negotiations, British diplomats aimed to 'educate' China about how capitalist Hong Kong worked. Nevertheless, Deng Xiaoping held an alternative vision of globalisation, one that privileged sovereignty and socialism over market liberalism and democracy. Drawing extensively upon the declassified British archives and Chinese sources, the book recounts how Britain and China negotiated for Hong Kong's future, culminating in the signing of the Joint Declaration on its retrocession in 1997. It explores how Anglo-Chinese relations flourished after the Hong Kong agreement but suffered a setback as a result of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown. This original and comprehensive study argues that Thatcher was a pragmatic neoliberal, and the British diplomacy of 'educating' China in global free trade and democracy yielded mixed results. By examining Britain-China-Hong Kong relations from multiple perspectives, this book will be of interest to scholars and students in the fields of diplomatic, imperial, and global history.

[Not final] Southern Interregnum maps and analyzes the ruptures and mutations that are currently reshaping the political economy of the global South. The contemporary global South, the book proposes, is in the throes of an interregnum - a period, as Gramsci put it in his reflections on the inter-war era, in which the old is dying and the new cannot be born. Crafted around a comparative conjunctural analysis of Brazil, India, South Africa, and China, and set against the backdrop of deep geopolitical transformations, the book explores how governing elites across the global South work to remake hegemony in the face of deep disjunctures between accumulation and legitimation. In contexts where neoliberalization has generated perverse inequalities and rampant precarity, popular protests have unsettled hegemonic configurations and thrown up a conjuncture of durable crisis across Asia, Latin America, and Africa. This book explores how dominant classes and governing elites across four emerging powers have attempted to navigate this interregnum. Focusing on the trajectories of hegemonic projects centred on distinctive ideologies, institutions, and practices - a new authoritarianism in Brazil; neoliberal Hindu nationalism in India; a patronage-violence complex in South Africa; digital accumulation and global expansion in China - Southern Interregnum proposes a novel critical reading of the convulsions that are currently reshaping the political economy of the global South and reordering the vectors of economic and political power in the world-system in the early twenty-first century.

The 1980 national steelworkers strike was an epic social and political event. It was the first national industrial conflict between trade unions and the new Thatcher government, lasting for three months and involving over 100,000 workers. The strike was also, at that time, the longest national industrial stoppage since 1926.The strike was nominally in response to a 2% pay offer made by British Steel Corporation (BSC), at a time when inflation was 17%, but was generated by deeper factors, namely the widespread works closures that were devastating the industry. Over 60,000 jobs were lost between 1973-1978 and shortly before the strike occurred, BSC had announced a further 52,000 redundancies, around one-third of the workforce.> Using oral history testimonies taken from workers throughout the country, the book explores the strike, its origins, development, outcome, and longer-term impact and consequences. It argues that the strike was a critical turning point in British history and one which would have serious implications for working class organisations and communities in the years that followed.

Despite its current dominant status, economic growth emerged as a field of study and as a political objective only after the Second World War. This book provides an alternative perspective to the Anglo-centric historical analysis of growth by turning the focus on Finland and other Nordic countries from the late 19th Century until WWII.

This book explains the theoretical and empirical foundations for constructing a measure of a country's Green GDP and how this measure relates to the conventional GDP.

"The second edition of this remarkable volume updates the immense advances in policy and soft international law with regards to the rights of mobile indigenous peoples in conservation. The contributors to this book examine the interface between conservation and indigenous communities who are forced to move or settle elsewhere to accommodate environmental policies and biodiversity concerns. The case studies investigate successful and not so successful community-managed projects in Africa, the Middle East, South and South Eastern Asia, Australia and Latin America"--

A deftly-reported account of the history of the bond market by Financial Times writer and author of Trillions, Robin WigglesworthThe global bond market is bigger than the stock market, standing at about $133tn at the end of 2022, making it bigger than the whole global banking system which in comparison is only worth $100tn. The Greatest Show on Earth will be the first book to truly knit together the full 1000-year history of the original 'decentralised finance'. Wigglesworth will explore how it shaped the world and slowly but surely supplanted banks as the dominant engine of modern credit-based capitalism. Through a vivid and personality-driven narrative with a cast of characters going back to 12th century Venice - featuring everyone from the first Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton to toupeed junk bond maestro Mike Milken - this book will explore the story of the bond market right through to the present day and examine the pressing implications it has for us all. Wigglesworth will bring an often-recondite corner of the world to light accessibly for people both inside and outside the financial realm.

Malinowski's Argonauts of the Western Pacific was a major contribution to anthropological theory and method, while simultaneously establishing the sub-field of economic anthropology. Even a century after its publication, Malinowski's pioneering work remains critical for anthropology in a postcolonial age. This volume uses ethnographic studies from around the world to contextualize the work politically and intellectually, examining its gestation and influence from multiple perspectives. It critically explores the meaning of "economy" for Malinowski from his formation in the Austro-Hungarian Empire to his path-breaking fieldwork in Melanesia and ensuing career in London.

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This open access book, stemming from the biennial Consortium for Southeast Asian Studies in Asia conference, confronts numerous contemporary issues in the Southeast Asia region, under the banner of the 2022 theme "Managing Disruption, Developing Resilience for a Better Southeast Asia." Providing a platform for discussion and collaboration in the fields of sociology, education, population studies, cultural studies, public health, international relations, and other humanities and social science disciplines, the range of interdisciplinary chapters focus their critical analyses vis-à-vis the interpellation of economic, social, historical, artistic, cultural, religious, and political viewpoints. Organized into three sections, the first looks at new models of economic development, the challenges to education quality, the labor market in the digital era, and the demographic changes and critical issues facing both the young and elderly in the region. The second examines disasters as a future challenge for risk management, understandings of contemporary society and culture, the digital humanities, social development in the time of COVID-19, and identities in relation to religion, minorities, and social harmony. The final section addresses diaspora, migration, the region in the pandemic, citizenship and human security, democracy, and human rights, as well as foreign policy, diplomacy, and state sovereignty in Southeast Asia. As ASEAN comes of age, there has never been a more compelling need to provide region-based perspectives to complement the deepening economic, social, and cultural integration in the region.  For scholars working on Southeast Asia, "area" matters in geopolitical, economic, intellectual, institutional, social, cultural, and affective terms, and so this book transports the study of Southeast Asia from the periphery to the center, so as to enable scholars who live in and research the region to bring their research to a global readership. Relevant to scholars, public intellectuals, policy-makers, and activists working in all areas of the social sciences and humanities, this comprehensive book presents the very latest research on, and from, Southeast Asia.