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V. Ginsburgh

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The Palgrave Handbook of Economics and Language

&lt;p&gt;Table of contents&lt;br&gt;List of Figures&lt;br&gt;List of Tables&lt;br&gt;Notes on Contributors&lt;br&gt;Victor Ginsburgh and Shlomo Weber, Introduction&lt;br&gt;Part I. Linguistic Diversity: Origins and Measurement&lt;br&gt;Chapter 1. Nigel Fabb, Linguistic Theory, Linguistic Diversity and Whorfian Economics&lt;br&gt;1.1 Introduction&lt;br&gt;1.2 Abstract linguistic form, and the rules and conditions which govern it&lt;br&gt;1.3 Linguistic diversity: An illustrative comparison between two languages&lt;br&gt;1.4 Theories of linguistic diversity&lt;br&gt;1.5 Whorfian psychology and economics: Causal relations between language and thought&lt;br&gt;1.6 Non-whorfian proposals that language influences thought&lt;br&gt;1.7 Conclusion&lt;br&gt;1.8 References&lt;br&gt;Chapter 2. Andrew Smith, Dynamic Models of Language Evolution. The Linguistic Perpective&lt;br&gt;2.1 Introduction&lt;br&gt;2.2 Language diversity&lt;br&gt;2.3 Language change&lt;br&gt;2.4 Dynamic models of language&lt;br&gt;2.5 Conclusion&lt;br&gt;2.6 References&lt;br&gt;Chapter 3. Andrew John, Dynamic Models of Language Evolution. The Economic Perspective&lt;br&gt;3.1 Introduction&lt;br&gt;3.2 How economic forces can influence language dynamics&lt;br&gt;3.3 Conclusion&lt;br&gt;3.4 References&lt;br&gt;Chapter 4. Mark Leikin, What Do We Learn from Neurolinguistics?&lt;br&gt;4.1 Introduction&lt;br&gt;4.2 Terms, definitions and research areas&lt;br&gt;4.3 Brain and language&lt;br&gt;4.4 Evolution of brain and language relationships&lt;br&gt;4.5 Development of brain and language relationships in childhood&lt;br&gt;4.6 The neurolinguistics of bilingualism&lt;br&gt;4.7 Conclusions&lt;br&gt;4.8 References&lt;br&gt;Chapter 5. Victor Ginsburgh and Shlomo Weber, Linguistic Distances and Ethno-linguistic Fractionalisation and Disenfranchisement Indices&lt;br&gt;5.1 Introduction&lt;br&gt;5.2 Languages, dialects and trade languages&lt;br&gt;5.3 Distances between languages&lt;br&gt;5.4 The effect of linguistic distances on economic outcomes&lt;br&gt;5.5 Linguistic distances between groups&lt;br&gt;5.6 Fractionalization and disenfranchisement indices&lt;br&gt;5.7 References&lt;br&gt;Chapter 6. Enrico Spolaore and Romain Wacziarg, Ancestry, Language and Culture&lt;br&gt;6.1 Introduction&lt;br&gt;6.2 Ancestry&lt;br&gt;6.3 Culture&lt;br&gt;6.4 Ancestry and culture: A simple conceptual framework&lt;br&gt;6.5 Ancestry and culture: Empirical evidence&lt;br&gt;6.6 Conclusion&lt;br&gt;6.7 References&lt;br&gt;Appendix: Derivations of the results in Section 6.4&lt;br&gt;Chapter 7. Efthymios Athanasiou, Juan Moreno-Ternero and Shlomo Weber, Language Learning and Communicative Benefits&lt;br&gt;7.1 Introduction&lt;br&gt;7.2 Communicative benefits&lt;br&gt;7.3 Efficiency&lt;br&gt;7.4 Efficient choices of official languages&lt;br&gt;7.5 Conclusion&lt;br&gt;7.6 References&lt;br&gt;Chapter 8. Niall Bond and Victor Ginsburgh, Language and Emotion&lt;br&gt;8.1 Introduction&lt;br&gt;8.2 Emotions and the polyglot&lt;br&gt;8.3 Choosing languages within language communities&lt;br&gt;8.4 'Colonized' writers&lt;br&gt;8.5 Migrating writers&lt;br&gt;8.6 Between languages: Nabokov, Green and Tabucchi&lt;br&gt;8.7 'Denying' the language in which they wrote: Kafka and Derrida&lt;br&gt;8.8 Concluding remarks&lt;br&gt;Part II. Languages and Markets&lt;br&gt;Chapter 9. Peter Egger, and Farid Toubal, Common