The EU is at a crossroads. Should it choose the path towards protectionism or the path towards free trade? This book convincingly argues that lobbying regulation will be a decisive first step towards fulfilling the European dream of free trade, in accordance with the original purpose of the Treaty of Rome. Without the regulation of lobbyists to try and prevent undue political persuasion, there is a greater risk of abuse in the form of corruption, subsidies and trade barriers, which will come at the expense of consumers, tax payers and competitiveness.This interdisciplinary approach - both theoretical and methodological - offers a wealth of knowledge concerning the effect of lobbying on political decision-making and will appeal to academics across the social sciences, practitioners and policy-makers.
Denmark exemplifies the puzzle of socio-economic success in Scandinavia. Populations are thriving despite the world s highest levels of tax, generous social benefits and scarce natural resources. It would appear to be a land of paradise for free-riders and those who want 'money for nothing'. However, the national personality is characterized both by cooperation in everyday life and the numerous 'hard-riders' who make extraordinary contributions. Applying Bourdieuconomics, the authors focus on contemporary case studies to explain how social capital and trust are used to counteract free-riding and enable the flight of the Scandinavian welfare state 'bumblebee'.Insightful and interdisciplinary, the authors' approach offers qualitative case studies which explore trust, social capital and wealth in the Scandinavian welfare state. Key to the topic is the authors' discussion of free-riders versus 'hard-riders' as well as civic engagement in the welfare state. The application of Bourdieuconomics, a new theoretical approach, to a range of examples using economics, sociology, anthropology and history, will make this highly cross-disciplinary book accessible to a broad group of readers.This unique work will be of great value to researchers, students, policy makers and all of those who are interested in the fundamental question of how economies work, specifically how people build, exchange and convert tangible as well as intangible forms of capital.
Band 2 dieses Standardlehrbuches liegt nun in vierter Auflage vor. Das Buch behandelt einen wichtigen Teil der in einem insgesamt dreibandigen Werk grundlegend dargestellten Theorie zur Unternehmung. Gegenstand des Buches sind Grundbegriffe, Ansatze zur Erklarung des Kauferverhaltens, absatzstrategische Grundentscheidungen sowie das absatzpolitische Instrumentarium. Danach werden integrierte Produktions- und Absatzplanungsmodelle fur verschiedene Marktformen und praxisorientierte Methoden der Absatzplanung eroertert. UEbungsaufgaben und Kontrollfragen sollen zum selbstandigen Arbeiten anleiten und ermoeglichen eine Kontrolle. Das Buch wurde fur die 4. Auflage uberarbeitet und erweitert.
Thecontinuousandincreasinginterestconcerningvectoroptimizationperc- tible in the research community, where contributions dealing with the theory of duality abound lately, constitutes the main motivation that led to writing this book. Decisive was also the research experience of the authors in this ?eld, materialized in a number of works published within the last decade. The need for a book on duality in vector optimization comes from the fact that despite the large amount of papers in journals and proceedings volumes, no book mainly concentrated on this topic was available so far in the scienti?c landscape. There is a considerable presence of books, not all recent releases, on vector optimization in the literature. We mention here the ones due to Chen,HuangandYang(cf. [49]),EhrgottandGandibleux(cf. [65]),Eichfelder (cf. [66]), Goh and Yang (cf. [77]), G.. opfert and Nehse (cf. [80]), G.. opfert, - ahi, Tammer and Z? alinescu (cf. [81]), Jahn (cf. [104]), Kaliszewski (cf. [108]), Luc (cf. [125]), Miettinen (cf. [130]), Mishra, Wang and Lai (cf. [131,132]) and Sawaragi, Nakayama and Tanino (cf. [163]), where vector duality is at most tangentially treated. We hope that from our e?orts will bene? t not only researchers interested in vector optimization, but also graduate and und- graduate students. The framework we consider is taken as general as possible, namely we work in (locally convex) topological vector spaces, going to the usual ?nite - mensional setting when this brings additional insights or relevant connections to the existing literature.
Thecontinuousandincreasinginterestconcerningvectoroptimizationperc- tible in the research community, where contributions dealing with the theory of duality abound lately, constitutes the main motivation that led to writing this book. Decisive was also the research experience of the authors in this ?eld, materialized in a number of works published within the last decade. The need for a book on duality in vector optimization comes from the fact that despite the large amount of papers in journals and proceedings volumes, no book mainly concentrated on this topic was available so far in the scienti?c landscape. There is a considerable presence of books, not all recent releases, on vector optimization in the literature. We mention here the ones due to Chen,HuangandYang(cf. [49]),EhrgottandGandibleux(cf. [65]),Eichfelder (cf. [66]), Goh and Yang (cf. [77]), G.. opfert and Nehse (cf. [80]), G.. opfert, - ahi, Tammer and Z? alinescu (cf. [81]), Jahn (cf. [104]), Kaliszewski (cf. [108]), Luc (cf. [125]), Miettinen (cf. [130]), Mishra, Wang and Lai (cf. [131,132]) and Sawaragi, Nakayama and Tanino (cf. [163]), where vector duality is at most tangentially treated. We hope that from our e?orts will bene? t not only researchers interested in vector optimization, but also graduate and und- graduate students. The framework we consider is taken as general as possible, namely we work in (locally convex) topological vector spaces, going to the usual ?nite - mensional setting when this brings additional insights or relevant connections to the existing literature.
Hvad gør vi, når der sker tillidsbrud? Hvad sker der, når en Britta Nielsen i Socialstyrelsen tager af kassen, eller når nogen uberettiget modtager sociale ydelser? Denne bog rejser netop spørgsmålet: kontrol eller tillid? Hvordan skal vi vægte kontrol i forhold til tillid i fremtidens velfærdssamfund? Kontrol skal vel først og fremmset rettes mod folk, der ikke frivilligt ønsker at samarbejde, men hellere vil snyde og bedrage. Spørgsmålet belyses på en helt ny måde ved at stille skarpt på de tre grupper, der har størst indflydelse på samfundets udvikling: hard-riderne, tough-riderne og easy-riderne. Forfatternes bud er, at vi ved at blive klogere på disse 'spillertyper' også bliver mere afklarede om, hvilken vej vi skal vælge. Kontrol eller tillid er lærebog til studerende i sociologi, statskundskab og samfundsfag - og det er samtidig en debatbog om fremtidens velfærdssamfund. Gert Tinggaard Svendsen (1963) er professor, ph.d., ved Institut for Statskundskab, Aarhus Universitet. Gunnar Lind Haase Svendsen (1965) er antropolog, ph.d., professor ved Institut for Sociologi, Miljø- og Erhvervsøkonomi, Syddansk Universitet i Esbjerg, hvor han også er ansvarlig for sociologi-uddannelsen. Urs Steiner Brandt (1963) er cand.oceon. og lektor ved Institut for Sociologi, Miljø- og Erhvervsøkonomi, Syddansk Universitet i Esbjerg.
Den här boken tar upp frågor som rör såväl stillbild som bild i samband med film och TV. Författarna behandlar bildspråkets grunder, bild i reklam och propaganda, nyhetsförmedlingens dramaturgi och televisionens berättelser samt diskuterar hur nya medier, som dataspel och kameramobiler, används av ungdomar. I slutet av boken finns ett analysschema som kan användas som en enkel lathund vid undersökningar av bilder, serier, reklam- och nyhetsuppslag samt filmsekvenser. Semiotiken – vetenskapen om tecken och kommunikation – är den grundläggande teorin bakom författarnas syn på bildspråk och bildpedagogik. De lägger stor vikt vid samverkan mellan bild och text och vårt seende över huvud taget och vänder sig till alla dem som är intresserade av betydelseskapande processer och bildanalys. Bokens tvärvetenskapliga inriktning gör den speciellt användbar i journalist- och lärarutbildning samt i konst- och filmvetenskap.
Martin Ekenvärn; Kristofer Kebbon; Gert Ohlsson; Alice Gullberg; Henrik Hermansson; Linn Ahlblom; Johanna Lundberg; Solveig Olsson-Hultgren; Mina Geijer; Angelica Schachner; Kristoffer Cras; Hanna Landenmark; Jonas Bergergård; Karin Skoog; Monika Carnehult; Philip Stenström
Denna novellsamling är resultatet av den novelltävling som utlystes av bokförlaget Norlén & Slottner under slutet av 2021. Deltagarnas uppgift var att skriva en novell med max 14 000 tecken med temat: Ett dygn år 2049. Totalt inkom 98 bidrag varav 32 under sista tävlingsdagen. 63 av författarna var kvinnor och 35 var män. En från förlaget fristående jury,valde i två omgångar ut vinnarna. Första pris gick till ”Värdegrundens diktatur”, skriven av Martin Ekenvärn. Juryns motivering: ”En otäck framtidsdystopi där varje minut av en människas liv räknas i poäng och var man står värdegrundsmässigt är avgörande. ” På delad andra plats kom dels ”Den gula knappen”, av Kristofer Kebbon med motiveringen: ”Välskriven novell med framåtrörelse och tydliga karaktärer. Den har en handling som utvecklas och en satirisk udd som passar väl med genren framtidsvisioner”. Dels ”En god morgon” av Gert Ohlsson med motiveringen: ”En humoristiskt skriven novell med hopp och framtidstro. Underfundig och glädjeskapande”. I denna antologi finns dessa tre noveller representerade tillsammans med ytterligare 13 tävlingsbidrag som bedömdes vara extra läsvärda.Antologin släpptes i samband med prisutdelningen på Värmlands Bokfestival november 2022.
The architecture of Pálmar Kristmundsson belongs both to the wild, tempestuous and stunningly beautiful natural landscape of Iceland and to that country's rapidly urbanising contemporary society. This book follows Kristmundsson's journey from his first encounters with vernacular Japanese architecture in the small fishing village of Þingeyri, to rise to one of the most prominent figures in Icelandic architecture today. He is an architect whose eye is as observant to the contour of the landscape as to the details of a door handle - or, as Gert Wingårdh describes him in the book's introduction, a "master of extremes". Presented here is an account of Kristmundsson's body of work, as well as an examination of the conditions and challenges faced by architecture today.
