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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;

This exercise book is aimed at students and teachers of economics and related subjects. It offers the opportunity to deepen skills in important methods of applied economic research and econometrics by solving different types of exercises. The book offers exercises in the areas of data, economic indicators, input-output analysis, econometric methods, trend and seasonal adjustment, simulation, and forecasting. The exercises cover both formal basics and the application of methods and interpretation of the results obtained. Other exercises draw on specific applications from the literature. The mix of rather elementary questions, illustrative applications, and examples on topics relevant to practice make the exercise book particularly clear and interesting.

This exercise book is aimed at students and teachers of economics and related subjects. It offers the opportunity to deepen skills in important methods of applied economic research and econometrics by solving different types of exercises. The book offers exercises in the areas of data, economic indicators, input-output analysis, econometric methods, trend and seasonal adjustment, simulation, and forecasting. The exercises cover both formal basics and the application of methods and interpretation of the results obtained. Other exercises draw on specific applications from the literature. The mix of rather elementary questions, illustrative applications, and examples on topics relevant to practice make the exercise book particularly clear and interesting.

Exercise Book Empirical Economic Research and Econometrics

Independent, inflation-targeting central banks were supposed to deliver stable prices, financial stability and lasting prosperity. Instead, they have presided over financial crises, stagnant growth, rising inequality and the return of inflation. Yet policy makers and politicians have proved remarkably reluctant to challenge the orthodoxy. Why has this model proved so resilient-and what should replace it? In The Gods That Failed, economist Josh Ryan-Collins argues that today's macroeconomic policy framework rests on five powerful myths that have shaped economic thinking since the 1980s. From the "natural" rate of interest and the management of inflation expectations to efficient financial markets and the taboos surrounding fiscal dominance and credit policy, these ideas continue to constrain policymakers even as the evidence against them becomes overwhelming. Blending colourful economic history, cutting-edge research and vivid real-world examples, Ryan-Collins opens-up the often opaque and technocratic world of monetary and financial policy for a wide readership and illustrates its fundamental flaws. At a time of repeated economic and financial shocks, ecological breakdown and geopolitical instability, The Gods That Failed argues that rebuilding our economies will require a wholesale rethinking of how central banks, governments and financial institutions work together to manage money, credit and the macroeconomy.

Rethinking Central Banking and Macrofinancial Policy for the Age of Polycrisis

The Gods that Failed

Studies in Choice and Welfare

This book offers a comprehensive account of Condorcet domains—structured sets of preference orders in which the pairwise majority relation remains transitive for any odd-numbered group of voters. These domains form the foundation for normatively robust voting procedures and enable strong possibility results in incentive-compatible mechanism design.

Well-known examples include single-peaked, single-crossing, and group-separable domains. The study of Condorcet domains bridges multiple disciplines, including economics, political science, mathematics, and computer science, and has seen significant theoretical advances in recent years.

This monograph systematically presents these developments, covering both foundational concepts and cutting-edge results. It will be of interest to economists, mathematicians, and scholars in related fields seeking a deep understanding of preference aggregation and its structural underpinnings.

"This interdisciplinary book by Clemens Puppe and Arkadii Slinko offers a canonical reference on the mathematical foundations of Condorcet domains. It shows how discrete convexity, median graphs, and permutation lattices play a central role in understanding coherent collective decision-making, and applies the insights to voting systems and incentive compatibility."
— Prof. Hervé Moulin, Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom

This book offers a comprehensive account of Condorcet domains—structured sets of preference orders in which the pairwise majority relation remains transitive for any odd-numbered group of voters.&nbsp;These domains form the foundation for normatively robust voting procedures and enable strong possibility results in incentive-compatible mechanism design.Well-known examples include single-peaked, single-crossing, and group-separable domains. The study of Condorcet domains bridges multiple disciplines, including economics, political science, mathematics, and computer science, and has seen significant theoretical advances in recent years.This monograph systematically presents these developments, covering both foundational concepts and cutting-edge results. It will be of interest to economists, mathematicians, and scholars in related fields seeking a deep understanding of preference aggregation and its structural underpinnings.“This interdisciplinary book by Clemens Puppe and Arkadii Slinko offers a canonical reference on the mathematical foundations of Condorcet domains. It shows how discrete convexity, median graphs, and permutation lattices play a central role in understanding coherent collective decision-making, and applies the insights to voting systems and incentive compatibility.” 
 — Prof. Hervé Moulin, Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom

The Mathematics of Coherent Collective Decision-Making

Condorcet Domains

A saga inspired by the incredible but true story of the iconic Klimt painting Painted in Vienna in 1910, Gustav Klimt's 'Portrait of a Lady' was purchased by an anonymous collector in 1916, retouched by the master a year later, then stolen in 1997 before reappearing in the gardens of an Italian modern art museum in 2019. No art experts, museum curators, or police investigators know the identity of the young woman in the painting, nor the mysteries that surround the turbulent history of her portrait. From the streets of Vienna in 1900 to Texas in the 1980s, and from Manhattan during the Great Depression to contemporary Italy, de Peretti imagines the destiny of this young woman as well as that of her descendants, and creates a masterful fresco that intertwines family secrets, disappearances, and thwarted loves.

