1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910777591003321

Autore

McConachie Bruce A

Titolo

American theater in the culture of the Cold War [[electronic resource] ] : producing and contesting containment, 1947-1962 / / Bruce McConachie

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2003

ISBN

1-58729-447-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (365 p.)

Collana

Studies in theatre history & culture

Disciplina

792/.0973

792/.0973/0945

Soggetti

Theater - United States - History - 20th century

American drama - 20th century - History and criticism

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 (p. [301]-333) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 A Theater of Containment Liberalism; 2 Empty Boys, Queer Others, and Consumerism; 3 Family Circles, Racial Others, and Suburbanization; 4 Fragmented Heroes, Female Others, and the Bomb; Epilogue; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In this groundbreaking study, Bruce McConachie uses the primary metaphor of containment-what happens when we categorize a play, a television show, or anything we view as having an inside, an outside, and a boundary between the two-as the dominant metaphor of cold war theatergoing. Drawing on the cognitive psychology and linguistics of George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, he provides unusual access to the ways in which spectators in the cold war years projected themselves into stage figures that gave them pleasure.McConachie reconstructs these cognitive processes by relying



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910784304203321

Autore

Hurwicz Leonid

Titolo

Designing economic mechanisms / / Leonid Hurwicz, Stanley Reiter [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2006

ISBN

1-107-16145-2

1-280-48029-7

0-511-22048-0

0-511-22099-5

0-511-21900-8

0-511-30896-5

0-511-75425-6

0-511-21968-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 344 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Classificazione

83.03

Disciplina

330.01/5195

Soggetti

Economics, Mathematical

Economics - Mathematical models

Mathematical optimization

Game theory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-340) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; One Mechanisms and Mechanism Design; Two From Goals to Means: Constructing Mechanisms; Three Designing Informationally Efficient Mechanisms Using the Language of Sets; Four Revelation Mechanisms; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

A mechanism is a mathematical structure that models institutions through which economic activity is guided and coordinated. There are many such institutions; markets are the most familiar ones. Lawmakers, administrators and officers of private companies create institutions in order to achieve desired goals. They seek to do so in ways that economize on the resources needed to operate the institutions, and that provide incentives that induce the required behaviors. This book



presents systematic procedures for designing mechanisms that achieve specified performance, and economize on the resources required to operate the mechanism. The systematic design procedures are algorithms for designing informationally efficient mechanisms. Most of the book deals with these procedures of design. When there are finitely many environments to be dealt with, and there is a Nash-implementing mechanism, our algorithms can be used to make that mechanism into an informationally efficient one. Informationally efficient dominant strategy implementation is also studied.