Afriats

Afriats
Author: Richard Bird Baker
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 97
Release: 2010-11-24
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1450263321

This may be one of the most important books you will ever read. It identifies, defines, describes, analyzes, and suggests actions to take toward a highly pervasive social phenomenon that social scientists should have recognized at least a century ago. Somehow the social scientific community has always overlooked this phenomenon, even though it affects, if not envelops, a large majority of people in modern society. This phenomenon is likely one of the leading causes of frustration, stress, fatigue, disappointment, disillusionment, depression, unhappiness, anger, quarrels, road rage, violence, substance abuse, domestic abuse, neurosis, and perhaps even suicides in modern civilization. This is the phenomenon of "afriations". Don't try to look that term up in any source other than this text. It's a term the author had to coin for this concept which has yet to be academically identified. Yet afriats are probably the most complained about topic of conversation, and for tens of millions of Americans, they cause some of our most dreaded problems. With the simple understanding of afriations, and a basic knowledge of how to interact with afriats, we can avoid much of the stress and grief caused by afriations.

Afriation Phobia

Afriation Phobia
Author: Richard Bird Baker
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2010-03-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1450209602

This is perhaps the most unique novel you will ever read. It contains no conventional narrative. The voice that delivers the plot and its messages is the voice the main character constantly hears in his head. The voice constantly speaks in short imperatives, and often separates into two bickering voices. Presenting this mental condition requires second-person writing, something rarely found in fiction. An afriation is an organization or institution that forces one to constantly associate with people one wouldnt choose for company. This novels main character is not an easy person to like, but is very easy to empathize with. This mentally unsound individual has an excessive fear of afriats, people we are forced to interact with via an afriation. As a result, he is often a homeless transient feeling forced into being either a trespasser or a vagrant. The voice in our characters mind carries you with him hitchhiking on freeways, hopping freight trains, struggling with employment in a conventional afriation, side-stepping civilization, and going to jail. It follows his thought processes as tension leads to a mental collapse. This novel is more than a typical action fiction. It presents a unique and valuable insight into our social structure that is yet to be dealt with by social scientists, one that is based on the types of social interactions we encounter.

A History of Mali’s National Drink

A History of Mali’s National Drink
Author: Ute Röschenthaler
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2022-10-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004524673

This study follows green tea from China to Mali along its historical trade routes halfway around the world, examining the circumstances of its introduction, the course of the tea ritual, the equipment to prepare and consume it, and the meanings that it assumed.

Variants in Economic Theory

Variants in Economic Theory
Author: Hal R. Varian
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 398
Release: 2000-02-24
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781782543626

Hal Varian, in the course of a long and distinguished career, has made a seminal contribution to many branches of economics. His pathbreaking work on the development of economic theory, finance, industrial organization and econometrics is represented in this important new collection of key articles published over the last twenty years.

Affective Decision Making Under Uncertainty

Affective Decision Making Under Uncertainty
Author: Donald J. Brown
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 88
Release: 2020-12-18
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3030595129

This book is an exploration of the ubiquity of ambiguity in decision-making under uncertainty. It presents various essays on behavioral economics and behavioral finance that draw on the theory of Black Swans (Taleb 2010), which argues for a distinction between unprecedented events in our past and unpredictable events in our future. The defining property of Black Swan random events is that they are unpredictable, i.e., highly unlikely random events. In this text, Mandelbrot’s (1972) operational definition of risky random unpredictable events is extended to Black Swan assets – assets for which the cumulative probability distribution or conditional probability distribution of random future asset returns is a power distribution. Ambiguous assets are assets for which the uncertainties of future returns are not risks. Consequently, there are two disjoint classes of Black Swan assets: Risky Black Swan assets and Ambiguous Black Swan assets, a new class of ambiguous assets with unpredictable random future outcomes. The text is divided into two parts, the first of which focuses on affective moods, introduces affective utility functions and discusses the ambiguity of Black Swans. The second part, which shifts the spotlight to affective equilibrium in asset markets, features chapters on affective portfolio analysis and Walrasian and Gorman Polar Form Equilibrium Inequalities. In order to gain the most from the book, readers should have completed the standard introductory graduate courses on microeconomics, behavioral finance, and convex optimization. The book is intended for advanced undergraduates, graduate students and post docs specializing in economic theory, experimental economics, finance, mathematics, computer science or data analysis.

The Index Number Problem

The Index Number Problem
Author: Sydney Afriat
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2014-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0199670587

This volume addresses the search for a true price index, the need to know how to convert an amount at one date into the right amount at another date. The longstanding question concerning how such an index should be constructed is known as 'The Index Number Problem'.

African Agency in China’s Tea Trade

African Agency in China’s Tea Trade
Author: Ute Röschenthaler
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2022-02-07
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9004505695

This study highlights the agency of African economic actors in the green tea trade between China and West Africa, their unique tea brand designs, their challenges and successes, and the social and cultural context in which they conduct their work.

Computational Aspects of General Equilibrium Theory

Computational Aspects of General Equilibrium Theory
Author: Donald Brown
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2008-01-08
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3540765913

This monograph presents a general equilibrium methodology for microeconomic policy analysis. It is intended to serve as an alternative to the now classical, axiomatic general equilibrium theory as exposited in Debreu`s Theory of Value (1959) or Arrow and Hahn`s General Competitive Analysis (1971). The monograph consists of several essays written over the last decade. It also contains an appendix by Charles Steinhorn on the elements of O-minimal structures.

Measurement and Modelling in Economics

Measurement and Modelling in Economics
Author: G.D. Myles
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 476
Release: 2014-06-28
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1483295508

Contained in this volume are the edited and refereed papers which were presented at a conference held at Nuffield College, Oxford in May 1987. The papers, which represent the recent research of a group of eminent economists, reflect the variety and scope of modern economic analysis. New results are presented in econometric estimation, the theory of aggregation, poverty measurement and the general theory of measurement in economics. The volume is distinguished by the inclusion of the discussion which occurred as each paper was presented, so capturing the interaction and exchange of ideas that characterised the conference.

Economia Matematica

Economia Matematica
Author: Bruno de Finetti
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 143
Release: 2011-06-08
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3642110452

S.N. Afriat: Economic transformation.- M. Arcelli: Modelli aumentati e principio di corrispondenza nella metodologia di Andreas.- H. Kuhn: Some remarks on games of fair division.- H. Kuhn: On two theorems in international trade.- A.G. Papandreou: Theory, construction and empirical meaning in economics.