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The importance of small decisions :how culture evolves
How people make decisions in an era of too much information and fake news. Humans originally evolved in a world of few choices. Prehistoric, preindustrial, and predigital eras required fewer decisions than today's all-access, always-on world of too much information. Economists have largely discarded the idea that agents act rationally and the market follows suit. It seems that no matter how sma…
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- 1 online resource (160 pages) :illustrations.
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Translating happiness :a cross-cultural lexicon of well-being
How embracing untranslatable terms for well-being - from the Finnish sisu to the Yiddish mensch - can enrich our emotional understanding and experience. Western psychology is rooted in the philosophies and epistemologies of Western culture. But what of concepts and insights from outside this frame of reference?OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 1 online resource (xv, 223 pages)
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Going alone :the case for relaxed reciprocity in freeing trade
An analytic and empirical study of unilateral trade liberalization agreements, from the nineteenth century to the present.Since the end of World War II, the freeing of trade has been most visible in reciprocal liberalization agreements negotiated under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, or GATT, and through increasing bilateral and plurilateral agreements. There has also, however, been…
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- 1 online resource (xii, 586 pages) : illustrations
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Reading the Comments: Likers, Haters, and Manipulators at the Bottom of the Web
Online comment can be informative or misleading, entertaining or maddening. Haters and manipulators often seem to monopolize the conversation. Some comments are off-topic, or even topic-less. In this book, Joseph Reagle urges us to read the comments. Conversations "on the bottom half of the Internet," he argues, can tell us much about human nature and social behavior. Reagle visits communiti…
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Cyberpolitics in international relations /
An examination of the ways cyberspace is changing both the theory and the practice of international relations.
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- 1 online resource (viii, 311 pages) : illustrations
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Cyberpolitics in international relations /
An examination of the ways cyberspace is changing both the theory and the practice of international relations.
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The ends game :how smart companies stop selling products and start delivering…
"An innovative rethinking of our current market system where people pay for products. In the future, we will pay for the results a company can deliver. This book explains how we will reach that future"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262360074
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Networked: The new social operating system
Daily life is connected life, its rhythms driven by endless email pings and responses, the chimes and beeps of continually arriving text messages, tweets and retweets, Facebook updates, pictures and videos to post and discuss. Our perpetual connectedness gives us endless opportunities to be part of the give-and-take of networking. Some worry that this new environment makes us isolated and lo…
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 358 pages) :illustrations
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A world trading system for the twenty-first century
"A book in the Ohlin Lectures series on trade agreements"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Governing the air: Tthe dynamics of science, policy, and citizen interaction
Governing the Air looks at the regulation of air pollution not as a static procedure of enactment and agreement but as a dynamic process that reflects the shifting interrelationships of science, policy, and citizens. Taking transboundary air pollution in Europe as its empirical focus, the book not only assesses the particular regulation strategies that have evolved to govern European air, but a…
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