By positioning the late Edward Said's political interventions as a public intellectual on behalf of Palestinian populations living under Israeli occupation as a form of intellectual resistance, Abraham moves to consider forms of physical resistance, seeking to better understand the motivations of those who choose to turn their bodies into weapons.

By positioning the late Edward Said's political interventions as a public intellectual on behalf of Palestinian populations living under Israeli occupation as a form of intellectual resistance, Abraham moves to consider forms of physical resistance, seeking to better understand the motivations of those who choose to turn their bodies into weapons.

This book analyses the role of consumer demand on technical change. Using a variety of techniques and approaches it discusses how successful innovations change consumers' options. While focusing on product innovation, the thesis is structured as four independent papers. We initially reflect from a microeconomic perspective on the evolution of preferences over time. A microeconomic model is introduced in which the consumer maximizes utility, taking decisions in which new possibilities interact with earlier purchasing habits. Habit formation and the novelty associated with new goods are two concepts that explain this dynamic consumer behaviour. The model explains a situation in which technically good innovative products can fail due to a lack of novelty value. Habit formation is analysed in a macroeconomic growth model. Working with non-homothetic preferences in a Dixit and Stiglizt framework, the model introduces creative destruction from the demand side.

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America's no deal for reparations, erosion of an affirmative action, growth in Hispanic and Asian immigrants and shift to national terrorism concerns have left the interest of African Americans out on the far limb in the 21st century. Merely reactionary to racial hatred and prejudices, black organizations have shifted their awareness campaigns to one of AIDS/HIV, leaving the sting for a national black agenda all but diminished. Out-of-touch and aging civil rights leaders are ineffective to the cry for social and economic reform for the deprived black American culture. Seemingly scared and clueless, a shifting of the guards is due.
While the black academia have integrated into the suburbs, urban blacks are left with religion for hope and restraint of anger that has opened the gate to a HIP HOP culture inducing ignorance, illicit sex and vulgarity. As religion continues with its "wait to die" or wait for God" philosophy, black culture in America is left to chance, toss of the dice and entertainers for tranquility. It is the African Americans interested in the "here and now" as well as the future of their children that have generated reason for this book.
This book, 21st Century Vision for Black America, provides a realistic positive next step to the sojourn of black Americans. It traces blacks from their heroic ancestral days when education was marveled and thriving societies occurred until a substitution of education for cults, magic, voodoo and sorcery that allowed European conquerors to enrich selfish African leaders while enslaving their people. Unlike other books which bores the reader with horrors of the slave trade, this book exploresEuropean philosophy and the role Hollywood and sports played in the shaping of black slaves, creating stereotypes inferior in nature and pampering the worship of white skin.
The industrial revolution is portrayed as a wake up call that indeed blacks were capable of reason and excelling in science and technology. As the book qualifies how science and know how extinguished a culture vacuum in ability, it accentuates the education movement with the birth of black colleges and Black nationalism in the 1990s to the growth of black pride and the love of African ancestry. Using pictures and illustrations, the reader is provided with a concise solution for African Americans at this particular time in history. The vision ensures black Americans will emerge in the 21st century with dignity and prominence which happens to be coincident with the crisis facing Africa, a continent almost at the level of fourth world status. It compares Japanese rise to power through nationalism and divine providence as a model for a project to assemble a massive number of black Americans and bring higher education, manufacturing and improved infrastructure to Africa.