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Intro -- Series Editor's Preface -- Series Editor's Endorsement -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Author -- Chapter 1: Introduction to Budgeting in Georgia -- What Else Is a Budget? -- A Statement of the Relationship Between Proposed Expenditures and Anticipated Revenues -- A Record of Past Performance and a Plan for Future Actions -- An Instrument for Legislative Control of the Executive Branch, as Well as a Device Through Which a Chief Executive Attempts to Direct and Control Agencies Within the Executive Branch -- A Technique for Allocating Scarce Resources Among Competing Governmental Agencies and Programs -- At the National Level, a Method for Regulating Aggregate Economic Demand Through Taxing and Spending Decisions, While in the States, a Method for Using Taxing and Spending Decisions to Promote Economic Growth and Income Redistribution -- A Mechanism for Accountability in the Management of Public Funds -- The State of Georgia -- Chapter 2: Fiscal Conservatism and Fiscal Conservatives -- Fiscal Conservatism in Georgia -- Governors as Fiscal Conservatives -- Richard B. Russell, Jr. (1931-1933) -- Eugene Talmadge (1933-1937 and 1941-1943) -- Eurith D. Rivers (1937-1941) -- Ellis Arnall (1943-1947) -- Melvin E. Thompson (1947-1948) -- Herman Talmadge (1948-1955) -- Marvin Griffin (1955-1959) -- S. Ernest Vandiver, Jr. (1959-1963) -- Carl E. Sanders (1963-1967) -- Lester Maddox (1967-1971) -- Jimmy Carter (1971-1975) -- George D. Busbee (1975-1983) -- Joe Frank Harris (1983-1991) -- Zell B. Miller (1991-1999) -- Roy E. Barnes (1999-2003) -- Sonny Perdue (2003-2011) -- Nathan Deal (2011-2019) -- Summary -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3: Patterns and Trends in Georgia Revenue -- Revenue Patterns and Trends -- Income Taxes -- Sales Tax -- Sales Taxes on Internet Sales -- Motor Fuel Tax -- Cigarette Tax -- Property Tax -- Motor Vehicle Tax.

Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Praise for Stuart Hall, Conjunctural Analysis and Cultural Criminology -- Contents -- About the Author -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction and Overview -- Chapter by Chapter Overview -- References -- Part I Stuart Hall and Conjunctural Analysis -- 2 Conjunctural Analysis Part One: From Early Political Writings to Resistance Through Rituals -- What Is a Conjuncture? -- What Is Conjunctural Analysis? -- RTR and PTC: Different Sides of the Same Conjunctural Coin -- References -- 3 Conjunctural Analysis Part Two: The Case of Policing the Crisis -- A Short Detour via Marx -- PTC Part I: From Particular 'Mugging' Trials to the Determinations of an Over-Reaction -- Part II: From the Reception of Media Messages to the Determinations of Ideologies of Crime and Punishment -- Part III: From Moral Panics to the Determinations of a Crisis of Hegemony -- Part IV: From the Lives of Black Youths to the Determinations of the Politics of Mugging -- Conclusion -- References -- Part II Cultural Criminology, Theorising and Stuart Hall -- 4 Cultural Criminology Part One: The Problems with a Theory-Driven Methodology -- An Overview of the Cultural Criminology Project -- City Limits and the Limitations of Theory -- 'Merton with Energy, Katz with Structure': An Imaginary Synthesis -- Summary and Conclusion -- References -- 5 Cultural Criminology Part Two: Ethnography, Carnival and the Need for Critique -- A Tale of Two Ethnographies -- A Traditional Ethnography: Carl Nightingale's On the Edge -- A Cultural Criminology Ethnography: Jeff Ferrell's Tearing Down the Streets -- Comparing the Ethnographies in Their Own Terms -- The Question of Attentiveness -- Data and Theory -- Comparing Ethnographies in Terms of their Relationship to Conjunctural Analysis -- Comparing a Conjunctural and a Cultural Criminological Approach to Carnival.

