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Intro -- Preface -- You Know More Than You Think, but This Book Offers Surprising New Insights -- Acknowledgments -- Praise for food economics -- This Book in Verse -- Why Are Kiwis So Cheap? -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 From Farming to Eating, Research and Teaching -- 1.1.1 Using Food Economics, for Professional Life and as Consumers and Citizens -- 1.1.2 The Origins of This Book -- 1.1.3 Supplementary Materials -- 1.2 Why Study Food Through Economics, and Economics Through Food? -- 1.2.1 Learning Objectives of the Book -- 1.2.2 Why Study Food Through Economics, and Economics Through Food? -- Why Use Economics to Study Food? -- Why Use Food to Understand Economics? -- Economics as a Science -- Economics as a Social Science -- How Economics Differs from Other Social Sciences -- What Economics Is Not -- Questions About Food and Nutrition that Economics Can Answer -- Economic Thinking as a Useful Skill for Any Profession -- 1.2.3 Intended Audiences for This Book -- The Models Used in This Book -- Two-Dimensional Diagrams Show a System of Simultaneous Equations -- How to Learn These Models -- On the Philosophies of Modeling -- Ways of Knowing in This Book -- 1.3 Understanding Charts of Economic Data -- 2 Individual Choices: Explaining Food Consumption and Production -- 2.1 Consumer Choices: Food Preferences and Dietary Intake -- 2.1.1 Motivation and Guiding Questions -- 2.1.2 Analytical Tools -- A Model of Consumer Choices -- Notation and Specification of Variables on Each Axis -- Indifference Curves for Consumption of Each Good -- 2.1.3 Conclusion -- 2.2 Producer Choices: Agriculture and Food Manufacturing -- 2.2.1 Motivation and Guiding Questions -- 2.2.2 Analytical Tools -- The Production Possibilities Frontier (PPF) -- The Input Response Curve (IRC) -- The Isoquant or Input Substitution Curve (ISC).

Papers consider the level of ecological awareness inherent in ancient societies and to identify the possible solutions implemented, trying to answer two questions in particular: what were the choices (political, economic, social) implemented during climatic variations, and how were they perceived by ancient societies?.

"The story of the driver is the story of Atlantic slavery. Starting in the seventeenth-century Caribbean, enslavers developed the driving system to solve their fundamental problem: how to extract labor from captive workers who had every reason to resist. In this system, enslaved Black drivers were tasked with supervising and punishing other enslaved laborers. In The Driver's Story, Randy M. Browne illuminates the predicament and harrowing struggles of these men-and sometimes women-at the heart of the plantation world. What, Browne asks, did it mean to be trapped between the insatiable labor demands of white plantation authorities and the constant resistance of one's fellow enslaved laborers? In this insightful and unsettling account of slavery and racial capitalism, Browne shows that on plantations across the Americas, drivers were at the center of enslaved people's working lives, social relationships, and struggles against slavery. Drivers enforced labor discipline and confronted the resistance of their fellow enslaved laborers, aiming to maintain a position that helped them survive in a world where enslaved people were treated as disposable. Drivers also protected the people they supervised, negotiating workloads and customary rights to essentials like food and rest with white authorities. Within the slave community, drivers helped other enslaved people create a sense of belonging, as husbands and fathers, as Big Men, and as leaders of diasporic African "nations." Sometimes, drivers even organized rebellions, sabotaging the very system they were appointed to support. Compelling and original, The Driver's Story enriches our understanding of the never-ending war between enslavers and enslaved laborers by focusing on its front line. It also brings us face-to-face with the horror of capitalist labor exploitation. While critics attacked the driving system as barbaric and backwards, in pushing workers to their utter limits it was, in fact, fundamentally modern-a stark example of what historian Walter Rodney called capitalism without its loincloth."

For seven decades, NATO's stated aim has been the achievement of world peace - but playing great power politics always involves conflict. Russia's war on Ukraine and on Europe's security order puts the alliance under threat, but also demonstrates why transatlantic cooperation is so necessary. But how did NATO get to where it is today, and what does its future hold? In this incisive new account, Sten Rynning traces the full history of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation from its origins to the present. Across its seventy-five years, NATO has navigated the twists and turns of Cold War diplomacy and nuclear deterrence, and has grown its membership. The alliance has become a guarantor of peace, but Rynning explores how its complex inner workings alongside Russian and Chinese opposition are now shaping its direction.

