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Happiness :a revolution in economics
In this text a leading economist discusses the potential of happiness research (the qualification of well-being) to answer important questions that standard economics methods are unable to analyze. Emphasizing empirical evidence rather than theoretical conjectures, Frey substantiates the need for happiness research.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262273213
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 240 pages) :illustrations.
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Sustainability of public debt
This collection is an analysis of the theoretical foundations of public debt sustainability concepts and their application to the empirical study of actual budgetary policies. The contributors to this volume consider whether the development of public debt in the United States and six EU countries is sustainable.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262280495
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- 1 online resource (vi, 271 pages) :illustrations.
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Revisiting Keynes :economic possibilities for our grandchildren
Leading economists revisit a provocative essay by John Maynard Keynes, debating Keynes's vision of growth, inequality, work leisure, entrepreneurship, consumerism, and the search for happiness in the twenty-first century.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262281331
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- 1 online resource (viii, 215 pages) :illustrations
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The copyright book :a practical guide
This edition has been thoroughly updated to cover copyright developments in the law since 2000. There is expanded coverage of infringement and fair use, with detailed discussion of recent decisions, including the Grateful Dead, Google, and HathiTrust cases. It considers such topics as open access, the defeat of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), file sharing, e-reserves, the status of "orphan w…
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- Sixth edition.
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- 9780262323505
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- 1 online resource
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Art school :(propositions for the 21st century)
Leading international artists and art educators consider the challenges of art education in today's dramatically changed art world.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262259040
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- 1 online resource (xi, 373 pages) :illustrations
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H.G. Bronn, Ernst Haeckel, and the origins of German Darwinism :a study in tr…
A revisionist view of the history of German Darwinism examines the translation of Darwin's work and its early reception in Germany. Gliboff tells the story of how Heinrich Georg Bronn translated the book into German, and traces Bronn's influence on German Darwinism through the career of Ernst Haeckel.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262273923
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- 1 online resource (xii, 259 pages).
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Children and pensions
An analysis of the effect of public pension schemes on a country's fertility rate and a proposal for policies to reform pension coverage in light of this.The rapidly aging populations of many developed countries--most notably Japan and member countries of the European Union--present obvious problems for the public pension plans of these countries. Not only will there be disproportionately fewer…
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- 9780262270342
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- 1 online resource (xxiii, 204 pages) :illustrations.
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Handbook of mobile communication studies
This volume offers a view of the cultural, interpersonal and family consequences of mobile communication across the globe. The contributors analyse the effects of moble communications on all aspects of life, from the relationship between literacy and the textual features of phones, to the use of ringtones as a form of social exchange.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262276818
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- 1 online resource (ix, 472 pages) :illustrations, map
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Advances in neural information processing systems 19 :proceedings of the 2006…
The annual Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) conference is the flagship meeting on neural computation and machine learning. This volume contains the papers presented at the December 2006 meeting, held in Vancouver.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262256919
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- 1 online resource (xxiv, 1643 pages) :illustrations.
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Things and places :how the mind connects with the world
"A Bradford book."Problems in linking representation and perceived things in the world are discussed in light of the role played by a preconceptual indexing mechanism that functions to identify, reidentify, and track objects.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262282000
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 255 pages) :illustrations.
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