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Author -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Background -- 1.2 Research Ideas -- 1.3 Main Innovation -- 2 Theory and Concept -- 2.1 Theory -- 2.1.1 Long Tail Theory -- 2.1.2 Mechanism Design Theory -- 2.1.3 Resource Dependence Theory -- 2.2 Concept -- 2.2.1 Rural Long Tail Public Service -- 2.2.2 Imbalance of Rural Long Tail Public Service -- 2.2.3 Correction Mechanism of Rural Long Tail Public Service -- References -- 3 Attributes of Rural Long Tail Public Service -- 3.1 The Demand Side Attribute of Rural Long Tail Public Service -- 3.2 The Supply Side Attributes of Rural Long Tail Public Service -- 3.2.1 From the Perspective of Service Type -- 3.2.2 The Financial Expense Perspective -- 3.2.3 From the NGO Perspective -- 3.3 Imbalance Between Supply and Demand of Rural Long Tail Public Service -- 3.3.1 Spatial Distribution -- 3.3.2 Time Sequence Distribution -- 3.3.3 Satisfaction Cost -- References -- 4 The Influencing Factors of the Imbalance of Rural Long Tail Public Services -- 4.1 The Demand Side Factors of Rural Long Tail Public Services -- 4.2 The Supply Side Factors of Rural Long Tail Public Services -- 4.2.1 Government Financial Constraints -- 4.2.2 The Deviation of the Government's Rational Choice -- 4.2.3 Immature NGOs -- 4.2.4 Lack of a Supply "Market" -- 4.3 The Factors of Imbalance: Special Education -- 4.4 Factors of the Imbalance: Special Health -- 4.5 Factors of Imbalance: Elderly Care -- 4.6 The Factors of Imbalance: Special Finance -- 4.7 Summary -- References -- 5 The Measurement of the Imbalance of Rural Long Tail Public Services -- 5.1 Measurement Method -- 5.2 Measurement of Imbalance Index of Rural Long Tail Public Services: Rural Special Education -- 5.3 Measurement of Imbalance Index of Rural Long Tail Public Services: Rural Special Health.

Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Explanatory Notes -- Use of Archival Sources -- Contents -- About the Author -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Australian Politics Meets Foreign Diplomacy -- A Context for Contest -- Structure of This Book -- The Limitations of Diplomatic History -- References -- Chapter 2: Antarctic Mining Might Be Possible: From Finding Gold to 1982 -- Early Prospects -- IGY and the Antarctic Treaty -- 1964: The Antarctic Becomes a Special Conservation Area -- Sovereign Rights -- 1969: Emerging Interest in Minerals -- 1970: "Tell the Firms Concerned Not to Be Silly" -- 1972: The ATCM Discusses Minerals -- What About a World Park? -- 1972: ATCM VII, Wellington -- 1973: Experts Meet in Oslo -- 1973: The Global Oil Shock -- 1974: Law of the Sea Issues -- February 1975: From "Tentative Policy to No Policy at All" -- 9 June 1975: ATCM VIII, Oslo -- 12 June 1975: New Zealand Proposes a World Park, or Something -- A Moratorium Is Put in Place -- 1975: Preparations for a Preparatory Meeting -- June 1976: The Paris Special Preparatory Meeting -- 1976: An "Imbroglio of Policy Reviews" in Australia -- "The Real Stuff of Sovereignty" -- September 1977: ATCM IX, London -- Marine Living Resources -- 1979: Environmentalism Comes to Antarctica -- 1979: ATCM X and "A Slightly Elliptical Draft" -- 1980: "We Are Not Trying to Stop This Anymore" -- 1981: "Evidence of a Serious Intention" -- 1981: ATCM XI, Buenos Aires -- References -- Chapter 3: Negotiating a Minerals Convention: June 1982 to June 1988 -- June 1982: Special Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting IV, Wellington -- January 1983: SATCM IV Second Session, Wellington -- July 1983: SATCM IV Third Session, Bonn -- January 1984: SATCM IV Fourth Session, Washington -- May 1984: SATCM IV Fifth Session, Tokyo -- January 1985: Discussions on Ice.

