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The craft of economics :lessons from the Heckscher-Ohlin framework
In this spirited and provocative book, Edward Leamer turns an examination of the Heckscher--Ohlin framework for global competition into an opportunity to consider the craft of economics: what economists do, what they should do, and what they shouldn't do. Claiming "a lifetime relationship with Heckscher--Ohlin," Leamer argues that Bertil Ohlin's original idea offered something useful though vag…
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- 9780262301589
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- 1 online resource (ix, 196 pages) :illustrations.
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Plato's camera :how the physical brain captures a landscape of abstract unive…
A noted philosopher draws on the empirical results and conceptual resources of cognitive neuroscience to address questions about the nature of knowledge. In Plato's Camera, eminent philosopher Paul Churchland offers a novel account of how the brain constructs a representation--or "takes a picture"--of the universe's timeless categorical and dynamical structure. This construction process, which …
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- 9780262302869
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- 1 online resource (x, 289 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations (some color)
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The demonstration society
"An analysis of the "demonstration"-from protests to tech product demos and everything in between-to draw out their peculiarities and common features"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262366398
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Science and the production of ignorance :when the quest for knowledge is thwa…
An introduction to the new area of ignorance studies that examines how science produces ignorance--both actively and passively, intentionally and unintentionally. We may think of science as our foremost producer of knowledge, but for the past decade, science has also been studied as an important source of ignorance. The historian of science Robert Proctor has coined the term agnotology to refer…
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- 9780262357142
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- 1 online resource (328 pages).
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Designed for digital :how to architect your business for sustained success
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- 9780262354776
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- 1 online resource (208 pages).
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The small worlds of corporate governance
The financial crisis of 2008 laid bare the hidden network of relationships in corporate governance: who owes what to whom and who will stand by whom in times of crisis. This book maps the influence of these types of economic and social networks on corporate behaviour and governance.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262301572
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 388 pages) :illustrations
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The flip side of free :understanding the economics of the internet
"A trade book on the economics of the internet and the policies that have shaped our view of online activity"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262363585
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- 1 online resource.
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LabOratory :Speaking of Science and Its Architecture
An illustrated examination of laboratory architecture and the work that it does to engage the public, recruit scientists, and attract funding.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 026235635X
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- 1 online resource (361 pages)
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Conflicted American landscapes
"Traces six contradictory American ideologies of nature from their emergence in the late eighteenth century to the present to explore how inconsistent conceptions of nature lead to conflict"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262363097
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Seeds, science, and struggle :the global politics of transgenic crops
An examination of how advocates for alternative agriculture confront "science-based" regulation of genetically engineered crops.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262305570
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