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A Cultural History of Sport in Antiquity covers the period 800 BCE
to 600 CE. From the founding of the Olympics and Rome's celebratory
games, sport permeated the cultural life of Greco-Roman antiquity
almost as it does our own. Gymnasiums, public baths, monumental
arenas, and circuses for chariot racing were constructed, and
athletic contests proliferated. Sports-themed household objects
were very popular, whilst the exploits of individual athletes,
gladiators, and charioteers were immortalized in poetry, monuments,
and the mosaic floors of the wealthy. This rich sporting culture
attests to the importance of leisure among the middle and upper
classes of the Greco-Roman world, but by 600 CE rising costs,
barbarian invasions, and Christianity had swept it all away. The 6
volume set of the Cultural History of Sport presents the first
comprehensive history from classical antiquity to today, covering
all forms and aspects of sport and its ever-changing social,
cultural, political, and economic context and impact. The themes
covered in each volume are the purpose of sport; sporting time and
sporting space; products, training and technology; rules and order;
conflict and accommodation; inclusion, exclusion and segregation;
minds, bodies and identities; representation. Paul Christesen is
Professor at Dartmouth College, USA. Charles Stocking is Associate
Professor at Western University, Canada. Volume 1 in the Cultural
History of Sport set General Editors: Wray Vamplew, Mark Dyreson,
and John McClelland
Rigorous, careful, and nonpartisan research with a high policy
impact on environmental and energy economics. Environmental and
Energy Policy and the Economy focuses on the effective and
efficient management of environmental and energy challenges.
Research papers offer new evidence on the intended and unintended
consequences, the market and nonmarket effects, and the incentive
and distributional impacts of policy initiatives and market
developments. This volume presents six new papers on environmental
and energy economics and policy. Gilbert Metcalf examines the
distributional impacts of substituting a vehicle miles-traveled tax
for the existing federal excise tax in the United States. David
Weisbach, Samuel Kortum, Michael Wang, and Yujia Yao consider
solutions to the leakage problem of climate policy with
differential tax policies on the supply and demand for fossil fuels
and on domestic production and consumption. Danae Hernandez-Cortes,
Kyle Meng, and Paige Weber quantify and decompose recent trends in
air pollution disparities in the US electricity sector. Severin
Borenstein and Ryan Kellogg provide a comparative analysis of
different incentive-based mechanisms to reduce emissions in the
electricity sector on a path to zero emissions. Sarah Anderson,
Andrew Plantinga, and Matthew Wibbenmeyer document distributional
differences in the allocation of US wildfire prevention
projects. Finally, Mark Curtis and Ioana Marinescu provide new
evidence on the quality and quantity of emerging “green†jobs
in the United States.
The Sourcebook of Ancient Greek Athletics offers the most
comprehensive collection to date of primary sources in translation
for the study of ancient Greek athletics. Because Greek athletics
was such an essential feature of both Greek and Roman culture,
there is an especially strong need for proper treatment and
understanding of the texts and other media used to reconstruct
practices and ideologies of ancient athletics. The sources in this
collection are arranged chronologically from the Archaic Period to
the Roman Imperial Era, with an extensive appendix discussing key
themes and topics. The organization and in-depth presentation of
textual sources is designed to help students, scholars, and general
readers fully appreciate the broader social and cultural
significance of ancient Greek athletics as it developed in
different historical time periods throughout antiquity.
The topic of force has long remained a problem of interpretation
for readers of Homer's Iliad, ever since Simone Weil famously
proclaimed it as the poem's main subject. This book seeks to
address that problem through a full-scale treatment of the language
of force in the Iliad from both philological and philosophical
perspectives. Each chapter explores the different types of Iliadic
force in combination with the reception of the Iliad in the French
intellectual tradition. Ultimately, this book demonstrates that the
different terms for force in the Iliad give expression to distinct
relations between self and "other." At the same time, this book
reveals how the Iliad as a whole undermines the very relations of
force which characters within the poem seek to establish.
Ultimately, this study of force in the Iliad offers an occasion to
reconsider human subjectivity in Homeric poetry.
Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (BPEA) provides academic and
business economists, government officials, and members of the
financial and business communities with timely research on current
economic issues.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This volume presents six new papers on environmental and energy
economics and related policy issues. Robert Pindyck provides a
systematic overview of what is known, and remains unknown, about
climate change, along with the implications of uncertainty for
climate policy. Shaikh Eskander, Sam Fankhauser, and Joana Setzer
offer insights from a comprehensive data set on climate change
legislation and litigation across all countries of the world over
the past thirty years. Adele Morris, Noah Kaufman, and Siddhi Doshi
shine a light on how expected trends in the coal industry will
create significant challenges for the local public finance of
coal-reliant communities. Joseph Aldy and his collaborators analyze
the treatment of co-benefits in benefit-cost analyses of federal
clean air regulations. Tatyana Deryugina and her co-authors report
on the geographic and socioeconomic heterogeneity in the benefits
of reducing particulate matter air pollution. Finally, Oliver
Browne, Ludovica Gazze, and Michael Greenstone use detailed data on
residential water consumption to evaluate the relative impacts of
conservation policies based on prices, restrictions, and public
persuasion.
This volume presents six new papers on environmental and energy
economics and policy in the United States. Rebecca Davis, J. Scott
Holladay, and Charles Sims analyze recent trends in and forecasts
of coal-fired power plant retirements with and without new climate
policy. Severin Borenstein and James Bushnell examine the
efficiency of pricing for electricity, natural gas, and gasoline.
James Archsmith, Erich Muehlegger, and David Rapson provide a
prospective analysis of future pathways for electric vehicle
adoption. Kenneth Gillingham considers the consequences of such
pathways for the design of fuel vehicle economy standards. Frank
Wolak investigates the long-term resource adequacy in wholesale
electricity markets with significant intermittent renewables.
Finally, Barbara Annicchiarico, Stefano Carattini, Carolyn Fischer,
and Garth Heutel review the state of research on the interactions
between business cycles and environmental policy.
This 2005 volume contains the papers presented in honor of the
lifelong achievements of Thomas J. Rothenberg on the occasion of
his retirement. The authors of the chapters include many of the
leading econometricians of our day, and the chapters address topics
of current research significance in econometric theory. The
chapters cover four themes: identification and efficient estimation
in econometrics, asymptotic approximations to the distributions of
econometric estimators and tests, inference involving potentially
nonstationary time series, such as processes that might have a unit
autoregressive root, and nonparametric and semiparametric
inference. Several of the chapters provide overviews and treatments
of basic conceptual issues, while others advance our understanding
of the properties of existing econometric procedures and/or propose
others. Specific topics include identification in nonlinear models,
inference with weak instruments, tests for nonstationary in time
series and panel data, generalized empirical likelihood estimation,
and the bootstrap.
This 2005 volume contains the papers presented in honor of the
lifelong achievements of Thomas J. Rothenberg on the occasion of
his retirement. The authors of the chapters include many of the
leading econometricians of our day, and the chapters address topics
of current research significance in econometric theory. The
chapters cover four themes: identification and efficient estimation
in econometrics, asymptotic approximations to the distributions of
econometric estimators and tests, inference involving potentially
nonstationary time series, such as processes that might have a unit
autoregressive root, and nonparametric and semiparametric
inference. Several of the chapters provide overviews and treatments
of basic conceptual issues, while others advance our understanding
of the properties of existing econometric procedures and/or propose
others. Specific topics include identification in nonlinear models,
inference with weak instruments, tests for nonstationary in time
series and panel data, generalized empirical likelihood estimation,
and the bootstrap.
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