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Principles of Macroeconomics
Published 2016Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1: Economics: The Study of Choice -- Chapter 2: Confronting Scarcity: Choices in Production -- Chapter 3: Demand and Supply -- Chapter 4: Applications of Demand and Supply -- Chapter 5: Macroeconomics: The Big Picture -- Chapter 6: Measuring Total Output and Income -- Chapter 7: Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply -- Chapter 8: Economic Growth -- Chapter 9: The Nature and Creation of Money -- Chapter 10: Financial Markets and the Economy -- Chapter 11: Monetary Policy and the Fed -- Chapter 12: Government and Fiscal Policy -- Chapter 13: Consumption and the Aggregate Expenditures Model -- Chapter 14: Investment and Economic Activity -- Chapter 15: Net Exports and International Finance -- Chapter 16: Inflation and Unemployment -- Chapter 17: A Brief History of Macroeconomic Thought and Policy -- Chapter 18: Inequality, Poverty, and Discrimination -- Chapter 19: Economic Development -- Chapter 20: Socialist Economies in Transition…”
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The Palgrave Handbook of Global Slavery throughout History
Published 2023Table of Contents: “…Montana -- 27: Slavery in Islamic West Africa; Jennifer Lofkrantz -- 28: Urban East African Slavery; Michelle Liebst -- 29: Slavery in South Asia; Emma Kalb -- 30: Slavery in Southeastern Europe; Viorel Achim -- 31: Injection: The Global Spread of Abolitionism; William Mulligan -- Part 5: Contemporary Societies (1900-Present) -- 32: American Slaveries since Emancipation; Catherine Armstrong -- 33: Slavery in French West Africa; Benedetta Rossi -- 34: Slave Labor in Nazi Germany; Marc Buggeln -- 35: State-introduced Slavery in Soviet Forced Labor Camps; Felicitas Fischer von Weikersthal -- 36: North Korean Slavery and Forced Labor in Present-Day Europe; Remco Breuker -- 37: Modern Slavery in the Global Economy; Bruno Lamas -- 38: Injection: Modern Slavery and Political Strategy; Joel Quirk -- 39: Conclusion: Situating Slavery Studies in the Field of Global History; Juliane Schiel.…”
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Urban Inequality and Segregation in Europe and China Towards a New Dialogue /
Published 2021Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Part I: Lessons from Europe -- Re-theorising spatial segregation: A European perspective -- Income inequality and residential segregation in European cities -- The role of migration costs in residential sorting -- Part II: Urban inequality and segregation in China -- Research on residential segregation in Chinese cities -- Urbanisation, migration and the anti-poverty programme in China -- Urban villages, their redevelopment and implications for inequality and integration -- Renovation of Shantytowns and construction of new communities -- Public service provision in China: Towards a more equal access system -- Housing policies for rural migrant workers in China -- Part III: Future directions for research and policy -- Multi-scale inequality and segregation: Theory and estimation -- Characterising social integration between rural migrants and local residents in urban China -- Social frontiers: Estimating the spatial boundaries between residential groups and their impacts on crime -- Deprivation indices in China: Establishing principles for application and interpretation -- Future directions for research on residential segregation and inequality in China.…”
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Competition Authorities in South Eastern Europe Building Institutions in Emerging Markets /
Published 2018Table of Contents: “…Foreword -- Introduction -- Western Balkans and the Design of Effective Competition Law: The Role of Economic, Institutional and Cultural Characteristics -- Middle Income Convergence Trap and the Role of Competition Policy in SEE countries -- Institutional Design of State Aid Authorities in South East Europe: The Unfit Legal Transplant and its Ramifications -- Antitrust, Mergers, State Aid and Consumer Protection Under the Same Roof: Does Political Compromise Prevail Over the Expert Approach? …”
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Simplex Society How to Humanize /
Published 2024Table of Contents: “…Prologue -- Introduction: After Knowledge -- Part I Simplex Frames -- Chapter One: Simpl(if)ication -- Chapter Two: Frameshift -- Chapter Three: Losing the Feel for the Craft -- Chapter Four: The Human Experiment -- Chapter Five: Simplex Communication Society -- Part II Tensors of the Undertow -- Chapter Six: Collective Reason -- Chapter Seven: The Oracle and the Real -- Chapter Eight: Healer or King -- Chapter Nine: A Model Leader -- Chapter Ten: Entropology -- Chapter Eleven: Soccer as Mirror -- Chapter Twelve: Street Cred -- Chapter Thirteen: Godwork -- Chapter Fourteen: Intuition, Destiny, Love -- Chapter Fifteen: Phantoms of the Future -- Epilogue: Or 16.…”
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Higher Education in the Era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Published 2018Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Higher Education Themes in 4IR Context -- Globalizing the Liberal Arts: Twenty-first century education -- Educational Mobility and Transnationalization -- Academic Library Futures in a Diversified University System -- How Education Has Begun to Adapt: Case Study Assessment -- Innovation Education in China: Preparing attitudes, approaches, and intellectual environments for life in the automation economy -- Regenerative Development in Higher Education: Costa Rica's Perspective -- Singapore's Higher Education Systems in the Era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Preparing Lifelong Learners -- Adopt Fast, Adapt Quick: Adaptive Approaches in the South African Context -- The Fourth Industrial Revolution and Higher Education.…”
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Mathematics Teacher Preparation in Central America and the Caribbean The Cases of Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic and Venezuela /
Published 2017Table of Contents: “…Consolidating a Professional and Scientific Field: Edgar Alberto Guacaneme, Gilberto Obando-Zapata, Diego Garzón and Jhony Alexander Villa-Ochoa -- Chapter 2. Costa Rica: The Preparation of Mathematics Teachers: Yuri Morales-López -- Chapter 3. …”
