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A new vision of money as a communication technology that creates and sustains invisible--often exclusive--communities One of the basic structures of everyday life, money is at its core a communication media. Payment systems--cash, card, app, or Bitcoin--are informational and symbolic tools that integrate us into, or exclude us from, the society that surrounds us. Examining the social politics of financial technologies, Lana Swartz reveals what's at stake when we pay. This accessible and insightful analysis comes at a moment of disruption: from "fin-tech" startups to cryptocurrency schemes, a variety of technologies are poised to unseat traditional financial infrastructures. Swartz explains these changes, traces their longer histories, and demonstrates their consequences. Getting paid and paying determines whether or not you can put food on the table. She shows just how important these invisible systems are. The data that payment produces is uniquely revelatory--and newly valuable. New forms of money create new forms of identity, new forms of community, and new forms of power

Purpose: Family firms appear to be an attractive topic in a number of research areas. Probably the most important topic is still the succession process combined with possible hurdles and gaps. This paper aims to focus on the special variable of the psychological dimension. It attempts to summarize findings and implications as well as suggestions for where potential research gaps are. Design/methodology/approach: The paper is based on a two-stage research design. The first step is a literature review. All articles published in the Family Business Review (FBR) between 1997 and 2011 were collected and analysed regarding their topics, findings, and implications. As a second step, this knowledge has been applied to conduct a thorough literature analysis on psychological aspects of succession. Findings: Psychological aspects are often used together with other constructs. The authors strongly recommend handling them as an individualized, highly complex topic, even if social, political, and other aspects are often mixed with psychological aspects and therefore difficult to discuss and separate. A separation of these factors will help researchers present findings in a much clearer way. Research limitations/implications: The main limitation of the article lies in the methodology itself, as the literature review solely concentrates on empirical papers that exclusively investigate psychological aspects with regard to succession. Nevertheless, the aim was to elaborate a focused psychological field model in terms of succession. Likewise, critical aspects considering the family business system have been taken into consideration. Finally, a literature review is commonly seen as a post-work "dead body". However, the implications show a clear, directed focus within family business research. The authors recommend an increase in the number of concisely formulated research questions instead of generic approaches. Practical implications: Businesses should closely heed three imperative problem areas (individual, interpersonal and organizational) as well as the stage in which conflicts arise (preparation, transfer/takeover, and continuation), if they want to be successful in the succession process. Originality/value: The paper offers an overview of the limited number of existing articles and their implications that address the psychological aspects of the succession process. Furthermore, the psychological issues identified that cause conflicts during succession are consolidated and categorized.

Title Page -- Preface -- Organization -- Table of Contents -- Using Models to Inform Policy: Insights from Modeling the Complexities of Global Polio Eradication -- Toward Culturally Informed Option Awareness for Influence Operations with S-CAT -- Introduction -- Example Scenario: Reducing Piracy Off the West-African Coast -- Improving Option Awareness by Assessing Alternative Plans -- Modeling in S-CAT -- Assessing Plans in S-CAT -- Improving Option Awareness by Explaining Forecasted Effects -- Summary and Discussion -- References -- Optimization-Based Influencing of Village Social Networks in a Counterinsurgency -- Problem Statement -- Technical Approach -- Optimization Formulation -- Results -- References -- Identifying Health-Related Topics on Twitter An Exploration of Tobacco-Related Tweets as a Test Topic -- Introduction -- Methods and Results -- Data Sampling and Collection -- Comprehensive Dataset Analysis -- Tobacco Subset Analysis -- Discussion and Conclusion -- References -- Application of a Profile Similarity Methodology for Identifying Terrorist Groups That Use or Pursue CBRN Weapons -- Introduction -- Data and Measures -- Profile Similarity -- Results -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- Cognitive Aspects of Power in a Two-Level Game -- Introduction -- Description of the IPD^2 Game -- A Cognitive Model of IPD^2 -- Human Data and Model Simulation Results -- Discussion -- References -- Predicting Demonstrations' Violence Level Using Qualitative Reasoning -- Introduction -- Related Work -- Qualitative Reasoning and Simulation -- Modeling Violence Level in Demonstration -- Models Evaluation -- Summary and Future Work -- References -- Abstraction of an Affective-Cognitive Decision Making Model Based on Simulated Behaviour and Perception Chains -- Introduction -- An Affective-Cognitive Decision Making Model.

This book examines how governments, non-profit and private organizations, and local networks understand the connections between public values and social issues. Western societies face complex social issues and a growing diversity of views on how these should be addressed. The traditional view focuses on government and public policy but neglects the initiatives that non-profit and private organizations and local networks take. This book presents a broader variety of viewpoints and theories. Looking at various cases, the authors analyze conflicting values and interests, actors' understandings of

Develops a perspective on social transformation and social change. The perspective is described as social transformations as inadvertent consequences of adaptation. 5 adaptive phases since World War 11 are identified in their economic, political, military and cultural aspects. (Original abstract - amended)

Based on the analysis of land legislation of the Russian Federation and of constituent entities of the Russian Federation, and also taking into account legal positions of the constitutional Court of the Russian Federation the article considers topical issues of legislative development to ensure the rational and efficient use and protection of land in light of development of social functions of natural resources and improving the welfare of citizens, and ensure the constitutional regime of use of land and other natural resources as public (public) domain, the natural basis of social-environmental well-being of present and future generations of the peoples of Russia. As positive examples of advanced legal regulation of land relations at the regional level, the author considers legal forms of stimulating land use and the socio-monetary forms of preventive protection of land resources from irrational and inefficient use.

Examines economic adjustment measures taken, changes made in the neoliberal model, and consequences for the private sector, agriculture, poverty, and income distribution; Colombia.