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The long journey of central bank communication
Central bank communication has evolved from secretiveness to transparency and accountability—from a reluctance to give out any information at all to the belief in communication as a panacea for effective policy. In this book, Otmar Issing, himself a former central banker, discusses the journey toward transparency in central bank communication. Issing traces the development of transparency, ex…
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- 9780262355995
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- 1 online resource (104 pages).
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Japan's bubble, deflation, and long-term stagnation
Japan's economic bubble burst in the early 1990s, and the country entered its famous “lost decade”—a period of stagnation and economic disruption that persisted until 2003. The current declines in global equity and real estate markets have eerie parallels to Japan's economic woes of the 1990s. If we are to avoid repeating Japan's experience on a global scale, we must understand what happe…
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- 9780262289467
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- 1 online resource (xi, 420 pages) :illustrations
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Streetlights and shadows :searching for the keys to adaptive decision making
In making decisions, when should we go with our gut and when should we try to analyze every option? When should we use our intuition and when should we rely on logic and statistics? Most of us would probably agree that for important decisions, we should follow certain guidelines—gather as much information as possible, compare the options, pin down the goals before getting started. But in prac…
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- 9780262259019
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- 1 online resource (xi, 337 pages) :illustrations, maps
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The Cerebral Code: Thinking a Thought in the Mosaics of the Mind
"A Bradford book."The Cerebral Code proposes a bold new theory for how Darwin's evolutionary processes could operate in the brain, improving ideas on the time scale of thought and action. Jung said that dreaming goes on continuously but you can't see it when you're awake, just as you can't see the stars in the daylight because it is too bright. Calvin's is a theory for what goes on, hidden from…
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- 9780262269711
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- 1 online resource (256 pages) :illustrations
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Animal thinking :contemporary issues in comparative cognition
"Eighth Ernst Str?ungmann Forum held Sep. 26-Oct. 1, 2010, Frankfurt am Main.""Do animals have cognitive maps? Do they possess knowledge? Do they plan for the future? Do they understand that others have mental lives of their own? This volume provides a state-of-the-art assessment of animal cognition, with experts from psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, ecology, and evolutionary biology addre…
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- 9780262298988
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- 1 online resource (xi, 342 pages) :illustrations (some color).
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The paradox of self-consciousness
"A Bradford book."In this book, Jose Luis Bermudez addresses two fundamental problems in the philosophy and psychology of self-consciousness: (1) Can we provide a noncircular account of full-fledged self-conscious thought and language in terms of more fundamental capacities? (2) Can we explain how full-fledged self-conscious thought and language can arise in the normal course of human developme…
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- 0585190089
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 338 pages) :illustrations.
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Taxation and Regulation of the Financial Sector
Analytical and empirical perspectives on the interplay of taxation and regulation in the financial sector.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262321099
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- 1 online resource :illustrations.
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The bias that divides us :the science and politics of myside thinking
"An examination of a common, but underappreciated cognitive bias that permeates or social and political worlds, written by a leading researcher in the field of rationality"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262365243
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- 1 online resource.
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Creative Cognition: Theory, Research, and Applications
"A Bradford book."Creative Cognition combines original experiments with existing work in cognitive psychology to provide the first explicit account of the cognitive processes and structures that contribute to creative thinking and discovery.Creative Cognition combines original experiments with existing work in cognitive psychology to provide the first explicit account of the cognitive processes…
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- 9780262272650
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- 1 online resource (vii, 239 pages)
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European Objects: The Troubled Dreams of Harmonization
How interventions based on objects—including chemicals, financial products, and consumer goods—offer a path to rethink European integration. Interventions based on objects, Brice Laurent claims, have become a dominant path for European policy-making. In European Objects, Laurent analyzes the political consequences of these interventions and their democratization. He uses the term “Euro…
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