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Equilibrium, Trade, and Growth :Selected Papers of Lionel W. McKenzie
Influential neoclassical economist Lionel McKenzie has made major contributions to postwar economic thought in the fields of equilibrium, trade, and capital accumulation. This selection of his papers traces the development of his thinking in these three crucial areas.McKenzie's early academic life took him to Duke, Princeton, Oxford, the University of Chicago, and the Cowles Commission. In 1957…
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- 9780262279536
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- 1 online resource (vii, 480 pages) :illustrations
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Global catastrophes and trends :the next 50 years
From the Publisher: Fundamental change occurs most often in one of two ways: as a "fatal discontinuity," a sudden catastrophic event that is potentially world changing, or as a persistent, gradual trend. Global catastrophes include volcanic eruptions, viral pandemics, wars, and large-scale terrorist attacks; trends are demographic, environmental, economic, and political shifts that unfold over …
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- 9780262283878
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- 1 online resource (xi, 307 pages) :illustrations, maps
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The new political economy of Russia
This book was written by a team of researchers from CEFIR in Moscow.An analysis of the challenges facing Russia's economy ten years after the transition, based on recent research and data.Can Russia's recent burst of economic growth be sustained? Taking a comprehensive look at the economic and political regime shift from Yeltsin to Putin, this book explores the key challenges facing the Russian…
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- 9780262268240
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- 1 online resource (x, 168 pages) :illustrations
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Environmental justice in Latin America :problems, promise, and practice
Issues of environmental justice form an important part of popular environmental movements in many countries. This work investigates the emergence of a distinctively Latin American environmental justice movement, offering analysis and case studies that exaime both the promise and the limits of the movement.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262269957
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- 1 online resource (vi, 329 pages) :illustrations, map.
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Relationscapes :movement, art, philosophy
Exploring the relation between sensation and thought through the prisms of dance, cinema, art, and the new media, Manning argues for the intensity of movement, developing the concept of preacceleration which makes palpable how movement creates relational intervals out of which displacements take form.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262255158
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- 1 online resource (x, 268 pages) :illustrations.
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Histories of the immediate present :inventing architectural modernism
How the different narratives of four historians of architectural modernism-Emil Kaufmann, Colin Rowe, Reyner Banham, and Manfredo Tafuri-advanced specific versions of modernism.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262288163
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 239 pages) :illustrations.
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The shadows of consumption :consequences for the global environment
An environmentalist maps the hidden costs of overconsumption in a globalized world by tracing the environmental consequences of five commodities.The Shadows of Consumption gives a hard-hitting diagnosis: many of the earth's ecosystems and billions of its people are at risk from the consequences of rising consumption. Products ranging from cars to hamburgers offer conveniences and pleasures; but…
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 315 pages)
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Natural experiments :ecosystem-based management and the environment
This systematic assessment of seven prominent initiatives - in Texas, California, Florida and Arizona - evaluates the effectiveness of ecosystem-based management at protecting the environment. The author concludes that projects that set goals based on stakeholder collaboration are less likely to result in environmental improvement.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262278010
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 365 pages) :maps.
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Foreign direct investment and the multinational enterprise
Top economists examine one of the key forces in globalization from a wide range of theoretical and empirical perspectives.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262269124
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- 1 online resource (1 volume).
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Handbook of developmental cognitive neuroscience
"A Bradford book."The second edition of an essential resource to the evolving field of developmental cognitive neuroscience, completely revised, with expanded emphasis on social neuroscience, clinical disorders, and imaging genomics.The publication of the second edition of this handbook testifies to the rapid evolution of developmental cognitive neuroscience as a distinct field. Brain imaging a…
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- 2nd ed.
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- 9780262280532
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- 1 online resource (xi, 923 pages) :illustrations (some color).
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