E-book Farming as Financial Asset : Global Finance and the Making of Institut…

Finance has gone farming. Since the financial and food price crises of 2007/ 8, the world has seen a stark rise in financial investments in farmland and agri-cultural production by investment banks, sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, private equity funds, insurance companies, family offices, endowment funds and high- net-worth individuals (HNWIs). Indeed, finance has been …

E-Book Keanekaragaman Serangga Hutan Hujan Tropis Dataran Rendah di Provinsi …

Buku ini merupakan kumpulan hasil kerjasama penelitian melalui proyek EFForTS (Ecological and Socioeconomic Functions of Tropical Lowland Rainforest Transformation Systems) dan difokuskan sebagai buku yang dapat memberikan informasi mengenai nilai penting dari keanekaragaman hayati serangga dan dampak dari perubahan tata guna lahan terhadap keberadaan serangga. Hasil penelitian dalam buku ini …

E-Book Stories of Capitalism: Inside the Role of Financial Analysts

The financial crisis and the recession that followed caught many people off guard, including experts in the financial sector whose jobs involve predicting market fluctuations. Financial analysis offices in most international banks are supposed to forecast the rise or fall of stock prices, the success or failure of investment products, and even the growth or decline of entire national economies.…

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E-book Piracy in World History

Pirates, it is frequently claimed, have existed since the dawn of history, as long as there has been traff ic and commerce at sea.1 Presumably, the origins of piracy would thus be sometime in the pre-historic past, when people f irst took to the sea for commercial purposes, probably around eight thousand years ago, along the coast of the Persian Gulf.2 Historical records over close to three and…

E-book Diversity and Otherness : Transcultural Insights into Norms, Practices…

At the origin of the cooperation that eventually led to this book, there is the idea of emphasizing the gap between the ordinariness of diversity, as it occurs in everyday life, and the many ways of representing and addressing it as something exceptional, independently of whether those representations and practices carry with them posi-tive or negative connotations. On the on…

E-book The Nation Form in the Global Age : Ethnographic Perspectives

The aims of this chapter revolve around three arguments. First, in agreement with the contributions this volume consists of, it demonstrates the continu-ing force and reality of the nation form as the only mode of politics world-wide currently. Against arguments seeing the demise of nationalism as integral to the march to globalization, globalism or a cosmopolitan future on the one ha…

E-book Energy Poverty : (Dis)Assembling Europe’s Infrastructural Divide

Energy poverty occurs when a household is unable to secure a level and quality of domestic energy services—space cooling and heating, cooking, appliances, information technology—sufficient for its social and material needs. This somewhat contested and broad definition lies at the tip of a vast scientific and policy iceberg, involving complex socio-technical relat…

E-book Finance 4.0 Towards a Socio-Ecological Finance System : A Parcipatory …

As we use money every day without much thought, it is important to understandhow it does work before discussing its future. Money is “the set of assets in aneconomy that people regularly use to buy goods and services from other people”[2]. In particular, money serves certain desiredeconomic functions, which requirecertainphysical propertiesof assets. Over time, different approaches have evo…

E-book World Literatures : Exploring the Cosmopolitan-Vernacular Exchange

"Placing itself within the burgeoning field of world literary studies, the organising principle of this book is that of an open-ended dynamic, namely the cosmopolitan-vernacular exchange. As an adaptable comparative fulcrum for literary studies, the notion of the cosmopolitan-vernacular exchange accommodates also highly localised literatures. In this way, it redresses what has repeatedly been i…