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The importance of small decisions :how culture evolves
How people make decisions in an era of too much information and fake news. Humans originally evolved in a world of few choices. Prehistoric, preindustrial, and predigital eras required fewer decisions than today's all-access, always-on world of too much information. Economists have largely discarded the idea that agents act rationally and the market follows suit. It seems that no matter how sma…
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- 1 online resource (160 pages) :illustrations.
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Renewables :the politics of a global energy transition
A comprehensive political analysis of the rapid growth in renewable wind and solar power, mapping an energy transition through theory, case studies, and policy.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Perception beyond Inference: The Information Content of Visual Processes
Proposing a new paradigm for perceptual science that goes beyond standard information theory and digital computation. This book breaks with the conventional model of perception that views vision as a mere inference to an objective reality on the basis of "inverse optics." The authors offer the alternative view that perception is an expressive and awareness-generating process. Perception creates…
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- 1 online resource (ix, 445 pages) :illustrations
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Capital markets union and beyond
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- 9780262354264
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- 1 online resource (384 pages).
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Big is beautiful :debunking the myth of small business
"Why small business is not the basis of American prosperity, not the foundation of American democracy, and not the champion of job creation. In this provocative book, Robert Atkinson and Michael Lind argue that small business is not, as is widely claimed, the basis of American prosperity. Small business is not responsible for most of the country's job creation and innovation. American democracy…
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Critical Perspectives on Open Development: Empirical Interrogation of Theory …
Over the last ten years, “open” innovations—the sharing of information and communications resources without access restrictions or cost—have emerged within international development. But do these innovations empower poor and marginalized populations? This book examines whether, for whom, and under what circumstances the free, networked, public sharing of information and communication re…
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Escaping the energy poverty trap :when and how governments power the lives of…
The first comprehensive political science account of energy poverty, arguing that governments can improve energy access for their citizens through appropriate policy design.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 1 online resource (viii, 317 pages)
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What Is Health?: Allostasis and the Evolution of Human Design
An argument that health is optimal responsiveness and is often best treated at the system level. Medical education centers on the venerable “no-fault” concept of homeostasis, whereby local mechanisms impose constancy by correcting errors, and the brain serves mainly for emergencies. Yet, it turns out that most parameters are not constant; moreover, despite the importance of local mechanism…
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Spontaneous Venturing: An Entrepreneurial Approach to Alleviating Suffering i…
Identifying a new approach to disaster response: spontaneous, compassionate, and impromptu actions to alleviate suffering. In Spontaneous Venturing, Dean Shepherd and Trenton Williams identify and describe a new approach for responding to disaster and suffering: the local organizing of spontaneous, compassionate, and impromptu actions—the rapid emergence of a compassionate venture. This ap…
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Developing Scaffolds in Evolution, Culture, and Cognition
Empirical and philosophical perspectives on scaffolding that highlight the role of temporal and temporary resources in development across concepts of culture, cognition, and evolution.
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