Intro -- Foreword -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations by Categories and Synonyms -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- What Kind of Journey Will We Have? -- Beyond Crime, Toward Antisocial Behavior -- From an Epidemiological Perspective, Toward a Developmental View -- From Replication to Reproducibility, Toward Generalizability and Universality -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- About the Author -- Chapter 1: The Constructs of Antisocial Behavior and Crime: A Measurement View -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Constructs of Antisocial Behavior -- 2.1 The Legal or Societal Construct of Antisocial Behavior -- 2.2 The Scientific Construct of Antisocial Behavior -- 3 The Measurement of Self-Reported Antisocial Behavior -- 3.1 The Spectrum of Antisocial Behaviors -- 3.2 The Metric Properties of the SRAB Scales -- 3.2.1 The Reliability of the SRAB Scales -- 3.2.2 The Validity of the SRAB Scales -- 4 A Test of the Heteromorphy of Antisocial Behavior Measures -- 5 The Empirical Structure of the Antisocial Behavior Construct -- 5.1 The Theoretical Model, What Do We Know? -- 5.2 A Test of the Antisocial Behavior Theoretical Model -- 5.3 The Generalization of the Antisocial Behavior Hierarchical Model -- 5.4 A Network View of the Patterns of Antisocial Behavior -- 6 Conclusion -- Chapter 2: Antisocial Behavior and Crime: An Epidemiological View -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Epidemiology of Official Antisocial Behavior and Crime Careers -- 2.1 The Official Offending Career -- 2.1.1 A Descriptive Statistic View -- 2.1.2 An Age-Crime Curve View -- Measurement Issues with Official Offending Data Sets -- The Shape of the Age-Crime Curve in the 1960 and 1980 Generations -- The Variations of the Age-Crime Curves by Delinquency Status, Genders, and Types of Offending -- 2.2 The Official Problem Behavior Career.

Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Author -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction: The Just Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy -- 1.1 Introduction: The Just Transition Policy and Concept -- 1.2 The Policy Journey of the Just Transition 2015-2020 -- 1.3 Early Financing Issues in the Just Transition -- 1.4 Legal Redirection Needed to Ensure a "Just" Transition -- 1.5 The Structure and Scope of This Text -- Chapter 2: What is the "Just Transition"? -- 2.1 Introduction: What Is the Just Transition?1 -- 2.2 Why the Need for a United Just Transition Concept? -- 2.3 Merging of the Three CEE Justices Under the Just Transition Concept -- 2.4 Application of Legal Geography -- 2.5 Steps in the Future Development of the Just Transition -- Chapter 3: The Just Framework -- 3.1 Introduction: Background to the Just Framework -- 3.2 The Just Theoretical Framework -- 3.3 Key Questions to Ask for the Just Theoretical Framework: Case Study Example on Critical Minerals5 -- 3.3.1 Background to the Case Study -- 3.3.2 Justice and Its Elements: Distributive, Procedural and Restorative Justice -- 3.3.3 Universal -- 3.3.4 Space -- 3.3.5 Time -- Chapter 4: The Advance of Just Transition Commissions -- 4.1 Introduction: Background to the Rise of Just Transition Commissions -- 4.2 Brief Examination of the Just Transition Commissions -- 4.2.1 Australia -- 4.2.2 Canada -- 4.2.3 The European Union -- 4.2.4 Germany -- 4.2.5 International: The United Nations -- 4.2.6 Ireland -- 4.2.7 New Zealand -- 4.2.8 Scotland -- 4.2.9 South Africa -- 4.2.10 The USA -- 4.3 Just Transition Commissions Analysed with the JUST Framework -- 4.3.1 Justice and Its Elements: Distributive, Procedural and Restorative Justice -- 4.3.1.1 Procedural Justice -- 4.3.1.2 Distributive Justice -- 4.3.1.3 Restorative Justice -- 4.3.2 Universal: Recognition and Cosmopolitanism.