Portrait of an Unknown Woman

A succinct introduction to the theoretical debate on economic development and stagnation. In this book, André Nassif examines the complexity of economic theory, shaped by the interactions of diverse agents-firms, households, governments, and banks-across various markets. Despite its abstract nature, economic theories can be made accessible through careful explanation. Development and Stagnation covers the main theoretical foundations of economic development and incorporates key contributions from Latin America. Overall, the book offers a comprehensive overview of contemporary debates that critically engages with these theories while maintaining academic rigor.&nbsp;

Development and Stagnation

A Language of Dragons

REBELLION HAPPENS IN THE SHADOWSVivien Featherswallow has uncovered the secret language of dragons. Now can she use it to end a war?The extraordinary sequel to the instant #1 Sunday Times Bestseller, A Language of Dragons"A delicious mix of rebellion, romance and complex female characters, both human and dragon." The ObserverVivien Featherswallow has translated a secret language of dragons - sparking an all-out civil war, with dragons and humans fighting on both sides, in the process.And after defeating Prime Minister Wyvernmire and escaping Bletchley Park, Vivien has become the reluctant face of the rebellion - and been labelled the most wanted criminal in Britain. But what good is a rebel who must remain in hiding, powerless to help her friends?Unsure of her purpose, and torn with doubt about the life she thought she was meant to lead, Vivien travels to the remote Scottish Isles to find a mysterious, long-forgotten species of dragon - one which might hold the key to ending the war... forever.An epic, sweeping, unputdownable fantasy, A War of Wyverns is the unmissable sequel to the instant #1 Sunday Times Bestseller, A Language of Dragons.S. F. Williamson's book 'A Language of Dragons' was a No.1 Sunday Times bestseller w/c 2025-01-06.

A WAR OF WYVERNS

A lively inquiry into a literary genius, the translators who immortalized him, and what it means to cultivate a rich inner life in turbulent times"What happens to a writer's work when it is translated–specifically, what happens if his name is Franz Kafka?"In Kafkaesque, Maïa Hruska traces the strange, shape-shifting legacy of one of literature’s most elusive figures—not through traditional biography but through the lives of his earliest and most influential translators. With rigor and élan, she shows us how our understanding of Kafka is inevitably filtered through these voices, many of whom were, or would become, major writers and thinkers in their own right.Jorge Luis Borges rendered Kafka into Spanish, recognizing in him a fellow architect of the infinite. Primo Levi used the German he acquired in a concentration camp to bring The Trial into Italian despite the “psychoanalytic repulsion” he felt toward Kafka. Bruno Schulz published his Polish edition of the same novel before being shot by a Nazi officer. Vladimir Nabokov annotated The Metamorphosis in exile, having undergone his own transformation–from native to foreigner. Milena Jesenská, Kafka’s great love, translated him into Czech, a language he was both surrounded by and estranged from.What emerges across these essays isn’t just a portrait of a legendary writer and his translators but also a portrait of the twentieth century itself—its fractures and displacements, its aesthetic revolutions, its ethical crises. Part cultural history, part group biography, Kafkaesque is a dazzling meditation on language, identity, and the irreducible strangeness of reading and being read.

A lively inquiry into a literary genius, the translators who immortalized him, and what it means to cultivate a rich inner life in turbulent times "What happens to a writer's work when it is translated–specifically, what happens if his name is Franz Kafka?"In Kafkaesque, Maïa Hruska traces the strange, shape-shifting legacy of one of literature’s most elusive figures—not through traditional biography but through the lives of his earliest and most influential translators. With rigor and élan, she shows us how our understanding of Kafka is inevitably filtered through these voices, many of whom were, or would become, major writers and thinkers in their own right. Jorge Luis Borges rendered Kafka into Spanish, recognizing in him a fellow architect of the infinite. Primo Levi used the German he acquired in a concentration camp to bring The Trial into Italian despite the “psychoanalytic repulsion” he felt toward Kafka. Bruno Schulz published his Polish edition of the same novel before being shot by a Nazi officer. Vladimir Nabokov annotated The Metamorphosis in exile, having undergone his own transformation–from native to foreigner. Milena Jesenská, Kafka’s great love, translated him into Czech, a language he was both surrounded by and estranged from. What emerges across these essays isn’t just a portrait of a legendary writer and his translators but also a portrait of the twentieth century itself—its fractures and displacements, its aesthetic revolutions, its ethical crises. Part cultural history, part group biography, Kafkaesque is a dazzling meditation on language, identity, and the irreducible strangeness of reading and being read.

