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Financialisation in the European Periphery
In many European countries, the process of financialisation has been exacerbated by the project of closer EU integration and accelerated as a result of austerity policies introduced after the Euro crisis of 2010–2012. However, the impact has been felt differently in core and peripheral countries. This book examines the case of Portugal, and in particular the impact on its economy, work and social reproduction. The book examines the recent evolution of the Portuguese economy, of particular sectors and systems of social provision (including finance, housing and water), labour relations and income distribution. In doing so, it offers a comprehensive critical analysis of varied aspects of capi...
Enhancing Human Performance
The chapters in this book have their origins in papers presented at one of two conferences organised by the Global Science and Technology Forum (GSTF): the Annual International Conference on Human Resource Management and Professional Development (HRM and PD) 2012, and the Annual Conference on Cognitive and Behavioural Psychology (CBP) 2013, both held in Singapore. On the basis of these presentations, authors were invited to re-work their papers to fit within the theme of “enhancing human performance”. This theme was deliberately broad so as to include a wide range of research areas, and yet was sufficiently specific that the chapters would cohere as different perspectives on the factors ...
Economias de Bem Viver - Contra o Desperdício das Experiências
É tão difícil imaginar o fim do capitalismo como imaginar que o capitalismo não tenha fim. O capitalismo, de forma articulada com as outras formas de poder modernas, o colonialismo e o heteropatriarcado, é hoje mais injusto e mais excludente em relação a grupos sociais mais amplos presentes em mais regiões do mundo do que em qualquer período anterior. A construção destas duas sociologias é o desafio a que nos propomos neste livro. Procuramos ampliar as possibilidades de pensar e reconhecer projetos concretos de emancipação com base em sociabilidades económicas, que resistem, ou estão para lá do capitalismo. Queremos levar a cabo um exercício coletivo de pensamento pós-abis...
Negative Emotions and Transitional Justice
Vehement resentment and indignation are pervasive in societies emerging from dictatorship or civil conflict. How can institutions channel these emotions without undermining the prospects for democracy? Emphasizing the need to recognize and constructively engage negative public emotions, Mihaela Mihai contributes theoretically and practically to the growing field of transitional justice. Drawing on an extensive philosophical literature and case studies of democratic transitions in South Africa, South America, and Eastern Europe, her book rescues negative emotions from their bad reputation and highlights the obstacles and the opportunities such emotions create for democracy. By valorizing negative emotions, either through the judicial review of transitional justice bills or the criminal trials of victimizers, institutions realize the value of respect and concern for all while contributing to a culture that is hospitable to democracy.
I Congresso do Alojamento Local
O alojamento local, surgido no âmbito da nova economia colaborativa, rapidamente se instalou na maioria das cidades portuguesas. No entanto, as diversas questões jurídicas que o mesmo suscita têm permanecido sem adequado tratamento, com a incerteza daí resultante, agravada em resultado de decisões contraditórias dos tribunais superiores. Em ordem a esclarecer esta nova realidade, pareceu-nos importante organizar um Congresso sobre este tema, permitindo aos especialistas, práticos, juristas e profissionais do ramo tomar conhecimento do regime do alojamento local nas suas diversas vertentes. Por generosidade dos oradores, foi possível elaborar textos escritos relativamente à maioria das intervenções, permitindo agora colocar à disposição de um público mais vasto este livro.
Economic Literacy and Money Illusion
The concept of money illusion, a recently resurrected phenomenon of behavioral economics, is a real fact of economic life, the potential role of which should no longer be dismissed. Despite money illusion being utterly suppressed by mainstream economists, small deviations from rationality, together with trends in behavioral economics, alleviate the denial of money illusion induced by the rational expectations revolution. This book argues that money illusion seems to be a ubiquitous phenomenon, affecting various areas such as financial markets, housing markets, labor markets, consumption-saving decisions, and even development at the aggregate level induced by coordination issues. Furthermore,...
Computational Intelligence Techniques for Trading and Investment
Computational intelligence, a sub-branch of artificial intelligence, is a field which draws on the natural world and adaptive mechanisms in order to study behaviour in changing complex environments. This book provides an interdisciplinary view of current technological advances and challenges concerning the application of computational intelligence techniques to financial time-series forecasting, trading and investment. The book is divided into five parts. The first part introduces the most important computational intelligence and financial trading concepts, while also presenting the most important methodologies from these different domains. The second part is devoted to the application of tr...
Neuroscience and the Economics of Decision Making
In the last two decades there has been a flourishing research carried out jointly by economists, psychologists and neuroscientists. This meltdown of competences has lead towards original approaches to investigate the mental and cognitive mechanisms involved in the way the economic agent collects, processes and uses information to make choices. This research field involves a new kind of scientist, trained in different disciplines, familiar in managing experimental data, and with the mathematical foundations of decision making. The ultimate goal of this research is to open the black-box to understandthe behavioural and neural processes through which humans set preferences and translate these behaviours into optimal choices. This volume intends to bring forward new results and fresh insights into this matter.
A Computational Model of Industry Dynamics
The economics literature on industry dynamics contains a wide array of empirical works identifying a set of stylized facts. There have been several attempts at constructing analytical models to explain some of these regularities. These attempts are highly stylized and limited in scope to keep the analyses tractable. A general model of industry evolution capable of generating firm and industry behaviour that can match the data is needed. This book endeavours to explain many well-documented aspects of the evolution of industries over time. It uses an agent-based computational model in which artificial industries are created and grown to maturity in silico. While the firms in the model are assu...
Computable Foundations for Economics
Computable Foundations for Economics is a unified collection of essays, some of which are published here for the first time and all of which have been updated for this book, on an approach to economic theory from the point of view of algorithmic mathematics. By algorithmic mathematics the author means computability theory and constructive mathematics. This is in contrast to orthodox mathematical economics and game theory, which are formalised with the mathematics of real analysis, underpinned by what is called the ZFC formalism, i.e., set theory with the axiom of choice. This reliance on ordinary real analysis and the ZFC system makes economic theory in its current mathematical mode complete...
