This introductory book emphasizes algorithms and applications, and is accessible to a broad audience. The author alternates between theory and applications in order to illustrate the mathematics. This second edition includes many new exercises and worked examples, and has been reorganized to improve presentation and clarity of exposition.
Introduction.- Summoning the Collective Will and Courage to Seek Economic Justice.- Economic Justice in Post-Covid India: A Macroeconomic Perspective.- Labour Reforms and Economic Justice: Inequality, Pandemic and Regionalism.- Women, Work and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Paving the Path Forward.- Whither Adivasi Livelihoods? A Longitudinal Study of a Bhil Village in Gujarat.- Degrowth, Diversity and Decentralization: Building Sustainable Food Systems for Food and Nutrition Security.- Impact of Covid-19, Lockdowns and Economic Slowdown on Food and Nutrition Security in India.- Principles for Water Governance in a Post-Covid World: Water Sector Needs to be Embedded in Environmental Justice.- Water Management Priorities in a Post-Covid World.- Seeing Water Differently: Transforming the Narrative around Water Crises in India.- Reclaiming their Place in the City: Narratives of Street Food Vendors of Bengaluru during the Covid Crisis.- Whose Knowledge Makes a City Smart? Exploring Conceptions of the Role of Knowledge in Urban Policy in Indore, India.- Transforming India's Agrarian Society in a Post-Covid World: Prospects and Challenges.- The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Female Domestic Workers in an Urban setting.- Youth Unemployment, Education and Job Training - An Analysis of PLFS data in India.