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Market institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa :theory and evidence
An analysis of recent data on the economic behavior of market institutions in sub-Saharan Africa, with implications for future research and current policy.In Market Institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa, Marcel Fafchamps synthesizes the results of recent surveys of indigenous market institutions in twelve countries, including Benin, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, and Zimbabwe, and presents find…
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- 9780262272452
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- 1 online resource (xx, 521 pages) :illustrations.
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Megalopolis :the urbanized north-eastern seaboard of the United States
OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262367936
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- 1 online resource (810 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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Mechanisms of implicit learning :connectionist models of sequence processing
"Axel Cleeremans is a Senior Research Assistant at the National Fund for Scientific Research, Belgium.""A Bradford book.""What do people learn when they do not know that they are learning? Until recently all of the work in the area of implicit learning focused on empirical questions and methods. In this book, Axel Cleeremans explores unintentional learning from an information-processing perspec…
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- 0585020388
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- 1 online resource (xii, 227 pages) :illustrations.
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Markets for technology :the economics of innovation and corporate strategy
The past two decades have seen a gradual but noticeable change in the economic organization of innovative activity. Most firms used to integrate research and development with activities such as production, marketing, and distribution. Today firms are forming joint ventures, research and development alliances, licensing deals, and a variety of other outsourcing arrangements with universities, te…
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- 9780262267366
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- 1 online resource (xi, 338 pages) :illustrations
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Management :inventing and delivering its future
"The MIT Sloan School of Management: 50th anniversary."The MIT Sloan School of Management perspective on future management challenges.The MIT Sloan School of Management, as conceived by the legendary General Motors chairman Alfred P. Sloan, was founded in 1952 to draw on the scientific and technical resources of MIT and approach the problems of management with the rigorous research practices fo…
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- 9780262277334
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 309 pages) :illustrations
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Materialized views :techniques, implementations, and applications
"When an application is built, an underlying data model is chosen to make that application effective. Frequently, other applications need the same data, only modeled differently. The solution of copying the underlying data and modeling is costly in terms of storage and makes data maintenance and evolution impossible. View mechanisms are a technique to model data differently for various applicat…
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- 9780262287500
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- 1 online resource (xix, 589 pages) :illustrations
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Life under pressure :mortality and living standards in Europe and Asia, 1700-…
A pioneering work in comparative history and social science that compares population behavior in response to adversity in Europe and Asia.This highly original book--the first in a series analyzing historical population behavior in Europe and Asia--pioneers a new approach to the comparative analysis of societies in the past. Using techniques of event history analysis, the authors examine 100,000…
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- 9780262268097
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 531 pages) :illustrations.
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Mechanizing proof :computing, risk, and trust
Most aspects of our private and social lives--our safety, the integrity of the financial system, the functioning of utilities and other services, and national security--now depend on computing. But how can we know that this computing is trustworthy? In Mechanizing Proof, Donald MacKenzie addresses this key issue by investigating the interrelations of computing, risk, and mathematical proof over…
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- 9780262278829
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- 1 online resource (xi, 427 pages) :illustrations.
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Master passions :emotion, narrative, and the development of culture
An exploration of the powerful role of anxiety, ambition, and envy in shaping both our individual lives and society as a whole. At the heart of the human experience lies anxiety caused by the realization that the world is unknown, forever eluding our control. And out of this anxiety arises the master passions of ambition and envy, which we repress to mask their power over our lives. Discussion …
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- 058544255X
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- 1 online resource (xx, 247 pages)
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Making a middle landscape
Today's suburban metropolitan development of single-family homes, shopping centers, corporate offices, and roadway systems constitute what Peter Rowe calls a ""middle landscape"" between the city and the country. Looking closely at suburban America in terms of design and physical planning, Rowe builds a case for a new way of seeing and building suburbia - complete with theoretical underpinnings…
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- 0262367947
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- 1 online resource (325 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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