Hans-Werner Sinn

Philippe Martin

Richard Portes

Georges De Menil

Giuseppe Bertola

Jan Van Ours

Top economists provide a concise and accessible evaluation of major developments in trade and trade policy. Economic Policy has earned a reputation around the world as the one publication that always identifies current and emerging policy topics early Papers are specially commissioned from first-class economists and experts in the policy field The editors are all based at top European economic institutions and each paper is discussed by a panel of distinguished economists This unique approach guarantees incisive debate and alternative interpretations of the evidence

Economic Policy 55

Richard Baldwin

Rikard Forslid

Gianmarco Ottaviano

Frederic Robert-Nicoud

Research on the spatial aspects of economic activity has flourished over the past decade due to the emergence of new theory, new data, and an intense interest on the part of policymakers, especially in Europe but increasingly in North America and elsewhere as well. However, these efforts--collectively known as the "new economic geography"--have devoted little attention to the policy implications of the new theory. Economic Geography and Public Policy fills the gap by illustrating many new policy insights economic geography models can offer to the realm of theoretical policy analysis. Focusing primarily on trade policy, tax policy, and regional policy, Richard Baldwin and coauthors show how these models can be used to make sense of real-world situations. The book not only provides much fresh analysis but also synthesizes insights from the existing literature. The authors begin by presenting and analyzing the widest range of new economic geography models to date. From there they proceed to examine previously unaddressed welfare and policy issues including, in separate sections, trade policy (unilateral, reciprocal, and preferential), tax policy (agglomeration with taxes and public goods, tax competition and agglomeration), and regional policy (infrastructure policies and the political economy of regional subsidies). A well-organized, engaging narrative that progresses smoothly from fundamentals to more complex material, Economic Geography and Public Policy is essential reading for graduate students, researchers, and policymakers seeking new approaches to spatial policy issues.

Economic Geography and Public Policy

Top economists provide a concise and accessible evaluation of major developments in trade and trade policy. Examination of key issues pertinent to the multinational trading system, as well as regional trade arrangements and policy developments at the national level. Provides up-to-date assessments of the World Trade Organization's current Trade Policy Reviews. Economic Policy is written for all those with an informed interest in economic policy problems. All articles are submitted to rigorous scrutiny by a panel of distinguished economists from around the world, resulting in a volume of authoritative and accessible articles, each followed by the comments of panel members.

Economic Policy 53

Kaoru Yamanouchi

Marc Sentis

Li Ruxin

Didier Normand

This 14th volume in the PUILS series presents up-to-date reviews of advances in Ultrafast Intense Laser Science, an interdisciplinary research field spanning atomic and molecular physics, molecular science, and optical science, which has been stimulated by the rapid developments in ultrafast laser technologies. Each chapter begins with an overview of the topics to be discussed, so that researchers unfamiliar to the subfield, as well as graduate students, can grasp the importance and appeal of the respective subject matter; this is followed by reports on cutting-edge discoveries. This volume covers a broad range of topics from this interdisciplinary field, e.g. atoms and molecules interacting in intense laser fields, laser-induced filamentation, high-order harmonics generation, and high-intensity lasers and their applications.

Progress in Ultrafast Intense Laser Science XIV

Une guerre de trente ans en Lorraine, 1631-1661

Master all the concepts and tools necessary to start administering a Kubernetes cluster and deploying applications to production. You will cover the entire curricula of the two Kubernetes certifications (for application developers and administrators). The initial chapters guide you through deployment of a Kubernetes cluster on virtual machines and explore the different components of the control plane. Next, you will work with the kubectl command-line tool; namespaces, labels, selectors, and annotations—common resources used through the Kubernetes API. The following chapters describe the principle of controllers and detail how workload controllers work as well as the possibilities for configuring deployed applications. You will also learn how to deploy a scalable and self-healing application, how pods are scheduled to nodes, how parts of the application can communicate, and how the application is discoverable from the outside. Next, you will cover security concerns describing the different authentication methods, the RBAC authorization mode, security contexts, network policies, and how to secure container images. You will also cover using persistent volumes for your containers to store long-term data, monitoring your clusters and applications and implementing design patterns for multi-container pods. The concluding chapters guide you through the upgrade of your deployed cluster. After reading this book, you will have enough knowledge to deploy a complex application using a Kubernetes cluster and be ready for the certification exams. What You Will Learn Deploy a Kubernetes cluster with kubeadm and learn how the control plane works Discover how the Kubernetes API is structured Deploy secure, auto-scaled, and self-healing applications Master the kubectl command-line tool Who This Book Is For Administrators and application developers with good knowledge of micro-services development and deployment.

Preparing for the CKA and CKAD Certifications

Kubernetes

De la peste médiévale au présent coronavirus, comment les religions ont-elles vécu les épidémies ? Cette enquête sur 3 000 ans et sur l'ensemble de la planète renseigne et interroge, épate et intrigue, amuse et épouvante, mais donne toujours à penser et à méditer. Un voyage sans précédent au cœur du divin face aux catastrophes létales pour l'humanité. Pourquoi, en passant du corps humain au corps social, l'événement épidémique provoque-t-il immanquablement un séisme religieux ? Comment engage-t-il simultanément toutes les figures de la Providence divine, punisseuse, guérisseuse, horlogère, éthique ou miséricordieuse ? Comment divise-t-il profondément toutes les confessions, les forçant à penser et à agir autrement ? De la peste antique et médiévale au coronavirus contemporain, en passant par les varioles, les choléras et les grippes modernes, sans oublier le persistant sida, de Paris, Rome, Boston à Istanbul, Moscou, Islamabad, des cathédrales gothiques aux pagodes bouddhiques en passant par les synagogues sépharades et les mosquées chiites, voici le panorama époustouflant du face-à-face historique et mondial des religions face à l'irruption d'un mal invisible, incompréhensible et implacable. Cette étude sans précédent montre que nous n'avons rien inventé. Les hiérarques religieux ont pavé la voie des gouvernants politiques. Mobilisations sanitaires, mesures préventives, ritualisations collectives, discordances scientifiques, recherches de boucs émissaires, réflexes complotistes, contestations populaires : le clerc d'Église d'autrefois et le clerc d'État d'aujourd'hui ont à affronter la même crise de l'explication, de la certitude, de la résilience. Et ils le font avec les mêmes moyens. Car tous deux doivent restaurer la croyance, ici sacrée, là séculière. Cette somme sans concession, qui renseigne comme jamais, amuse souvent, effraie parfois, et conduit ainsi à la plus cruciale des questions actuelles : et si les images de Saint-Pierre, Lourdes, La Mecque, Bénarès vides pour la première fois indiquaient que la Covid-19 a effectivement inauguré une nouvelle page dans l'histoire de l'humanité ?

Les religions face aux épidémies - De la Peste à la Covid-19

Gillian Watts

This stunning book looks at nature using a revolutionary method of extreme close-up photography.

Creatures Close Up

An innovative and unified grammar of sentence intonation, applied to Romance languages (French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan and Romanian).

Philippe Martin

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