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UNINA9910457554303321 |
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Autore |
Samuels Warren J. <1933-> |
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Titolo |
Erasing the invisible hand : essays on an elusive and misused concept in economics / / Warren J. Samuels ; with the assistance of Marianne F. Johnson and William H. Perry [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2011 |
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1-107-21593-5 |
1-139-12419-6 |
1-283-31629-3 |
1-139-12228-2 |
9786613316295 |
1-139-11218-X |
1-139-12720-9 |
1-139-11654-1 |
0-511-83523-X |
1-139-11437-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xxviii, 329 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Free enterprise |
Economics |
Capitalism |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Adam Smith's invisible hand and the Nobel prize in economic sciences -- The political economy of Adam Smith -- On the identities and functions attributed to the invisible hand -- Adam Smith's history of astronomy argument : how broadly does it apply? And where do propositions that 'sooth the imagination' come from? -- The invisible hand, decision making, and working things out: conceptual and substantive problems -- The invisible hand in an uncertain world with an uncertain language -- The invisible hand as knowledge -- The invisible hand and the economic role of government -- The survival requirement of Pareto optimality -- Conclusions and further insights. |
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This book examines the use, principally in economics, of the concept of the invisible hand, centering on Adam Smith. It interprets the concept as ideology, knowledge, and a linguistic phenomenon. It shows how the principal Chicago School interpretation misperceives and distorts what Smith believed on the economic role of government. The essays further show how Smith was silent as to his intended meaning, using the term to set minds at rest; how the claim that the invisible hand is the foundational concept of economics is repudiated by numerous leading economic theorists; that several dozen identities given the invisible hand renders the term ambiguous and inconclusive; that no such thing as an invisible hand exists; and that calling something an invisible hand adds nothing to knowledge. Finally, the essays show that the leading doctrines purporting to claim an invisible hand for the case for capitalism cannot invoke the term but that other nonnormative invisible hand processes are still useful tools. |
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UNINA9910458113103321 |
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Singer Michael A (Michael Allan), <1940-> |
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Comparative physiology, natural animal models, and clinical medicine [[electronic resource] ] : insights into clinical medicine from animal adaptations / / Michael A. Singer |
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London, : Imperial College Press, c2007 |
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1-281-86755-1 |
9786611867553 |
1-86094-949-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (292 p.) |
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Diseases - Animal models |
Physiology, Comparative |
Laboratory animals |
Electronic books. |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1 Diabetes Mellitus; Introduction; Blood Glucose Values in Birds; Do Birds Suffer Adverse Consequences from a High Blood Glucose Concentration; Anatomic and Physiologic Design Features; Eye; Retinal nutrient supply; Retinal vascularization in mammals; Avian and mammalian retinal physiology and development; Diabetic retinopathy; Kidney; Kidney anatomy and function in birds and mammals; Diabetic nephropathy; (a) Renal glucose transporters; (b) Juxtaglomerular apparatus; Glycated hemoglobin; Concluding Remarks and Future Research; References |
Chapter 2 Chronic Renal FailureIntroduction; Metabolic Rate and Renal Function; Nitrogen and Urea Metabolism and Protein Turnover; Nitrogen and urea metabolism; Urea transport proteins; Protein turnover; Alterations in urea and protein metabolism in chronic renal failure; Additional Aspects of Renal Failure; Natural Animal Model; Bear and Small Mammal Hibernators; Concluding Remarks and Future Directions; References; Chapter 3 Atherosclerotic Vascular Disease; Introduction; Atherosclerosis in Mammals; Biology of the Arterial System: Implications for the Genesis of Atherosclerosis in Mammals |
Genesis of Atherosclerotic LesionsNatural Animal Model: The Fish; Fish Coronary Circulation; Fish Coronary Artery Thickenings; Genesis of Fish Lesions; Biomechanical Factors in Fish; Dietary In.uences and Role of Cholesterol in Fish; Biology of the Vascular Smooth Muscle in Fish; Concluding Remarks: What Can We Learn From the Fish as a Natural Model?; References; Chapter 4 Disuse Osteoporosis and Disuse Muscle Atrophy; Disuse Osteoporosis; Bone biology; Parathyroid hormone (PTH); Vitamin D; Leptin; Mechanical stress; Disuse osteoporosis |
Natural animal model: American black bear (Ursus americanus)Bone homeostasis in the bear: research questions; Disuse Muscle Atrophy; Maintenance of muscle mass; Protein degradation: mechanisms; Animal models; Studies in humans and small mammal hibernators; Humans; Small mammal hibernators; Natural animal model: the American black bear; The bear: a perspective; References; Chapter 5 Ammonia Toxicity; Ammonia Tolerance and Metabolism; Ammonia tolerance; Ammonia metabolism; Brain Ammonia Metabolism; Glutamatergic Neurons; General considerations (Purves et al., 2004) |
Glutamate, a Neurotransmitter and the "Glutamate-Glutamine" CycleMechanism of Ammonia Neurotoxicity; Neuropathological effects; Effects on Brain Energy Metabolism; Effects on Glutamatergic Synapses; Ammonia and the Fish Central Nervous System; Role of glutamine; Glutamate; Brain energy metabolism; NMDA receptors; Summary; References; Chapter 6 Hypoxia/Ischemia; Cerebral Blood Flow: Its Regulation; Brain Energy Metabolism; Oxygen and Oxygen/Glucose Deprivation and the Brain; General features of neuronal response; Anoxia tolerant mammalian neurons; Neonatal brain; Dorsal vagal neurons |
Neonatal neurons |
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This book describes a novel and unique approach to the treatment of human diseases based on the study of natural animal models. A natural animal model is defined as an animal group or species that possesses a set of biochemical/physiological characteristics which are natural and adaptive for that animal, but are quite abnormal for humans. For example, how is it that birds can tolerate blood glucose concentrations which in humans are associated with diabetes. The natural animal model is living proof that a biological answer to this question is available. By studying natural animal models, we ca |
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UNINA9910476934603321 |
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Autore |
Schwärzler Monika |
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At Face Value and Beyond : Photographic Constructions of Reality / / Monika Schwärzler |
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Bielefeld, Germany, : transcript Verlag, 2016 |
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Bielefeld : , : transcript-Verlag, , [2016] |
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©2016 |
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[1. Aufl.] |
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Collana |
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Fine Arts |
Image |
Imagery |
Media |
Visual Culture |
Visual Literacy |
Visual Studies |
ART / Criticism |
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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgment -- Inhalt -- Introductory Remarks -- Conscious and Semi-Conscious States of the Camera -- Dressed to Suffer and Redeem -- Blocked View and Impeded Vision -- Unedited Glamor -- Lost in Pleasure -- Death Can Wait -- "The Beast" -- Denigrative Views -- The White Handbag -- References |
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How to account for the peculiar attraction of certain photos? How to deal with the specific use of images in particular contexts? Monika Schwärzler presents a variety of photographic case studies exploring visual phenomena from the point of view of media analysis as well as from sociological, aesthetic, and psychoanalytic perspectives. The topics range from a new reading of Thomas Struth's street photographs to CERN photos with their charged rhetoric, from the assault of |
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photographic close-ups to speculations on an anonymous slide collection featuring a woman with an ever-present white handbag. The book is intended for an audience receptive to the analytical appeal of images, prepared to go beyond what can be taken at face value. |
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