1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910451945203321

Autore

Delanty Gerard

Titolo

Modernity and postmodernity [[electronic resource] ] : knowledge, power and the self / / Gerard Delanty

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : SAGE, c2000

ISBN

1-4462-6529-3

0-7619-5903-3

1-283-88054-7

1-4462-3303-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (211 p.)

Disciplina

300/.1

Soggetti

Postmodernism - Social aspects

Social sciences - Philosophy

Sociology - Philosophy

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1 - The Discourses of Modernity; Chapter 2 - Modernity and Secularization; Chapter 3 - The Pathogenesis of Modernity; Chapter 4 - The Impossibility of Modernity; Chapter 5 - Rescuing Modernity; Chapter 6 - Postmodernism and the Possibility of Community; Chapter 7 - From Modernity to Postmodernity; Chapter 8 - Further Reflections; Notes; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Gerard Delanty evaluates with economy and precision the work of the Frankfurt School, Arendy, Strauss, Luhmann, Habermas Heller, Castoriadis and Touraine. He then moves on to consider Lyotard, Vattimo, Derrida, Foucault and Jameson.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910830351403321

Autore

Kleiber Christian <1966->

Titolo

Statistical size distributions in economics and actuarial sciences [[electronic resource] /] / Christian Kleiber, Samuel Kotz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, NJ, : Wiley, 2003

ISBN

1-280-36604-4

9786610366040

0-470-24806-8

0-471-45716-7

0-471-45717-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (354 p.)

Collana

Wiley series in probability and statistics

Altri autori (Persone)

KotzSamuel

Disciplina

330.015195

339.2/2

339.22

Soggetti

Distribution (Economic theory)

Economies of scale

Economics, Mathematical

Insurance - Mathematics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Statistical Size Distributions in Economics and Actuarial Sciences; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Our Aims; 1.2 Types of Economic Size Distributions; 1.3 Brief History of the Models for Studying Economic Size Distributions; 1.4 Stochastic Process Models for Size Distributions; 2 General Principles; 2.1 Some Concepts from Economics; 2.2 Hazard Rates, Mean Excess Functions, and Tailweight; 2.3 Systems of Distributions; 2.4 Generating Systems of Income Distributions; 3 Pareto Distributions; 3.1 Definition; 3.2 History and Genesis; 3.3 Moments and Other Basic Properties

3.4 Characterizations3.5 Lorenz Curve and Inequality Measures; 3.6 Estimation; 3.7 Empirical Results; 3.8 Stoppa Distributions; 3.9 Conic Distribution; 3.10 A ""Log-Adjusted" Pareto distribution; 3.11 Stable Distributions; 3.12 Further Pareto-Type Distributions; 4 Lognormal Distributions; 4.1 Definition; 4.2 History and Genesis; 4.3 Moments and



Other Basic Properties; 4.4 Characterizations; 4.5 Lorenz Curve and Inequality Measures; 4.6 Estimation; 4.7 Three- and Four-Parameter Lognormal Distributions; 4.8 Multivariate Lognormal Distribution; 4.9 Empirical Results

4.10 Generalized Lognormal Distribution4.11 An Asymmetric Log-Laplace Distribution; 4.12 Related Distributions; 5 Gamma-Type Size Distributions; 5.1 Generalized Gamma Distribution; 5.2 Gamma Distribution; 5.3 Log-Gamma Distribution; 5.4 Inverse Gamma (Vinci) Distribution; 5.5 Weibull Distribution; 5.6 Log-Gompertz Distribution; 6 Beta-Type Size Distributions; 6.1 (Generalized) Beta Distribution of the Second Kind; 6.2 Singh-Maddala Distribution; 6.3 Dagum Distributions; 6.4 Fisk (Log-Logistic) and Lomax Distributions; 6.5 (Generalized) Beta Distribution of the First Kind

7 Miscellaneous Size Distributions7.1 Benini Distribution; 7.2 Davis Distribution; 7.3 Champernowne Distribution; 7.4 Benktander Distributions; Appendix A Biographies; A.1 Vilfredo Federico Domaso Pareto, Marchese di Parigi; A.2 Rodolfo Benini; A.3 Max Otto Lorenz; A.4 Corrado Gini; A.5 Luigi Amoroso; A.6 Raffaele D'Addario; A.7 Robert Pierre Louis Gibrat; A.8 David Gawen Champernowne; Appendix B Data on Size Distributions; Appendix C Size Distributions; List of Symbols; References; Author Index; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

A comprehensive account of economic size distributions around the world and throughout the years In the course of the past 100 years, economists and applied statisticians have developed a remarkably diverse variety of income distribution models, yet no single resource convincingly accounts for all of these models, analyzing their strengths and weaknesses, similarities and differences. Statistical Size Distributions in Economics and Actuarial Sciences is the first collection to systematically investigate a wide variety of parametric models that deal with income, wealth, and related notions.<p