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Essays on Saving, Bequests, Altruism, and Life-cycle Planning
"The MIT Press"This collection of essays, coauthored with other distinguished economists, offers new perspectives on saving, intergenerational economic ties, retirement planning, and the distribution of wealth. The book links life-cycle microeconomic behavior to important macroeconomic outcomes, including the roughly 50 percent postwar decline in America's rate of saving and its increasing weal…
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- 9780262277525
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- 1 online resource (256 pages)
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Essays on the Representational and Derivational Nature of Grammar: The Divers…
This book can be read on two levels: as a novel empirical study of wh- interrogatives and relative constructions in a variety of languages and as a theoretical investigation of chain formation in grammar.The book is divided into two parts. Part I investigates the distribution and interpretation of multiple wh- interrogative constructions, focusing on the workings of Superiority. Part II investi…
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- 9780262267229
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- 1 online resource (vii, 289 pages).
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Essential Sources in the Scientific Study of Consciousness
"A Bradford book."Consciousness is at the very core of the human condition. Yet only in recent decades has it become a major focus in the brain and behavioral sciences. Scientists now know that consciousness involves many levels of brain functioning, from brainstem to cortex. The almost seventy articles in this book reflect the breadth and depth of this burgeoning field. The many topics covered…
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- 9780262267502
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 1192 pages) :illustrations
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Estimation and Control with Quantized Measurements
In Estimation and Control with Quantized Measurements, Dr. Curry examines the two distinct but related problems of state variable estimation and control when the measurements are quantized. Consideration is limited to discrete-time problems, and emphasis is placed on coarsely quantized measurements and linear, possibly time-varying systems.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262255967
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- 1 online resource (xii, 125 pages) :illustrations.
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Ethics and the Metaphysics of Medicine: Reflections on Health and Beneficence
Explores the philosophical and practical ethical implications of a definition of health as a state that allows us to reach our goals.Definitions of health and disease are of more than theoretical interest. Understanding what it means to be healthy has implications for choices in medical treatment, for ethically sound informed consent, and for accurate assessment of policies or programs. This de…
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- 9780262282383
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- 1 online resource (x, 222 pages).
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Ethics of the Body: Postconventional Challenges
The provocative contention of the postmodernist and feminist essays in Ethics of the Body is that conventional bioethics is out of touch, despite its growing profile. It is out of touch with an ongoing phenomenological sense of bodies themselves; with the impact of postmodernist theory as it problematizes the certainties of binary thinking; and with a postmodern culture in which bioscientific d…
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- 9780262283526
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- 1 online resource (vi, 288 pages).
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e-topia: "Urban Life, Jim—But Not As We Know It"
How an electronically connected world will shape cities and urban relationships of the future. The global digital network is not just a delivery system for email, Web pages, and digital television. It is a whole new urban infrastructure—one that will change the forms of our cities as dramatically as railroads, highways, electric power supply, and telephone networks did in the past. In this…
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The Euro and Its Central Bank: Getting United after the Union
History and analysis of European monetary integration and related economic, financial, monetary, and international political issues: an accesible guide.This history and analysis of the euro and the European Central Bank traces the process of European monetary integration from its beginnings as a utopian vision in the aftermath of World War II through the establishment of a single currency manag…
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- 9780262281157
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 260 pages) :illustrations
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The European Central Bank: Credibility, Transparency, and Centralization
An examination of the debates on European Central Bank monetary policy, focusing on issues of transparency, credibility, and accountability and the effect of the ECB's decentralized structure.The adoption of the euro in 1999 by 11 member states of the European Union created a single currency area second in economic size only to the United States. The euro zone's monetary policy is now set by th…
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- 9780262271400
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- 1 online resource (264 pages) :illustrations.
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European Monetary Integration
Studies examining the policy challenges posed by European monetary integration, including asymmetry problems and fiscal concerns.The success of European monetary integration--called by the editors of this CESifo volume "one of the most far-reaching, real world experiments in monetary policy to date"--is not assured. Policy makers have been forced to deal with challenges posed by formulating a u…
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- 9780262283717
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 176 pages) :illustrations.
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