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• Introduction
• Notorious Markets
• Contraband Urbanism
• Schemes and State Power
• Urban Livelihood Rights
• Enclosure Devices
• Conclusion.

"Outlaw Capital explores the ethnographic case of Ciudad del Este, Paraguay, which is described as the "largest illicit economy in the Western Hemisphere." Jennifer Lee Tucker details the city's transformation from a tiny frontier outpost into a global trading hub and demonstrates the key contradictions of outlaw capital: tens of thousands of poor street vendors and traders depend on the border economy, yet outlaw capital also reproduces stark inequalities and undermines democratic practice. The book explores the politics and power of what Tucker calls outlaw capital, profits made in so-called "black markets.""-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction
• Power looms
• The great coment
• Metropolis of discontent
• Breaking frames, breaking bones
• More value than work or gold
• The modern Prometheus
• The owners of the new machine age.

"The most urgent story in modern tech begins not in Silicon Valley but two hundred years ago in rural England, when workers known as the Luddites rose up rather than starve at the hands of factory owners who were using automated machines to erase their livelihoods. The Luddites organized guerrilla raids to smash those machines--on punishment of death--and won the support of Lord Byron, enraged the Prince Regent, and inspired the birth of science fiction. This all-but-forgotten class struggle brought nineteenth-century England to its knees. Today, technology imperils millions of jobs, robots are crowding factory floors, and artificial intelligence will soon pervade every aspect of our economy. How will this change the way we live? And what can we do about it? The answers lie in Blood in the Machine. Brian Merchant intertwines a lucid examination of our current age with the story of the Luddites, showing how automation changed our world--and is shaping our future"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction: Splintering towers of Babel: Paradoxical architectures and urban infrastructures
• Ethical infrastructure: Rethinking the relationship between the garden and the home
• The dissemination of power infrastructure in Africa through visuals of small Babel towers
• Babel as paradoxical super-structures: A photography exhibition
• Agon--'Agón as the essence of urbanity
• A Babylonia of heritage and destruction: Gendered architecture and gender-based violence in Timbuktu
• Between Be'er-Sheva and Bruegel's Babel: Recollection as architectural indicator
• The splendor and decline of socio-engineering projects: From Babel to colonial railways in Africa
• Traversing towers: A spatial reading in Emmanuel Levinas
• Revealing the polyvocality of street names: Babel as a parable
• Conclusion: Urban and infrastructural experiences beyond the confusion of Babel.

"Splintering Towers of Babel focuses on, and redefines, soft infrastructures and critical infrastructure projects. It explores key and issues in contemporary urban studies including town planning histories, architecture, heritage, colonialism and postcolonialism, philosophy and ethics. The book combines transdisciplinary perspectives on the key historical, philosophical, and political issues associated with urban experiences, built forms and infrastructure networks. It explores uneven dimensions in contemporary urbanisms and develops spatial phenomenological thinking with reference to the northern and southern hemispheres. This book connects the past and the present, in addition to Western and global South geographies, with a focus on Sub-Saharan Africa. Its main contribution is to broaden readers understanding of infrastructure through the lens of the humanities, and to engage with political, poetical, and ethical perspectives. This book is tailored to scholars working in the fields of urban planning, urban geography, architectural history, urban design, infrastructure studies, colonial and postcolonial studies, African studies, and philosophy"-- Provided by publisher.

• The fireman
• Little Vietnam
• Don't nobody leave this school
• Hamburger helper
• All weed and no seed
• My baby daddy
• Our pyromaniac
• Not my government name
• Pray the gay away
• How do you feel bout me being prego?
• Save our schools
• Protect your son
• Abombao
• This is some grown man shit
• Sunbeam, flu-flu, ju-ju
• I am not a number
• OG Bobby Johnson
• He is a miracle
• Another boy in a box
• March for our lives.

"Kensington, Philadelphia, is distinguished only by its poverty. It is home to Ryan, Giancarlos, and Emmanuel, three Puerto Rican children who live among the most marginalized children and families in the United States. This is their coming-of-age story. It is also the story of families beset by violence--the violence of homelessness, hunger, incarceration, stray bullets, sexual and physical assault, the hypermasculine logic of the streets, and the drug trade. In Kensington, eighteenth birthdays are not rites of passage but statistical miracles. One mistake puts Ryan in the juvenile justice pipeline. Giancarlos can't afford to stop dealing and get off the corner. For Emmanuel, his queerness means his mother's rejection and sleeping in shelters. The three are school dropouts, but they are on a quest to defy their fate and their neighborhood and get high school diplomas. In a triumph of empathy, Nikhil Goyal follows Ryan, Giancarlos, and Emmanuel on their quest, plunging deep into their lives as they strive to resist their designated place in the social hierarchy. In the process, Live to See the Day confronts a new age of American poverty, after the end of "welfare as we know it," after "zero tolerance" in schools criminalized a generation of students, after the odds of making it out are ever slighter"-- Provided by publisher.

