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Examining the state identity formation and international legitimation of de facto states, this book provides a deeper understanding of the relationship between de facto states, the international state system and international society. The book integrates International Relations theories to construct a framework of normative standing for de facto states, to better understand the social system they inhabit and the stasis in their relationship with international society, demonstrated through detailed case study analysis. Klich appraises the recognition narrative of de facto states in order to analyse their state identities, and constructs a framework for normative standing in an original synthesis of English School, constructivism and legitimacy scholarship. The explanatory utility of that framework is then applied and analysed through detailed fieldwork conducted across an original set of case studies ― Nagorno Karabakh, Somaliland, and the Kurdistan Region of Iraq ― that have varying degrees of international engagement and parent state relationships.

Ethical design of social technology : user engagement and attentional demands / Fernando Montalvo, Michael Miuccio, Grace Waldfogle -- Augmented reality : panacea or Pandora's box? / Victoria Claypoole, Clay Killingsworth, Catherine Hodges, Hannah Nye, Larry Moralez, Ernesto Ruiz, Kay Stanney -- Facilitating the adoption of digital health technologies by older adults to support their health / Maurita Harris, Wendy Rogers -- Proposal for the utility of neuro-economics in the services of ICT of the exponential SMES of the artisanal industry of women entrepreneurs in Mexico / Jovanna Cervantes-Guzmán -- Human factors in design an authentic learning mobile application design project in a higher education and industry context / William Gibbs, Emalee Sekely, Nicole Martonik, Emily Cooney, Lauren Kolber -- Strategic implications of organizational culture, knowledge, learning organizations and innovation on sustainable organizations / José Vargas-Hernández -- Facilitating the adoption of digital health technologies by older adults to support their health / Maurita Harris.

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Race, Gender, and Ethnicity -- 1.Racism -- Introduction -- 1.1.Three basic questions about racism -- 1.2.What is racism? -- 1.3.What is a racist? -- 1.4.A racist philosophy -- 1.5.The racist's burden of proof -- 1.6.Is there such a thing as "race"? -- 1.7.Are some "races" superior to others? -- 1.8.Ought supposedly superior "races" to dominate supposedly inferior "races"? -- 1.9."Race," rights, and utility -- 1.10.Racism and universalizability -- 1.11.Conclusion -- Study questions -- Notes -- 2.Sexism -- Introduction -- 2.1.Three basic questions about sexism -- 2.2.What is sexism? -- 2.3.What is a sexist? -- 2.4.The sexist's burden of proof -- 2.5.Is one sex innately superior to the other? -- 2.6.Ought one sex to dominate the other? -- 2.7.Conclusion -- Study questions -- Notes -- 3.Hispanic/Latino Immigration and Rights -- Introduction -- 3.1.Hispanics in America -- 3.2.Are Hispanics a race or an ethnic group? -- 3.3.Naming

"This timely Handbook offers a wide-ranging examination of contemporary comparative policy analysis (CPA), advancing the understanding of methodology in the study of comparative public policies, and broadening the array of methods and techniques deployed by scholars in the field. Internationally acclaimed contributors overcome the current concentration on quantitative techniques, engaging with a more conscious and comprehensive selection of methods to improve the quality of CPA. Providing an overview of the major theoretical issues currently under discussion in CPA and the methodological shift in social sciences, this Handbook argues for the utilization of a range of alternative approaches to maximize the utility of the research. Far-reaching and comprehensive, this Handbook offers an insightful overview of methods for researchers of CPA looking to broaden their methodological repertoire. It will also be useful for students of public policy and the social sciences in need of a guide to contemporary research methods and applications"

"Cryptoassets represent one of the most high-profile financial products in the world, and fastest growing financial products in history. From Bitcoin, Etherium, and Ripple's XRP -- so called 'utility tokens' used to access financial services -- to initial coin offerings that in 2017 rivaled venture capital in money raised for startups, with an estimated $5.6 billion (USD) raised worldwide across 435 ICOs. All the while, technologists have hailed the underlying blockchain technology for these assets as potentially game changing applications for financial payments and record-keeping. At the same time, cryptoassets have produced considerable controversy. Many have turned out to be lackluster investments for investors. Others, especially ICOs, have also attracted noticeable fraud, failing firms, and alarming lapses in information sharing with investors. Consequently, many commentators around the world have pressed that ICO tokens be considered securities, and that concomitant registration and disclosure requirements attach to their sales to the public."