High-Density Integrated Electrocortical Neural Interfaces provides a basic understanding, design strategies and implementation applications for electrocortical neural interfaces with a focus on integrated circuit design technologies. A wide variety of topics associated with the design and application of electrocortical neural implants are covered in this book. Written by leading experts in the field— Dr. Sohmyung Ha, Dr. Chul Kim, Dr. Patrick P. Mercier and Dr. Gert Cauwenberghs —the book discusses basic principles and practical design strategies of electrocorticography, electrode interfaces, signal acquisition, power delivery, data communication, and stimulation. In addition, an overview and critical review of the state-of-the-art research is included. These methodologies present a path towards the development of minimally invasive brain-computer interfaces capable of resolving microscale neural activity with wide-ranging coverage across the cortical surface.
What are the processes, from conception to adulthood, that enable a single cell to grow into a sentient adult? The processes that occur along the way are so complex that any attempt to understand development necessitates a multi-disciplinary approach, integrating data from cognitive studies, computational work, and neuroimaging - an approach till now seldom taken in the study of child development. Neuroconstructivism is a major new 2 volume publication that seeks to redress this balance, presenting an integrative new framework for considering development. In the first volume, the authors review up-to-to date findings from neurobiology, brain imaging, child development, computer and robotic modelling to consider why children's thinking develops the way it does. They propose a new synthesis of development that is based on 5 key principles found to operate at many levels of descriptions. They use these principles to explain what causes a number of key developmental phenomena, including infants' interacting with objects, early social cognitive interactions, and the causes of dyslexia. The "neuroconstructivist" framework also shows how developmental disorders do not arise from selective damage to the normal cognitive system, but instead arise from atypical constraints. How these principles work is illustrated in several case studies ranging from perceptual to social and reading development. Finally, the authors use neuroimaging, behavioural analyses, computational simulations and robotic models to provide a way of understanding the mechanisms and processes that cause development to occur.
What are the processes, from conception to adulthood, that enable a single cell to grow into a sentient adult? The processes that occur along the way are so complex that any attempt to understand development necessitates a multi-disciplinary approach, integrating data from cognitive studies, computational work, and neuroimaging - an approach till now seldom taken in the study of child development. Neuroconstructivism is a major new 2 volume publication that seeks to redress this balance, presenting an integrative new framework for considering development. In the first volume, the authors review up-to-to date findings from neurobiology, brain imaging, child development, computer and robotic modelling to consider why children's thinking develops the way it does. They propose a new synthesis of development that is based on 5 key principles found to operate at many levels of descriptions. They use these principles to explain what causes a number of key developmental phenomena, including infants' interacting with objects, early social cognitive interactions, and the causes of dyslexia. The "neuroconstructivist" framework also shows how developmental disorders do not arise from selective damage to the normal cognitive system, but instead arise from developmental processes that operate under atypical constraints. How these principles work is illustrated in several case studies ranging from perceptual to social and reading development. Finally, the authors use neuroimaging, behavioural analyses, computational simulations and robotic models to provide a way of understanding the mechanisms and processes that cause development to occur.
This book has two main purposes. On the one hand, it provides aconcise and systematic development of the theory of lower previsions,based on the concept of acceptability, in spirit of the work ofWilliams and Walley. On the other hand, it also extends this theory todeal with unbounded quantities, which abound in practicalapplications. Following Williams, we start out with sets of acceptable gambles. Fromthose, we derive rationality criteria---avoiding sure loss andcoherence---and inference methods---natural extension---for(unconditional) lower previsions. We then proceed to study variousaspects of the resulting theory, including the concept of expectation(linear previsions), limits, vacuous models, classical propositionallogic, lower oscillations, and monotone convergence. We discussn-monotonicity for lower previsions, and relate lower previsions withChoquet integration, belief functions, random sets, possibilitymeasures, various integrals, symmetry, and representation theoremsbased on the Bishop-De Leeuw theorem. Next, we extend the framework of sets of acceptable gambles to consideralso unbounded quantities. As before, we again derive rationalitycriteria and inference methods for lower previsions, this time alsoallowing for conditioning. We apply this theory to constructextensions of lower previsions from bounded random quantities to alarger set of random quantities, based on ideas borrowed from thetheory of Dunford integration. A first step is to extend a lower prevision to random quantities thatare bounded on the complement of a null set (essentially boundedrandom quantities). This extension is achieved by a natural extensionprocedure that can be motivated by a rationality axiom stating thatadding null random quantities does not affect acceptability. In a further step, we approximate unbounded random quantities by asequences of bounded ones, and, in essence, we identify those forwhich the induced lower prevision limit does not depend on the detailsof the approximation. We call those random quantities 'previsible'. Westudy previsibility by cut sequences, and arrive at a simplesufficient condition. For the 2-monotone case, we establish a Choquetintegral representation for the extension. For the general case, weprove that the extension can always be written as an envelope ofDunford integrals. We end with some examples of the theory.
