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Collision course : endless growth on a finite planet / / Kerryn Higgs
| Collision course : endless growth on a finite planet / / Kerryn Higgs |
| Autore | Higgs Kerryn <1946-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (411 p.) |
| Disciplina | 330.9 |
| Soggetto topico |
Economic history - 1971-1990
Economic history - 1990- Economic development - Moral and ethical aspects Economic policy - Moral and ethical aspects Free enterprise Sustainable development |
| Soggetto non controllato |
ENVIRONMENT/General
ECONOMICS/General ECONOMICS/Environmental Economics |
| ISBN |
0-262-32092-4
0-262-52969-6 0-262-32091-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations and Acronyms; Introduction; I Growth and Its Challengers; 1 Economic Growth: Origins; 2 Economic Growth: Perceptions; 3 The Limits to Growth Debate: Precursors and Beginnings; 4 The Limits to Growth and Its Critics; II Chasing Growth; 5 Growth and Consumerism; 6 The Rise of Free Market Fundamentalism; 7 "Development" and Globalization: Exporting Growth; 8 Growth and "Sustainable Development"; 9 Growth and Its Outcomes for the Poor; III Persuading the People; 10 Propaganda: "Business Finds Its Voice"; 11 Sleight of the Invisible Hand
12 The Free Market Assault on Environmental Science13 International Brakes on Environmental Priorities; IV In Conclusion; 14 The Limits to Growth after Forty Years; 15 Conclusion: The Planet and the Pie; Appendix: Selected Critics of Growth, 2013; Notes; References; Index |
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| Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , 2014 | ||
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The craft of economics : lessons from the Heckscher-Ohlin framework / / Edward E. Leamer
| The craft of economics : lessons from the Heckscher-Ohlin framework / / Edward E. Leamer |
| Autore | Leamer Edward E. |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (207 p.) |
| Disciplina | 382.01 |
| Collana | The Ohlin lectures |
| Soggetto topico |
Heckscher-Ohlin principle
International trade - Econometric models Economics |
| Soggetto non controllato | ECONOMICS/General |
| ISBN |
0-262-30083-4
1-283-44894-7 9786613448941 0-262-30158-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- The Heckscher-Ohlin framework as economic fiction -- The econometric journalism of the HO framework. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778817803321 |
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Leamer Edward E.
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| Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2012 | ||
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Educating all children : a global agenda / / Joel E. Cohen, David E. Bloom, and Martin B. Malin, editors
| Educating all children : a global agenda / / Joel E. Cohen, David E. Bloom, and Martin B. Malin, editors |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : American Academy of Arts and Sciences, : MIT Press, ©2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (616 p.) |
| Disciplina | 379.2/6091724 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
CohenJoel E
BloomDavid E <1955-> (David Elliot) MalinMartin B |
| Soggetto topico |
Educational equalization - Developing countries
Education - Developing countries - Finance |
| Soggetto non controllato |
EDUCATION/General
ECONOMICS/General |
| ISBN |
1-282-09726-1
9786612097263 0-262-27052-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; FOREWORD The Way Forward for Universal Education; INTRODUCTION Universal Basic and Secondary Education; CHAPTER 1 Measuring Global Educational Progress; CHAPTER 2 Lessons from the Past: A Comparative Socio-Historical Analysis of Primary and Secondary Education; CHAPTER 3 Political Obstacles to Expanding and Improving Schooling in Developing Countries; CHAPTER 4 Using Assessment to Improve Education in Developing Nations; CHAPTER 5 Evaluating Educational Interventions in Developing Countries
CHAPTER 6 Expanding Educational Opportunity on a Budget: Lessons from Randomized EvaluationsCHAPTER 7 Attaining Universal Primary Schooling by 2015: An Evaluation of Cost Estimates; CHAPTER 8 The Cost of Providing Universal Secondary Education in Developing Countries; CHAPTER 9 Global Educational Expansion and Socio-Economic Development: An Assessment of Findings from the Social Sciences; CHAPTER 10 Education, Health, and Development; Contributors; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782640903321 |
| Cambridge, Mass., : American Academy of Arts and Sciences, : MIT Press, ©2006 | ||
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An engine, not a camera : how financial models shape markets / / Donald MacKenzie
| An engine, not a camera : how financial models shape markets / / Donald MacKenzie |
| Autore | MacKenzie Donald A |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (392 p.) |
| Disciplina | 332/.01/5195 |
| Collana | Inside technology |
| Soggetto topico |
Capital market - Mathematical models
