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Shalini: The Invisible Hand: Unveiling
the Impact of Unmeasurable Perceptions

The Invisible Hand: Unveiling the Impact of Unmeasurable Perceptions on Regional Economies

'Michael Auerbach has one of the most original minds I've ever encountered . . . This is a dazzling and entertaining book . . . But it is also an urgent warning' PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE, author of Empire of Pain A brilliant exploration of the phenomenon of prediction markets that asks: what happens when democracy becomes another commodity? Prediction markets are sweeping the world, fundamentally changing the nature of gambling - and the very ways in which we attempt to divine the future. Posed as binary 'Yes/No' questions about future events, prediction markets allow any difference of opinion - whether on pop culture or politics, wars or assassinations - to be financialised. A regulatory minefield with moral implications that divide nations, governments and bettors, they have proved as effective at accurately predicting the timing of missile strikes as they have at calling the outcomes of elections.But are these markets really a new phenomenon? And what does it mean when those tasked with safeguarding democracy hold financial stakes in its volatility?From Renaissance Rome, where merchants wagered on papal conclaves, through nineteenth-century London's wartime coffee house gossip, to the Pentagon's ill-fated terrorism futures exchange and blockchain-based betting on Polymarket today, The Big Bet tells the gripping five-hundred-year story of a permissive regime that no one designed and no one voted for.Drawing on deep expertise, Michael Auerbach examines how these markets are changing our world, and what they mean for the future where democracy becomes just another commodity to be priced and traded. Because prediction markets are not an anomaly - they are the logical endpoint of a society that has applied market capitalism to every aspect of life. And in a world where everything is a wager and nothing is off limits, knowing where the chips will fall matters more than ever.

Prediction Markets and the Future of Democracy

The Big Bet

Eine lernorientierte Einführung in die Grundzüge der mikroökonomischen Theorie, bei der drei Fragen im Zentrum des Interesses stehen: Mit welcher Güternachfrage maximiert ein privater Haushalt für ein gegebenes Einkommen und gegebene Preise seinen Nutzen? Mit welchem Güterangebot maximiert ein privates Unternehmen für gegebene Güter- und Faktorpreise seinen Gewinn? Wie bildet sich aus Angebot und Nachfrage der Marktpreis? In den Text integrierte Übungsaufgaben erleichtern eine gezielte Prüfungsvorbeitung.

Haushalte, Unternehmen, Märkte

Mikroökonomik

Are digital technologies really a silver bullet for development in the Global South?


Digital technologies are supposed to solve the challenges of climate change, projected population growth, land conflicts and food insecurity, especially in rural areas. Yet NGOs, government institutions, and private companies are increasingly adopting a trial-and-error approach as they recognize the limitations of transferring Western science and technologies to the global South.
 
This book presents the ambivalent practices and implications of digital pilot projects which aim to 'develop' both farming communities and locally adapted innovations in East Africa. Inspired by laboratory ethnographies in Science and Technology Studies, it explores the practices of testing and developing digital technologies in rural Tanzania. The multi-sited ethnography, which takes in agricultural fairs, conferences, documents, online courses, tech hubs, project offices, villages and fields, centres on three case studies, namely DAST (a digital land-formalisation tool), STAS (an AI system for agricultural productivity) and iPlus (an e-extension tool). Rather than viewing these technologies simply as welcome tools to promote connectivity, empowerment and increased production - as commonly advanced in development policy - this book foregrounds the (un)intended consequences of the planning, set-up, maintenance and results of digital pilot projects. Against the backdrop of conflicting logics between testing technologies and developing Tanzanian agriculture through them, this book considers their (un)predictable impacts on new actors, the character of development and the trial communities in rural Tanzania.

