How Many Languages Do We Need? : : The Economics of Linguistic Diversity / / Shiomo Weber, Victor Ginsburgh.

In the global economy, linguistic diversity influences economic and political development as well as public policies in positive and negative ways. It leads to financial costs, communication barriers, divisions in national unity, and, in some extreme cases, conflicts and war--but it also produces be...

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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.) :; 2 line illus. 34 tables.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. My Language IsMy Homeland
  • 2. Linguistic Policies, Disenfranchisement, and Standardization
  • 3. Linguistic, Genetic, and Cultural Distances: How Far Is Nostratic?
  • 4. Distances Matter
  • 5. Individual Communicative Benefits
  • 6. Diversity and Disenfranchisement Indices
  • 7. Diversity and Disenfranchisement: Applications
  • 8. Multilingualism in the European Union: A Case Study in Linguistic Policy
  • Conclusions
  • Bibliography
  • Index