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The nature of cognition
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262284363
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The nature of the farm :contracts, risk, and organization in agriculture
The Nature of the Farm is a theoretical and empirical study of contracts and organization in agriculture based on the transaction cost framework. Transaction costs are important in agriculture because nature (for example, seasonality, weather, pests) plays such a critical role in determining output and limiting the ability of farmers to specialize. The book develops specific models and tests th…
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- 9780262267014
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- 1 online resource (viii, 258 pages)
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The Myth of the Intuitive: Experimental Philosophy and Philosophical Method
In The Myth of the Intuitive, Max Deutsch defends the methods of analytic philosophy against a recent empirical challenge mounted by the practitioners of experimental philosophy (xphi). This challenge concerns the extent to which analytic philosophy relies on intuition—in particular, the extent to which analytic philosophers treat intuitions as evidence in arguing for philosophical conclusion…
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Inventing future cities
How we can invent--but not predict--the future of cities. We cannot predict future cities, but we can invent them. Cities are largely unpredictable because they are complex systems that are more like organisms than machines. Neither the laws of economics nor the laws of mechanics apply; cities are the product of countless individual and collective decisions that do not conform to any grand plan…
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- 9780262349895
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- 1 online resource (304 pages).
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Creating good jobs :an industry-based strategy
Experts discuss improving job quality in low-wage industries including retail, residential construction, hospitals and long-term healthcare, restaurants, manufacturing, and long-haul trucking. Americans work harder and longer than our counterparts in other industrialized nations. Yet prosperity remains elusive to many. Workers in such low-wage industries as retail, restaurants, and home constru…
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- 9780262357364
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- 1 online resource (336 pages).
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The power of experiments :decision making in a data-driven world
How organizations--including Google, StubHub, Airbnb, and Facebook--learn from experiments in a data-driven world.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262358255
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 211 pages)
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Mercury stories :understanding sustainability through a volatile element
"Mercury offers an opportunity to trace a millennial-scale history of human interactions with an element whose use has both benefited and harmed human well-being in complex and interacting ways. The book develops and applies an analytical framework using the perspective of a human-technical-environmental system to learn from the long history of human mercury use and exposure, and to inform stra…
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- 9780262359108
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Reflexive governance for global public goods
Governance challenges and solutions for the provision of global public goods in such areas as the environment, food security, and development.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262301213
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 366 pages) :illustrations.
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Institutional dynamics :emergent patterns in international environmental gove…
An analysis of patterns of change in international environmental regimes, with five case studies illustrating the patterns identified. International environmental regimes—institutional arrangements that govern human-environmental interactions—are dynamic, changing continuously over time. Some regimes go from strength to strength, becoming more effective over the years, while others seem …
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- 9780262289825
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 225 pages) :illustrations.
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Equilibrium, Trade, and Growth: Selected Papers of Lionel W. McKenzie
Influential neoclassical economist Lionel McKenzie has made major contributions to postwar economic thought in the fields of equilibrium, trade, and capital accumulation. This selection of his papers traces the development of his thinking in these three crucial areas.McKenzie's early academic life took him to Duke, Princeton, Oxford, the University of Chicago, and the Cowles Commission. In 1957…
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