From Jorge Luis Borges to Primo Levi, Ten Writers Who Translated Kafka and Transformed Twentieth-Century Literature

Kafkaesque

Flannery O'Connor on Writing

Springer Studies in Alternative Economics

What drives the long-term development of economies—and how does growth affect different segments of society?
This book redefines the theory of economic growth by moving beyond the traditional "average citizen" model. Instead, it introduces a dynamic framework that accounts for the diverse structure of real-world economies, dividing households into distinct groups based on income, consumption, and wealth.
Through rigorous modeling and analysis, the book explores how key factors—such as the economic growth rate and the return on capital—shape not only the overall trajectory of an economy but also the fortunes of its individual household groups. It demonstrates that when the return on capital exceeds the growth rate, wealth concentration intensifies—a finding that aligns with Thomas Piketty’s influential empirical research. This book will appeal to economists, policymakers, and anyone interested in the forces that shape prosperity and inequality in modern societies.

r > g and Redistribution

Capital Income and Concentration of Wealth

George Lamming—one of the Caribbean’s most powerful literary voices, championed by Richard Wright and Jean-Paul Sartre—reimagines the age of European exploration in a work that stands as one of the great political novels of the twentieth century Under imperial orders, a nameless Commandant sets sail sometime between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, bound for the legendary island of San Cristobal—a place whispered about in maps and myths, promised as a prize of empire. The voyage is meant to secure glory and dominion. Instead, it begins to unravel. As weeks at sea stretch into obsession, the expedition becomes a dangerous test of authority and belief. The Commandant’s power is absolute yet increasingly fragile; his crew is caught between obedience and doubt. What begins as a mission of discovery turns into a voyage haunted by fear, desire, and the unspoken violence at the heart of conquest. Told through shifting perspectives and charged with poetic intensity, Natives of My Person plunges readers inside the imperial imagination at the moment it begins to crack. George Lamming transforms the historical voyage into a gripping psychological drama—one that exposes the ambitions, illusions, and brutal consequences of empire. Urgent, unsettling, and fiercely original, Natives of My Person, Lamming’s masterpiece, reveals how conquest reshapes not only the world, but the minds that seek to rule it. “George Lamming is not so much a novelist as a chronicler of secret journeys to the innermost regions of the West Indian psyche. . . an uninhibited journey to the heart of the colonizer.” —The New York Times

George Lamming—one of the Caribbean’s most powerful literary voices, championed by Richard Wright and Jean-Paul Sartre—reimagines the age of European exploration in a work that stands as one of the great political novels of the twentieth century Under imperial orders, a nameless Commandant sets sail sometime between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, bound for the legendary island of San Cristobal—a place whispered about in maps and myths, promised as a prize of empire. The voyage is meant to secure glory and dominion. Instead, it begins to unravel. As weeks at sea stretch into obsession, the expedition becomes a dangerous test of authority and belief. The Commandant’s power is absolute yet increasingly fragile; his crew is caught between obedience and doubt. What begins as a mission of discovery turns into a voyage haunted by fear, desire, and the unspoken violence at the heart of conquest. Told through shifting perspectives and charged with poetic intensity, Natives of My Person plunges readers inside the imperial imagination at the moment it begins to crack. George Lamming transforms the historical voyage into a gripping psychological drama—one that exposes the ambitions, illusions, and brutal consequences of empire. Urgent, unsettling, and fiercely original, Natives of My Person, Lamming’s masterpiece, reveals how conquest reshapes not only the world, but the minds that seek to rule it. “George Lamming is not so much a novelist as a chronicler of secret journeys to the innermost regions of the West Indian psyche. . . an uninhibited journey to the heart of the colonizer.” —The New York Times

A Novel

Natives of My Person

How can people peacefully cooperate with others to improve their lives? This important book answers this question by introducing readers to the Austrian school of economics. Austrian economics is a heterodox tradition with a distinct philosophy of science stressing purposive individual action, subjective value, the unique nature of economic knowledge, and the importance of prices and markets for coordination. Beginning in Austria in the 1870s with the work of Carl Menger, the ideas of those working in this tradition shaped the field of economics as we know it today. Coyne and Hall tell the story of the key thinkers and ideas in the Austrian school. In doing so, they demonstrate the tradition's ongoing relevance to a wide range of contemporary issues, including entrepreneurship, development, government regulation, artificial intelligence, business cycles and recessions, infectious diseases, recovery from natural disasters, and war. Comprehensive and accessibly written, Austrian Economics: An Introduction is an indispensable resource on its topic. Readers will come away with a better understanding of economics and an appreciation of the marvel of human cooperation.

An Introduction

Austrian Economics

The Palgrave Handbook of Economics and Language

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