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Institutions, development, and economic growth
Annotation The determinants of economic growth and development are hotly debated among economists. Financial crises and failed transition experiments have highlighted the fact that functioning institutions are fundamental to the goal of achieving economic growth. The growth literature has seen an abundance of empirical studies on the influence of institutions and the mechanisms by which institu…
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- 9780262272223
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 293 pages) : illustrations
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- CESifo Seminar Series
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Acid rain science and politics in Japan :a history of knowledge and action to…
Acid Rain Science and Politics in Japan is a pioneering work in environmental and Asian history as well as an in-depth analysis of the influence of science on domestic and international environmental politics. Kenneth Wilkening's study also illuminates the global struggle to create sustainable societies.The Meiji Restoration of 1868 ended Japan's era of isolation- created self-sufficiency and s…
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- 9780262286220
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- 1 online resource (xii, 322 pages) :illustrations.
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Consciousness, Color, and Content
"A Bradford book."Experiences and feelings are inherently conscious states. There is something it is like to feel pain, to have an itch, to experience bright red. Philosophers call this sort of consciousness "phenomenal consciousness." Even though phenomenal consciousness seems to be a relatively primitive matter, something more widespread in nature than higher-order or reflective consciousness…
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- 9780262285315
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 198 pages).
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Agency, democracy, and nature :the U.S. environmental movement from a critica…
Annotation In this book Robert Brulle draws on a broad range of empirical and theoretical research to investigate the effectiveness of U.S. environmental groups. Brulle shows how Critical Theory--in particular the work of J?urgen Habermas--can expand our understanding of the social causes of environmental degradation and the political actions necessary to deal with it. He then develops both a p…
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- 9780262269407
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- 1 online resource (x, 347 pages) :illustrations
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The algebraic mind :integrating connectionism and cognitive science
"A Bradford book."In The Algebraic Mind, Gary Marcus attempts to integrate two theories about how the mind works, one that says that the mind is a computer-like manipulator of symbols, and another that says that the mind is a large network of neurons working together in parallel. Resisting the conventional wisdom that says that if the mind is a large neural network it cannot simultaneously be a…
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- 9780262279086
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 224 pages) :illustrations.
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Aligning modern business processes and legacy systems :a component-based pers…
Distributed business component computing--the assembling of business components into electronic business processes, which interact via the Internet--caters to a new breed of enterprise systems that are flexible, relatively easy to maintain and upgrade to accommodate new business processes, and relatively simple to integrate with other enterprise systems. Companies with unwieldy, large, and hete…
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- 9780262257138
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- 1 online resource (xxii, 206 pages) :illustrations.
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Beyond coding :how children learn human values through programming
"Bers argues that coding should be taught in early childhood and beyond STEM fields, where it is currently isolated from ethical, cultural, and language skills"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262368544
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Live coding :a user's manual
"A multi-authored comprehensive introduction to live coding's potential open up deeper questions about contemporary cultural production and computational culture"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262372633
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Literature's elsewheres :on the necessity of radical literary practices
An examination of a series of diverse, radical, and experimental international works from the 1950s to the present.What is a literary work? In Literature's Elsewheres, Annette Gilbert tackles this question by deploying an extended concept of literature, examining a series of diverse, radical, experimental works from the 1950s to the present that occupy the liminal zone between art and literatur…
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- 9780262373494
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Decentralization and local governance in developing countries: a comparative …
Over the past three decades the developing world has seen increasing devolution of political and economic power to local governments. Decentralization is considered an important element of participatory democracy and, along with privatization and deregulation, represents a substantial reduction in the authority of national governments over economic policy. The contributors to Decentralization a…
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- 9780262267694
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