The chapter introduces the book, its main claims, and arguments. It is concerned with setting the agenda for how to take labour seriously in Gulf development discourses and the value of centring labour from the margins. The book argues that Oman’s labour market is global and that Omani labour needs to be understood globally and relationally within and beyond the segmentations that divide the labour market. The chapter situates youth and their economic dreams and experiences at the heart of the story of development, discusses how to understand labour within the rentier state, and lays out the framework and empirical analysis to follow.

The role of France in David Hume’s intellectual biography is difficult to overestimate. He visited that country three times, wrote the Treatise in La Flèche, and reached the peak of his success during the years he spent in Paris (1763–66), where he was welcomed as a highly valuable member of the Republic of Letters. He cared greatly about the circulation of his writings in France, and actually succeeded in establishing his reputation across the Channel. The History of England made him an outstanding historian, the Natural History of Religion an authoritative esprit fort, but it was the Essays that confirmed him as a subtle political thinker and, what he cared about most, as a profound philosopher in the eyes of his French readers. Before and besides being translated in the form of collections, many of Hume’s essays were translated, summarised, commented on, reviewed, and discussed individually, giving rise to a complex and divergent reception. The present chapter provides an overview of this reception, based on first-hand research on eighteenth-century French translations, reviews, commentaries and criticisms of the Essays.

CBT is, without a doubt, the most familiar psychological intervention. Nevertheless, it is not a unitary treatment. This is evidenced by the variability of CBT protocols used across clinical settings, which can vary in treatment components’ duration and format of delivery. This chapter outlines and focuses upon the diversity of interventions and approaches that fall under the category of CBTx as a system of therapeutics. It also provides rationale for why, given the variety of therapeutic interventions available, CBTx is well suited to a personalised medicine approach to ensure patients are getting the most appropriate treatment for their clinical presentation.

I mainly discuss revealed preference analysis, which assumes that choice results from maximization of personal welfare. Section 4.1 discusses revealed preference analysis in some generality. Section 4.2 focuses on identification of income-leisure preferences for evaluation of income tax policy. Whereas Sections 4.1 and 4.2 concern behavior in deterministic settings, Section 4.3 considers identification when it is assumed that individuals cope with uncertainty by maximizing expected utility. Going beyond revealed preference analysis, Section 4.4 discusses identification using subjective data in place of or in addition to observations of actual choices.

Chapter 3 presents a grandmother’s perspective on child rearing and cultural values in the household of two second-generation Chinese immigrant children. It explores the distribution of childcare responsibilities across generations, the values imparted to and instilled in the children, and the management of caring and teaching across languages at home. Drawing upon both narratives and recorded and transcribed interactions, it examines the family’s use of both Chinese and English during a range of recurrent speech events, such as having dinner, reading stories before bed, and doing homework after school.

A principal obstacle to protecting forced migrants is a legal regime that sharply distinguishes refugees from other migrants. But responses to migration are badly hobbled if they rely on a belief that this refugee–migrant line is clear. It would be a grave mistake to think that any country can dismiss forced migrants who reach its borders but fall outside the refugee definition. The disregard of displaced and suffering people is an unacceptable affront to human dignity. One way to rethink the protection of forced migrants is to understand that forced migrants are not just as survivors in flight, but multidimensional people who will shape the societies where they find protection. Just as it is essential to avoid the deceptive simplicity of a line between refugees and other migrants, it is also essential to consider opening up labor migration pathways to forced migrants who don’t qualify as refugees. Protection may also mean offering shelter that is provisionally temporary but available to a greater number of people. These two approaches to protection – coordination with labor migration and provisionally temporary protection – must be in addition to core protections based on the 1951 Refugee Convention.