scholarly journals Narratives of Inequality: Postcolonial Literary Economics.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asako Nakai
Keyword(s):  
Identity Politics ◽  
Fundamental Question ◽  
Global Capitalism ◽  
The Novel ◽  
2008 Financial Crisis ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Postcolonial Criticism ◽  
Historical Times ◽  
The 2008 Financial Crisis ◽  
Thomas Piketty

Whereas postcolonial criticism might have been entrapped into culturalism and identity politics, the novel, at least its best specimens, continues to address the more fundamental question of economic inequality whose relevance has been rediscovered since the 2008 financial crisis – or so Melissa Kennedy asserts in her latest book, Narratives of Inequality. The book offers an extensive survey of postcolonial fiction across different historical times and locations. Convinced that literary studies should play an important role in the critique of global capitalism along the lines of Thomas Piketty and Amartya Sen, Kennedy selects novels that explicitly handle economic vocabulary and subject-matter. According to her, these works register the same or similar structures of inequality regardless of their specific local, historical, and cultural contexts.

scholarly journals Financial Contagion Patterns in Individual Economic Sectors. The Day-of-the-Week Effect from the Polish, Russian and Romanian Markets

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (9) ◽  
pp. 442
Author(s):  
Elena Valentina Țilică
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Financial Contagion ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Economic Sectors ◽  
2008 Financial Crisis ◽  
East European ◽  
Day Of The Week ◽  
The 2008 Financial Crisis ◽  
European Markets ◽  
Contagion Process

This paper studies the presence of the day-of-the-week (DOW) effect in the financial contagion process observed on individual economic sectors from the Post-Communist East European markets. The only markets that provide national-specific sector indices determined throughout the 2008 financial crisis are Poland, Romania and Russia. The novel methodology combines two existing perspectives from financial literature, by employing a GJR-GARCH framework on a dummy regression model that accounts for both the crisis period and the weekdays. All indices show the presence of the DOW effect during the crisis and/or non-crisis periods, thus signaling their low level of market efficiency. However, the contagion process affects only eight of these indices: the banking, IT and oil and gas sectors from Poland, the chemical, telecommunication and transport sectors from Russia and energy sectors from Russia and Romania. All of them show signs of the DOW effect in contagion: five exhibit higher spillovers on crisis Mondays, while the other three show other weekday patterns. The findings suggest that the DOW effect is not specific to certain countries or certain economic sectors.

Mathematics without Apologies

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Harris
Keyword(s):  
Number Theory ◽  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Pop Culture ◽  
First Century ◽  
2008 Financial Crisis ◽  
Dinner Party ◽  
Mathematical Life ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
The 2008 Financial Crisis ◽  
Guided Tour

What do pure mathematicians do, and why do they do it? Looking beyond the conventional answers, this book offers an eclectic panorama of the lives and values and hopes and fears of mathematicians in the twenty-first century, assembling material from a startlingly diverse assortment of scholarly, journalistic, and pop culture sources. Drawing on the author's personal experiences as well as the thoughts and opinions of mathematicians from Archimedes and Omar Khayyám to such contemporary giants as Alexander Grothendieck and Robert Langlands, the book reveals the charisma and romance of mathematics as well as its darker side. In this portrait of mathematics as a community united around a set of common intellectual, ethical, and existential challenges, the book touches on a wide variety of questions, such as: Are mathematicians to blame for the 2008 financial crisis? How can we talk about the ideas we were born too soon to understand? And how should you react if you are asked to explain number theory at a dinner party? The book takes readers on an unapologetic guided tour of the mathematical life, from the philosophy and sociology of mathematics to its reflections in film and popular music, with detours through the mathematical and mystical traditions of Russia, India, medieval Islam, the Bronx, and beyond.

Global Capitalism and the Novel

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bashir Abu-Manneh
Keyword(s):  
Global Capitalism ◽  
The Novel

Credit Spreads and Regime Shifts: Evidence from the 2008 Financial Crisis

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivelina Pavlova ◽  
Ann Marie Hibbert ◽  
Joel R. Barber ◽  
Krishnan Dandapani
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Regime Shifts ◽  
Credit Spreads ◽  
2008 Financial Crisis ◽  
The 2008 Financial Crisis
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