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Notes on Hydraulic and Digital Infrastructure

L'économie africaine. Edition 2026

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In this book, José Rente Nascimento explores the economic, environmental, social, and cultural dynamics of the Amazon. The book weaves five centuries of transformation, highlighting geographical conditions, Amerindian resource stewardship, the rubber boom, postcolonial policies, and today’s development pressures. Spanning infrastructure, mining, ranching, and agricultural expansion, the book analyzes Amazonian challenges within their historical context.
Drawing on lessons from both failed policies and successful initiatives, Nascimento addresses urgent contemporary issues, including deforestation, indigenous welfare, land tenure, forest-based development, and the complex balance between environmental protection and sustainable growth.
More than a historical account, this book presents a conceptual framework that links past trajectories to present challenges, providing an essential and inspiring resource for students, policymakers, researchers, and all those seeking to learn from Amazonia’s history to secure its sustainable future.
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José Rente Nascimento is a Brazilian scholar who specializes in forestry, agriculture, and environmental economics. He has supported development and conservation projects throughout Latin America while working for international institutions, governments, and NGOs. A former senior natural resource specialist at the Inter-American Development Bank, Nascimento is a forester and holds an MP and a PhD from the University of Minnesota.

In this book, José Rente Nascimento explores the economic, environmental, social, and cultural dynamics of the Amazon. The book weaves five centuries of transformation, highlighting geographical conditions, Amerindian resource stewardship, the rubber boom, postcolonial policies, and today’s development pressures. Spanning infrastructure, mining, ranching, and agricultural expansion, the book analyzes Amazonian challenges within their historical context.Drawing on lessons from both failed policies and successful initiatives, Nascimento addresses urgent contemporary issues, including deforestation, indigenous welfare, land tenure, forest-based development, and the complex balance between environmental protection and sustainable growth.More than a historical account, this book presents a conceptual framework that links past trajectories to present challenges, providing an essential and inspiring resource for students, policymakers, researchers, and all those seeking to learn from Amazonia’s history to secure its sustainable future.

An Economic, Environmental, and Social History

The Amazonian Odyssey

This book sorts out basic logic of China’s economic system reform during the past more than 30 years, points out new context of China’s reform nowadays; puts forward reform thinking in this new context, emphasizes on enhancing reform force, keeping reform tenacity and the importance of promoting reform continuously. The most important logic of China’s reform is to promote its reform continuously under the great background of global institutional competition and reform competition.

Exploration on China’s Economic System Reform under New Normal of Development

Palgrave Insights into Apocalypse Economics

This book reassesses classic Marxist theories of finance capital and uneven development in the context of the present intensified process of financialization and the accentuation of combined and accelerating uneven development. In particular, the work of Hilferding and Luxemburg is discussed and re-framed in light of both the contributions of Marx and more recent engagements by David Harvey and Neil Smith. The book explores the case of South Africa in particular in light of the combination of a rapidly financializing yet crisis-ridden South African political economy on the one hand and intensifying social inequality and political conflict on the other.&nbsp;It explores a series of strategies and possibilities that might open up trajectories for change and transformation with particular attention paid to the promises and constraints of the de-growth movement and intersectional class struggle, which will appeal to political economists, researchers, and students alongside those studying South Africa specifically.

Financial Volatility, Deep Capitalist Crisis and Super-Exploitation in South Africa and the World

Extreme Uneven Development

Dieses Buch bietet einen umfassenden und fundierten Überblick über die wirtschaftspolitische Entwicklung der Volksrepublik China seit Beginn der Reformära. Es analysiert zentrale Politikfelder – von Fiskal- und Finanzpolitik über Umweltpolitik bis hin zu Arbeitsmarkt, E-Commerce und staatlicher Regulierung. Besonderes Augenmerk gilt den strukturellen Transformationsprozessen, den neuen Machtkonstellationen zwischen Staat und Privatsektor sowie den sozialen Herausforderungen im Zuge des wirtschaftlichen Wandels. Anhand aktueller Forschungsliteratur und zahlreicher empirischer Beispiele zeigt das Buch, wie China seine Wirtschaft an globale, technologische und gesellschaftliche Veränderungen anpasst. Damit bietet es Leserinnen und Lesern ein klar strukturiertes, kritisch reflektiertes Verständnis der Dynamiken, die das heutige China prägen.