"This book explores how and why innovative climate policies spread across sub-national regions and between governance levels in China. Despite the significance of emerging economies in a pathway to a zero-carbon future, research to date on China's transformation governance remains limited. Drawing on a theoretical framework for policy diffusion and based on extensive data from expert interviews with Chinese decision makers and policy practitioners, Lina Li and Maia Haru Hall focus on the policy of emissions trading systems (ETS) and two key case studies: Shanghai and Hubei. The authors examine the role of the national government and how much freedom the sub-national regions have in developing ETS policy, as well as pinpointing key actors and the role of policy and knowledge diffusion mechanisms. Overall, this book sheds light on the competition between China and the West in the transition to climate-friendly societies and economies, highlighting opportunities for cooperation between them. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental politics and policy, climate change, urban studies, and Chinese studies more broadly"-- Provided by publisher.

"A social history that reveals the roots of AI in the spatial computation of industrial factories and the surveillance of collective behaviour"-- Provided by publisher.

• 1. Small states in Asia Pacific: challenges amid great power competition / Stephen Noakes and Alexander C. Tan
• Part 1. National experiences : 2. Singapore: relearning, recovery, and resilience / Benjamin Ho Tze Ern
• 3. Aotearoa/New Zealand: contentious trade relations with the PRC / Jason Young
• 4. The Pacific island states: social and solidarity-based economies / Steven Ratuva
• 5. Taiwan: state and private-sector cooperation / Frank Siedlok, Natasha Hamilton-Hart, and Hsiao-Chen Shen
• Part 2. Prospects for recovery : 6. East Asia's green economic recovery: a path out of the coronacession / Sung-Young Kim
• 7. Reforming the global supply chain: a Taiwanese perspective / Roy Lee
• 8. Multilateralism and US engagement: generating new pressures and incentives / Charles Finny with Neel Vanvari
• 9. Digital regional economic integration: new trade agreements and opportunities / Stephanie Honey
• Part 3. Conclusion : 10. Together, alone: economic cooperation after the pandemic / Stephen Noakes and Alexander C. Tan.

"Explores how the smaller states in the Asia Pacific region have been effectively coping with the combined stresses of the Covid-19 pandemic and the geopolitical rivalry among major powers"-- Provided by publisher.
Both the spread of COVID-19 and the intense US-China rivalry have been sources of stress for national economies throughout Asia Pacific. The authors of Asia-Pacific Small States, eschewing the usual focus on the region's powerhouses, turn their attention instead to the coping strategies of the smaller economies. Showing how these smaller states have been navigating the current turbulent times, they shed light not only on national experiences and recovery strategies, but also on the importance of so-called marginal players in today's geopolitical competition among major powers--pg. 245.

• The medieval Byzantine town : producers, suppliers, and consumers / Archibald Dunn
• Caričin Grad (Justiniana Prima) as a market : searching for an early Byzantine model of pottery production and consumption / Vesna Bikić
• Geographies of consumption in Byzantine Epirus : urban space, commodification, and consumption practices from the 7th to the 12th century / Myrto Veikou
• Production and consumption in Crete from the mid-7th to the 10th century AD : the archaeological evidence
• Mapping Byzantine amphorae : outlining patterns of consumption in present-day Bulgaria and the Black Sea Region (7th-14th century) / Evelina Todorova
• Not a consumption crisis : diversity in marble carving, ruralisation, and the collapse of urban demand in Middle Byzantine Asia Minor / Philipp Niewöhner
• Central Greece in the Middle Byzantine and Late Byzantine periods : changing patterns of consumption in Thebes and Chalcis / Stefania S. Skartsis & Nikos D. Kontogiannis
• Life, work and consumption in Byzantine Chalcis : ceramic finds from an industrial hub in central Greece, ca. 10th-13th centuries / Joanita Vroom, Elli Tzavella & Giannis Vaxevanis
• Consumption patterns of ceramics in town and countryside : case-studies from Corinth and Athens in central Greece / Elli Tzavella
• Production, exchange and consumption of ceramics in the Byzantine Metiterranean (ca. 7th-15th centuries).

