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This book interrogates and historicises eighteenth-century British
women writers’ responses to India through the novel and travel
writing to bring out the polyvalent space arising out of their
complex negotiation with the colonial discourse. Though British
women enjoyed their privileged racial status as the utilisers of
colonial riches, they articulated their voice of dissent when they
faced the politics of subordination in their own society and
identified them with the marginalised status of the colonised
Indians. This brings out the complicity and critique of the
colonial discourse of British women writers and foregrounds their
ambivalent responses to the colonial project. This book provides
detailed textual analysis of the works of Phebe Gibbes, Elizabeth
Hamilton, Lady Morgan, Jemima Kindersley and Eliza Fay through
critical insights from the idea of the Enlightenment, postcolonial
theory and feminist thought. It also foregrounds new perspectives
to colonial discourse vis-Ă -vis the representation of India
by locating the dialogic strain within the British narratives about
India.
This book interrogates and historicises eighteenth-century British
women writers' responses to India through the novel and travel
writing to bring out the polyvalent space arising out of their
complex negotiation with the colonial discourse. Though British
women enjoyed their privileged racial status as the utilisers of
colonial riches, they articulated their voice of dissent when they
faced the politics of subordination in their own society and
identified them with the marginalised status of the colonised
Indians. This brings out the complicity and critique of the
colonial discourse of British women writers and foregrounds their
ambivalent responses to the colonial project. This book provides
detailed textual analysis of the works of Phebe Gibbes, Elizabeth
Hamilton, Lady Morgan, Jemima Kindersley and Eliza Fay through
critical insights from the idea of the Enlightenment, postcolonial
theory and feminist thought. It also foregrounds new perspectives
to colonial discourse vis-a-vis the representation of India by
locating the dialogic strain within the British narratives about
India.
This book provides the first comprehensive introduction to
multi-agent, multi-choice repetitive games, such as the Kolkata
Restaurant Problem and the Minority Game. It explains how the
tangible formulations of these games, using stochastic strategies
developed by statistical physicists employing both classical and
quantum physics, have led to very efficient solutions to the
problems posed. Further, it includes sufficient introductory notes
on information-processing strategies employing both classical
statistical physics and quantum mechanics. Games of this nature, in
which agents are presented with choices, from among which their
goal is to make the minority choice, offer effective means of
modeling herd behavior and market dynamics and are highly relevant
to assessing systemic risk. Accordingly, this book will be of
interest to economists, physicists, and computer scientists alike.
Successful or not, we all (have to?) go to various markets and
participate in their activities. Yet, solittle is understoodabout
their functionings. E orts to model various markets are now
substantial. Econophysicists have also come up recently with
several innovative models and their analyses. This book is a
proceedings of the International Workshop on \Eco- physics of
StockMarkets and Minority Games,"heldinKolkataduringFeb- ary 14-17,
2006, under the auspices of the Centre for Applied Mathem- ics and
Computational Science, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata.
This is the second event in the Econophys-Kolkata series of
meetings; the Econophys-Kolkata I was held in March 2005
(Proceedings: Econophysics of Wealth Distributions, published in
the same New Economic Windows series by Springer, Milan in 2005).
We understand from the enthusiastic response of the participants
that the one-day trip to the Sunderbans (Tiger Reserve; a world
heritage point) along with the lecture-sessions on the vessel had
been hugely enjoyable and successful. The concluding session had
again very lively discussions on the workshop topics as well as on
econophysics in general, i- tiated by J. Barkley Rosser, Matteo
Marsili, Rosario Mantegna and Robin Stinchcombe (Chair). We plan to
hold the next meeting in this series, on \Econophysics and
Sociophysics: Debates on Complexity Issues in Economics and
Sociology" early next year. We are very happy that several leading
economists and physicists engaged
intheserecentdevelopmentsintheeconophysicsofmarkets,
theiranalysisand modellingcouldcomeandparticipate.
