Personal influence : the part played by people in the flow of mass communications / by Elihu Katz and Paul F. Lazarsfeld ; with a foreword by Elmo Roper

• Record Nr.: UNINA990003153980403321
• Autore: Katz, Elihu
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Free Press of Glencoe, 1964
• Edizione: [paperback ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: XX, 400 p. ; 21 cm
• Collana: Foundations of communications research ; 2
• Altri autori (Persone): Lazarsfeld, Paul Felix <1901-1976>
• Locazione: SES
• Collocazione: 12340 KAT
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Sul front.: A report of the Bureau of applied social research, Columbia University
• Nota di bibliografia: Bibliografia: pp.381-393. Indici

The craft of economics [[electronic resource] ] : lessons from the Heckscher-Ohlin framework / / Edward E. Leamer

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910457197303321
• Autore: Leamer Edward E
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2012
• ISBN: 1-283-44894-7; 9786613448941; 0-262-30158-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (207 p.)
• Collana: Ohlin lectures series
• Disciplina: 382.01
• Soggetti: Heckscher-Ohlin principle; International trade - Econometric models; Economics; 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: Introduction -- The Heckscher-Ohlin framework as economic fiction -- The econometric journalism of the HO framework.
• Sommario/riassunto: In this spirited and provocative book, Edward Leamer turns an examination of the Heckscher--Ohlin framework for global competition into an opportunity to consider the craft of economics: what economists do, what they should do, and what they shouldn't do. Claiming "a lifetime relationship with Heckscher--Ohlin," Leamer argues that Bertil Ohlin's original idea offered something useful though vague and not necessarily valid; the economists who later translated his ideas into mathematical theorems offered something precise and valid but not necessarily useful. He argues further that the best economists keep formal and informal thinking in balance. An Ohlinesque mostly prose style can let in faulty thinking and fuzzy communication; a mostly math style allows misplaced emphasis and opaque communication. Leamer writes that today's model- and math-driven economics needs more prose and less math. Leamer shows that the Heckscher--Ohlin framework is still useful, and that there is still much work to be done with it. But he issues a caveat about economists: "What ; we do is not science, it's fiction and journalism." Economic theory, he writes, is fiction (stories, loosely connected to the facts); data analysis is journalism (facts, loosely connected to the stories). Rather than titling the two sections of his book Theory and Evidence, he calls them Economic Fiction and Econometric Journalism, explaining, "If you find that startling, that's good. I am trying to keep you awake."

Feminist readings of early modern culture : emerging subjets / edited by Valerie Traub, M.Lindsay Kaplan, Dympna Callaghan

• Record Nr.: UNIORUON00234191
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, : Press Syndicate of the University of Camgtidge, 1996
• ISBN: 05-215-5819-0
• Descrizione fisica: xv, 301 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. -
• Disciplina: 942.05
• Soggetti: DONNE E LETTERATURA - Gran Bretagna - Sec. 16.-17; FEMMINISMO E LETTERATURA - Gran Bretagna - Storia - Sec. 16.-17; RINASCIMENTO - Inghilterra; Sesso nella letteratura
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia