1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910794471203321

Titolo

The storytelling human : Lithuanian folk tradition today / / edited by Lina Būgienė

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston : , : Academic Studies Press, , [2020]

©2020

ISBN

1-64469-425-5

1-64469-424-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (288 pages)

Collana

Lithuanian studies without borders

Disciplina

398.2094793

Soggetti

Folklore - Lithuania

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- PART ONE. History and Tradition in a Changing World -- 1. Predominant Modes of Perception and Folk Narrative -- 2. Taking Shelter in Memoir amid the Turmoil of History: Reconstructing Mental Landscapes in Autobiographical Narratives -- 3. The Dead Want to Come Home: Stories about the Repatriation of Siberian Deportee Remains to Lithuania -- 4. Borderland Lives: Historical Reflections in Eastern Lithuanian Life Stories -- PART TWO. Traditional Folklore and Modernity -- 5. Life in Folktales or Folktales in Life? How Storytellers Influence Folk Traditions -- 6. The Contemporary Consumer and Creator of Proverbs, or Why Do We Need Proverbs Today? -- 7. Homo ridens: The Joking Human in Lithuania from the Late Nineteenth to the Early Twenty-First Centuries -- 8. Between Culture and Subculture: The Case of Lithuania’s Basketball Fans -- Bibliography -- Abbreviations -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book is among the very few publications offering to the English-speaking readership significant insights into contemporary Lithuanian folklore research. Dealing with broad variety of materials—from archived manuscripts to audio-recorded life stories to internet folklore, it comprises such topics as history and identity, traditional worldview influencing modern people’s actions, construction of the mental landscape, types and modes of storytelling, the modern uses of



proverbs, anecdotes, and internet lore. In a balanced way reflecting upon past and present, tradition and modernity, individual and collective, and employing modern research methodologies to dissect and analyze popular subjects and themes, the eight separate essays comprising the book present a condensed view of the popular Lithuanian culture and mentality.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910488713803321

Titolo

Disintermediation Economics : The Impact of Blockchain on Markets and Policies / / edited by Eva Kaili, Dimitrios Psarrakis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2021

ISBN

9783030657819

3030657817

Edizione

[1st ed. 2021.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (339 pages)

Disciplina

382

338.9

Soggetti

Financial engineering

Financial services industry

Economics

Macroeconomics

Financial Engineering

Financial Services

Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Ch. 1: What is Disintermediation Economics: An introduction (Psarrakis) -- Part A: Disintermediation in Microeconomics -- Ch. 2: Distributed Ledger Economics: Organizations, Incentives and Strategy (Psarrakis) -- Ch. 3: Economics of Smart Contracts: Efficiency and legal challenges (Dobrauz-Saldapenna and Schrackmann) -- Ch. 4: Corporate Strategies for Blockchain-based Solutions (Verheggen) -- Ch. 5: Distributed Data



Economics (Shrier).-Part B: Disintermediation in Macroeconomics and Finance -- Ch. 6: Blockchain for Growth: Applying distributed ledger technologies to the UN Sustainable goals (Thomason) -- Ch. 7: The New Money: The utility of Cryptocurrencies and the need for a New Monetary Policy (Lee and Teo) -- Ch. 8: Privately Issued Digital Currencies (Disparte) -- Ch. 9: Crypto-assets, Distributed Ledger Technologies and Disintermediation in Finance: Overcoming impediments to scaling: A view from the EU (Noble) -- Ch. 10: Crypto-assets and Disintermediation in Finance: A view from Asia (Johnstone) -- Part C: Disintermediation in Political Economy and Regulation -- Ch. 11: The Political Economy of the Blockchain (Zilgalvis) -- Ch. 12: Regulating Blockchain in the EU: Building a global competitive advantage (Kaili) -- Ch. 13: Advancing Digital Transformation in the Public Sector with Blockchain: A view from the European Union (Baldacci and Frade) -- Ch. 14: Disposable Identities? Why digital identity matters to blockchain disintermediation and for society (Anania, Le Gars, and van Kranenburg).

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides a coherent Blockchain framework for the business community, governments, and universities structured around microeconomics, macroeconomics, finance, and political economy and identifies how financial markets and governmental policies are changed by digitization, specifically Blockchain. This framework, what they authors call “disintermediation economics,” affects everything by providing a paradigm that transforms the way we organize markets and value chains, financial services, central banking, budgetary policies, innovation ecosystems, government services, and civil society. Bringing together leading and experienced policy makers, corporate practitioners, and academics from top universities, this book offers a road map of best practices that can be immediately useful to firms, policy makers as well as academics by balancing theory with practice.