This essential volume reflects the continuing and enduring utility of general equilibrium as a framework of analyses. It attempts to reiterate that understanding broad and holistic consequence of economic events and policies go beyond partial equilibrium perspective. Cutting across areas of research, general equilibrium perspectives in terms of small-scale GE models following the theory and perspectives of Ronald Jones can help readers develop informed judgement regarding critical policies. These include but are not limited to several areas of specific interest - the interaction of financial factors with international trade and implications for the 'real sectors' of the economy, the impact of labour market reforms on the unorganised sectors in developing and transition countries, the non-uniform effects of inflation and deflation on internal and external factor flows, and the sought-after relation between foreign investment and skill accumulation

The transformation of hospitals into companies is repeatedly negotiated as a consistent rationalization strategy. From a sociological perspective, on the other hand, it becomes clear that the much-discussed ¼-economization½ of hospitals is a contradictory process. Robin Mohan traces the history of the hospital through a social theory of economization based on Marx, Weber and Bourdieu, which raises the contradiction between utility value and exchange value as the connecting leitmotiv. The analysis is supplemented by a sociology of labor study, which reconstructs how the economization processes are viewed from the point of view of the nursing staff. - Der Umbau der Krankenhäuser zu Unternehmen wird immer wieder als in sich konsistente Rationalisierungsstrategie verhandelt. Aus soziologischer Perspektive wird hingegen deutlich: Die viel diskutierte ¼Ökonomisierung½ der Krankenhäuser ist ein in sich widersprüchlicher Prozess. Robin Mohan zeichnet die Geschichte des Krankenhauses mithilfe einer an Marx, Weber und Bourdieu orientierten Gesellschaftstheorie der Ökonomisierung nach, die den Widerspruch von Gebrauchswert und Tauschwert zum verbindenden Leitmotiv erhebt. Ergänzt wird die Analyse durch eine arbeitssoziologische Studie, die rekonstruiert, wie sich die Ökonomisierungsprozesse aus der Sicht der Pflegekräfte darstellen.

In determining the optimal redistribution of a given population's income, we ask which factor is more important: the social planner's aversion to inequality, embedded in an isoelastic social welfare function indexed by a parameter alpha, or the individuals' concern at having a low relative income, indexed by a parameter beta in a utility function that is a convex combination of (absolute) income and low relative income. Assuming that the redistribution comes at a cost (because only a fraction of a taxed income can be transferred), we find that there exists a critical level of beta below which different isoelastic social planners choose different optimal allocations of incomes. However, if beta is above that critical level, all isoelastic social planners choose the same allocation of incomes because they then find that an equal distribution of incomes maximizes social welfare regardless of the magnitude of alpha.

The persistent premium of government debt attributes to two main reasons: absolute nominal safety and liquidity. This paper employs two types of measures of government debt supply to disentangle the safety and liquidity part of the premium. The empirical evidence shows that, after controlling for the opportunity cost of money, the quantitative impact of total government debt-to-GDP ratio is still significant and negative, which is consistent with the theoretical predictions of the CAPM with utility surplus of holding convenience assets. The relative availability measure, the ratio of total government liability to all sector total liability, separates the liquidity premium from the safety premium and has a negative impact too. Both theoretical and empirical results suggest that the substitutability between government debt and private safe assets dictates the quantitative impact of the government debt supply.

This volume seeks to revive the field of law and logic, by providing an up-to-date and accessible survey of several relevant issues. Each author is an expert in his or her field, and each chapter offers an analysis of current issues, challenges, problems, limitations and/or developments. -- The general contribution of this book to existing scholarship is threefold. First, it seeks to consolidate current and cutting-edge scholarship by bringing together various approaches and different theories of law and logic in one volume. Secondly, the content is presented in a way that is both stimulating for current debates in the field, and at the same time, accessible to a wider audience (particularly to readers without prior knowledge of formal logic). Finally, this book aims at highlighting the practical applicability, utility and relevance of logic for the study of law, and its application (including legal argumentation).

