Suchergebnisse

This textbook introduces readers to essential tools, techniques and methods for intertemporal and strategic modeling in economics. It presents a variety of analytical models covering both dynamic processes and strategic interaction. Students will learn the basic mechanisms associated with the intertemporal approach, on the one hand, and game theory, i.e., the strategic approach, on the other. In addition, a wide range of applications are explored, including growth models, labor markets, international trade, and individual decision-making. Intended for upper undergraduate and graduate students in economics and related fields with a background in mathematics and calculus, this textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to economic modeling and its applications. By avoiding excessive formalism and exploring straightforward examples and applications, it is optimally suited for graduate courses in economics and finance.

This textbook introduces readers to essential tools, techniques and methods for intertemporal and strategic modeling in economics. It presents a variety of analytical models covering both dynamic processes and strategic interaction. Students will learn the basic mechanisms associated with the intertemporal approach, on the one hand, and game theory, i.e., the strategic approach, on the other. In addition, a wide range of applications are explored, including growth models, labor markets, international trade, and individual decision-making. Intended for upper undergraduate and graduate students in economics and related fields with a background in mathematics and calculus, this textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to economic modeling and its applications. By avoiding excessive formalism and exploring straightforward examples and applications, it is optimally suited for graduate courses in economics and finance.

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- About the Book -- Contents -- About the Author -- Chapter 1: Cosmopolitan Sensibilities and Outernational Imaginaries -- 1.1 Spiritual Repatriation -- 1.2 Shashamane -- 1.3 Rastafari Symbolism -- 1.4 The Plantation and Creole Subjectivities -- 1.5 Cosmopolitan Theory -- 1.6 Migration -- 1.7 Organisation of the Book -- References -- Chapter 2: "Word-Sound-Power" -- 2.1 Everyday Performativity -- 2.2 Itiopia/Ethiopia in Rastafari Worldview -- 2.3 Haile Selassie I -- 2.4 Sighting Rastafari and "Knowing Your Bible" -- 2.5 Testing Strangers: To Suss Out a Person -- 2.6 Chanting: Dread Talk, Morality and the Commodification of the Word (Music) -- References -- Chapter 3: Ambiguities of Belonging -- 3.1 A Lineage of Ethiopian Royalty, an Abyssinian Pedigree -- 3.2 The West Indian God of Rastafari -- 3.3 An Everyday Micro-conflict -- 3.4 Reclaiming Blackness -- References -- Chapter 4: Narratives of Community: His Majesty's People -- 4.1 Origin Stories -- 4.2 Narrative Self-Making -- 4.3 Everyday Practices of Relatedness -- 4.4 Being Ethiopian -- 4.5 Being Heartical -- References -- Chapter 5: Making a Living -- 5.1 Outernational Livelihoods -- 5.2 Household Earnings -- 5.3 Routine Precarity -- 5.4 The Western Union Run -- 5.5 The Neighbourhood Shop -- 5.6 Translocal Reciprocity -- 5.7 Material Betterment, Status and In-Kind Remittances -- References -- Chapter 6: Family and Kinship: Rastafari Yards -- 6.1 Creole Kinship -- 6.2 My Yard: Family and Household -- 6.3 A Rastafari Yard and an Ethiopian Beit -- 6.4 Making Place, Reproducing Culture -- 6.5 Gender, Class and the Sexual Division of Labour -- 6.6 Being Rooted: Locating Identities in Time and Space -- References -- Chapter 7: Rastafari Citizen-Subjectivities -- 7.1 Modes of Belonging -- 7.2 The Legal Face of Citizenship -- 7.3 The Generation Born on the Land Grant.