"This book offers new and innovative perspectives on the archaeology of consumption in Byzantine cities and their hinterlands. Case-studies range from towns in eastern Macedonia, north-western and central Greece, and Crete to urban centres in Serbia, Bulgaria and western Turkey. The archaeological data and historical insights presented in this volume are always of great interest, often exciting, and more than once outright astonishing. The commodities discussed in the volume are dated between the 6th and the 16th century CE and include pottery (e.g., glazed table wares, amphorae, cooking pots, storage jars), textile fragments, metal objects, bronze and golden jewellery, marble carved slabs and columns. 'Feeding the City' sheds compelling light on a world which was much more complex and interconnected than has often been assumed, which makes it essential reading for scholars and a larger audience alike"-- Page 4 of cover.

• The Girl From Sorsogon
• "Here Come the Nicolases"
• "I Have a Headache!"
• Dragons & Monsters
• Lover/Mother/Lawyer
• Fighting Tyranny and Discrimination
• Mogul Madness
• "You Represent Me!"
• The Life of Riley
• Loida Never Fails
• Some Rain Must Fall
• Losing My Soulmate
• Unfinished Business
• From Mrs. Lewis to Madam Chair
• Liquidity Crisis
• Puts & Calls
• Winding Down TLC Beatrice
• Progeny, Philanthropy, Politics.

"Why Should Guys Have All the Fun? lets readers glimpse the amazing life and achievements of business leader, author, attorney, and human rights activist Loida Nicolas Lewis, who has graced the cover of Working Woman magazine as 'The Most Powerful Female CEO in America.' Born in the Philippines, Loida came to New York City as a young woman and fell head over heels for Reginald F. Lewis, a brilliant, volatile African American lawyer who acquired and operated a billion-dollar, international food corporation before dying of brain cancer at the age of 50. Why Should Guys Have All the Fun? is the story of Loida's complicated marriage to an iconic, take-no-prisoners businessman; her bid to forge her own identity working as an attorney, immigration expert, real estate investor, author, and activist; her paralyzing depression after Reg's death; her subsequent efforts to raise two young daughters. Why Should Guys Have All the Fun? also highlights how Loida's unshakeable faith in the Almighty helped her to rescue her late husband's financially ailing company and push it to record earnings. There's an amazing paucity of business books focusing on female CEOs and on immigrant success stories. In this book readers will appreciate Loida's candid take on what it's like to be a principled, Christian-oriented Filipina in a world dominated by hard-charging white males, not to mention the way Loida pulls back the curtain on her business successes and miscalculations, and the incredible challenge of being a widow raising two young children while regularly shuttling between Manhattan and Paris as she guides a huge multinational corporation. Readers who've been challenged by life's vicissitudes twists and turns will put down Why Should Guys Have All the Fun? appreciating that there's no obstacle that perseverance and faith can't vanquish"-- Provided by publisher.

"Four decades of economic reform have made China one of the most unequal countries in the world - but the impact of this inequality is not just socioeconomic. Love Troubles is the first book to examine the emotional cost of this inequality to the intimate and emotional lives of China's people. Drawing on first-hand ethnographic research among rural migrant factory workers in the Pearl River Delta in southern China, Wanning Sun critically analyzes narratives about love, romance, and intimacy in contemporary Chinese public discourses. Examining the impact of economic and cultural inequality on private life, this book both embodies and facilitates an intimate turn in the study of China's social change, and presents a significant intellectual intervention into worldwide debates on inequality"-- Provided by publisher.

• Act I
• Yup ; The Santa Claus problem ; Meta games ; The march of progress ; Act II
• How to think about Bob ; Artificial love ; The org chart ; Act III
• The dragon's hoard ; The vanishing ; Manfred ; Truth serum ; Coda.

"When Michael Lewis first met him, Sam Bankman-Fried was the world's youngest billionaire and crypto's Gatsby. CEOs, celebrities, and leaders of small countries all vied for his time and cash after he catapulted, practically overnight, onto the Forbes billionaire list. Who was this rumpled guy in cargo shorts and limp white socks, whose eyes twitched across Zoom meetings as he played video games on the side? In Going Infinite Lewis sets out to answer this question, taking readers into the mind of Bankman-Fried, whose rise and fall offers an education in high-frequency trading, cryptocurrencies, philanthropy, bankruptcy, and the justice system. Both psychological portrait and financial roller-coaster ride, Going Infinite is Michael Lewis at the top of his game, tracing the mind-bending trajectory of a character who never liked the rules and was allowed to live by his own--until it all came undone"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction 1. China's economy
• the ever-changing puzzle
• 2. The evolving economic structure
• 3. The road to here
• key reforms since 1978
• 4. The state versus the market
• 5. How does economic policy work in China?
• 6. Urbanisation and the urban-rural divide
• 7. Property market and local-government finance
• 8. The slow move towards a consumer economy
• 9. How serious is the debt problem?
• 10. The environment, public health, and the government management challenge
• 11. China and the world
• 12. Can China sustain its economic development?
• Appendix A: Availability and reliability of China's economic statistics
• Bioliography
• Index.

