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Discovering the human connectome
A pioneer in the field outlines new empirical and computational approaches to mapping the neural connections of the human brain.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Making Microchips: Policy, Globalization, and Economic Restructuring in the S…
In Making Microchips, Jan Mazurek examines the environmental and economic implications of the computer microchip industry's exodus from California's Silicon Valley to New Mexico, Virginia, Ireland, and Taiwan. Globalization, economic restructuring, and changing manufacturing processes in this rapidly growing industry present difficult new questions for environmental policy. Mazurek challenges t…
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The Making of Economic Policy: A Transaction-Cost Politics Perspective
The Making of Economic Policy: A Transaction-Cost Politics Perspective The Making of Economic Policy: A Transaction-Cost Politics Perspective By Avinash K. Dixit The MIT Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/4391.001.0001 ISBN electronic: 9780262271790 Publication date: 1996 The Making of Economic Policy begins by observing that most countries' trade policies are so blatantly contr…
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Debating the Good Society: a Quest to Bridge America's Moral Divide
Debating the Good Society probes two questions lying at the heart of the ongoing culture war incontemporary America: Where does goodness come from, and how is goodsocial order to be achieved?Through the ingenious means of a fictional Internet conversation among two dozen or so Americans from various walks of life and every shade of the ideological spectrum, Debating the Good Society probes two …
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Making Silicon Valley: Innovation and the Growth of High Tech, 1930-1970
In Making Silicon Valley, Christophe Lecuyer shows that the explosive growth of the personal computer industry in Silicon Valley was the culmination of decades of growth and innovation in the San Francisco-area electronics industry. Using the tools of science and technology studies, he explores the formation of Silicon Valley as an industrial district, from its beginnings as the home of a few r…
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Debt Defaults and Lessons from a Decade of Crises
Providing case studies of debt defaults by Russia, Ukraine, Pakistan, Ecuador, Moldova, and Uruguay, framed by a discussion of the history, economic theory, legal issues, and policy lessons of sovereign debt crises, this work examines the facts, economic theory, and policy implications of sovereign debt crises.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262284547
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- 1 online resource (xii, 385 pages) :illustrations
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Decisions, Uncertainty, and the Brain: The Science of Neuroeconomics
"A Bradford book."In this provocative book, Paul Glimcher argues that economic theory may provide an alternative to the classical Cartesian model of the brain and behavior. Glimcher argues that Cartesian dualism operates from the false premise that the reflex is able to describe behavior in the real world that animals inhabit. A mathematically rich cognitive theory, he claims, could solve the m…
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The Decline of the Welfare State: Demography and Globalization
An analysis of the welfare state from a political economy perspective that examines the effects of aging populations, migration, and globalization on industrialized economies.In The Decline of the Welfare State, Assaf Razin and Efraim Sadka use a political economy framework to analyze the effects of aging populations, migration, and globalization on the deteriorating system of financing welfare…
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- 1 online resource (viii, 133 pages) :illustrations.
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Making Space: The Development of Spatial Representation and Reasoning
Spatial competence is a central aspect of human adaptation. To understand human cognitive functioning, we must understand how people code the locations of things, how they navigate in the world, and how they represent and mentally manipulate spatial information. Until recently three approaches have dominated thinking about spatial development. Followers of Piaget claim that infants are born wit…
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Degrees that matter: climate change and the university
Explains how members of college and university communities can take action on climate change: strategies, projects, and lessons in how to motivate complex organizations to make changes.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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