"Historically, natural law has played a pivotal role in Christian approaches to the law, and a contested role in legal philosophy generally. However, comparative study of natural law across global Christian traditions is largely neglected. This book provides not only the history of natural law ideas across mainstream Christian traditions worldwide, but also an ecumenical comparison of the contemporary natural law positions of different traditions. Its focus is not solely theoretical: it tests the practical utility of natural law by exploring its use in the legal systems of the churches studied. Alongside analysis of the assumptions underlying the concept, it also proposes a jurisprudence of Christian law itself. With chapters written by distinguished lawyers and theologians across the world, this book is designed for those studying and teaching law or theology, those who practice and study ecumenism, and those involved in the practice of church law"--

The use of behavioural science to inform policy is one of the main developments in the social sciences over the last several decades. In this book, Adam Oliver offers an accessible introduction to the development of behavioural public policy, examining how behavioural economics might be used to inform the design of a broad spectrum of policy frameworks, from nudges, to bans on certain individual behaviours, to the regulation of the commercial sector. He also considers how behavioural economics can explain and predict phenomena as a challenge to economists' assumptions around how people perceive time, utility and money. The book offers an intellectual foundation for all those concerned with behavioural public policy, from academics, undergraduate and postgraduate students with a diverse range of disciplinary perspectives, such as economics, political science, sociology and anthropology, to policy makers and practitioners working directly with behavioural public policy in their everyday working lives

1. Introduction / Adrian Walsh, Sade Hormio and Duncan Purves -- 2. Do not ask for morality / John Broome -- 3. The ethics of discounting : an introduction / Marc D. Davidson -- 4. Climate change, intergenerational equity, and the social discount rate / Simon Caney -- 5. When utility maximization is not enough : intergenerational sufficientarianism and the economics of climate change / Simo Kyllonen and Alessandra Basso -- 6. A new defence of probability discounting / Kian Mintz-Woo -- 7. Climate change mitigation, sustainability and non-substitutability / Sade Hormio -- 8. Dimensions of climate disadvantage / John O'Neill -- 9. Moral asymmetries in economic evaluations of climate change : the challenge of assessing diverse effects / Blake B. Francis -- 10. The ethical failures of climate economics / Clive L. Spash and Clemens Gattringer -- 11. A Lockean approach to greenhouse gas emission rights / Hans-Peter Weikard -- 12. Climate change policy, economic analysis and price-independent conceptions of ultimate value / Adrian Walsh.

Cloud computing and big data are arguably the most significant forces in information technology today. In the wake of revelations about National Security Agency (NSA) activities, many of which occur "in the cloud", this book offers both enlightenment and a critical view. Vincent Mosco explores where the cloud originated, what it means, and how important it is for business, government and citizens. He describes the intense competition among cloud companies like Amazon and Google, the spread of the cloud to government agencies like the controversial NSA, and the astounding growth of entire cloud cities in China. Is the cloud the long-promised information utility that will solve many of the world's economic and social problems? Or is it just marketing hype? To the Cloud provides the first thorough analysis of the potential and the problems of a technology that may very well disrupt the world

History, paradoxes, and utility of dissent : from state to global action / Barbara J. Falk -- History as dissent : independent historians in the late Soviet era and post-soviet Russia / Barbara Martin -- Dissent as race war : the strange case of Amiri Baraka / Bent Sorensen -- The Tea Party : an ethical all-American performance / Hasmet M. Uluorta -- Intellectual identity and student dissent in Indonesia in the 1970s / Stephanie Sapiie -- Angry young architects : counterculture and the critique of modernism in Brisbane, 1967-1972 / Janina Gosseye & John Macarthur -- "But that is perhaps why I can talk of where I want to be without always being dragged back to my starting point" : rethinking and re(-)membering Czech and Slovak histories of violence and dissidence through the historical "infranovel" / Verita Sriratana -- Intellectuals and dissent : Dennis Rodman, memory refractor / Ben Dorfman -- Jean-Paul Sartre and the post-1968 ethic of anti-representationalism / Kalle Pihlainen -- Contributors