Dieses Buch bietet einen umfassenden und fundierten Überblick über die wirtschaftspolitische Entwicklung der Volksrepublik China seit Beginn der Reformära. Es analysiert zentrale Politikfelder – von Fiskal- und Finanzpolitik über Umweltpolitik bis hin zu Arbeitsmarkt, E-Commerce und staatlicher Regulierung. Besonderes Augenmerk gilt den strukturellen Transformationsprozessen, den neuen Machtkonstellationen zwischen Staat und Privatsektor sowie den sozialen Herausforderungen im Zuge des wirtschaftlichen Wandels. Anhand aktueller Forschungsliteratur und zahlreicher empirischer Beispiele zeigt das Buch, wie China seine Wirtschaft an globale, technologische und gesellschaftliche Veränderungen anpasst. Damit bietet es Leserinnen und Lesern ein klar strukturiertes, kritisch reflektiertes Verständnis der Dynamiken, die das heutige China prägen.

Wirtschaftspolitik der Volksrepublik China

Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems

This volume would prove to be a beneficial textbook option for economics faculties wishing to offer a PhD level course on quantitative developmental economics or applied economics. This reference volume offers a gentle introduction to various state-of-the-art mathematical and econometric modelling techniques with detailed applications. Each chapter, written by experienced scholars, describe a particular quantitative method for economic modelling and policy analysis. The chapters not only cover the theoretical foundations in a student-friendly language but also provide step-by-step guide to computational aspects. Real-world applications, given in each chapter, focus on the socio-economic conditions and well-being of people in the developing economies and middle-income countries.

Quantitative Methods for Applied Development Economics and Policy Analysis

This book focuses on four key parts of the Blockchain ecosystem, which are the most relevant for financial services executives: Tokenomics and Digital Platforms, Markets, Privacy and the emerging phenomenon of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs).

Tokenomics and Digital Platforms explores some of the key tenants of distributed ledger technology. Markets introduces important dynamics of both centralized (CeFi) and decentralized finance (DeFi). Privacy describes the cryptographic primitives that enable safe, blockchain-based digital transactions, perhaps the most critical infrastructure for global adoption of Web3. The last part of the book on DAOs highlights benefits but also risks and boundaries of the emerging new form of organization.

Each part is introduced in a short chapter to set the stage, followed by the contributions of selected scholars. The chapters explain not only what the phenomenon in question is, but also what the associated opportunities and risks are. They highlight what practitioners can do with the insight their research provides.

All chapters are short, easy-to-read, and tailored to the practitioners who need to understand these topics but whose busy schedule doesn’t allow for enough time to read full academic articles to do so.

This book focuses on four key parts of the Blockchain ecosystem, which are the most relevant for financial services executives: Tokenomics and Digital Platforms, Markets, Privacy and the emerging phenomenon of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs).Tokenomics and Digital Platforms explores some of the key tenants of distributed ledger technology. Markets introduces important dynamics of both centralized (CeFi) and decentralized finance (DeFi). Privacy describes the cryptographic primitives that enable safe, blockchain-based digital transactions, perhaps the most critical infrastructure for global adoption of Web3. The last part of the book on DAOs highlights benefits but also risks and boundaries of the emerging new form of organization.Each part is introduced in a short chapter to set the stage, followed by the contributions of selected scholars. The chapters explain not only what the phenomenon in question is, but also what the associated opportunities and risks are. They highlight what practitioners can do with the insight their research provides.All chapters are short, easy-to-read, and tailored to the practitioners who need to understand these topics but whose busy schedule doesn’t allow for enough time to read full academic articles to do so.

