The Agent in the Margin

The Agent in the Margin
Author: Clara A.B. Joseph
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2008-10-10
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1554582814

The Agent in the Margin: Nayantara Sahgal’s Gandhian Fiction is a comprehensive study of the literary works of Nayantara Sahgal, daughter of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit—the first woman president of the United Nations General Assembly—and niece of Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first prime minister. Clara A.B. Joseph introduces Mahatma Gandhi’s political and philosophical to literary analysis and utilizes non-structuralist aspects of Louis Althusser’s theories of ideology to trace how characters marginalized by gender, class, race, and language in Sahgal’s work assume agency, challenging poststructuralist theories of cultural and ideological determinism. She considers how gender complicates autobiography and how the roles of daughter, virgin, wife, widow, and alien serve (often ironically) to highlight human dignity.

International Marketing: An Asia-Pacific Perspective

International Marketing: An Asia-Pacific Perspective
Author: Richard Fletcher
Publisher: Pearson Higher Education AU
Total Pages: 747
Release: 2013-08-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1442561254

International Marketing, 6e is written from a wholly Australasian perspective and covers issues unique to local marketers and managers looking towards the Asia–Pacific region, the European Union, and beyond. It presents a wide range of contemporary issues faced by subsidiaries of multinational enterprises (MNEs) as well as small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs), mainly exporters, which make up the vast bulk of firms involved in international business in the Australasian region. International Marketing, 6e clearly demonstrates the links between the different stages of international marketing, connecting analysis with planning, planning with strategy and strategy with implementation. Key concepts are brought to life with comprehensively updated statistics, recent illustrations, and a variety of real-world examples and case studies.

Title 17 Commodity and Securities Exchanges Parts 240 to End (Revised as of April 1, 2014)

Title 17 Commodity and Securities Exchanges Parts 240 to End (Revised as of April 1, 2014)
Author: Office of The Federal Register, Enhanced by IntraWEB, LLC
Publisher: IntraWEB, LLC and Claitor's Law Publishing
Total Pages: 1176
Release: 2014-04-01
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0160917727

The Code of Federal Regulations Title 17 contains the codified Federal laws and regulations that are in effect as of the date of the publication pertaining to the financial markets / commodity futures and securities exchanges.

Simulation in Computational Finance and Economics: Tools and Emerging Applications

Simulation in Computational Finance and Economics: Tools and Emerging Applications
Author: Alexandrova-Kabadjova, Biliana
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 459
Release: 2012-08-31
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1466620129

Simulation has become a tool difficult to substitute in many scientific areas like manufacturing, medicine, telecommunications, games, etc. Finance is one of such areas where simulation is a commonly used tool; for example, we can find Monte Carlo simulation in many financial applications like market risk analysis, portfolio optimization, credit risk related applications, etc. Simulation in Computational Finance and Economics: Tools and Emerging Applications presents a thorough collection of works, covering several rich and highly productive areas of research including Risk Management, Agent-Based Simulation, and Payment Methods and Systems, topics that have found new motivations after the strong recession experienced in the last few years. Despite the fact that simulation is widely accepted as a prominent tool, dealing with a simulation-based project requires specific management abilities of the researchers. Economic researchers will find an excellent reference to introduce them to the computational simulation models. The works presented in this book can be used as an inspiration for economic researchers interested in creating their own computational models in their respective fields.