"For years, China's transformation from one of the world's poorest nations was lauded as a triumph that lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. There were always questions about data reliability and growth sustainability, but the general views on China have recently taken a decidedly sour turn. Concerns abound about state interference in the economy, an ageing population, and high debt level. Making Sense of China's Economy untangles China's complex economic structure, evolving issues and curious contradictions, and explains some key features of this most puzzling of global economic powerhouses. This book reveals how factors such as demographics, the initial stage of development in 1978, the transition away from full state ownership and central planning, the dual urban-rural society, and a decentralised governance structure have combined to shape the economy, its development and its reforms. It shows how the pragmatic and adaptive nature of China's policymaking upends familiar perspectives and hinders simple cross-country comparisons. The book also explores crucial topics including the property market, debt accumulation and environmental challenges. In this book, Tao Wang innovatively weaves the multiple strands of China's economy into a holistic and organic tapestry that gives us unique insights from both a Chinese and an international perspective. This book is critical reading for business leaders, investors, policymakers, students, and anyone else hoping to understand China's economy and its future evolution and impact, written by a specialist who has studied the country from both inside and out"-- Provided by publisher.

"This book provides deep insight into the emergent Chinese innovation economy, as we head towards the Fourth Industrial Revolution. It describes, discusses and analyzes the period from China's opening up to foreign investment in the 1980s until the New Silk Road project, from 2013 onwards. The developments are assessed from a systemic thinking and evolutionary economic standpoint. The book presents the latest research findings on the direction and achievements of the Belt and Road Initiative, and the results both for China, the countries along the new Silk Road, as well as for Europe and the United States are brought to light. The author asserts that the phenomenon of the New Silk Road as an innovation generator can be understood and explained through the effects of various social mechanisms. He labels these five social mechanisms as: the locomotive force; the explosive force of the butterfly effect; the force of co-creation; the force of expectation; and the force of competence. The book presents 20 cases to substantiate the descriptions, analysis, theoretical reflections and the practical utility of the questions examined in each chapter. It utilizes economic history research methods, scenario thinking, futures research and conceptual generalization to offer different views on the research problem under investigation. Further, the book offers policy suggestions, which include promoting effective macroeconomic policies, and extending microeconomic cooperation schemes, related to the innovation economy. The book will appeal to academics, researchers and graduate students concerned with Chinese economic expansion, Chinese foreign policy and US- and Europe-China relations, as well as policymakers and political advisors"-- Provided by publisher.

• 1. Making Spaces through Infrastructure - Introduction
• I. Ordering Places and People: Infrastructure Projects and their Outcomes
• 2. Intersecting Infrastructures: Imperial Technology and East African Transport Labour, c. 1900
• 3. Playgrounds for Travellers: Infrastructure, Environment, and Spatial Transformation in the Americas, 1880s-1920s
• 4. Hydropower for a Modern Afghanistan: Soviet Aid to the Southern Neighbour in the 1960s
• 5. Reformatting a Socionatural Space: The Goulburn-Murray Irrigation District, Australia
• II. Zones of Negotiation: Infrastructures and Social Practices
• 6. The Zanjas through Different Political Regimes: Infrastructure, Space, and Society in Nineteenth-Century Los Angeles
• 7. Roads for Whom? Tourism and Infrastructure in Post-colonial East Africa
• 8. Between Worlds: Perceiving the Inner-German Border as Infrastructure, 1945-1990
• 9. Fiction and Filter: The Emergence of Airport Transit Zones in the Twentieth Century
• 10. Staying under Bridges, Negotiating Barriers: Unhoused Berliners' Infrastructural Practices between Spatial Exclusion and Precarious Spatial Strategies
• III. Conflicting Spaces: Infrastructures Old and New
• 11. Dreams and Realities of Infrastructural Leapfrogging: Airspace, Drone Corridors, and Logistics in African Healthcare
• 12. The Space of Datafied Societies: A New Horizon of Colonial Expansion?