Current Academic Insights Condensed for Busy Practitioners

The Blockchain Scholars Book

Palgrave Studies in Emerging Risk Management and Sustainable Finance

Cyber incidents impose measurable economic and financial costs through operational disruption, litigation, valuation effects, and systemic spillovers. Understanding these costs requires that someone at the institution can connect technical vulnerabilities to market behavior and institutional responses. This volume provides guidance on cyber risk and financial stability, examining such costs from a markets‑and‑institutions perspective and linking incident outcomes to firm value, insurability, and policy.Contributed chapters explore market reactions to data breaches and class actions, risk quantification and mitigation (models, firm practices, and insurance), and sectoral cases in banking, construction, and power generation. Chapter authors synthesize frameworks and tools across BCBS operational risk and resilience principles, FSB incident response/lexicon, IMF macro‑financial guidance, OECD digital security, and EU instruments (DORA, NIS2, EU‑SCICF), alongside NIST CSF and FFIEC materials. The volume explores how policy and institutional design translate into incentives, incident reporting, resilience, and information sharing.Providing empirical evidence, financial‑econometrics methods (abnormal returns/event studies), policy mapping, and risk‑transfer analyses for cyber insurance, the book helps readers evaluate costs at the firm and system levels, interpret regulatory signals for financial institutions, and design governance and investment responses. It serves academics in finance/economics, policymakers, and practitioners seeking structured guidance on cyber risk and financial stability.Thomas Walker
 is Professor of Finance and Tier 1 Concordia University Research Chair in Emerging Risk Management; Director of the Jacques Ménard/BMO Center for Capital Markets and the Emerging Risks Information Centre (ERIC) at Concordia University.&nbsp;
 Marcus Glenn Walker
 is Partner and Co‑CEO of Dragon Data Solutions (Germany).&nbsp;
 Victoria Kelly
 is a research associate at Concordia University.&nbsp;
 Rajesh Kumar Tharumar
 is a research associate for the Emerging Risks Information Centre (ERIC) of John Molson School of Business at Concordia University.&nbsp;

Cyber incidents impose measurable economic and financial costs through operational disruption, litigation, valuation effects, and systemic spillovers. Understanding these costs requires that someone at the institution can connect technical vulnerabilities to market behavior and institutional responses. This volume provides guidance on cyber risk and financial stability, examining such costs from a markets‑and‑institutions perspective and linking incident outcomes to firm value, insurability, and policy. Contributed chapters explore market reactions to data breaches and class actions, risk quantification and mitigation (models, firm practices, and insurance), and sectoral cases in banking, construction, and power generation. Chapter authors synthesize frameworks and tools across BCBS operational risk and resilience principles, FSB incident response/lexicon, IMF macro‑financial guidance, OECD digital security, and EU instruments (DORA, NIS2, EU‑SCICF), alongside NIST CSF and FFIEC materials. The volume explores how policy and institutional design translate into incentives, incident reporting, resilience, and information sharing. Providing empirical evidence, financial‑econometrics methods (abnormal returns/event studies), policy mapping, and risk‑transfer analyses for cyber insurance, the book helps readers evaluate costs at the firm and system levels, interpret regulatory signals for financial institutions, and design governance and investment responses. It serves academics in finance/economics, policymakers, and practitioners seeking structured guidance on cyber risk and financial stability.

