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The economics of collusion :cartels and bidding rings
Explicit collusion is an agreement among competitors to suppress rivalry that relies on interfirm communication and/or transfers. Rivalry between competitors erodes profits; the suppression of rivalry through collusion is one avenue by which firms can enhance profits. Many cartels and bidding rings function for years in a stable and peaceful manner despite the illegality of their agreements and…
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- 9780262301503
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- 1 online resource (xii, 302 pages) :illustrations
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The inversion factor :how to thrive in the IoT economy
Why companies need to move away from a ""product first"" orientation to pursuing innovation based on customer need.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262344937
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- 1 online resource (232 pages) :illustrations.
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Pesticide drift and the pursuit of environmental justice
"In this book, Jill Lindsey Harrison considers political conflicts over pesticide drift in California, using them to illuminate the broader problem and its potential solutions. The fact that pesticide pollution and illnesses associated with it disproportionately affect the poor and the powerless raises questions of environmental justice (and political injustice). Despite California's impressive…
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- 9780262298766
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 277 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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The Practice of Prolog
"Leon Sterling is Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering and Science at Case Western Reserve University. He is the coauthor, along with Ehud Shapiro, of The Art of Prolog.""Addressed to readers at different levels of programming expertise, The Practice of Prolog offers a departure from current books that focus on small programming examples requiring additional instruction…
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- 9780262284332
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- 1 online resource (312 pages) :illustrations.
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Presumptive meanings :the theory of generalized conversational implicature
This is the first extended discussion of preferred interpretation in language understanding, integrating much of the best research in linguistic pragmatics from the last two decades. When we speak, we mean more than we say. In this book Stephen C. Levinson explains some general processes that underlie presumptions in communication. This is the first extended discussion of preferred interpret…
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- 9780262278256
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- 1 online resource (xxiii, 480 pages).
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The Color Revolution
A history of color and commerce from haute couture to automobile showrooms to interior design.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262305348
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 380 pages) :illustrations (some color).
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Wage Dispersion: Why Are Similar Workers Paid Differently?
Why are workers with identical skills found in both "good" jobs and "bad" jobs? Why are workers who do similar jobs paid differently, contrary to standard competitive theory? Observable differences in workers doing the same job account for only 30 percent of wage variation. In Wage Dispersion, Dale Mortensen examines the reasons for pay differentials in the other 70 percent. He finds that these…
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- 9780262280242
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- 1 online resource (xii, 143 pages) :illustrations.
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Warren's Abstract Machine: A Tutorial Reconstruction
"This tutorial demystifies one of the most important yet poorly understood aspects of logic programming, the Warren Abstract Machine or WAM. The author's step-by-step construction of the WAM adds features in a gradual manner, clarifying the complex aspects of the design and providing the first detailed study of WAM since it was designed in 1983. Developed by David H.D. Warren, the WAM is an abs…
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- 9780262255585
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 114 pages) :illustrations.
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What Counts: Focus and Quantification
In What Counts, Elena Herburger considers the effects of focus on interpretation. She investigates how focus affects the pragmatics and truth conditions of a sentence by rearranging its quantificational structure.Adopting a neo-Davidsonian stance, Herburger claims that various pragmatic and truth-conditional effects of focus sustain a uniform explanation if focus is viewed as imposing structure…
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- 9780262275293
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- 1 online resource (x, 166 pages).
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Calculating a Natural World: Scientists, Engineers, and Computers During the …
How the complex interplay of academic, commercial, and military interests produced an intense period of scientific discovery and technological innovation in computing during the Cold War.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262266895
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- 1 online resource (ix, 427 pages) :illustrations.
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