This book examines the experiences of transient migrants in the Asia-Pacific, and in so doing provides new ways of understanding diversity. By focusing on the transient destination hubs of Australia and Singapore, Catherine Gomes shifts our thinking about diversity for two disruptive reasons: the increasingly large and global transient flows of people and our everyday reliance on digital media. The unprecedented usage of digital media influences not only communication patterns and information-seeking behaviour, but has also led to the rapid evolution of the very nature of entertainment and news, and directly impacted on our documenting and mapping of self (e.g. posts of photographs, opinions and links on social media timelines). The book introduces readers to the concept of siloed diversity - a phenomenon which occurs when people rely on a hierarchy of identities developed while in transience to make connections and disconnections with others

Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Introduction -- Singapore and Australia: A Comparative Study -- Australia -- International Students -- Exchange Students -- Working Holiday Makers -- Temporary Work (Skilled) Visa -- Bridging Visas -- Dependent Visa -- Singapore -- International Students -- Workers -- Identities, Social Networks, Social Networking Sites and Entertainment Media -- Methodology and Findings -- Notes -- References -- Transient Migrants: A Profile of Transnational Adaptability -- Linguistic Adaptability -- 'Home Is Where the Heart Is', or, Here, There and Everywhere -- Home Is Many Things -- Home Is Right Here, Right Now -- 'Home Is Where the Wi-Fi Is': Veterans of Transnational Mobility and Their Powers of Adaptability -- Keeping Busy: Coping with Transience Through Hobbies and Activities -- Adapting to Life in Transience Through Social Networking Sites -- Maintaining a Social Networking Site Smorgasbord -- Translocal Experience as a Coping Strategy -- Significance of YouTube in Transience -- Implications for Policy and Practice -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Replicating Everyday Home Life in Transience: Connecting to the Home Nation through Social Media and Entertainment Media -- Connecting to Home Through Passive Engagement with Social Media -- Disconnections with Friends in the Homeland -- Entertainment Media: Connections to Home and Disconnections to the Host Nation -- Significance of American (Hollywood) Entertainment Media -- (North) American Entertainment Media: Lessons in English Proficiency, Reminders of Home, Making New Connections in the Host Nation and Identifying with American Values -- No Real Media Connection to Host or Home Country -- Implications for Policy and Practice -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Identity on My Mind -- A Need to Look at Identity amid Migration Trends

Female Indonesian migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong : a case study of advocacy through Facebook and the story of Erwiana Sulistyaningsih / Panizza Allmark and Irfan Wahyudi -- Media and mobilities in Australia : a case study of Southeast Asian international students' media use for well-being / Larissa Hjorth and Joshua Wong -- Connecting and re-connecting with Vietnam : migration, Vietnamese overseas communities and social media / Cate Gribble and Ly Thi Tran -- Liking it, not loving it : international students in Singapore and their navigation of everyday life in transience / Catherine Gomes -- Is "Allah just for Muslims"? : religion, indigenization and boundaries in Malaysia / Susan Leong -- Ethnic minorities in the multi-ethnic heritage in Melaka : reconstructing Dutch Eurasian and Chitty Melaka identites through Facebook / Loo Hong-Chuang and Floris Müller -- Nostalgia and memory : remembering the Malayan communist revolution in the online age / Jason Sze-Chieh Ng -- New and traditional media in Malaysia : conflicting choices for seeeking useful and trusted information in everyday life / Sandra Harchard

This volume includes the full proceedings from the 1995 Academy of Marketing Science (AMS) Annual Conference held in Orlando, Florida. The research and presentations offered in this volume cover many aspects of marketing science including marketing strategy, consumer behavior, advertising, branding, international marketing, marketing education, among others. Founded in 1971, the Academy of Marketing Science is an international organization dedicated to promoting timely explorations of phenomena related to the science of marketing in theory, research, and practice. Among its services to membe

We study nonlinear income taxation in a Roy model in which agents' productivity is sectorspecific. We show that when income taxes can be sector-specific, the Diamond-Mirrlees theorem (according to which the second-best displays production efficiency) fails: social welfare (be it Rawlsian or Weighed Utilitarian) can be increased by assigning some agents to their least productive sector. By sacrificing production efficiency, the planner incurs second-order losses in total output, but obtains a first-order reduction in the informational costs of redistribution. The same result obtains when the government is constrained to a uniform income tax schedule, as long as sales taxes can be made sector-specific. In this latter case, our result also implies failure of the Atkinson-Stiglitz theorem (according to which, when preferences over consumption and leisure are separable, as they are in our economy, the second-best can be implemented with zero sales taxes).