"Every 100 years or so transformative changes that seemed distant and gradual become a mainstream reality; these phases are Fast Future. Between 2020 and 2035 the world will undergo rapid developments that will radically transform both work life and everyday life. Leaders and businesses that can understand the changes in these areas and shape their strategies around the Fast Future developments as a competitive advantage, will win"--

Intro -- Preface -- Chapter Breakdown -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- 1: James Mill and the History of the History of British India -- James Mill and the Making of His Magnum Opus -- 2: The Francophone Postcolonial Thinkers and the Colonizer-Colonized Dialectic -- Colonized: The Constructed "Other" of the Colonizer -- Racism and the Portrait of the Colonized -- Colonialism, Racism, and the Complicity of Intellectuals in Perpetuating the Nexus -- 3: Primitivizing the Hindus: Hindus as Oppressive and Hierarchical -- Savage and Primitive Hindus: No Sense of History -- Hindu Society: Hierarchical and Oppressive -- Hindu Governance: Despotic, Authoritative, Absolutist, Hierarchical, and Oppressive -- Hindu Laws: Primitive, Savage, Undeveloped, Hierarchical, and Oppressive -- Hinduism: Primitive, Savage, Irrational, Incoherent, Immoral, Childlike, and Pagan -- Hindus: Hierarchical, Oppressive, Women-abusers, Effeminate, Inhuman, Villainous, Timid, Weak, Cowardly, Lazy, Penurious, Greedy, Filthy, Superstitious, and Fatalistic -- 4: Imagining the Hindus and Hinduism -- Postmodern Philosophy of Science, Self-Referentiality, and Binaries -- James Mill, Utilitarianism, and Scottish Enlightenment -- Description of Hindu Society: A Sheer Projection of British Society Which Mill Wanted to Reform -- The Hindu Brahmins in Mill's History are English Clergy -- Mill's Hinduism Is the Mirror Image of the Christianity of the Church of England that He Wanted to Suppress and Transform -- Mill's Hindu Form of Governance Is Fabricated and Projected against the Conditions of Governance He Wanted to Undermine and Suppress in Britain -- Mill Imagines Hindu Jurisprudence against the Backdrop of English Laws that He Wanted to Expel from Britain -- Hindu Laws and Civil Code -- Hindu Laws and Penal Code -- Hindu Laws and the Code of Procedure.

Intro -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Author -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1: Introduction -- 1.1 Why Focus on Social Protection? -- 1.2 Theories of Social Protection in Latin America -- 1.3 Some New Departures… -- 1.3.1 Wage Earners Are the Object of Social Protection Institutions -- 1.3.2 Social Protection Institutions Are Stratification Mechanisms -- 1.3.3 Social Protection Institutions and Dominant Forms of Stratification -- 1.3.4 Methodologically, from Correlation to Causality -- 1.4 The Approach in This Book -- 1.4.1 The Need for Theory -- 1.4.2 A Late Industrialisers Perspective -- 1.4.3 A Dynamic and Comparative Perspective Is Essential… -- 1.4.4 Comparative Social Protection -- 1.4.5 Shortcuts: Pensions and Social Assistance -- 1.5 The Structure of the Book -- 1.5.1 Framework -- References -- 2: Methods -- 2.1 Methods in the Comparative Literature -- 2.2 Shifting Attention to Causality -- 2.3 'Effects of Causes' and 'Causes of Effects' Explanations -- 2.4 The Potential Outcomes Framework -- 2.5 Directed Acyclical Graphs -- 2.6 Causality Deficits in Social Protection Research -- 2.7 Methodological Challenges -- 2.8 Conclusions -- References -- 3: Framework -- 3.1 Framework -- 3.1.1 Synchronic: Core Institutions -- 3.1.2 Diachronic: Critical Realignments -- 3.1.3 Analytic: Dominant Stratification -- 3.2 Stratification and Theories of Welfare Institutions: A Digression -- 3.3 Stratification Effects -- 3.4 Testing the Framework -- 3.4.1 Origins -- 3.4.2 Stratification Effects -- 3.5 Conclusion -- References -- 4: Institutions -- 4.1 Data and Indicators -- 4.2 Pension Schemes -- 4.2.1 Occupational Pensions -- 4.2.1.1 Bismarck vs. Beveridge -- 4.2.1.2 Membership Entitlements -- 4.2.1.3 A Less Advantaged Worker Perspective -- 4.2.2 Individual Retirement Savings Plans.

