Contributors examine how regulatory & institutional environments affect the functioning of markets & propose reforms, arguing that quantitative methods should be used to guide policy & to reform rules & regulations. These essays offer methodologies for the assessment of policy alternatives.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Strategies for transboundary natural resource management; winner of Harvard Law School's Raiffa Award for best research of the year in negotiation and conflict resolution.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Blame for the recent financial crisis and subsequent recession has commonly been assigned to everyone from Wall Street firms to individual homeowners. It has been widely argued that the crisis and recession were caused by "greed" and the failure of mainstream economics. In this book, leading economist William Barnett argues instead that there was too little use of the relevant economics, especi…
A critical exploration of today's global imperative to innovate, by champions, critics, and reformers of innovation. Corporate executives, politicians, and school board leaders agree--Americans must innovate. Innovation experts fuel this demand with books and services that instruct aspiring innovators in best practices, personal habits, and workplace cultures for fostering innovation. But criti…
How America used its technological leadership in the 1950s and the 1960s to foster European collaboration and curb nuclear proliferation, with varying degrees of success.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
An examination of how technological failures defined nature and national identity in Cold War Canada.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"This is the first historical work that situates the Strategic Defense Initiative within a new phase in the militarization of space, uncovering a largely secret history of the role of military space technologies in late-Cold War U.S. defense strategy and foreign relations"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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"Immigrant service members are simultaneously held up as the exemplary immigrants and treated with suspicion as potential spies or infiltrators. The Green Card Soldier leverages the intersection between two key American institutions-the military and immigration-to understand how their overlap helps build a vision of the nation rooted in militarized citizenship and empire"--OCLC-licensed vendor …
"A manifesto on how to defend truth and reality against Trumpism, post truth, and disinformation campaigns"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.