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The Responsibility of Science
Published 2022Table of Contents: “…The Ambivalences of the Digital: Humans and Technologies Between new Options (dreams) and (un)noticeable Losses (Hartmut Graßl et al.)- Index.…”
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Electricity Access, Decarbonization, and Integration of Renewables Insights and Lessons from the Energy Transformation in Bangladesh, South Asia, and Sub-Sahara Africa /
Published 2023Table of Contents: “…Powering up a country into the middle-income club -- 3. 100% Electrification but What Comes Next for Bangladesh? …”
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World History, Volume 2 From 1400
Published 2022Table of Contents: “…Early Modern Africa and the Wider World -- Chapter 4. The Islamic World -- Chapter 5. Foundations of the Atlantic World -- Unit 2 An Age of Revolution, 1750-1914 -- Chapter 6. …”
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A Practicum in Behavioral Economics
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7972
World History Since 1500 An Open and Free Textbook
Published 2023Table of Contents: “…Author Biographies -- Acknowledgement -- Table of Contents -- Chapter 1: The World in 1500 -- Chapter 2: Expanding Empires, Europe and the Americas 1500-1700 -- Chapter 3: Cultural Encounters and Expanding Empires in Asia and Eurasia 1500-1700 -- Chapter 4: Islamic Empires - Mughals, Ottomans and Safavids 1500-1700 -- Chapter 5: Age of Reason - The Scientific Revolution, Enlightened Thought and its Impact -- Chapter 6: Challenging the Old Order - The Age of Revolutions -- Chapter 7: Remaking the World - The Industrial Revolution, Workers and a New Economic Order -- Chapter 8: Nation Building and Reform 1700-1900 -- Chapter 9: Managing Modernity in Asia 1700-1900 -- Chapter 10: The Second Wave of Imperialism 1700-1900 -- Chapter 11: World in Crisis, Conflict, and the Struggle for Independence - World War I, the Indian Independence Movement and the Russian Revolution -- Chapter 12: Interwar Years and the Rise of Fascism -- Chapter 13: World War II -- Chapter 14: Cold War and Decolonization of the World from 1950 -- Chapter 15: The Modern World…”
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Shipping and Globalization in the Post-War Era Contexts, Companies, Connections /
Published 2019Table of Contents: “…'Containerization in Globalization': A Case Study of How Maersk Line Became a Transnational Company -- Henrik Sornn-Friese -- 6. …”
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Abrahamic Reflections on Randomness and Providence
Published 2022Table of Contents: “…Causality, Indeterminacy, and Providence: Contemporary Islamic Perspectives from Said Nursi and Basil Altaie -- 14. …”
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The New Politics of Numbers Utopia, Evidence and Democracy /
Published 2022Table of Contents: “…1.The New Politics of Numbers: An Introduction -- 2.Creating a Socialist Society and Quantification in the USSR -- 3.The People's Algorithms: Social Credits and the Rise of China's Big (Br)other -- 4.Accounting for Who We Are and What We Could Be: Inventing Taxonomies of the Self in an Age of Social Disquiet -- 5.Quantifying Inequality: From Contentious Politics to the Dream of an Indifferent Power -- 6.Homo Statisticus: A History of France's General Public Statistical Infrastructure on Population since 1950 -- 7.A New Calculable World in the Making: Governing through Transnational Certification Standards -- 8.Do Performance Indicators Improve the Effectiveness of Development Aid? …”
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Model and Mathematics: From the 19th to the 21st Century
Published 2022Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Knowing by Drawing: Geometric Material Models in 19th Century France -- Wilhelm Fiedler and his Models-the Polytechnic Side -- Models from the Nineteenth Century Used for Visualizing Optical Phenomena and Line Geometry -- Modeling Parallel Transport -- The great yogurt project: models and symmetry principles in early particle physics -- Interview with Myfanwy Evans: Entanglements on and Models of Periodic Minimal Surfaces -- The dialectics archetypes / types (universal categorical constructions / concrete models) in the work of Alexander Grothendieck -- 'Analogies,' 'Interpretations,' 'Images,' 'Systems' and 'Models': Some Remarks on the History of Abstract Representation in the Sciences since the Nineteenth Century -- Mappings, Models, Abstraction, and Imaging: Mathematical Contributions to Modern Thinking circa 1900 -- Thinking with Notations: Epistemic Actions and Epistemic Activities in Mathematical Practice -- Matrices - Compensating the Loss of Anschauung -- Interview with Anja Sattelmacher: Between Viewing and Touching - Models and Their Materiality -- Interview with Ulf Hashagen: Exhibitions and Mathematical Models in the 19th and 20th Centuries -- Interview with Andreas Daniel Matt: Real-Time Mathematics.…”
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Sustainable Resource Development in the 21st Century Essays in Memory of Peter Berck /
Published 2023Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Part 1: Forestry -- Peter Berck's Contributions to Forestry Economics -- Integrated Management of Bark Beetles: Economic Contributions of Peter Berck and Foundational Entomological Research -- A Green Revolution in the Woods: The Potential of Eucalyptus Plantations -- Hedging with a Housing Starts Futures Contract -- Part 2: Agriculture and Fisheries -- The Future of Agriculture -- How Is Farm Income Affected When Each Farm Has to Produce Its Own Animal Feed? …”
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Global Pathways to Education Cultural Spheres, Networks, and International Organizations /
Published 2022Table of Contents: “…International Organizations and Education in the Islamic World, David Krogmann -- 8. Regional Ideas in International Education Organizations: The Case of SEAMO, David Krogmann -- 9. …”
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East Central Europe Between the Colonial and the Postcolonial in the Twentieth Century
Published 2023Table of Contents: “…Encounters Between Russians and Central Europeans in Contemporary Literature(Miriam Finkelstein).…”
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