Intro -- Foreword -- Preface -- Structure of the Book -- Chapter 1: Engineering Ethics -- Chapter 2: Understanding Science, Technology & -- Modernity and the Emergence of Modern Science and Technology -- Chapter 3: Modernity and Modernism -- Chapter 4: Theories of Modernity -- Chapter 5: The Greek Philosophy -- Chapter 6: The First and Second Industrial Revolution -- Chapter 7: Globalization and the Third and Fourth Industrial Revolution -- Chapter 8: Modernity and Society -- Chapter 9: Introduction to Cross Cultural Communication -- Chapter 10: Feminism and Gender Equality -- Acknowledgment -- Contents -- About the Author -- With Contributions by -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Engineering Ethics -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 The Code of Ethics -- 1.2.1 Preamble -- 1.3 Fundamental Canons -- 1.4 II. Rules of Practice -- 1.5 III. Professional Obligations -- 1.6 Case Studies -- 1.6.1 Case I -- 1.6.2 Case II [1] -- 1.6.2.1 Making Changes to the Work of Another Engineer (Table 1.1) -- 1.6.3 Case III -- 1.6.3.1 Duty to Report Improper Conduct by Management (Table 1.2) -- References -- Chapter 2: Understanding Science, Technology & -- Modernity and the Emergence of Modern Science and Technology -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Civilization -- 2.3 Science -- 2.4 Science Vs Technology -- 2.5 Science and Technology through the Years -- 2.5.1 Stone Age (1,000,000-3000 BC) -- 2.5.2 Bronze Age (3000-1200 BC) -- 2.5.3 Iron Age (1200 BC-1300 AD) -- 2.5.4 Middle Ages (500 AD-1500 AD) -- 2.5.5 The Renaissance (1300-1600 AD) -- 2.5.6 Industrial Revolution (1750-Ongoing) -- 2.5.7 The Information Age (Present-Ongoing) -- 2.6 Review Questions -- References -- Chapter 3: Modernity and Modernism -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Modernity -- 3.2.1 The History of Modernity -- 3.3 Modernity Technology Relationship -- 3.4 Modernism.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of boxes -- Author biography -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Economic ethics -- 1.2 Defense and critique of free markets -- 1.3 Purpose and plan of the book -- Part I Free markets, welfare and happiness -- 2 Utilitarianism -- 2.1 Characteristics of utilitarianism -- 2.2 Cost-benefit analysis -- 2.3 Problems with utilitarianism -- 2.4 Adaptations of utilitarianism -- 2.5 Conclusion -- 3 Three economic perspectives on the 'good' market system -- 3.1 The free market perspective of neoliberalism -- 3.2 The perfect market perspective of the neoclassical school -- 3.3 The welfare state perspective of the Keynesian school -- 3.4 Overview -- 4 Free markets, welfare and happiness: empirical research -- 4.1 Free markets and income -- 4.2 Does more income make us happier? -- 4.3 Free markets and happiness -- 4.4 Free markets and quality of life -- 4.5 Testing the three perspectives on the 'good' market system -- Part II Free markets, rights and inequality -- 5 The ethics of duties and rights -- 5.1 Consequentialist versus deontological ethical theories -- 5.2 Ethics of duty of Kant -- 5.3 Negative rights ethics: libertarianism -- 5.4 Positive rights ethics -- 6 The ethics of justice -- 6.1 The concept of justice -- 6.2 The theory of justice of Rawls -- 6.3 The entitlement theory of Nozick -- 6.4 Meritocracy -- 6.5 Distributive justice: an overview of criteria -- 7 Free markets, rights and inequality: empirical research -- 7.1 Free markets, negative rights and capitalist justice -- 7.2 Free markets and positive rights -- 7.3 Free markets and income inequality within countries -- 7.4 Free markets and income inequality between countries -- 7.5 Income inequality, trust and happiness -- Part III Free markets, virtues and happiness.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- About the Author -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Overview: China's Export Miracle, 1980-2018 -- China's export miracle: 1980-2018 -- Dynamic changes in China's export structure -- China's trade with the US -- Conventional explanations of the Chinese export miracle -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3 GVCs: Catalyst of the Explosive Growth of China's Exports -- Spillover effects of GVCs -- Spillover effect 1: Brands -- Spillover effect 2: Technology and product innovation -- Spillover effect 3: Distribution and retail networks -- GVCs and the global expansion of China's exports -- GVCs and China's iPhone exports -- GVCs and Chinese high-technology exports -- GVCs and China's overall exports -- Walmart and Chinese exports to the US -- Measuring China's GVC participation: Processing exports vs. the GVC participation index -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4 The China-US Trade Imbalance from the GVC Perspective -- How the US trade deficit with China is exaggerated -- How US exports to China are underestimated: Apple's "missing exports" -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5 Diminished Impact of the Yuan Exchange Rate on Trade Balances -- Yuan appreciation only affects Chinese value added: The case of iPhone trade -- Yuan depreciation to offset Trump's tariffs: Mission impossible -- Exchange rate transmission channel under value chain trade -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6 A Supportive Policy Environment: The Key to China's GVC Entry -- Processing trade regime -- FDI promotion strategy -- China's accession to the WTO -- Conclusion -- Chapter 7 The Chinese Mobile Phone Industry and Its GVC Strategy -- The Chinese mobile phone industry: From assembly tasks upward -- Upgrading along the iPhone value chain -- The rise of Chinese home-grown global brands -- Sourcing foreign technology to foster home-grown brands.

Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Author -- 1 Urban Memory: Cognition, Signs, Symbols, Identity, and Beyond -- 1.1 Memory and the City -- 1.2 Memory of the City -- 1.3 Memory of the Place: Navigating Through Mental Maps -- 1.3.1 Cognition, Socio-Spatial, and Behaviours -- 1.3.2 Cognition, Image, and Visual Reality -- 1.3.3 Cognition and the Representation of Social Relations -- 1.3.4 Cognition, Space, and Mental Maps -- 1.4 Memory Through Signs and Symbols -- 1.5 Memory and Place Identity: From Experience to Cognition -- 1.6 Beyond What Urban Memory Offers -- References -- 2 Memory and Cities: Discovering Transitions Through Urban Maps -- 2.1 The Complexity of Urban Palimpsests -- 2.2 Urban Palimpsests and Memory of Cities -- 2.2.1 Palimpsests and Urban Landscapes -- 2.2.2 Palimpsests and Urban Form -- 2.2.3 Palimpsests and Urban Land-Use -- 2.2.4 Palimpsests and Urban Identity -- 2.2.5 Palimpsests and Urban Texture -- 2.2.6 Palimpsests and Urban Image -- 2.3 City Transitions and Their Impacts on Urban Memory -- 2.3.1 Urban Landscapes in Transition: The Case of PuDong District in Shanghai, China -- 2.3.2 Following the Informal Form to Make the Formal Layout: The Case of Oshodi Neighbourhood in Lagos, Nigeria -- 2.3.3 Prioritising Urban Land-Use in Shifting Singapore's Image and Spatial Configuration -- 2.3.4 Making Memories Through Multiple Identities of Cancún, Mexico -- 2.3.5 A Combination of Collective Memory, Youth Memory, and New Memories of Olympic Park in London, the UK -- 2.3.6 Building the Image Through the Gradual Pace of Monumental Urbanism in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan -- 2.4 From Urban Maps to Mental Maps -- References -- 3 The Significance of Place in Mind: Comprehending Memory Through Urban Places -- 3.1 Capturing the Time: Space Through Collective Memory -- 3.1.1 From What We Perceive to What We Remember.

