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Happiness :a revolution in economics
In this text a leading economist discusses the potential of happiness research (the qualification of well-being) to answer important questions that standard economics methods are unable to analyze. Emphasizing empirical evidence rather than theoretical conjectures, Frey substantiates the need for happiness research.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262273213
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 240 pages) :illustrations.
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Sustainability of public debt
This collection is an analysis of the theoretical foundations of public debt sustainability concepts and their application to the empirical study of actual budgetary policies. The contributors to this volume consider whether the development of public debt in the United States and six EU countries is sustainable.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262280495
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- 1 online resource (vi, 271 pages) :illustrations.
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Revisiting Keynes :economic possibilities for our grandchildren
Leading economists revisit a provocative essay by John Maynard Keynes, debating Keynes's vision of growth, inequality, work leisure, entrepreneurship, consumerism, and the search for happiness in the twenty-first century.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262281331
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- 1 online resource (viii, 215 pages) :illustrations
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A hole in the head :more tales in the history of neuroscience
Essays on great figures and important issues, advances and blind alleys-from trepanation to the discovery of grandmother cells-in the history of brain sciences.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262258852
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- 1 online resource (x, 356 pages) :illustrations
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The design of climate policy
Leading international economists offer theoretical quantitative, and policy perspectives on climate policy in this text.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262274500
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- 1 online resource (xii, 397 pages) :illustrations.
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Currency boards in retrospect and prospect
Employing economic theory, cross-country empirical comparison and case studies, this work analyses the effect of currency boards on inflation, output growth and macroeconomic performance. The case studies come from Argentina, Estonia Lithuania, Bulgaria and Bosnia and Herzegovina.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262286411
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 262 pages) :illustrations.
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School choice international :exploring public-private partnerships
This volume analyses and studies public-private partnerships in education and the varied forms they take in different parts of the world, for example it studies publicly-funded vouchers in Chile and Columbia and private schools in India.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262270113
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- 1 online resource (viii, 272 pages) :illustrations
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Scholarship in the digital age :information, infrastructure, and the Internet
Scholars in all fields now have access to an unprecedented wealth of online information, tools, and services. The Internet lies at the core of an information infrastructure for distributed, data-intensive, and collaborative research. Although much attention has been paid to the new technologies making this possible, from digitized books to sensor networks, it is the underlying social and policy…
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- 9780262255783
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- 1 online resource (xxiv, 336 pages) :illustrations
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Handbook of developmental cognitive neuroscience
"A Bradford book."The second edition of an essential resource to the evolving field of developmental cognitive neuroscience, completely revised, with expanded emphasis on social neuroscience, clinical disorders, and imaging genomics.The publication of the second edition of this handbook testifies to the rapid evolution of developmental cognitive neuroscience as a distinct field. Brain imaging a…
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- 2nd ed.
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- 9780262280532
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- 1 online resource (xi, 923 pages) :illustrations (some color).
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Mining the biomedical literature
A concise introduction to fundamental methods for finding and extracting relevant information from the ever-increasing amounts of biomedical text available.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262305167
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- 1 online resource (xi, 138 pages) :illustrations.
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