1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910574877703321

Titolo

Financing prosperity by dealing with debt / / edited by Christopher Harker, Amy Horton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : UCL Press, , [2022]

©2022

ISBN

1-80008-187-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 171 pages)

Collana

Global prosperity in thought and practice

Disciplina

332.02402

Soggetti

Debt relief

Finance, Personal

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

In an era when many of us depend on debt to survive but struggle with its consequences, Financing Prosperity by Dealing with Debt draws together current thinking on how to solve debt crises and promote inclusive prosperity. By profiling existing action by credit unions and community organisations, alongside bold proposals for the future, with contributions from artists, activists and academics, the book shows how we can rethink the validity and inevitability of many contemporary forms of debt through organising debt audits, promoting debt cancellation and expanding member-owned co-operatives. The authors set out legal and political methods for changing the rules of the system to provide debt relief and reshape economies for more inclusive and sustainable flourishing. The book also profiles community-based actions that are changing the role of debt in economic, social and political life - among them, participatory art projects, radical advice networks and ways of financing feminist green transitions. While much of the research and activism documented here has taken place in London, the contributors show how different initiatives draw from and generate inspiration elsewhere, from debt audits across the global south, creative interventions around the UK and grassroots movements in North America. Financing Prosperity by Dealing with Debt moves



beyond critique to present a wealth of concrete ways to tackle debt and forge the prosperous communities we want for the future.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910829932803321

Autore

Osman Magda

Titolo

Controlling uncertainty [[electronic resource] ] : decision making and learning in complex worlds / / Magda Osman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010

ISBN

1-282-72932-2

9786612729324

1-4443-2822-0

1-4443-2823-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (355 p.)

Disciplina

003.5

003/.5

Soggetti

Uncertainty

Decision making

Cognitive psychology

Control (Psychology)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Controlling Uncertainty: Decision Making and Learning in Complex Worlds; Contents; Preface: the master puppeteer; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Causation and agency; Chapter 3: Control systems engineering; Chapter 4: Cybernetics, artificial intelligence and machine learning; Chapter 5: Human factors (HCI, ergonomics and cognitive engineering); Chapter 6: Social psychology, organizational psychology and management; Chapter 7: Cognitive psychology; Chapter 8: Neuroscience; Chapter 9: Synthesis; Chapter 10: Epilogue: the master puppeteer; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Controlling Uncertainty: Decision Making and Learning in Complex Worlds reviews and discusses the most current research relating to the ways we can control the uncertain world around us.Features reviews



and discussions of the most current research in a number of fields relevant to controlling uncertainty, such as psychology, neuroscience, computer science and engineeringPresents a new framework that is designed to integrate a variety of disparate fields of researchRepresents the first book of its kind to provide a general overview of work related to understanding control