"Artificial intelligence and the autonomous robots of the Fourth Industrial Revolution will render certain jobs and competences obsolete, but will also create new roles, which in turn require new sets of skills. They will also transform how we produce, distribute and consume, as well as, how we think. Rather than a linear understanding of evolutionary processes, we will develop a more interactive and circular interpretation. This book offers a unique and holistic perspective on the future of work in the context of industry 4.0. It discusses the globalization of capital markets; how artificial intelligence can help organizations to be more competitive; and the new role of leadership in this technological landscape. The author argues that there are four categories of competences, which will be required in order to maintain the relevance of human skills and expertise in the innovation economy. The new jobs that come into being will lend themselves to a particular set of skills. General competences will be necessary for roles involving the 4Cs of communication, creativity, collaboration and change. Specific or STEM competences will be called for across the science, technology, engineering and maths sectors. Human competences will lend themselves to positions comprising the SELC framework of social, emotional, leadership and cultural skills. Critical or REVE competences will be in demand for roles embracing reflection, ethics, values and the environment. The book provides a human-centric view of the current technological advancements of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics and offers a positive outlook for human actors seeking continued relevance. The book will appeal to scholars and students of the innovation economy, the knowledge society and the coming fourth industrial revolution"--

Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- About the Author -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Why Finance Matters for Economics: The Story of Financing the Railroad -- The Relationship Between Credit Growth and Economic Growth -- Growth and Debt Finance -- The Global Case for Credit and Growth -- Sector Links-The Links of Finance and the Economy at the Sector Level -- The Specific Issue of Private Credit -- Market Price Framework -- Price Signals in the Linkages Between Markets -- Shifting Benchmarks: What Is an Investor to Do? -- Policy Benchmark: No Single Number But the Result of Many -- A Fixed Dollar? How About Not -- No Simple Benchmarks in a Complex Economic World -- The Challenge of Anchored Benchmarks and Establishing Market Pricing -- Normalization of Interest Rates? -- Commodity Prices -- Equities -- Foreign Exchange Rates -- Silos Four Markets: Seeking Out the Linkages -- Benchmarking Nominal GDP: Growth and Inflation -- Money and Nominal Growth -- Asset Prices and Nominal GDP -- Isolationism Is Not a Viable Approach to Market Interactions -- Three-Dimensional Chess -- Interest Rates and Nominal GDP Growth -- Moving to Another Level -- The Costs and Benefits of Capital and Growth -- Financial Markets: The Economy's Fraternal Twin -- So, Where Do These Market Observations Take Us? -- Markets in Disequilibrium: Certainly Not Simultaneous Equilibrium in All Four Markets -- Gauging Economic Change: Economic Signals -- A Historical Context for an Effective Decision-Making Process -- A Duality in Frameworks: How We Make Decisions-Not By Economic Numbers Alone -- Framing Bias, Risk, and Uncertainty -- The Anchoring Bias: In the Data and in Policy -- Economic Evolution-Cycles and Structural Breaks -- Fed Balance Sheet-Structural Breaks and an Asymmetric Impact -- Inflation: The Unreachable Star?.

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Author -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Boxes -- List of Photos -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Rationale and Structure of the Book -- 1.2 Immigration in Europe: A Short Historical Overview -- 1.3 The Refugee Crisis: A Litmus Test for the European Union -- 1.4 Is the Global Governance of Migration a Solution to Future Migration Crises? -- References -- 2 Immigrant Integration Policies in Europe -- 2.1 What Does Integration Mean in Europe? -- 2.2 The 'Traditional National Models of Immigration and Integration' -- 2.3 Beyond the Tradition: Traits and Pitfalls of Civic Integration -- 2.4 The Unintended Consequences of the Civic Integration Paradigm -- References -- 3 The European Union Framework on Immigrant Integration -- 3.1 How the European Union Understands Integration -- 3.2 The Construction of a "Soft Governance" on Immigrant Integration -- 3.3 The Action Plan on Integration and Inclusion 2021-2027 -- 3.4 The Current State of Play and the Way Forward -- References -- 4 Subjective Well-Being of Immigrants in Europe -- 4.1 Defining Subjective Well-Being -- 4.2 The Importance of Subjective Well-Being as a Measure of Individual and Societal Progress -- 4.3 Why Subjective Well-Being Matters When Studying Immigrant Integration -- 4.4 Main Research Strands for the Study of Immigrants' Subjective Well-Being -- References -- 5 Immigrants' Self-reported Life Satisfaction in Europe -- 5.1 Previous Studies on Immigrants' Self-reported Life Satisfaction in Europe -- 5.2 Main Methodological Challenges -- 5.3 The Main Individual Factors Associated with the Self-reported Life Satisfaction of First-Generation Immigrants Residing in Seven European Countries -- 5.4 The Destination Moves the Needle: The Role of Country-Level Factors -- References -- 6 Immigrants' Subjective Well-Being in Italy.

Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- About the Author -- 1 From Alexander II to Gorbachev: The Economic History of Modern Russia -- 1.1 The Autocratic Czarist Era (1613-1914) -- 1.1.1 A Case Study: von Wogau & -- Co -- 1.2 The War Economy (1914-1917) -- 1.3 The Civil War, War Communism and the New Economic Policies (1918-1924) -- 1.4 The Soviet Economy (1924-1991) -- 1.4.1 The Gulag Economy (1921-1954) -- 1.4.2 The War Economy of WWII and Post-war Policies -- 1.4.3 Mono-industrial Cities -- 1.4.4 Perestroika and Its Origins -- 1.5 The Transformation of the Soviet Economy -- References -- 2 Post-Soviet Industrial Policy: From the Red Directors to the New State Oligarchs -- 2.1 Putin's State Monopoly Capitalism -- 2.2 The Red Directors -- 2.3 A Short Story of the Russian Oligarchy -- 2.4 The Russian Crisis of 1998 -- 2.5 Putin's Start as President -- 2.6 The Fate of Oligarchs I-Falling Out of Favour -- 2.6.1 Vladimir Gusinsky (1952-) -- 2.6.2 Boris Berezovsky (1946-2013) -- 2.6.3 Mikhail Khodorkovsky (1963-) -- 2.7 The Fate of Oligarchs II: Super-Rich, Obedient and Still Tolerated -- 2.7.1 Roman Abramovich (1966-) -- 2.7.2 Oleg Deripaska (1968-) -- 2.7.2.1 An Austrian-German Connection that Did not Work Out: Deripaska, Magna, Hochtief and Strabag -- 2.7.3 Vladimir Potanin (1961-) -- 2.7.4 Mikhael Fridman (1964-) -- 2.7.5 Viktor Vekselberg (1957-) -- 2.7.6 Yuri Luzhkov (1936-2019) and Sistema -- 2.8 Other Fallen Oligarchs -- 2.8.1 Yevgeny Chichvarkin -- 2.8.2 Sergey Pugachev -- 2.8.3 Ziyamudin and Magomed Magomedov -- 2.9 Putin's State Monopoly Capitalism -- 2.9.1 Gazprom First -- 2.9.2 Russia's Energy Export Policy -- 2.9.3 Rosneft -- 2.9.4 Case Study: Bill Browder's Hermitage Fund -- 2.10 Putinocrats -- 2.11 Conclusion I: Wealth and Economic Power in Russia -- 2.12 Conclusion II: Whither the Russian Economy? -- References.

Chapter 1: Introduction -- SECTION 1: NEWS MEDIA AT THE COALFACE: REPORTING COVID-19 -- Chapter 2: The pandemic and public interest journalism: crisis, survival, and rebirth -- Chapter 3: Fast-tracking the cure: Science communication in Latin America Author -- Chapter 4: Reporting from the front line: The role of health workers in UK television news reporting of COVID-19 -- Chapter 5: Framing a global pandemic in an age of biomediatisation -- SECTION 2: COMMUNICATING THE PUBLIC HEALTH RESPONSE -- Chapter 6: Communication inequality, structural inequality and COVID-19 -- Chapter 7: Mitigating the spread of COVID-19 in Africa: Lessons from HIV/AIDS communication interventions -- Chapter 8: Tailoring COVID-19 communication for local contexts: Challenges, contradictions and complications in a utopian public health response -- Chapter 9: Disentangling science and ideology in a fast-paced global pandemic -- Chapter 10: Communicating Ableism in a Pandemic: Compassion, Vulnerability and the Violence of Care -- Chapter 11: Death Warrants: Argumentation Strategies of Scandinavian Political Leaders during COVID-19 -- Chapter 12: Underpinnings of pandemic communication in India: The curious case of COVID-19 -- Chapter 13: Analysis of the government of Israel COVID-19 health and risk communication efforts: between a political-constitutional and health crisis -- SECTION 3: CITIZENS, SOCIAL MEDIA, AND DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES -- Chapter 14: Coronavirus conspiracy theories: Tracing misinformation trajectories from the fringes to the mainstream -- Chapter 15: Smart crowdsourcing to bridge the expert-public knowledge gap in risk communication about COVID-19 -- Chapter 16: "South Africa Laughs in the Face of Coronavirus": Humour, Memetic Media and Nation-Building in South Africa -- Chapter 17: Monitoring the R-citizen in the time of coronavirus.