Spoken Languages and International Trade&lt;br&gt;9.1 Introduction&lt;br&gt;9.2 Common native and spoken languages on the globe and their measures&lt;br&gt;9.3 A trade economists stylized view on languages&lt;br&gt;9.4 Empirical results&lt;br&gt;9.5 Conclusions&lt;br&gt;9.6 References&lt;br&gt;Chapter 10. Nigel Holden, Economic Exchange and Business Language in the Ancient World. An Exploratory Review&lt;br&gt;10.1 Introduction&lt;br&gt;10.2 Language considerations&lt;br&gt;10.3 Context of trade and antiquity&lt;br&gt;10.4 The written word&lt;br&gt;10.5 The spoken language of business in the Ancient World&lt;br&gt;10.6 Commercial terms in various languages of the Ancient World&lt;br&gt;10.7 The businessman as unsavoury personage in Greek and Latin literature&lt;br&gt;10.8 Latin: Not just a lingua franca&lt;br&gt;10.9 Conclusions&lt;br&gt;10.10 References&lt;br&gt;Chapter 11. Susanne Tietze, Nigel Hoden and Wilhelm Barner-Rasmussen, Language Use in Multinational Corporations. Towards a Topography of Languages, Special Languages and Corporate Sociolects&lt;br&gt;11.1 Introduction&lt;br&gt;11.2 Cities and the MNC&lt;br&gt;11.3 Research on languageaspects of the MNC: A pragmatic perspective&lt;br&gt;11.4 Linguascapes, pragmatic spaces and the topography of language&lt;br&gt;11.5 Discussion&lt;br&gt;11.6 Conclusion&lt;br&gt;11.7 References&lt;br&gt;Chapter 12. Alicia Adsera and Mariola Pyltikova, Language and Migration&lt;br&gt;12.1 Introduction&lt;br&gt;12.2 The role of language in migration decisions&lt;br&gt;12.3 Language proficiency among migrants&lt;br&gt;12.4 Language and the returns to human capital&lt;br&gt;12.5 Language and migrants socioeconomic assimilation&lt;br&gt;12.6 Conclusions&lt;br&gt;12.7 References&lt;br&gt;Chapter 13. Johan Heilbron and Gis`ele Sapiro, Translation: Economic and Sociological Perspectives&lt;br&gt;13.1 Introduction&lt;br&gt;13.2 International translation flows and the global market of translations&lt;br&gt;13.3 Political, economic and cultural factors&lt;br&gt;13.4 Selection, import and reception patterns&lt;br&gt;13.5 Conclusions&lt;br&gt;13.6 References&lt;br&gt;Chapter 14. Dietmar Harhoff, Karin Hoisl, Bruno van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie and Charlotte Vandeput, Languages, Fees and the International Scopeof Patenting&lt;br&gt;14.1 Introduction&lt;br&gt;14.2 Institutional background and hypotheses&lt;br&gt;14.3 Data and econometric modeling&lt;br&gt;14.4 Empirical implementation and results&lt;br&gt;14.5 Concluding remarks&lt;br&gt;14.6 References&lt;br&gt;Part III. Linguistic Policies and Economic Development&lt;br&gt;Chapter 15. Klaus Desmet, Ignacio Ortu˜no-Ort´?n and Romain Wacziarg, Linguistic Cleavages and Economic Development&lt;br&gt;15.1 Introduction&lt;br&gt;15.2 A phylogenetic approach to linguistic diversity&lt;br&gt;15.3 Linguistic diversity, redistribution and economic growth&lt;br&gt;15.4 Linguistic diversity and economic development&lt;br&gt;15.5 Conclusion&lt;br&gt;15.6 References&lt;br&gt;Chapter 16. Sue Wright, Language Choices: Political and Economic Factors in Three European States&lt;br&gt;16.1 Introduction&lt;br&gt;16.2 Nation building&lt;br&gt;16.3 Language, advantage and group membership&lt;br&gt;16.4 Conclusion: The role of elites&lt;br&gt;16.5 References&lt;br&gt;Chapter 17. Selma Sonntag, Languages, Regional Conflicts and Economic Development in South Asia&lt;br&gt;17.1 Introduction&lt;br&gt;17.2 India&lt;br&gt;17.3 Sri Lanka&lt;br&gt;17.4 Nepal&lt;br&gt;17.5 Pakistan&lt;br&gt;17.6 Conclusion&lt;br&gt;17.7 References&lt;br&gt;Chapter 18. Brandon de la Cuesta and Leonard Wantchekon, Is Language Destiny? The Origins and Consequences of Ethnolinguistic Diversity in sub-Saharan Africa&lt;br&gt;18.1 Introduction&lt;br&gt;18.2 Why does Africa have such high levels of linguistic diversity?