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Brief Hours and Weeks: My Life as a Capetonian

Brief Hours and Weeks is the first-person account of twenty-one years of childhood and youth in a small, tightly knit, first-generation Polish-Jewish immigrant community in Cape Town on the southern tip of Africa in the 1940s, 50s, and 60s. With vivid and candid personal stories, the author brings to life a time, place, culture, and set of mores that no longer exist. Brief Hours and Weeks will resonate with immigrants to the developed world anywhere, and perhaps with anyone who has to break treasured ties to start a new life in a distant different world.

Publication date: 1 March 2025

An Introduction to Ergodicity Economics

Ole Peters and Alex Adamou

This introduction to ergodicity economics applies the concept of ergodicity to problems in economics and decision-making under uncertainty. The goal is to understand how traditional economic theory, framed in terms of the expectation values, changes when moving to more realistic time averages. Designed for a one-semester course, this introduction provides a powerful framework for understanding rationality and decision-making with applications in cooperation, insurance, economic inequality and financial markets.

Publication date: 1 June 2025