Derivative securities - Mathematical models Financial crises - Mathematical models Financial crises |
| Soggetto non controllato |
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/General
ECONOMICS/Finance ECONOMICS/General |
| ISBN |
0-262-25004-7
1-282-09767-9 9786612097676 0-262-27880-4 1-4237-7448-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Acknowledgements; 1 Performing Theory?; 2 Transforming Finance; 3 Theory and Practice; 4 Tests, Anomalies, and Monsters; 5 Pricing Options; 6 Pits, Bodies, and Theorems; 7 The Fall; 8 Arbitrage; 9 Models and Markets; Appendix A An Example of Modigliani and Miller's "Arbitrage Proof" of the Irrelevance of Capital Structure to Total Market Value; Appendix B Lévy Distributions; Appendix C Sprenkle's and Kassouf's Equations for Warrant Prices; Appendix D The Black-Scholes Equation for a European Option on a Non- Dividend-Bearing Stock; Appendix E Pricing Options in a Binomial World
Appendix F Repo, Haircuts, and Reverse RepoAppendix G A Typical Swap-Spread Arbitrage Trade; Appendix H List of Interviewees; Glossary; Notes; Sources of Unpublished Documents; References; Series List; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777513803321 |
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MacKenzie Donald A
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| Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2006 | ||
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Evolution and the mechanisms of decision making / / edited by Peter Hammerstein and Jeffrey R. Stevens
| Evolution and the mechanisms of decision making / / edited by Peter Hammerstein and Jeffrey R. Stevens |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, MA, : MIT Press, ©2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (447 p.) |
| Disciplina | 153.8/3 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
HammersteinPeter <1949->
StevensJeffrey R. <1974-> |
| Collana | Strüngmann forum reports |
| Soggetto topico |
Decision making
Cognition |
| Soggetto non controllato |
COGNITIVE SCIENCES/General
BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES/Evolution ECONOMICS/General |
| ISBN |
1-283-87014-2
0-262-30602-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
""11 Modularity and Decision Making""""12 Robustness in a Variable Environment""; ""Variation in Decision Making""; ""13 Biological Analogs of Personality""; ""14 Sources of Variation within the Individual""; ""15 Variation in Decision Making""; ""Evolutionary Perspectives on Social Cognition""; ""16 The Cognitive Underpinnings of Social Behavior""; ""17 Early Social Cognition: How Psychological Mechanisms Can Inform Models of Decision Making""; ""18 Who Cares? Other-Regarding Concerns� Decisions with Feeling""; ""19 Learning, Cognitive Limitations, and the Modeling of Social Behavior""
""20 Evolutionary Perspectives on Social Cognition""""Bibliography""; ""Subject Index"" |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910779367503321 |
| Cambridge, MA, : MIT Press, ©2012 | ||
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A Final Accounting : Philosophical and Empirical Issues in Freudian Psychology
| A Final Accounting : Philosophical and Empirical Issues in Freudian Psychology |
| Autore | Erwin Edward |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, : MIT Press, Dec. 1995 |
| Descrizione fisica | xvi, 322 p |
| Disciplina | 150.19/52 |
| Soggetto topico | Psychoanalysis |
| Soggetto non controllato | ECONOMICS/General |
| ISBN |
0-262-26253-3
0-262-27240-7 0-585-00306-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778638503321 |
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Erwin Edward
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| Cambridge, : MIT Press, Dec. 1995 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Grounding social sciences in cognitive sciences / / edited by Ron Sun
| Grounding social sciences in cognitive sciences / / edited by Ron Sun |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (467 p.) |
| Disciplina | 302 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | SunRon <1960-> |
| Soggetto topico |
Cognitive science
Social sciences |
| Soggetto non controllato |
COGNITIVE SCIENCES/General
ECONOMICS/General SOCIAL SCIENCES/Political Science/General |
| ISBN |
1-283-63774-X
0-262-30540-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Preface; I INTRODUCTION; 1 Prolegomena to Cognitive Social Sciences; II CULTURE; 2 Mapping Minds across Cultures; 3 Cognitive Basis of Culture and Cultural Processes; 4 Egocentric and Allocentric Perspective in Cultural Models; III POLITICS; 5 Emotional Underpinnings of Political Behavior; 6 Theory and Practice in Political Discourse Research; 7 Cognition and Moral Choice; IV RELIGION; 8 Psychological Origins and Cultural Evolution of Religion; 9 Religion: From Mind to Society and Back; 10 Ritual, Cognition, and Evolution; V ECONOMICS
