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UNINA9910466146703321 |
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Milgrom Paul R (Paul Robert), <1948-> |
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Discovering prices : auction design in markets with complex constraints / / Paul Milgrom |
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New York : , : Columbia University Press, , 2017 |
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©2017 |
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1 online resource (247 pages) |
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Kenneth J. Arrow Lecture Series |
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Auction theory |
Auctions - Mathematical models |
Prices - Mathematical models |
Electronic books. |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. (Near-)Substitutes, Prices, and Stability -- 3. Vickrey Auctions and Substitution -- 4. Deferred-Acceptance Auctions and Near-Substitutes -- 5. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index |
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Traditional economic theory studies idealized markets in which prices alone can guide efficient allocation, with no need for central organization. Such models build from Adam Smith's famous concept of an invisible hand, which guides markets and renders regulation or interference largely unnecessary. Yet for many markets, prices alone are not enough to guide feasible and efficient outcomes, and regulation alone is not enough, either. Consider air traffic control at major airports. While prices could encourage airlines to take off and land at less congested times, prices alone do just part of the job; an air traffic control system is still indispensable to avoid disastrous consequences. With just an air traffic controller, however, limited resources can be wasted or poorly used. What's needed in this and many other real-world cases is an auction system that can effectively reveal prices while still maintaining enough direct control to ensure that complex constraints are satisfied.In Discovering Prices, Paul Milgrom-the world's |
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most frequently cited academic expert on auction design-describes how auctions can be used to discover prices and guide efficient resource allocations, even when resources are diverse, constraints are critical, and market-clearing prices may not even exist. Economists have long understood that externalities and market power both necessitate market organization. In this book, Milgrom introduces complex constraints as another reason for market design. Both lively and technical, Milgrom roots his new theories in real-world examples (including the ambitious U.S. incentive auction of radio frequencies, whose design he led) and provides economists with crucial new tools for dealing with the world's growing complex resource allocation problems. |
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UNINA9910828766503321 |
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Autore |
Silver Sean <1972-> |
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The mind is a collection : case studies in eighteenth-century thought / / Sean Silver |
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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1 online resource (381 p.) |
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Collectors and collecting - History - 17th century |
Collectors and collecting - History - 18th century |
Museums - Curatorship - England - London - History - 17th century |
Museums - Curatorship - England - London - History - 18th century |
Imagination (Philosophy) |
England Intellectual life 17th century |
England Intellectual life 18th century |
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Note generali |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Preface : Welcome To The Museum -- Introduction -- Case 1. Metaphor -- Case 2. Design -- Case 3. |
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Digression -- Case 4. Inwardness -- Case 5. Conception -- Case 6. Dispossession -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
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John Locke described the mind as a cabinet; Robert Hooke called it a repository; Joseph Addison imagined a drawer of medals. Each of these philosophers was an avid collector and curator of books, coins, and cultural artifacts. It is therefore no coincidence that when they wrote about the mental work of reason and imagination, they modeled their powers of intellect in terms of collecting, cataloging, and classification.The Mind Is a Collection approaches seventeenth- and eighteenth-century metaphors of the mind from a material point of view. Each of the book's six chapters is organized as a series of linked exhibits that speak to a single aspect of Enlightenment philosophies of mind. From his first chapter, on metaphor, to the last one, on dispossession, Sean Silver looks at ways that abstract theories referred to cognitive ecologies—systems crafted to enable certain kinds of thinking, such as libraries, workshops, notebooks, collections, and gardens. In doing so, he demonstrates the crossings-over of material into ideal, ideal into material, and the ways in which an idea might repeatedly turn up in an object, or a range of objects might repeatedly stand for an idea. A brief conclusion examines the afterlife of the metaphor of mind as collection, as it turns up in present-day cognitive studies. Modern cognitive theory has been applied to the microcomputer, and while the object is new, the habit is as old as the Enlightenment. By examining lived environments and embodied habits from 1660 to 1800, Silver demonstrates that the philosophical dualism that separated mind from body and idea from thing was inextricably established through active engagement with crafted ecologies. |
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UNINA9910557134803321 |
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Autore |
Glowacz Adam |
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Symmetry in Mechanical Engineering |
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Basel, Switzerland, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2020 |
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1 online resource (372 p.) |
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History of engineering and technology |
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Recent advancements in mechanical engineering are an essential topic for discussion. The topics relating to mechanical engineering include the following: measurements of signals of shafts, springs, belts, bearings, gears, rotors, machine elements, vibration analysis, acoustic analysis, fault diagnosis, construction, analysis of machine operation, analysis of smart-material systems, integrated systems, stresses, analysis of deformations, analysis of mechanical properties, signal processing of mechanical systems, and rotor dynamics. Mechanical engineering deals with solid and fluid mechanics, rotation, movements, materials, and thermodynamics. This book, with 15 published articles, presents the topic "Symmetry in Mechanical Engineering". The presented topic is interesting. It is categorized into eight different sections: Deformation; Stresses; Mechanical properties; Tribology; Thermodynamic; Measurement; Fault diagnosis; Machine. The development of techniques and methods related to mechanical engineering is growing every month. The described articles have made a contribution to mechanical engineering. The proposed research can find applications in factories, oil refineries, and mines. It is essential to develop new improved methods, techniques, and devices related to mechanical engineering. |
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