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Understanding global crises : an emerging paradigm
This book offers a review of an emerging paradigm that is consistent with the key features of recent global financial crises. This paradigm presents in a transparent way basic analytical elements of the theories of financial and monetary crises and how these elements fit together in macroeconomic analysis of global crises. Razin surveys the credit implosion that led to a severe banking crisis i…
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- 9780262327701
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A case for climate engineering
A leading scientist argues that we must consider deploying climate engineering technology to slow the pace of global warming."Climate engineering -- which could slow the pace of global warming by injecting reflective particles into the upper atmosphere -- has emerged in recent years as an extremely controversial technology. And for good reason: it carries unknown risks and it may undermine comm…
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- 9781461943839
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- 1 online resource (xxiii, 194 pages).
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Re-reasoning ethics :the rationality of deliberation and judgment in ethics
How developing a more expansive, non-formal conception of reason produces richer ethical understandings of human situations, explored and illustrated with many real examples.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262345637
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 296 pages).
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Efficient cognition :the evolution of representational decision making
An argument that representational decision making is more cognitively efficient, allowing an organism to adjust more easily to changes in the environment.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262345262
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Managing equity portfolios : a behavioural approach to improving skills and i…
A groundbreaking framework for improving portfolio performance that goes beyond traditional analytics, offering new ways to understand investment skills, process, and behaviors.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262323017
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- 1 online resource (xxii, 277 pages) :illustrations
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Hanan al-cinema : affections for the moving image
An examination of experimental cinema and media art from the Arabic-speaking world that explores filmmakers' creative and philosophical inventiveness in trying times.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262331074
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- 1 online resource (xii, 400 pages) :illustrations.
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Engineers and the making of the Francoist regime
In the 20th century, science and technology became central to territorial transformation and in turn to state building. This was no less true for the Francoist regime. Engineers were not just working 'under' the dictatorship, but became active participants within it. This book traces concrete material objects in their way from laboratories onto the Spanish landscape. The material history of the…
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- 9780262323222
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 298 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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A History of Chile, 1808–2002
A History of Chile chronicles the nation's political, social, and economic evolution from its independence until the early years of the Lagos regime. Employing primary and secondary materials, it explores the growth of Chile's agricultural economy, during which the large landed estates appeared; the nineteenth-century wheat and mining booms; the rise of the nitrate mines; their replacement by c…
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- Cambridge Latin American Studies
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A History of Chile 1808–2018
As Chile has continued to grow and prosper in the twenty-first century, this new edition of the definitive history of the country brings the story of its political, social and cultural development up to date. It describes how Ricardo Lagos and Michelle Bachelet, both highly educated Socialists, modernized the country and integrated new interests into Chilean political life, and how the billiona…
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- 9781009170222
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Competitive Strategy: Options and Games
The authors describe a new approach to balancing flexibility and commitment in management strategy through the amalgamation of real options and game theory.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262298711
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- 1 online resource (xxvii, 488 pages) :illustrations
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