&lt;br&gt;18.3 The economic and political effects of linguistic diversity&lt;br&gt;18.4 Conclusion&lt;br&gt;18.5 References&lt;br&gt;Chapter 19. Denis Kadochnikov, Languages, Regional Conflicts and Economic Development: Russia&lt;br&gt;19.1 Introduction&lt;br&gt;19.2 The standardization of the Russian language in the late medieval Russia (16-17th centuries)&lt;br&gt;19.3 Language policy in the context of the reforms of Peter the Great and his successors (18th century)&lt;br&gt;19.4 The role of foreign languages in Russia of the late 18th early 19th centuries&lt;br&gt;19.5 Language policy in the context of the territorial expansion of the Russian Empire (17-19th centuries)&lt;br&gt;19.6 Language and politics in the late imperial Russia&lt;br&gt;19.7 The Socialist Revolution of 1917 and the early Soviet language policy (1920-1930s)&lt;br&gt;19.8 Late Soviet language policy (1930-1980s)&lt;br&gt;19.9 Russian and other languages of the Russian Federation in the post-Soviet period&lt;br&gt;19.10 Summary: socio-economic and political factors and implications of language policy in Russia in historical perspective&lt;br&gt;19.11 References&lt;br&gt;Part IV. Globalisation and Minority Languages&lt;br&gt;Chapter 20. Jacques Melitz, English as a Global Language&lt;br&gt;20.1 Introduction&lt;br&gt;20.2 The status of English as a global language&lt;br&gt;20.3 Areas where English faces sharp limits&lt;br&gt;20.4 Language learning&lt;br&gt;20.5 Welfare implications&lt;br&gt;20.6 References&lt;br&gt;Chapter 21. François Grin, Challenges of Minority Languages&lt;br&gt;21.1 Introduction&lt;br&gt;21.2 What is a minority language?&lt;br&gt;21.3 The economics of minority language protection and promotion&lt;br&gt;21.4 Capacity, opportunity and desire: an overview of the basic model&lt;br&gt;21.5 Conditions for effective policies&lt;br&gt;21.6 Guidelines for language policy&lt;br&gt;21.7 The costs and net value of minority language policies&lt;br&gt;21.8 About contingent and absolute multilingualism&lt;br&gt;21.9 Concluding remarks&lt;br&gt;21.10 References&lt;br&gt;Appendix Minority languages in a strict sense: selected examples&lt;br&gt;Chapter 22. Bengt-ArneWickstr¨om, Language Rights: A Welfare-economics Approach&lt;br&gt;22.1 Introduction&lt;br&gt;22.2 Basic model&lt;br&gt;22.3 Modifications due to endogenous preferences&lt;br&gt;22.4 Modifications due to redistribution&lt;br&gt;22.5 Conclusions&lt;br&gt;22.6 References&lt;br&gt;Appendix. Formal analysis&lt;br&gt;Chapter 23. Jos´e Ram´on Uriarte Ayo, A Game-Theoretic Analysis of Minority Language Use in Multilingual Societies&lt;br&gt;23.1 Introduction&lt;br&gt;23.2 Multilingual societies&lt;br&gt;23.3 The reference point: Linguistic rights, linguistic politeness and expectations&lt;br&gt;23.4 The maximin language choice&lt;br&gt;23.5 Information in modern multilingual societies&lt;br&gt;23.6 The ultimatum language game&lt;br&gt;23.7 The bilinguals as a player population:The building of linguistic conventions&lt;br&gt;23.8 Linguistic politeness equilibrium&lt;br&gt;23.9 Policy suggestions&lt;br&gt;23.10 Conclusions&lt;br&gt;23.11 References&lt;br&gt;Index&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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A Better Best Friend

Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Marketing

This Routledge Companion provides a timely and authoritative overview of cross¿cultural management as an academic domain and field of practice for academics and students.This second edition is organized into five thematic areas:¿ Review, Survey, and Critique¿ The New International Business Landscape¿ Language and Languages as Core Dimension of Cross¿Cultural Management¿ Cross¿Cultural Management and Migration¿ Cross¿Cultural Management Research: Evolving Paradigms.Edited by an international team of scholars and featuring contributions from a range of leading cross¿cultural management experts, this prestigious second edition represents the most comprehensive guide to the development and scope of cross¿cultural management as an academic discipline. It takes many advancements in the field into account, including language in management and migration, and provides perspectives from around the globe, offering a diverse array of viewpoints. While this volume retains the original edition's commitment to paradigmatic diversity and broad coverage of contemporary themes in the field, it has been updated to reflect new developments, including societal changes, post¿andemic recovery, and virtual work, and increased interest in intersectionality in cross¿cultural management.

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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

Renowned economist Josh Ryan-Collins provides the ideal pedagogical resource for anyone concerned with the major role central banks play in shaping all of our economic opportunities and daily lives. This book provides a concise, authoritative overview of the history and stated purpose of central banks. With critiques of principles and actions that have emerged since the 2008 crash, Ryan-Collins's own and others' proposals offer a solution of how to reform them. In a clear, easy-to-follow structure, it offers historical-normative descriptions of the evolution and role of central banks alongside "myth-busting" chapters explaining the salient critiques of, and proposed alternatives to, principles at the heart of central-bank thinking. Along the way, it covers the major issues preoccupying critical central banking studies and political economics today, including housing inequalities, climate change, digital currencies, and the potential impact of artificial intelligence.

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The Gods that Failed

Contributions to Economics

The new macroeconomics is about distributions and flows, rather than points and intersections. Market frictions imply that the search for trading partners is time consuming and costly. Consequently, market participants flow between economic states, and trades occur at dispersed prices. This generates motives for continued search for better market opportunities, and for bargaining between potential trading partners. This volume takes the empirical analysis of markets with frictions to a new level by using unique merged registers from Denmark on firm accounting data, individual employee data, and international trade data to estimate empirically the relevant flow rates, dispersions, and relations among key variables of interest, including productivity, firm size, wages, exports, growth, and unemployment. The results serve to inform researchers and policy makers about the functioning of markets, justify the interpretation of dispersion and flows as equilibrium outcomes, and provide an understanding of cycles, adjustment, and potentials for public policy.

