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Crowdsourcing
Brabham, Daren
Mit Press (2013)
- EAN: 9780262518475
- Páginas: 176
- Fecha de edición: 2013
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Ever since the term "crowdsourcing" was coined in 2006 by Wired writer Jeff Howe, group activities ranging from the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary to the choosing of new colors for M&Ms have been ...
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Computer graphics (or CG) has changed the way we experience the art of moving images. Computer graphics is the difference between Steamboat Willie and Buzz Lightyear, between ping pong and PONG. It began in 1963 ...
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Giving Kids a Fair Chance "A Startegy that Works"
Heckman, James J.
Mit Press (2013)
- EAN: 9780262019132
- Páginas: 152
- Fecha de edición: 2013
pvp.14,80 €
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In Giving Kids a Fair Chance, Nobel Prize-winning economist James Heckman argues that the accident of birth is the greatest source of inequality in America today. Children born into disadvantage are, by the time they ...
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Prime Movers of Globalization "the History and Impact of Diesel Engines and Gas Turbines"
Smil, Vaclav
Mit Press (2013)
- EAN: 9780262518765
- Páginas: 272
- Fecha de edición: 2013
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The many books on globalization published over the past few years range from claims that the world is flat to an unlikely rehabilitation of Genghis Khan as a pioneer of global commerce. Missing from these ...
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Adhocism the Case for Improvisation
Jencks, Charles
Mit Press (2013)
- EAN: 9780262518444
- Páginas: 248
- Fecha de edición: 2013
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When this book first appeared in 1972, it was part of the spirit that would define a new architecture and design era--a new way of thinking ready to move beyond the purist doctrines and formal ...
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Leading Open Innovation
Huff, Anne Sigismund
Mit Press (2013)
- EAN: 9780262018494
- Páginas: 336
- Fecha de edición: 2013
pvp.37,80 €
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In today's competitive globalized market, firms are increasingly reaching beyond conventional internal methods of research and development to use ideas developed through processes of open innovation (OI). Organizations including Siemens, Nokia, Wikipedia, Hyve, and innosabi ...
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The Limits of Inference without Theory
Wolpin, Kenneth I.
Mit Press (2013)
- EAN: 9780262019088
- Páginas: 200
- Fecha de edición: 2013
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In this rigorous and well-crafted work, Kenneth Wolpin examines the role of theory in inferential empirical work in economics and the social sciences in general -- that is, any research that uses raw data to ...
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America's Assembly Line
Nye, David E.
Mit Press (2013)
- EAN: 9780262018715
- Páginas: 352
- Fecha de edición: 2013
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The assembly line was invented in 1913 and has been in continuous operation ever since. It is the most familiar form of mass production. Both praised as a boon to workers and condemned for exploiting ...
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Central Bank Communication, Decision Making, and Governance
Siklos, Pierre L.
Mit Press (2013)
- EAN: 9780262018937
- Páginas: 318
- Fecha de edición: 2013
pvp.33,75 €
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In recent years central bankers have placed new emphasis on communication with financial markets and the general public. They have done this not only through the traditional channel of monetary policy pronouncements but also by ...
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Eco-Business "A Big-Brand Takeover of Sustainability"
Dauvergne, Peter
Mit Press (2013)
- EAN: 9780262018760
- Páginas: 208
- Fecha de edición: 2013
pvp.24,25 €
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McDonald's promises to use only beef, coffee, fish, chicken, and cooking oil obtained from sustainable sources. Coca-Cola promises to achieve water neutrality. Unilever has set a deadline of 2020 to reach 100 percent sustainable agricultural ...
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Inside and Outside Liquidity
Holmstrom, Bengt Tirole, Jean
Mit Press (2013)
- EAN: 9780262518536
- Páginas: 264
- Fecha de edición: 2013
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Why do financial institutions, industrial companies, and households hold low-yielding money balances, Treasury bills, and other liquid assets? When and to what extent can the state and international financial markets make up for a shortage ...
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Reforming U.S. Financial Markets "Reflections Before and Beyond Dodd-Frank"
Kroszner, Randall S. Shiller, Robert J.
Mit Press (2013)
- EAN: 9780262518734
- Páginas: 176
- Fecha de edición: 2013
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Over the last few years, the financial sector has experienced its worst crisis since the 1930s. The collapse of major firms, the decline in asset values, the interruption of credit flows, the loss of confidence ...
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Trade and Poverty "When the Third World Fell Behind"
Williamson, Jeffrey G.
Mit Press (2013)
- EAN: 9780262518598
- Páginas: 320
- Fecha de edición: 2013
pvp.18,95 €
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Today's wide economic gap between the postindustrial countries of the West and the poorer countries of the third world is not new. Fifty years ago, the world economic order -- two hundred years in the ...
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Operations Forensics "Business Performance Analysis Using Operations Measures and Tool"
Lai, Richard
Mit Press (2013)
- EAN: 9780262018661
- Páginas: 336
- Fecha de edición: 2013
pvp.59,95 €
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Investors and analysts often need to look into a firm's operations more deeply than traditional financial statements and models allow. This book describes newly developed tools for using operations metrics to discern and influence the ...
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The Great Recession "Lessons for Central Bankers"
Braude, Jacob Eckstein, Zvi Fischer, Stanley Flug, Karnit
Mit Press (2013)
- EAN: 9780262018340
- Páginas: 392
- Fecha de edición: 2013
pvp.33,75 €
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The recent financial crisis shook not only the global economy but also conventional wisdom about economic policy. After the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008, policy makers reversed course and acted on an unprecedented ...
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Banking the World "Empirical Foundations of Financial Inclusion"
Cull, Robert
Mit Press (2013)
- EAN: 9780262018425
- Páginas: 504
- Fecha de edición: 2013
pvp.43,20 €
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About 2.5 billion adults, just over half the world's adult population, lack bank accounts. If we are to realize the goal of extending banking and other financial services to this vast "unbanked" population, we need ...
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Financial Innovation "Too Much or Too Little?"
Haliassos, Michael
Mit Press (2013)
- EAN: 9780262018296
- Páginas: 272
- Fecha de edición: 2013
pvp.33,75 €
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In assigning blame for the recent economic crisis, many have pointed to the proliferation of new, complex financial products--mortgage securitization in particular--as being at the heart of the meltdown. The prominent economists from academia, policy ...
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Economy in Society "Essays in Honor of Michael J. Piore"
Osterman, Paul
Mit Press (2012)
- EAN: 9780262018241
- Páginas: 174
- Fecha de edición: 2012
pvp.28,30 €
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In Economy in Society, five prominent social scientists honor Michael J. Piore in original essays that explore key topics in Piore's work and make significant independent contributions in their own right. Piore is distinctive for ...
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Russia "A Long View"
Gaidar, Yegor
Mit Press (2012)
- EAN: 9780262017411
- Páginas: 568
- Fecha de edición: 2012
pvp.37,80 €
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It is not so easy to take the long view of socioeconomic history when you are participating in a revolution. For that reason, Russian economist Yegor Gaidar put aside an early version of this work ...
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The Economics of Risk and Time
Gollier, Christian
Mit Press (2004)
- EAN: 9780262572248
- Páginas: 465
- Fecha de edición: 2004
pvp.36,45 €
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This book updates and advances the theory of expected utility as applied to risk analysis and financial decision making. Von Neumann and Morgenstern pioneered the use of expected utility theory in the 1940s, but most ...
