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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “rodney edvinsson”
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  • An Economic Philosophy of Production, Work and Consumption

    A Transhistorical Framework

    by Rodney Edvinsson ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the History of Economics
    An Economic Philosophy of Production, Work and Consumption presents a new transhistorical framework of defining production, work and consumption. It shows that they all share the common feature of intentional physical transformation of something external to the agent, at some point in time.The book opens with a discussion of various theoretical traditions within economics, spanning mainstream and ... Read more

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  • Methods in world history : a critical approach

    by Rodney Edvinsson, Arne Jarrick, J. R. McNeill, Eva Myrdal, Janken Myrdal, Maria Wallenberg, Rikard Warlenius, Mats Widgren ...
    Intresset för världshistoria är större än på länge - både bland den läsande allmänheten och bland forskare. Globaliseringen har bidragit till att historiker kommit ut ur den fixering vid det nationella som kännetecknat deras forskning ända sedan 1800-talet. Men med den nya globala arenan för forskning följer också nya metodproblem. Det är hög tid att de världshistoriskt orienterade forskarna tar ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Sveriges Riksbank and the History of Central Banking

    Edited by Rodney Edvinsson, Tor Jacobson, Daniel Waldenström ...
    Series series Studies in Macroeconomic History
    Written in celebration of its 350th anniversary in 2018, this book details the history of the central bank of Sweden, Sveriges Riksbank, as presented by Klas Fregert. It relates the bank's history to the development of other major central banks around the world. Chapters are written by some of the more prominent scholars in the field of monetary economics and economic history. These chapters ... Read more

    $121.99 CAD

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    Contemporary (Non)Religiosity And Spirituality Through The Lens Of An International Mixed Method Study

    Edited by Peter Nynäs, Ariela Keysar, Janne Kontala, Ben-Willie Kwaku Golo, Mika T. Lassander, Marat Shterin, Sofia Sjö, Paul Stenner ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This open access volume features a data-rich portrait of what young adults think about the world. It collects the views of students in higher education from various cultural regions, religious traditions, linguistic groups, and political systems. This will help readers better understand a generation that will soon rise to power and influence.The analysis focuses on 12 countries. These include ... Read more

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  • Human-Nature Interactions

    Exploring Nature’s Values Across Landscapes

    Edited by Ieva Misiune, Daniel Depellegrin, Lukas Egarter Vigl ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This edited volume aims to widen the discussion about the diversity of human-nature relationships and valuation methods and to stimulate new perspective that are needed to build a more sustainable future, especially in face of ongoing socio-environmental changes. Conceptual and empirical approaches, including qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methodologies have been used to highlight the ... Read more

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  • Supercomputing Frontiers

    7th Asian Conference, SCFA 2022, Singapore, March 1–3, 2022, Proceedings

    Edited by Dhabaleswar K. Panda, Michael Sullivan ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This open access book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th Asian Conference Supercomputing Conference, SCFA 2022, which took place in Singapore in March 2022.The 8 full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 21 submissions. They cover a range of topics including file systems, memory hierarchy, HPC cloud platform, container image configuration workflow, ... Read more

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  • The Great Derangement

    Climate Change and the Unthinkable

    by Amitav Ghosh ...
    Series series Berlin Family Lectures
    A " concise and utterly enlightening" look at why we can't wrap our minds around climate change ( Publishers Weekly).Are we deranged? Award-winning essayist and novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? The Great Derangement examines our inability—at the level of literature, history, and politics—to ... Read more

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  • Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea

    The History of a Dangerous Idea

    by Mark Blyth ...
    Conservatives today in both Europe and the United States have succeeded in casting government spending as reckless wastefulness that has made the economy worse. In contrast, they have advanced a policy of draconian budget cuts--austerity--to solve the financial crisis. We are told that we have all lived beyond our means and now need to tighten our belts. This view conveniently forgets where all ... Read more

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  • Fragile by Design

    The Political Origins of Banking Crises and Scarce Credit

    by Charles W. Calomiris, Stephen Haber ...
    Series series The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
    Why stable banking systems are so rareWhy are banking systems unstable in so many countries—but not in others? The United States has had twelve systemic banking crises since 1840, while Canada has had none. The banking systems of Mexico and Brazil have not only been crisis prone but have provided miniscule amounts of credit to business enterprises and households.Analyzing the political and banking ... Read more

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  • Global Imbalances and the Lessons of Bretton Woods

    by Barry Eichengreen ...
    Series series Cairoli Lectures
    Why the current Bretton Woods-like international financial system, featuring large current account deficits in the center country, the United States, and massive reserve accumulation by the periphery, is not sustainable.In Global Imbalances and the Lessons of Bretton Woods, Barry Eichengreen takes issue with the argument that today's international financial system is largely analogous to the ... Read more

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  • The Social Life of Things

    Commodities in Cultural Perspective

    Edited by Arjun Appadurai ...
    The meaning that people attribute to things necessarily derives from human transactions and motivations, particularly from how those things are used and circulated. The contributors to this volume examine how things are sold and traded in a variety of social and cultural settings, both present and past. Focusing on culturally defined aspects of exchange and socially regulated processes of ... Read more

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  • How Global Currencies Work

    Past, Present, and Future

    by Barry Eichengreen, Arnaud Mehl, Livia Chitu ...
    A powerful new understanding of global currency trends, including the rise of the Chinese yuanAt first glance, the modern history of the global economic system seems to support the long-held view that the leading world power’s currency—the British pound, the U.S. dollar, and perhaps someday the Chinese yuan—invariably dominates international trade and finance. In How Global Currencies Work, three ... Read more

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