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Introduction: civic honours, from classical to Roman times / Anna Heller and Onno van Nijf -- Part I. The economy of honour: financial and symbolic exchanges -- Praise and honour / Olivier Gengler -- Les timai dans le discours civique et moral a la fin du Ier siecle ap. j.-c. / Anne Gangloff -- La gestion des statues honorifiques a Rhodes a la fin du Ier siecle ap. j.-c. d'apres le Rhodiakos de Dion de Pruse (Or. xxxi) / Henri-Louis Fernoux -- The financing of public honours in Greece during the Roman imperial period: the case of honorary statues in the cities of the Greek mainland / Francesco Camia -- Part II. Honorific communities: competition and negotiation -- Le temoignage de Chariton d'Aphrodisias sur la pratique civique des honneurs / Sophie Lalanne -- Un-civic benefactions?: gifts to non-citizens and civic honours in the Greek cities of the Roman east / Arjan Zuiderhoek -- The refusal of the highest honours by members of the urban elites in Roman Asia Minor / Christina T. Kuhn -- Decrees awarding offices for life and by hereditary right as honours / Nikos Giannakopoulos -- Part III. The impact of Rome: integration and domination -- Romans in the poleis of Greek mainland and adjacent islands: the evolution of their relations in the light of honorific texts / Sofia Zoumbaki -- Les honneurs des cites d'Asie aux proches des gouverneurs / Gabrielle Frija -- Curateurs de cites et honneurs civiques / Eric Guerber -- Honouring senators and equestrians in the Graeco-Roman east / Annika B. Kuhn -- Le premier des citoyens a pergame sous le Haut-empire: C. Antius, Aulus Iulius Quadratus / Olivier Ventroux -- Part IV. Cities and empire: honours between local and global -- Martyriai: civic honours and imperial government / Christina Kokkinia -- On the rhetoric of imperial majesty: elements of the ideological interaction between emperor and imperial society on the basis of civic decrees, imperial pronouncements and literary testimonies in the Greek east / Kostas Buraselis -- Honorary statues in the theatres of Roman Greece / Valentina Di Napoli -- The agora as setting for honorific statues in Roman Greece / Christopher Dickenson -- L'iconographie des honneurs civiques statuaires pour les notables d'epoque imperiale / Martin Szewczyk -- Le reflet des honneurs / Jean-Baptiste Yon

Preliminary Material -- De la lettre à l'esprit -- L'ordre international, fondements et remises en question -- Méthodes d'analyse et approches du droit international -- La souveraineté -- La sécurité collective -- Le droit international général -- L'obligation juridique internationale -- La responsabilité des états pour crimes internationaux -- L'ordre international à l'oeuvre -- La justice internationale -- La compétence universelle -- La prévention en droit international -- L'ordre international des océans – Défis et perspectives -- Le droit international à l'épreuve du temps -- La réforme des Nations Unies ou la quadrature du cercle -- Conclusion -- Bibliographie sélective -- Index -- À propos de l'auteur -- Publications de l'académie de droit international de la haye -- Printing Information.

"It's not your imagination: civilized human society is collapsing. Communities no longer work towards a common good; children are no longer our first priority; businesses no longer value "hard work"; arts and skills have been lost; and gender is decided by the individual, not biology. We cannot reverse national and global trends, says professor Anthony Esolen; but we can build communities that live up to humanity's promise and responsibility."--Publisher's website

Preface -- Obituary for common sense -- Introduction -- Common-sense business -- What is common-sense business? -- Lessons in prudence from ancient wisdom -- Patient capital -- The addictive lure of financial doping -- Practical skills for common-sense business -- The virtue matrix -- A disappointment, a turnaround, a smart step, and a fresh start -- Cargill: building trust -- A point about people -- Common sense globally -- Common sense around the world -- Miele: surviving and thriving -- Applying common sense -- Common sense in the not-for-profit sector -- Let markets work -- The future of common-sense business -- Epilogue -- Index

In a controlled laboratory experiment, we study the impact of monetary instability on work relationships with incomplete contracts. We observe wage inertia, i.e. the reluctance to fully adjust nominal wages to the changes in the value of the currency, and effort inertia, i.e. the reluctance to fully adjust the work effort to the alterations of the real wages. Under inflation, these effects lead to cheaper labor and a shift of payoff shares to employers. Under deflation, we observe a higher cost of labor and a shift of payoff shares to employees. Additionally, inflation and deflation lower productivity and per capita earnings.