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Ethics, Economics and Social Institutions
The book highlights the ethical aspects and issues that are inherent to economics in the context of today’s prominent social institutions. It reviews a range of problems concerning dominant social institutions, namely markets, government agencies, corporate entities, financial networks, and religious systems. Further, in each case, the book takes a detailed look at the economic problems as th…
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- 978-981-10-0899-3
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- 4 illustrations in colour
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Essays in Contemporary Economics A Festschrift in Memory of A. D. Karayiannis
This book is a collection of original essays grouped into four parts under the headings “Greece and European integration,” “Issues in the Methodology of Economics,” “Institutions and the Free Market Economy,” and “Insights for Today from Ancient Greece.” The essays appeal to both researchers in the corresponding fields of knowledge and also to policy makers who are looking for i…
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- 978-3-319-10043-2
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Past and Present Interactions in Legal Reasoning and Logic
This volume explores the relation between legal reasoning and logic from both a historical and a systematic perspective. The topics addressed include, among others, conditional legal acts, disjunctions in legal acts, presumptions and conjectures, conflicts of values, Jørgensen´s Dilemma, the Rhetor´s Dilemma, the theory of legal fictions and the categorization of contracts. The unifying prob…
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- 978-3-319-16021-4
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- XI, 270 halaman
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- Logic, Argumentation & Reasoning
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- 340.1 PAS
A Revolution in Economic Theory: The Economics of Piero Sraffa
This book draws on the work of one of the sharpest minds of the 20th century, Piero Sraffa. Ludwig Wittgenstein credited him for 'the most consequential ideas' of the Philosophical Investigations (1953) and put him high on his short list of geniuses. Sraffa's revolutionary contribution to economics was, however, lost to the world because economists did not pay attention to the philosophical und…
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- 978-3-319-30616-2
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- XVII, 244
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A Compendium of Italian Economists at Oxbridge: Contributions to the Evolutio…
This study examines five decades of Italian economists who studied or researched at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge between the years 1950 and 2000. Providing a detailed list of Italian economists associated with Hicks, Harrod, Bacharach, Flemming, Mirrlees, Sen and other distinguished dons, the authors examine eleven research lines, including the Sraffa and the neo-Ricardian school, t…
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- 978-3-319-32219-3
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- 337.1 BAR c
Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy: Clinical Evidence and Techniques
This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifi cally the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfi lms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by…
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- 978-4-431-55486-8
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The University According to Humboldt History, Policy, and Future Possibilities
This book discusses the philosophy and educational reforms initiated by Wilhelm von Humboldt as well as their legacy in the modern university system. It begins with a discussion of the history of the university from antiquity and the Middle Ages through the era of Humboldt’s reforms and its remnants in and implications for the present day. The authors then delve into policy, outlining the key…
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- 978-3-319-13856-5
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The Theory of New Classical Macroeconomics A Positive Critique
This book examines new classical macroeconomics from a comparative and critical point of view that confronts the original texts and later comments as a first dimension of comparison. The second dimension appears in a historical context, since none of the new classical doctrines can be analyzed ignoring the parallelism and discrepancies with the theory of Keynes, Friedman or Phelps. Radicalism o…
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- 978-3-319-17578-2
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Temporality in Qualitative Inquiry: Theories, Methods and Practices
Temporality in Qualitative Inquiry explores the relationship between time and qualitative research and unpacks some of the conceptual, methodological, practical, and pragmatic areas of qualitative inquiry related to time and temporality. This book advances the understanding and re-evaluation of research practice by examining the passage of time, temporal feeling, and conceptualising of time/…
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- 9781000356687
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- 300.7
Lineages and Advancements in Material Culture Studies : Perspectives from UCL…
This volume comprises a curated conversation between members of the Material Culture Section of University College London Anthropology. In laying out the state of play in the field, it challenges how the anthropology of material culture is being done and argues for new directions of enquiry and new methods of investigation. The contributors consider the ramifications of specific research method…
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- 9781000182637
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- 306.072 LIN
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