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In the Wake of the Crisis: Leading Economists Reassess Economic Policy
Conference proceedings.In 2011, the International Monetary Fund invited prominent economists and economic policy makers to consider the brave new world of the post-crisis global economy. The result is a book that captures the state of macroeconomic thinking at a transformational moment. The crisis and the weak recovery that has followed raise fundamental questions concerning macroeconomics and …
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- 9780262301831
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- 1 online resource (x, 239 pages) :illustrations
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Double Dividend: Environmental Taxes and Fiscal Reform in the United States
"Energy utilization, especially from fossil fuels, creates hidden costs in the form of pollution and environmental damages. The costs are well documented but are hidden in the sense that they occur outside the market, are not reflected in market prices, and are not taken into account by energy users. Double Dividend presents a novel method for designing environmental taxes that correct market p…
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- 9780262318563
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- 1 online resource (xxxi, 606 pages) :illustrations
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The Systemic Image: A New Theory of Interactive Real-Time Simulations
In media art history as well as in science studies an intensified reception of cybernetic and system-theoretical concepts can be seen in the last few years. In this work, a conceptualization of the relationship between the systemic and the iconic in interactive real-time simulations is proposed.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262335546
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- 1 online resource (viii, 384 pages)
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The Moral Brain: A Multidisciplinary Perspective
"Over the past decade, an explosion of empirical research in a variety of fields has allowed us to understand human moral sensibility as a sophisticated integration of cognitive, emotional, and motivational mechanisms shaped through evolution, development, and culture. Evolutionary biologists have shown that moral cognition evolved to aid cooperation; developmental psychologists have demonstrat…
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- 9780262327589
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- 1 online resource (x, 327 pages) :illustrations.
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Electromagnetic Energy Transmission and Radiation
"The MIT Press."This book develops a consistent macroscopic theory of electromagnetism and discusses the relation between circuit theory and field theory. The theory is developed in successive steps from the Lorentz force, the integral form of Maxwell's equations in free space, and suitable macroscopic models of polarized and magnetized matter. It covers the electromagnetism of moving bodies an…
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- 9780262310710
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Eloquent Images: Word and Image in the Age of New Media
The emergence of New Media has stimulated debate about the power of the visual to dethrone the cultural prominence of textuality and print. Some scholars celebrate the proliferation of digital images, arguing that it suggests a return to a pictorial age when knowledge was communicated through images as well as through words. Others argue that the inherent conflict between texts and images creat…
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- 9780262275507
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- 1 online resource (vi, 318 pages) :illustrations
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Energy at the Crossroads: Global Perspectives and Uncertainties
In Energy at the Crossroads, Vaclav Smil considers the twenty-first century's crucial question: how to reconcile the modern world's unceasing demand for energy with the absolute necessity to preserve the integrity of the biosphere. With this book he offers a comprehensive, accessible guide to today's complex energy issues -- how to think clearly and logically about what is possible and what is …
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- 9780262283847
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 427 pages) :illustrations, maps
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An Engine, Not a Camera: How Financial Models Shape Markets
This pioneering work in the social studies of finance describes how the emergence of modern finance theory has affected financial markets in fundamental ways. Paraphrasing Milton Friedman, the author says that economic models are an engine of inquiry rather than a camera to reproduce empirical facts.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262278805
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- 1 online resource (x, 377 pages) :illustrations.
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Environment, Development, and Evolution: Toward a Synthesis
Leading researchers in evolutionary developmental biology seek linkages between, and a synthesis of, development, physiology, endocrinology, ecology, and evolution.Evolutionary developmental biology, also known as evo-devo or EDB, seeks to find links between development and evolution by opening the "black box" of development's role in evolution and in the evolution of developmental mechanisms. …
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- 9780262274753
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- 1 online resource (xxiii, 304 pages) :illustrations.
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Environmental Justice and Environmentalism: The Social Justice Challenge to t…
Analysis and case studies from interdisciplinary perspectives explore the possibility and desirability of collaboration between the grassroots-oriented environmental justice movement and mainstream environmental organizations.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262282918
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 352 pages) :illustrations.
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