Evidence from Danish Matched Employer-Employee Data

Firm Heterogeneity, Labor Markets and International Trade

Studies in Economic Theory

This book, dedicated to Professor Giulio Codognato, presents a collection of essays exploring a range of issues in general equilibrium theory under perfect and imperfect competition, game theory, and social choice theory. It offers an up-to-date overview of advanced research in these fields and will appeal to scholars and students working on these topics, as well as to readers with an interest in the foundations of economic analysis.

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Recent Developments in General Equilibrium, Game Theory, and Social Choice

From the author of the groundbreaking exposé Gomorrah comes a book that encourages and challenges the people to stand up for themselves and to not be fooled by the coercive nature of political power. Featuring short biographical sketches of a surprising mix of admired and deplored figures and works from history, this is a book that demands of readers to open one’s eyes and be outraged. The iconic Italian author Roberto Saviano’s latest work of nonfiction is an urgent cry for people to stand up for themselves and the things they believe in, featuring those who have most inspired him—Russian poet Anna Akhmatova, Martin Luther King Jr., the Calipygian Venus, immortalized in marble—alongside those whose actions were most deplorable—Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels and Rwandan radio host Kantano Habimana, who encouraged the 1993-’94 genocide there. Saviano quotes the Italian author and Auschwitz survivor Primo Levi: “I write what I wouldn’t be able to tell anyone.” Saviano, like Levi, embraces his readers within a similar protective halo of intimacy, taking us in his arms to warn us. Other lives and works that Saviano evokes in Shout It Out! are Hypatia, the murdered Alexandrian philosopher, mathematician and astronomer; political theorist Carl Schmitt; trailblazing Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya; Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi; NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden; 16th century astrology and alchemist Giordano Bruno, burned at the stake by the Inquisition in 1600; Russian poet Anna Akhmatova who chose silence rather than collaboration; Émile Zola; the Brothers Grimm; Martin Luther King; murdered anti-corruption activist Daphne Caruana Galizia; the ancient roman statue of the Callipygian Venus; Terry Bollea (Hulk Hogan); American actress Jean Seberg; Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini; Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels; Rwandan radio host Kantano Habimana; Settimia Spizzichino, one of 50 from the Rome ghetto sent to Auschwitz, and the only survivor; Chinese poet and factory worker Lizhi Xu; Italian-American saint Sister Francesca Saverio Cabrini; Italian architect and London fire victim Gloria Trevisan; George Floyd. Shout It Out dives into world history—and Roberto Saviano’s mind—in a way that constantly surprises.

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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.

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Community Currency

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The best in short fiction from around the world, from celebrated anthologist and author John Freeman and award-winning novelist Rabih Alameddine In The Penguin Book of the International Short Story, writers from different nations, languages and sensibilities come together in a globe-spanning and long overdue tour of modern fiction. In 'Super-Frog Saves Tokyo', Haruki Murakami presents a man who believes a giant amphibian is enlisting him to protect his city from an impending earthquake. In 'War of the Clowns', Mozambique's Mia Couto sketches a perfect allegory for our divided culture. In the predecessor story to her iconic novel The Vegetarian, Han Kang depicts a protagonist quietly undergoing an unlikely transformation in a high-rise in Seoul. A Colm Tóibín character thinks, 'I do not even believe in Ireland', while Carol Bensimon reflects from Brazil, 'All great ideas seem like bad ones at some point'. Salman Rushdie brings us to unsettled rural India, Olga Tokarczuk to a circus exhibit, Abdellah Taïa to the queer Arab world, Ted Chiang to a far-off galaxy. For a long time, it was the norm for three quarters of the stories in international anthologies to be American or English. In this collection, the work of thoughtful and accomplished translators opens the door wide for those curious about what lies beyond the Western canon and classroom. Writers from six continents, ranging from new voices to literary icons, each offer a window into a distinct point of view, both transcending and illuminating their place of origin. They offer not only captivating prose, but a reminder of the power of the imagination across space and time.

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