Intro -- Legal Disclaimer -- Contents -- 1 Permanent Counterrevolution, Technocracy, and World War III -- Introduction -- Permanent Counterrevolution: A Brief History -- The "Covid-19" Operation: Proximate Triggers -- Worldwide Social Protests -- Crisis in the International Monetary and Financial System -- Crisis of the Western Propaganda System -- Technocracy: A Brief History -- Technocracy: Origins -- The "Scientific Dictatorship" and the "Technetronic Era" -- China: The World's First Technate -- World War III -- World War as an Instrument of Social Engineering -- How Can the Few Wage War Against the Many? -- Omniwar -- Information Warfare -- The "Covid-19" Operation -- References -- 2 Shock and Stress -- Shocking the Mind -- Tavistock Influence -- Psychiatry as a Means of Social Control -- Tavistock Methods of Counterinsurgency -- Counterinsurgency against the Domestic Population -- The Quest for Mass Suggestibility. -- The Shock Doctrine -- The Shock of "Covid-19" -- "Lockdown" as Shock and Awe Operation -- Disruption of Behavioural Patterns -- Isolation -- Defamiliarisation -- Implanting Triggers -- Mass Psychosis -- References -- 3 Trauma-based Mind Control -- The Franklin Scandal, Project Monarch, The Finders, and Satanic Ritual Abuse -- Torture -- Psychological Torture -- Chronic Stress -- Simple Techniques to Disturb Mental Equilibrium -- Face Masks as Instruments of Psychological Torture -- Trauma -- "Covid-19" as Mass Trauma Event -- Killing Granny -- Trauma Bonding -- Perpetrators in Parliament -- Permanent Scars and Intergenerational Trauma -- False Rescue -- Demonstrating "Omnipotence" -- Infantilisation -- Evil Comes to Light -- References -- 4 Fear and Threat -- Existential Threat and Social Control -- The "Covid-19 Pandemic" -- "Pandemic" as a Fear Concept -- What Counts as a "Pandemic"? -- The Bogus "Spanish Flu" Analogy.

Intro -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction. The War Against Ukraine: The EU Facing New Realities -- Theorising the EU in the New Setting -- Impact of the War on the EU as a Polity and its Policies -- Ukraine: EU Accession and Perceptions -- From Old to New Challenges -- References -- 2 Back to the Roots? The War in Ukraine and Grand Theories in International Relations -- Introduction -- Grand Theoretical Debates -- Methods -- Mapping the Debate -- General Features -- Main Cause of the War -- Stakes -- Key Prescriptions for the US/West -- Worldviews and Great Debates -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 War and Peace in European Studies: a Zeitenwende? -- Introduction -- European Studies and War, or, How War Morphed into a Role in Mythology -- Why a Zeitenwende Is a No-Go -- Previous Wars and EU Studies -- The Enduring Consequences of Path-dependencies -- A Distinctly Liberal Outlook -- War Studies and European Studies -- Conclusion and Wider Perspectives -- References -- 4 Re-ordering the EU and Europe: Old Boundaries and New Challenges -- Introduction -- The EU, Europe and the World: A Garden Meets a Jungle? -- From the 1990s to the 2020s: Key Junctures in the (Re)Ordering of Europe -- The Nature and Importance of Boundaries -- The EU and the Boundaries of Order in a Changing and Challenging World -- Conclusions -- References -- 5 The War Against Ukraine, the Changing World Order and the Conflict Between Democracy and Autocracy -- Introduction -- The EU and the Zeitenwende -- The Zeitenwende as a Shake-Up of Certainties -- The European Union and the Changing World Order -- Tackling the New Order: The EU's Reaction -- Enhancing Liberal Democracy Externally -- Changing Patterns of Liberal Democracy -- Liberal Democracy Challenged Internally -- Financial Crisis EU.