11 Cognitive Variables and Parameters in Economic Models 12 Neuroeconomics: How Neuroscience Can Inform the Social Sciences; 13 Cognitive Aging and Human Capital; VI UNIFYING PERSPECTIVES; 14 Going Cognitive: Tools for Rebuilding the Social Sciences; 15 Role of Cognitive Processes in Unifying the Behavioral Sciences; Contributors; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791934403321 |
| Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2012 | ||
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Happiness : a revolution in economics / / Bruno S. Frey, in collaboration with Alois Stutzer, Matthias Benz, Stephan Meier, Simon Luechinger, and Christine Benesch
| Happiness : a revolution in economics / / Bruno S. Frey, in collaboration with Alois Stutzer, Matthias Benz, Stephan Meier, Simon Luechinger, and Christine Benesch |
| Autore | Frey Bruno S. |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Massachusetts, : MIT Press, ©2008 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xiii, 240 p.) : ill |
| Disciplina | 330.01 |
| Collana | Munich lectures in economics |
| Soggetto topico |
Happiness - Economic aspects
Economics - Psychological aspects |
| Soggetto non controllato |
ECONOMICS/General
COGNITIVE SCIENCES/Psychology/General |
| ISBN |
0-262-26072-7
1-282-10016-5 9786612100161 0-262-27321-7 1-4356-4788-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Series foreword -- Preface -- Major developments -- Research on happiness -- The relationship of happiness to utility -- How income affects happiness -- How unemployment affects happiness -- How inflation and inequality affect happiness -- Pushing ahead -- The public sphere -- Self-employment and voluntary work -- Marriage and happiness -- Watching television -- Procedural utility -- Mispredicting utility -- The value of public goods -- Policy consequences -- Happiness policies -- Happiness and political institutions -- A revolution in economics -- References -- Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781807303321 |
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Frey Bruno S.
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| Cambridge, Massachusetts, : MIT Press, ©2008 | ||
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Heredity, Family, and Inequality : a Critique of Social Sciences / / Michael Beenstock
| Heredity, Family, and Inequality : a Critique of Social Sciences / / Michael Beenstock |
| Autore | Beenstock Michael <1946-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (483 p.) |
| Disciplina | 155.2/34 |
| Soggetto topico |
Nature and nurture - Econometric models
Heredity Families Equality Social stratification |
| Soggetto non controllato |
BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES/General
SOCIAL SCIENCES/Sociology ECONOMICS/General |
| ISBN | 0-262-30138-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910789891603321 |
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Beenstock Michael <1946->
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| Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2012 | ||
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Heuristics and the law / / edited by G. Gigerenzer and C. Engel
| Heuristics and the law / / edited by G. Gigerenzer and C. Engel |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press in cooperation with Dahlem University Press, ©2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (502 p.) |
| Disciplina | 340/.1 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
GigerenzerGerd
EngelChristoph <1956-> |
| Collana | [Dahlem workshop reports] |
| Soggetto topico |
Law - Methodology
Heuristic |
| Soggetto non controllato |
ECONOMICS/General
SOCIAL SCIENCES/Political Science/Public Policy & Law |
| ISBN |
0-262-29340-4
1-282-09741-5 9786612097416 0-262-27382-9 1-4294-1609-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
DahlemWorkshops; List of Participants; Preface; 1 Law and Heuristics; 2 Heuristics; 3 The Problems with Heuristics for Law; 4 Social Dilemmas Revisited from a Heuristics Perspective; 5 Heuristics inside the Firm; 6 Group Report: Are Heuristics a Problem or a Solution?; 7 The Optimal Complexity of Legal Rules; 8 Bottom-up versus Top-down Lawmaking; 9 Evolutionary Psychology,Moral Heuristics, and the Law; 10 The Evolutionary and Cultural Origins of Heuristics That Influence Lawmaking; 11 Group Report: What Is the Role of Heuristics in Making Law?; 12 Heuristics for Applying Laws to Facts
13 Heuristics in Procedural Law14 Train Our Jurors; 15 Rules of Evidence as Heuristics-Heuristics as Rules of Evidence; 16 Group Report: What Is the Role of Heuristics in Litigation?; 17 Adapt or Optimize?; 18 Do Legal Rules Rule Behavior?; 19 ShouldWe Use Decision Aids or Gut Feelings?; 20 Law, Information, and Choice; 21 Group Report: How Do Heuristics Mediate the Impact of Law on Behavior?; Author Index; Name Index; Subject Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777620903321 |
| Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press in cooperation with Dahlem University Press, ©2006 | ||
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