Infrastructures are fundamental means through which societies create spaces, but little is known about the precise ways in which this occurs. How have infrastructures animated certain understandings of space? How do infrastructures stabilize, or undermine, the spatial formats in which we live, which shape our everyday practices and which regulate access to services and resources? And, conversely, how do spaces frame the ways infrastructural provision is organized? How do existing spaces shape infrastructural development and the scope and forms of access to vital services such as transport and water? In this volume, historians and sociologists draw on a range of fascinating case studies and provide compelling answers to these questions. Exploring, among others, the provision of irrigation water in nineteenth-century Los Angeles, the invention of airport transit zones, and the infrastructural practices of homeless people in Berlin, the book demonstrates how the making of spaces through infrastructure is deeply political. Intent on revealing uneven geographies of provision and hierarchies of access, the contributors highlight how infrastructures are products of global entanglements.

• The China puzzle
• China's economic miracle
• China's consumers and the new generation
• Paradise and jungle, the story of Chinese firms
• The state and the mayor economy
• The financial system
• The technology race
• China's role in global trade
• On the world's financial stage
• Toward a new paradigm.

"China's economy has been booming for decades now. Keyu Jin, an economist who was born in China and educated in the United States, brings her fluency in Eastern and Western cultures together to offer an explanation of how China became such a successful economic story. This book is a guide to the Chinese economy as it has shifted from being based primarily on state-owned enterprise to being based on entrepreneurship and participation in the global economy"-- Provided by publisher.

• Chapter 1. Introduction and overview / David A. Green, Jonathan Rhys Kesselman, Daniel Perrin, Gillian Petit and Lindsay M. Tedds
• Part 1. Inclusive justice framework : Chapter 2. Efficiency, justice and the standard approach to policy analysis / Anna Cameron, David A. Green, Jonathan Rhys Kesselman, Daniel Perrin, Gillian Petit and Lindsay M. Tedds
• Chapter 3. Inclusive justice as a framework for policy analysis / Anne Cameron, David A. Green, Jonathan Rhys Kesselman, Daniel Perrin, Gillian Petit and Lindsay M. Tedds
• Chapter 4. Structural context and implementation challenges / David A. Green, Jonathan Rhys Kesselman, Daniel Perrin, Gillian Petit and Lindsay M. Tedds
• Part 2. What is a basic income? : Chapter 5. Defining a basic income / David A. Green, Jonathan Rhys Kesselman, Daniel Perrin, Gillian Petit and Lindsay M. Tedds
• Chapter 6. Basic income proposals in Canada / David A. Green, Jonathan Rhys Kesselman, Daniel Perrin, Gillian Petit and Lindsay M. Tedds
• Chapter 7. Are basic income experiments still worthwhile? / Wayne Simpson
• Part 3. The philosophical and practical implications of a basic income : Chapter 8. Philosophical considerations: the kind of society we want / Anne Cameron, David A. Green, Jonathan Rhys Kesselman, Daniel Perrin, Gillian Petit and Lindsay M. Tedds
• Chapter 9. Poverty reduction and fiscal cost trade-offs / David A. Green, Jonathan Rhys Kesselman, Daniel Perrin, Gillian Petit and Lindsay M. Tedds
• Chapter 10. Funding options and the welfare wall / David A. Green, Jonathan Rhys Kesselman, Daniel Perrin, Gillian Petit and Lindsay M. Tedds
• Chapter 11. Is a basic income simple? / David A. Green, Jonathan Rhys Kesselman, Daniel Perrin, Gillian Petit and Lindsay M. Tedds
• Chapter 12. Can a basic income replace income assistance and employment insurance? / David A. Green, Jonathan Rhys Kesselman, Daniel Perrin, Gillian Petit and Lindsay M. Tedds
• Part 4. Assessing claims in favour of a basic income : Chapter 13. Is a basic income the best solution to poverty? / Anne Cameron, David A. Green, Jonathan Rhys Kesselman, Daniel Perrin, Gillian Petit and Lindsay M. Tedds
• Chapter 14. Effects of a basic income on paid and unpaid work / David A. Green, Jonathan Rhys Kesselman, Daniel Perrin, Gillian Petit and Lindsay M. Tedds
• Chapter 15. The end-of-work rationale for a basic income / David A. Green, Jonathan Rhys Kesselman, Daniel Perrin, Gillian Petit and Lindsay M. Tedds
• Chapter 16. Cash transfers and child outcomes / Lauren Jones and Mark Stabile
• Chapter 17. More than a basic income: the role of training and employment support programs / Sergei Filiasov and Arthur Sweetman
• Chapter 18. Can a basic income improve health outcomes and reduce health care spending? / David A. Green, Jonathan Rhys Kesselman, Daniel Perrin, Gillian Petit and Lindsay M. Tedds
• Chapter 19. How would a basic income affect entrepreneurship? / John Lester
• Chapter 20. Economic recovery and long-run growth / David A. Green, Jonathan Rhys Kesselman, Daniel Perrin, Gillian Petit and Lindsay M. Tedds
• Chapter 21. Public support for a basic income / David A. Green, Jonathan Rhys Kesselman, Daniel Perrin, Gillian Petit and Lindsay M. Tedds
• Part 5. Toward a just and inclusive society : Chapter 22. Our assessment of a basic income / David A. Green, Jonathan Rhys Kesselman, Daniel Perrin, Gillian Petit and Lindsay M. Tedds
• Chapter 23. If not a basic income, then what? / David A. Green, Jonathan Rhys Kesselman, Daniel Perrin, Gillian Petit and Lindsay M. Tedds.

Calls for Canada to adopt a basic income reached a crescendo during and after the first pandemic wave, with proponents arguing that it is a simpler, more effective approach to reducing poverty and providing income support to those who need it. But evidence to support these and other claims in favour of a basic income is scattered and leaves many questions open. Is a basic income really the best policy response to poverty, precarious work and unemployment? Is it the best way to build a just and inclusive society? This book provides one of the most comprehensive evaluations of a basic income and its application as a primary social policy tool ever undertaken. Drawing on extensive research and analysis produced for the British Columbia Expert Panel on Basic Income, combined with pan-Canadian data and current evidence, leading scholars and experts examine the various claims made for and against a basic income. They assess its potential to reduce poverty and improve health and social outcomes, its cost and funding issues, its interaction with existing social programs and its broader implications for society. In examining the key arguments advanced by proponents of a basic income, contributors take a hard look at Canada's social safety net, its strengths and weaknesses, and propose a different path forward -- one that is nothing short of a full paradigm shift in social policy. It starts by asking not "How do we help the most vulnerable among us?" but "How do we create a more just society together?" The answer lies in providing the bases of self-and social respect to everyone. This means giving voice to those affected by policies, promoting both individual autonomy and community-building, ensuring that supports are adequate and accessible, and recognizing the importance of a properly functioning labour market in bolstering the social safety net--back cover.

"Chinese society has been shaped by the interplay of the EAST--exams, autocracy, stability, and technology--from ancient times through the present. Beginning with the Sui dynasty's introduction of the civil service exam, known as Keju, in 587 CE--and continuing through the personnel management system used by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)--Chinese autocracies have developed exceptional tools for homogenizing ideas, norms, and practices. But this uniformity came with a huge downside: stifled creativity. Yasheng Huang shows how China transitioned from dynamism to extreme stagnation after the Keju was instituted. China's most prosperous periods, such as during the Tang dynasty (618-907) and under the reformist CCP, occurred when its emphasis on scale (the size of bureaucracy) was balanced with scope (diversity of ideas). Considering China's remarkable success over the past half-century, Huang sees signs of danger in the political and economic reversals under Xi Jinping. The CCP has again vaulted conformity above new ideas, reverting to the Keju model that eventually led to technological decline. It is a lesson from China's own history, Huang argues, that Chinese leaders would be wise to take seriously."--Dust jacket.

"Detroit is the first city of its size to become bankrupt and some policy makers have argued that, since then, it has entered a 'new beginning'. This book critically examines the evidence for and against this claim"--Back cover.