We all know the hard fact: neither wealth nor income is ever
uniform for us all. Justified or not, they are unevenly
distributed; few are rich and many are poor! Investigations for
more than hundred years and the recent availability of the income
distribution data in the internet (made available by the finance
ministries of various countries; from the tax return data of the
income tax departments) have revealed some remarkable features.
Irrespective of many differences in culture, history, language and,
to some extent, the economic policies followed in different
countries, the income distribution is seen to fol low a particular
universal pattern. So does the wealth distribution. Barring an
initial rise in population with income (or wealth; for the
destitutes), the population decreases either exponentially or in a
log-normal way for the ma jority of 'middle income' group, and it
eventually decreases following a power law (Pareto law, following
Vilfredo Pareto's observation in 1896) for the rich est 5-10 % of
the population! This seems to be an universal feature - valid for
most of the countries and civilizations; may be in ancient Egypt as
well! Econophysicists tried to view this as a natural law for a
statistical ma- body-dynamical market system, analogous to gases,
liquids or solids: classical or quantum.
Econophysics research studies, which apply methods developed by
physicists to solve problems in economics, enable you to deepen
your understanding of what financial systems are and how they
operate. Articles in this book identify and explain the statistical
behavior of the underlying networks in trading, banking, and stock
markets as well as other financial systems. Authors also debate the
latest issues arising from these econophysics studies.
Econophysics research studies, which apply methods developed by
physicists to solve problems in economics, enable you to deepen
your understanding of what financial systems are and how they
operate. Articles in this book identify and explain the statistical
behavior of the underlying networks in trading, banking, and stock
markets as well as other financial systems. Authors also debate the
latest issues arising from these econophysics studies.
Successful or not, we all (have to?) go to various markets and
participate in their activities. Yet, solittle is understoodabout
their functionings. E orts to model various markets are now
substantial. Econophysicists have also come up recently with
several innovative models and their analyses. This book is a
proceedings of the International Workshop on \Eco- physics of
StockMarkets and Minority Games",heldinKolkataduringFeb- ary 14-17,
2006, under the auspices of the Centre for Applied Mathem- ics and
Computational Science, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata.
This is the second event in the Econophys-Kolkata series of
meetings; the Econophys-Kolkata I was held in March 2005
(Proceedings: Econophysics of Wealth Distributions, published in
the same New Economic Windows series by Springer, Milan in 2005).
We understand from the enthusiastic response of the participants
that the one-day trip to the Sunderbans (Tiger Reserve; a world
heritage point) along with the lecture-sessions on the vessel had
been hugely enjoyable and successful. The concluding session had
again very lively discussions on the workshop topics as well as on
econophysics in general, i- tiated by J. Barkley Rosser, Matteo
Marsili, Rosario Mantegna and Robin Stinchcombe (Chair). We plan to
hold the next meeting in this series, on \Econophysics and
Sociophysics: Debates on Complexity Issues in Economics and
Sociology" early next year. We are very happy that several leading
economists and physicists engaged
intheserecentdevelopmentsintheeconophysicsofmarkets,theiranalysisand
modellingcouldcomeandparticipate.
We all know the hard fact: neither wealth nor income is ever
uniform for us all. Justified or not, they are unevenly
distributed; few are rich and many are poor! Investigations for
more than hundred years and the recent availability of the income
distribution data in the internet (made available by the finance
ministries of various countries; from the tax return data of the
income tax departments) have revealed some remarkable features.
Irrespective of many differences in culture, history, language and,
to some extent, the economic policies followed in different
countries, the income distribution is seen to fol low a particular
universal pattern. So does the wealth distribution. Barring an
initial rise in population with income (or wealth; for the
destitutes), the population decreases either exponentially or in a
log-normal way for the ma jority of 'middle income' group, and it
eventually decreases following a power law (Pareto law, following
Vilfredo Pareto's observation in 1896) for the rich est 5-10 % of
the population! This seems to be an universal feature - valid for
most of the countries and civilizations; may be in ancient Egypt as
well! Econophysicists tried to view this as a natural law for a
statistical ma- body-dynamical market system, analogous to gases,
liquids or solids: classical or quantum.
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