In this book, Peter Diamond analyzes social security as a particular example of optimal taxation theory. Assuming a world of incomplete markets and asymmetric information, he uses a variety of simple models to illuminate the economic forces that bear on specific social security policy issues. The focus is on the degree of progressivity desirable in social security and the design of incentives t…
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…
"Challenges the 'Code for All' movement with a framework for critical computational literacy that integrates computer science with journalism, data, art, civic imagination, and social action"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
A somewhat expanded version of the Oklin Memorial Lectures ... delivered at the Stockholm School of economics in the autumn of 1995"--Preface.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"The authors present the results of a large-scale study of American colleges, and offer recommendations for rethinking and restructuring the delivery of liberal arts education"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"Collective Wisdom tracks co-creation in media-making, efforts that reach beyond limits of singular authorship, an ancient and under-documented practice"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"An original argument for the role of social norms in the explaining and preventing the rise of genocide and mass atrocity"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
An ethnographic study of fetoscopy that considers both the broader cultural context of this high-risk obstetrical procedure and the patient's individual experience.In Looking Within, Deborah Blizzard examines the high-risk in utero surgery known as fetoscopy, considering it as both cutting-edge medical technology and as a sociocultural construction of patients, their social networks, and medica…
"Eichhorn's EKS book will unpack the idea of content, whose emergence reflects a major shift in the way cultural products are produced and consumed, with far-reaching implications for society"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
A social history of Scottish drinking and drinking establishmentsPoets and writers from Robert Burns and Walter Scott to Ian Rankin and Irvine Welsh have left vivid descriptions of the pleasures and pains of Scottish drinking places. Pubs also provided public spaces for occupational groups to meet, for commercial transactions, for literary and cultural activities and for everyday life and work …