• Prologue: Muse of fire
• Adventures
• A mind of his own: Pretoria, the 1970s
• Life with father: Pretoria, the 1980s
• The seeker: Pretoria, the 1980s
• Escape velocity: Leaving South Africa, 1989
• Canada: 1989
• Queen's: Kingston, Ontario, 1990-1991
• Penn: Philadelphia, 1992-1994
• Go west: Silicon Valley, 1994-1995
• Zip2: Palo Alto, 1995-1999
• Justine: Palo Alto, the 1990s
• X.com: Palo Alto 1999-2000
• The coup: PayPal, September 2000
• Mars: SpaceX, 2001
• Rocket man: SpaceX, 2002
• Fathers and sons: Los Angeles, 2002
• Revving up: SpaceX, 2002
• Musk's rules for rocket-building: SpaceX, 2002-2003
• Mr. Musk goes to Washington: SpaceX, 2002-2003
• Founders: Tesla, 2003-2004
• The roadster: Tesla, 2004-2006
• Kwaj: SpaceX, 2005-2006
• Two strikes: Kwaj, 2006-2007
• The SWAT team: Tesla, 2006-2008
• Taking the wheel: Tesla, 2007-2008
• Divorce: 2008
• Talulah: 2008
• Strike three: Kwaj, August 3, 2008
• On the brink: Tesla and SpaceX, 2008
• The fourth launch: Kwaj, August-September 2008
• Saving Tesla: December 2008
• The Model S: Tesla, 2009
• Private space: SpaceX, 2009-2010
• Falcon 9 liftoff: Cape Canaveral, 2010
• Marrying Talulah: September 2010
• Manufacturing: Tesla, 2010-2013
• Musk and Bezos: SpaceX, 2013-2014
• The falcon hears the falconer: SpaceX, 2014-2015
• The Talulah roller coaster: 2012-2015
• Artificial intelligence: OpenAI, 2012-2015
• The launch of autopilot: Tesla, 2014-2016
• Solar: Tesla energy, 2004-2016
• The boring company: 2016
• Rocky relationships: 2016-2017
• Descent into the dark: 2017
• Fremont factory hell: Tesla, 2018
• Open-loop warning: 2018
• Fallout: 2018
• Grimes: 2018
• Shanghai: Tesla, 2015-2019
• Cybertruck: Tesla, 2018-2019
• Starlink: SpaceX, 2015-2018
• Starship: SpaceX, 2018-2019
• Autonomy day: Tesla, April 2019
• Giga Texas: Tesla, 2020-2021
• Family life: 2020
• Full throttle: SpaceX, 2020
• Bezos vs. Musk, round 2: SpaceX, 2021
• Starship surge: SpaceX, July 2021
• Solar surge: summer 2021
• Nights out: summer, 2021
• Inspiration4: SpaceX, September 2021
• Raptor shake-up: SpaceX, 2021
• Optimus is born: Tesla, August 2021
• Neuralink: 2017-2020
• Vision only: Tesla, January 2021
• Money: 2021-2022
• Father of the year: 2021
• Politics: 2020-2022
• Ukraine: 2022
• Bill Gates: 2022
• Active investor: Twitter, January-April 2022
• "I made an offer": Twitter, April 2022
• Hot and cold: Twitter, April-June 2022
• Fathers day: June 2022
• Starbase shake-up: SpaceX, 2022
• Optiumus Prime: Tesla, 2021-2022
• Uncertainty: Twitter, July-September 2022
• Optimus unveiled: Tesla, September, 2022
• Robotaxi: Tesla, 2022
• "Let that sink in": Twitter, October 26-27, 2022
• The takeover: Twitter, Thursday, October 27, 2022
• The three musketeers: Twitter, October 26-30, 2022
• Content moderation: Twitter, October 27-30, 2022
• Halloween: Twitter, October 2022
• Blue checks: Twitter, November 2-10, 2022
• All in: Twitter, November 10-18, 2022
• Hardcore: Twitter, November 18-30, 2022
• Miracles: Neuralink, November 2022
• The Twitter files: Twitter, December 2022
• Rabbit holes: Twitter, December 2022
• Christmas capers: December 2022
• AI for cars: Tesla, 2022-2023
• AI for humans: X.AI, 2023
• The starship launch: SpaceX, April 2023.

"From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate story of the most fascinating and controversial innovator of our era--a rule-breaking visionary who helped to lead the world into the era of electric vehicles, private space exploration, and artificial intelligence. Oh, and took over Twitter"-- Provided by publisher.
As a kid in South Africa, Musk was regularly beaten by bullies; he once was in the hospital for a week after a beating. But the physical scars were minor compared to the emotional ones inflicted by his father, an engineer, rogue, and charismatic fantasist. Musk developed into a man-child, with an exceedingly high tolerance for risk, a craving for drama, an epic sense of mission, and a maniacal intensity that was callous and at times destructive. In 2022, after a year marked by SpaceX launching thirty-one rockets into orbit, Tesla selling a million cars, and him becoming the richest man on earth, Musk was secretly buying up shares of Twitter. Now he had a chance to own the playground. Isaacson fills in the tales of triumphs and turmoil, addressing the question: are the demons that drive Musk also what it takes to drive innovation and progress? -- adapted from jacket.