Costs, Resilience, and Regulatory Frameworks

The Economics of Cyber Risk

Dieses Lehrbuch gibt in anschaulicher und kompakter Weise einen Überblick über die wesentlichen Themen und Fragestellungen des Managements internationaler Unternehmen. Im ersten Teil werden übergeordnete Themen wie Rahmenbedingungen der globalen Wirtschaft, Kulturvergleiche zwischen Nationen, internationale Unternehmens- und Markteintrittsstrategien sowie Organisationsstrukturen erläutert. Im zweiten Teil werden operative und spezielle Themen des internationalen Managements vorgestellt. Dazu gehören unter anderem Ethik und Corporate Social Responsibility im internationalen Kontext, interkulturelle Kommunikation und Verhandlungsführung, Management politischer Risiken sowie internationale Funktionalstrategien wie Produktion, Marketing und Finanzierung.&nbsp;
Das Lehrbuch richtet sich an Studierende mit dem Schwerpunkt Internationales Management sowie insbesondere an angehende Manager internationaler Unternehmen. Zahlreiche Abbildungen, anschauliche Beispiele, kompakte Definitionen und Wiederholungsfragen zu jedem Kernthema sorgen für einen strukturierten Wissensaufbau und machen das Buch zu einem idealen Begleiter für Studium und Praxis.
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Dieses Lehrbuch gibt in anschaulicher und kompakter Weise einen Überblick über die wesentlichen Themen und Fragestellungen des Managements internationaler Unternehmen. Im ersten Teil werden übergeordnete Themen wie Rahmenbedingungen der globalen Wirtschaft, Kulturvergleiche zwischen Nationen, internationale Unternehmens- und Markteintrittsstrategien sowie Organisationsstrukturen erläutert. Im zweiten Teil werden operative und spezielle Themen des internationalen Managements vorgestellt. Dazu gehören unter anderem Ethik und Corporate Social Responsibility im internationalen Kontext, interkulturelle Kommunikation und Verhandlungsführung, Management politischer Risiken sowie internationale Funktionalstrategien wie Produktion, Marketing und Finanzierung.&nbsp;Das Lehrbuch richtet sich an Studierende mit dem Schwerpunkt Internationales Management sowie insbesondere an angehende Manager internationaler Unternehmen. Zahlreiche Abbildungen, anschauliche Beispiele, kompakte Definitionen und Wiederholungsfragen zu jedem Kernthema sorgen für einen strukturierten Wissensaufbau und machen das Buch zu einem idealen Begleiter für Studium und Praxis.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

Kompakt - anschaulich - verständlich

Management internationaler Unternehmen

School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series

This volume explores a diverse array of cultural contexts to understand how vulnerabilities were involved in survival, domination, representation, relationality, agency, and humanity. Viewed as a prospect to be grasped rather than as a limit to be overcome, vulnerability has emerged as a key concept—a framework for thinking about a myriad of phenomena—in anthropology, sociology, psychology, and bioethics. In Changing Vulnerability, contributors focus on objects; sense and representation; relationships that enable, inhibit, and exploit agency; humanity and human faculty; nonsense; colonial domination; and engagement with the biosphere. These different facets of vulnerability variously co-occur, clash, highlight, obscure, enable, or disable contingent on their social and historical context.

Changing Vulnerability

Relationships in trade and investment between Europe, the United States, and sub-Saharan Africa have long been asymmetrical, marked by systemic overcharges, underpayments, and exploitative practices. This book highlights a concept called kleptomation: a systematic, sustained theft of labor, resources, and wealth. Chapters examine the depth, breadth, and persistence of this economic injustice, exploring the inauthentic accumulation of wealth on the part of the West over the course of several hundred years.In the book, economist Richard F.&nbsp;America&nbsp;proposes a unified framework for reparations to address centuries of wrongful enrichment, illicit transactions, and hidden subsidies that have fueled Western prosperity. This framework is clearly defined and grounded in redistributive economic justice. Acknowledging previous attempts to repair the damage caused by kleptomation, this book presents a 40-year plan that international development executives, policymakers, and program managers can use to scale up capital transfers for development programs in Africa.Drawing on historical analysis and contemporary policy debates, the book exposes flaws in international trade accounting that obscure the true scale of wealth extraction. It calls for sustained capital transfers and structural reforms to recover unjust enrichment and accelerate Africa’s development over the next four decades. The resulting resource provides practical guidance for policymakers, development practitioners, and global institutions—including the World Bank, the European Union, the African Union, and civil society—seeking to end chronic poverty and achieve broadly shared prosperity within 40 years.Richard F.&nbsp;America&nbsp;
 is Professor of Practice Emeritus in the&nbsp;McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. His research focuses on&nbsp;community reinvestment and investing in Africa. He is the author of numerous&nbsp;books and scholarly and professional articles. His seminal article, “What Do You
 
