AI in the Social and Business World: A Comprehensive Approach offers an in-depth exploration of the transformative impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) across a wide range of sectors. This edited collection features 13 chapters each penned by field experts providing a comprehensive understanding of AI's theoretical foundations practical applications and societal implications. Each chapter offers strategic insights case studies and discussions on ethical considerations and future trends.

Beginning with an overview of AI's historical evolution the book navigates through its diverse applications in healthcare social welfare business intelligence and more. Chapters systematically explore AI's role in enhancing healthcare delivery optimizing business operations and fostering social inclusion through innovative technologies like AI-based sign recognition and IoT in agriculture.

With strategic insights case studies and discussions on ethical considerations and future trends this book is a valuable resource for researchers practitioners and anyone interested in understanding AI's multifaceted influence. It is designed to foster informed discussions and strategic decisions in navigating the evolving landscape of AI in today's dynamic world.

This book is an essential resource for researchers practitioners and anyone interested in understanding AI’s multifaceted influence across the social and business landscapes.

The era of globalization has brought about unprecedented social political and environmental challenges for policy makers around the world due to the global impact of economic decisions. In view of these challenges economics as a discipline needs to be taught with the goal of broadening the dialogue on social responsibility and developing a new pluralist culture of decision making which is inclusive to different schools of economic thought. Pluralist Readings in Economics: Key-concepts and policy tools for the 21st century highlights the long-standing debates regarding economic systems business models criteria of justice and economic policies by providing conceptual openings to economic theory in an engaging and accessible way. The author provides broad coverage of relevant topics through the selection of influential economic thinkers and introduces the reader to their ideas context and relevant interpretations. While dealing with complex problems the author goes beyond commonly known concepts by presenting questions on the historical context of globalization. The study of economic concepts in this way leads to asking new questions concerning various issues relevant to economics. The goal of the text is to provide an interdisciplinary perspective to readers in order to equip them with information that is key to address global economic challenges. Thus this pluralist approach calls for a reflection of the evolution of global social and economic conditions to demonstrate problem solving approaches that align with the goal of addressing these challenges.

Pluralist Readings in Economics: Key-concepts and policy tools for the 21st century is suitable to a broad interdisciplinary readership as it will benefit all those who seek to better understand the complex stakes of the capitalist system in the tensions between regulatory policies free market equilibria and participatory openings in governance. This introductory work also prepares the reader for debates and discussion in economic theory aimed at shaping policy transformations towards a more equitable just and sustainable world.

Interest Rate Modeling for Risk Management introduces a theoretical framework - the ‘real-world’ model - that allows us to estimate the market price of interest rate risk based on practical and real life situations. The model can be briefly summarized as a process of estimating the market prices of risk through discretization of forward rates with a ‘space-state setup’ whilst considering historical data trends. The book starts with a brief explanation of interest rate stochastic analysis fundamentals before delving into standard models such as Heath-Jarrow-Morton Hull-White and LIBOR models. The real-world model is then explained in subsequent chapters while applying different frameworks. Additionally the book also explains some properties of the real-world model along with the negative price tendency of the market price for risk and a positive market price for risk (with an example of this actually occurring). Readers will also find a handy appendix with proofs to complement the numerical methods explained in the book.

This book is intended as a primer for practitioners in financial institutions involved in interest rate risk management. It also presents a new perspective for researchers and graduates in econometrics and finance on the study of interest rate models.