Piloting Digital Technologies for Agriculture in Tanzania

Experimental Rural Development in the Global South

New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives

This book integrates diversified disciplines, research approaches, and methodologies of area studies, regional economic development, and regional science. With its huge population, China has accomplished rapid economic growth since the 1990s, although the significant income gap among regions and individuals has become a serious problem for its society. China's accession to the WTO in 2001 has had various influences on the entire food system, from agriculture to consumers, through the food manufacturing and distribution industries. The changes in the Chinese food system are considered to have also affected the agriculture and food industries in Asian countries where economic interdependence has been promoted in past decades. The author argues these issues based on interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary methods and approaches and has successfully derived empirical and theoretical results that are rich in policy implications. The topics addressed include food security and sustainability of agriculture especially in the suburbs of big cities; poverty reduction in rural agricultural areas amidst prosperity in urban and coastal areas; regional networks and international trade of the food industry in East Asia; creation of innovative knowledge and human capital for clustering of the agro-food sector; regional development strategy; and international cooperation. The book is interesting for researchers in the field, especially for those who are concerned with the food system that has been changed dynamically in the past two decades, and it is informative, as well, for practitioners who are engaged in related business.

Global Trends and Dynamism of China's Agro-Food System

Evolutionary Economics and Social Complexity Science

This is the first book to present a new approach of institutional design as an evolutionary applied policy based on coherent conceptualization and methodology, and to study the actuality and implications of diversifying real/virtual community currencies. In contrast to a de facto standard theory, an institutional ecosystem can be composed of various institutions that continue to coexist with changing relative frequencies. In this view, diversified monetary institutions with local rules are feasible and realistic. Community currencies are worldwide attempts to redress such problems as financial instability, chronic stagnation, and decline of communities caused by globalization of the economy. Considering those alternative movements as a new type of policy, "evolutionist institutional design", this book clarifies the feasibility and significance of community currencies in the current era of globalization. The book also provides a better understanding than mainstream approaches of such platform institutions as money that determine fundamental means of cognition and action of interacting agents. Money is a symbolically generalized communication medium in the mesodomain that mediates between socioeconomic performance and patterns in the macrodomain and motives and cognitive frameworks in the microdomain. Conventional national systems of money and finance are platform institutions that determine basic replicators for a capitalistic market economy to evolve. In contrast, community currencies conveying both economic and social/cultural values are distinct platform institutions that are expected to endogenously change such basic replicators in outer and inner institutions for agents to a noncapitalistic market economy. These currencies are considered target institutions for "media design" in the framework of evolutionist institutional design.

An Evolutionist Institutional Design Approach

Community Currency

Anthem Environment and Sustainability Initiative

This textbook is designed to introduce the reader to important and emerging issues in contemporary environmental law, policy, economics, and science. It explains the roles and interactions of Congress, federal agencies, state governments, and the courts in protecting the environment and public health from pollution. Topics include common law; administrative law; the role of environmental impact assessments and endangered species protection; and the principal legislation and court decisions dealing with greenhouse gas emissions, conventional and toxic air pollution, water pollution, the control of toxic chemicals and hazardous waste, pollution prevention and primary accident prevention, and community right-to-know. The text also explores various alternatives to regulation and concludes with a brief treatise on sustainability. 
The evolving role of science and economics in legislative, regulatory, and judicial decision making is explored. The text analyzes pollution as an economic problem and a failure of markets, discusses the role of technological innovation and the concept of "dynamic" economic equilibrium, and evaluates economic incentives as an alternative or supplement to regulation. The book also provides an introduction to basic legal skills: how to read and understand judicial opinions, regulations, and statutes; how to discover the current state of the law in a specific area; and how to take action toward resolution of environmental problems. Throughout, the role of national and local politics in shaping and implementing environmental policy is acknowledged and evaluated.

