Historians have long wondered at the improbable rise of the Attalids of Pergamon after 188 BCE. The Roman-brokered Settlement of Apameia offered a new map – a brittle framework for sovereignty in Anatolia and the eastern Aegean. What allowed the Attalids to make this map a reality and leave their indelible Pergamene imprint on our Classical imagination? In this uniquely compreh…
Of all academic tasks, acknowledging one’s many debts is among the most difficult, but it is also perhaps the most joyful. There is a sense in which this book began in 2012, when I was fortunate to read two books that introduced to me a new form of investigation and type of analysis; in parallel but distinct monographs of 2001, Ramsay MacMullen and Fergus Millar each opened doo…
What produces a happy society and a happy life? Thanks to the new science of wellbeing, we can now answer this question using state-of-the-art empirical evidence. This transforms our ability to base our decisions on the outcomes that matter most, namely the wellbeing of us all including future generations. Written by two of the world’s leading experts on the economics of wellbe…
Non-Abelian gauge theories, such as quantum chromodynamics (QCD) or electroweak theory, are best studied with the aid of Green’s functions that are gauge invariant off-shell, but unlike for the photon in quantum electrodynamics, conventional graphical constructions fail. The pinch technique provides a systematic framework for constructing such Green’s functions…
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is one of the most significant global environmental assessment bodies ever established, providing the most authoritative and influential reports on climate change knowledge. This book examines the history and politics of the organisation and how this shapes its assessment practice and the climate knowledge it produces. Developing a new method…
A contribution to legal theories of accountability, this book offers pioneering research on the position of the individual in the EU’s Economic and Monetary Union. Its premise is that the EU’s response to the financial crisis placed undue emphasis on equality of Member States, to the detriment of political equality of citizens. As a remedy, this book reimagines…
This early morning when I am about to write the preface and acknowledgement, I came to realize that today is a very special day in Norway, â€ÂGrunnlovsdagen†means National day in Norwegian. Many people near Oslo travel to the city center and celebrate the important day with happiness, mostly importantly without using mask. In February 2022, Norway decided to lift all …
Economic and ï¬Âscal policies conceived by international organizations, govern- ments, and central banks heavily depend on economic forecasts, in particular during times of economic and societal turmoil like the one we have recently experienced with the coronavirus spreading worldwide. The accuracy of economic forecasting and nowcasting models is however still problematic since modern …
The development and use of robotics is affecting all aspects of modern life. There is a demand not only for robots that can move, interact, learn, and act in real-time dynamic and unconstrained environments but also for those that can interact smoothly and safely with the actions and movements of people within the same environments. In addition to managing complex motor coordination, these robo…
The availability of big data due to computerization and automation has generated an urgent need for new techniques to analyze and convert big data into useful information and knowledge. Data mining is a promising and leading-edge technology for mining large volumes of data, looking for hidden information, and aiding knowledge discovery. It can be used for characterization, classification, discr…