 People Want?” (Harvard Business Review, 1969), helped set the stage for the ongoing discussion of a form of reparations in the United States. His work in Africa has focused on improving management education, impact investing, and corporate philanthropy, strengthening African business schools, and expanding local and community-based economic development. He is the editor of 
 Accounting for Colonialism 
 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024).

Relationships in trade and investment between Europe, the United States, and sub-Saharan Africa have long been asymmetrical, marked by systemic overcharges, underpayments, and exploitative practices. This book highlights a concept called kleptomation: a systematic, sustained theft of labor, resources, and wealth. Chapters examine the depth, breadth, and persistence of this economic injustice, exploring the inauthentic accumulation of wealth on the part of the West over the course of several hundred years.In the book, economist Richard F.&nbsp;America&nbsp;proposes a unified framework for reparations to address centuries of wrongful enrichment, illicit transactions, and hidden subsidies that have fueled Western prosperity. This framework is clearly defined and grounded in redistributive economic justice. Acknowledging previous attempts to repair the damage caused by kleptomation, this book presents a 40-year plan that international development executives, policymakers, and program managers can use to scale up capital transfers for development programs in Africa.Drawing on historical analysis and contemporary policy debates, the book exposes flaws in international trade accounting that obscure the true scale of wealth extraction. It calls for sustained capital transfers and structural reforms to recover unjust enrichment and accelerate Africa’s development over the next four decades. The resulting resource provides practical guidance for policymakers, development practitioners, and global institutions—including the World Bank, the European Union, the African Union, and civil society—seeking to end chronic poverty and achieve broadly shared prosperity within 40 years.

A Reparations Framework for International Development Policy and Finance

Restoring Africa’s Stolen Wealth

Discover the incredible, fact-packed new book shining a light on the world's biggest engineering challenges, and what they tell us about our future. THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW SCIENTIST BEST NEW POPULAR SCIENCE BOOK OF 2026 'A ceaselessly uplifting and positive book.' - Mark Cooper-Jones, author of This Way Up by the Map Men 'Reveals the feats shaping the 21st century.' - Chris Broad, bestselling author of Abroad in Japan --- Modern engineering is rewriting the rulebook and revolutionising how we live. In Mega Builds, Fred Mills - the founder of global construction platform The B1M - takes you inside ten of the most extraordinary engineering projects that are reshaping our modern world. From a 170km-long smart city in Saudi Arabia, to Japan's levitating railway and France's bold quest for limitless energy, Mills delivers an eye-opening tour of the biggest engineering challenges set to change the world as we know it. By the end of this book, you'll learn:<ul><li>Why the world's biggest city has been built in the worst place imaginable.</li><li>Where the vision of a single ruler in the desert is rewriting our understanding of what's possible.</li><li>What drives us to build ever-higher buildings and design ever-faster trains.</li><li>And above all, how the dizzying scale of human imagination will inform the future of the man-made world.</li></ul> Written in Fred's signature accessible style, Mega Builds demystifies the complexities while exploring the economic, environmental and societal stakes of building at unprecedented scale. The trajectory of our civilisation is being authored today all around us, not in words on a page, but in steel and concrete. Meet the projects and people set to transform our very experience of life on earth. Praise for Mega Builds: 'A fascinating exploration of the world's biggest and boldest construction projects.' - Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London 'Fred has a gift for turning megaprojects into stories you can feel.' - Grady Hillhouse, author of Engineering in Plain Sight and creator of Practical Engineering 'Superb... Mills rightly celebrates how thinking big is often the right answer.' - Christian Wolmar, author of British Rail and The Rise of the Railway

Ten Colossal Construction Projects That Will Change Our World

Mega Builds

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