Reclaiming the Environmental Agenda - Revised Edition

Environmental Law, Policy, and Economics

You know you have more to offer, but you're tired of waiting for a seat at the table to prove it. Most emerging leaders feel stuck in a holding pattern, believing that their ability to make an impact is capped by their current title or the person above them on the org chart. But influence isn't a reward for a promotion. It's a muscle you build in the mundane, everyday moments of your current role.In 90 Days to Grow Your Influence Clay Scroggins, bestselling author of How to Lead When You're Not in Charge, provides a daily roadmap for the "not-in-charge" leader. Drawing from his foundational work on leveraging influence without authority, this 90-day reader helps you navigate the tension of having great responsibility but very little power.Each day is designed to be a "snackable" but substantial 5-minute read, perfect for your morning coffee or the commute to the office. Through a mix of relatable stories, leadership metaphors, and spiritually grounded reflections, you'll learn how to: <ul><li>Understand Identity: Secure your worth in who you are, not just what you do or what your business card says.</li><li>Lead Yourself: Master the disciplines of self-awareness and emotional intelligence.</li><li>Choose Positivity: Cultivate a resilient, solution-oriented mindset that shifts the energy of every room you enter.</li><li>Think Critically: Stop being a passive observer and start solving problems.</li><li>Reject Passivity: Take ownership of the ground you're standing on today.</li><li>Challenge Well: Influence the leaders above you with relational equity and wisdom.</li></ul>Whether you are a new hire, a middle manager, or an aspiring executive, this book is your daily reminder that your seat on the org chart doesn't define your impact. You have everything you need to start leading right where you are. Real influence starts here.

Daily Habits for Leading from Any Level

90 Days to Grow Your Influence

Building Tax Capacity in Africa

Palgrave Studies in Impact Finance

This book maps how sustainable finance operates across instruments, institutions, and sectors. The volume integrates four perspectives: capital markets, risk measurement and management, healthcare as an investment field, and a digital–institutional toolbox. It connects instruments, metrics, incentives, and impacts and foregrounds interoperability of metrics, portfolio construction implications (i.e. greenium and downside risk), and the design of outcome‑based models in health and culture, positioning sustainable finance as a dynamic field linking market practice to societal goals. The book will be of interest to scholars, students, regulators, and practitioners in sustainable finance, ESG integration, climate risk, banking, and impact investing, offering sector‑specific analyses that show how governance, data, and technology shape outcomes.Mario La Torre
 is Full Professor of Banking and Finance at Sapienza University of Rome and series editor of the Palgrave Studies in Impact Finance series. His research spans banking, sustainable and impact finance, microfinance, and financing for culture and the audiovisual sector. He also leads the Center for Positive Finance and authors the “Good in Finance” blog. He has held several institutional roles and board positions in the financial and cultural sectors.
 Sabrina Leo
 is&nbsp;Associate Professor at Sapienza University of Rome. Her work covers digital banking, distributed ledger technology, digital payments, IT governance, microfinance, and sustainable/impact banking with publications on ESG integration and financial innovation. She serves on editorial and scientific boards. Her teaching covers bank strategy and performance, digital banking, and the economics of financial intermediaries.
 Fabiola I. Schneider
 is Assistant Professor (Ad Astra Fellow) in Accountancy at University College Dublin. Her research addresses sustainable finance, climate transition, fossil‑fuel financing, and sustainability reporting. She has served on ESMA’s Sustainability Standing Committee, the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Scope 3 Technical Working Group, and as Sherpa to the European Commission’s Platform on Sustainable Finance. She co‑leads GreenWatch, applying AI to detect greenwashing.

Capital Markets, Risk Management, Healthcare, and Digitalisation

Contemporary Issues in Sustainable Finance

Springer Texts in Business and Economics

Practice Exercises with Answer Keys

Industrial Organization

Palgrave Studies in Public Debt, Spending, and Revenue

This book examines the interplay of professional norms and political accountability in the process of making decisions about whether, how, and how much debt state and local governments should incur. The careful analysis of accountability in actual decisions, focusing particularly on whether and how individual and collective decision-making behavior responds to general (stipulated) norms and situational (negotiated) expectations in their broader social contexts, is a familiar approach in the study of management and public organizations generally, but has not been extensively applied to this area of public financial decision making. Political economists, especially those identified with the public-choice approach, have done extensive macro-level normative and theoretical analysis of public debt, but not in an empirically rich fashion. This book therefore constitutes a missing link that uses analyses of selected cases to advance conceptual understandings of organizational accountability spaces in general, and decisions to incur public indebtedness and the implications of those decisions specifically, by examining the intersection of the macro, meso, and micro levels of expectations for and practices of public financial decision making.

Professionalism and Accountability in Public Finance Decision-Making

Debt Reckoning

The Invisible Hand: Unveiling the Impact of Unmeasurable Perceptions on Regional Economies

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