"Carlo Bastasin and Gianni Toniolo provide a much-needed, up-to-date economic history of Italy from unification in 1861 to the present. They reveal the factors behind Italy's twentieth-century growth as well as how economic decline in the last thirty years has resulted in rising levels of populism, mistrust and government instability"-- Provided by publisher.

"The years 1690-1727 represented a period of significant change for Scotland. It was a time of grand colonial endeavours and financial innovation, punctuated by bouts of economic turmoil and constitutional and political uncertainty. The infamous Darien Scheme, the establishment of the Bank of Scotland and the Royal Bank of Scotland, the Anglo-Scots Union, the Hanoverian Succession, and the Jacobite rising of 1715, all occurred during this short time span. It was therefore a period which presented Scotland with opportunities, but one in which the country ultimately lost its autonomy. It was also during these years, and against this unsettled backdrop, that the Scottish Financial Revolution commenced. The complexity of the Scottish situation during the late seventeenth and the early eighteen centuries has historically made the identification of a Scottish Financial Revolution difficult. This monograph, the first dedicated to the topic, addresses this problem, and provides a model for identifying and understanding the revolution through the economic, political, and constitutional contexts of the period. Using examples of financial developments and innovation driven by Scotsmen in Scotland, Europe, and the colonies, this work defines the Scottish Financial Revolution as a series of developments which took place in Scotland when political circumstances allowed, but which also occurred outwith Scotland through the agency of members of the Scottish diaspora. This monograph is therefore the story of how Scotsmen at home and abroad contributed to financial debate and development between 1690 and 1727. Credit, Currency, and Capital: The Scottish Financial Revolution, 1690-1727 will appeal to students and scholars interested in the History of Economics and Finance. It will also be of interest to those studying the history of the Anglo-Scots Union and the complex relationship between Scotland and England"-- Provided by publisher.

• Practicing interdisciplinary economic history
• Understanding the "anthropocene"
• 1800
• “Political economy”: the making of a north-south planet
• Self, socialisation, organisation, culture
• 1848
• Revolution
• Technology, innovation and invention
• 1870
• La Bella Époque
• “Civilisation”, gender, race and class
• 1900
• Imperialism
• Modernity
• 1914
• Global demographic change
• Ideas and ideologies
• 1929
• Global finance
• Exceptionalism
• 1945
• War
• Comparative economic, social and political systems
• 1968
• Cold war
• Time and “progress”
• 1989, 1991
• Neoliberalism
• Structural change
• 2016
• Populism, elitism and identity
• Old models, new realities.

"This book provides a crosscutting interdisciplinary account of how the disintegrated, global subsistence economy circa 1800 has transformed into a global complex delivering unprecedented levels of material production and consumption. Applying major findings from economics, history/historiography, and sociology (as well as from anthropology, psychology, politics, and environmental studies), the analysis tracks the ways in which changes in "society" (including social structures, values, and forces) have changed "individuals" (including conceptions of race, gender, and identity) and vice versa. These changes have simultaneously homogenized and diversified societies and individuals in distinct but sometimes contradictory ways, opening up many possible worlds from an individual and group perspective. Yet, the scale and pace of change has also led to increasing existential challenges. The narrative consists of 30 chapters organized into 10 subsets of 3: one chapter on a relevant core idea; one chapter focused on historical narrative and titled after a representative year; and one chapter on a relevant associated crosscutting theme. Major regional and topical discussions are provided, with special attention paid to business and organizational change and developing world scholarship. Small discussion 'boxes' focusing on illustrative cases and details are presented throughout the book. The last chapter contains over-arching conclusions"-- Provided by publisher.

"With the rise of new technologies and disruptive innovations reshaping the global economy, the Fourth Industrial Revolution has been characterized as a fusion between the physical, digital, and biological worlds. From the increasing adoption of mobile devices to the entrepreneurial use of 3D printing, artificial intelligence, and robotics, trends across Africa speak to the continent's potential for growth and sustainable development in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. In this innovative and timely study, Landry Signé examines the meaning, drivers, and implications of the Fourth Industrial Revolution for Africa. Drawing upon comparative, continent-wide analysis, Signé powerfully challenges our understandings of Africa's transformation, and sheds light on the potential of the Fourth Industrial Revolution to change and shape the Global South. By defining and investigating the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Signé develops a valuable framework for further study and suggests strategies that Africans and their global partners can use to capitalize upon this rapidly evolving technological landscape"-- Provided by publisher.

Insight into the Indian economy.