Libros de: Mit Press
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Capital and Affects "The Politics of the Language Economy"
The Politics of the Language EconomyMarazzi, Christian
Mit Press (2011)
- EAN: 9781584351030
- Páginas: 160
- Fecha de edición: 2011
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Communication as work: we have recently experienced a profound transformation in the processes of production. While the assembly line (invented by Henry Ford at the beginning of the last century) excluded any form of linguistic ...
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Chips and Change "How Crisis Reshapes the Semiconductor Industry"
How Crisis Reshapes the Semiconductor IndustryBrown, Clair Linden, Greg
Mit Press (2011)
- EAN: 9780262516822
- Páginas: 282
- Fecha de edición: 2011
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For decades the semiconductor industry has been a driver of global economic growth and social change. Semiconductors, particularly the microchips essential to most electronic devices, have transformed computing, communications, entertainment, and industry. In Chips and ...
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Something for Nothing "A Novel"
A NovelKlein, Michael
Mit Press (2011)
- EAN: 9780262015752
- Páginas: 336
- Fecha de edición: 2011
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David Fox (Ph.D. Economics, Columbia, Visiting Assistant Professor at Kester College, Knittersville, New York) is having a stressful year. He has a temporary position at a small college in a small town miles from everything ...
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Migration and the Welfare State "Political-Economy Policy Formation"
Political-Economy Policy FormationRazin, Assaf Sadka, Efraim Suwankiri, Benjarong
Mit Press (2011)
- EAN: 9780262016100
- Páginas: 184
- Fecha de edición: 2011
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Nobel laureate economist Milton Friedman once noted that free immigration cannot coexist with a welfare state. A welfare state with open borders might turn into a haven for poor immigrants, which would place such a ...
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Pastoral Capitalism "A History of Suburban Corporate Landscapes"
A History of Suburban Corporate LandscapesMozingo, Luoise A.
Mit Press (2011)
- EAN: 9780262015431
- Páginas: 336
- Fecha de edición: 2011
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By the end of the twentieth century, America's suburbs contained more office space than its central cities. Many of these corporate workplaces were surrounded, somewhat incongruously, by verdant vistas of broad lawns and leafy trees. ...
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Information and the Modern Corporation
Cortada, James W.
Mit Press (2011)
- EAN: 9780262516419
- Páginas: 176
- Fecha de edición: 2011
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While we have been preoccupied with the latest i-gadget from Apple and with Google's ongoing expansion, we may have missed something: the fundamental transformation of whole firms and industries into giant information-processing machines. Today, more ...
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Streetlights and Shadows "Searching for the Keys to Adaptive Decision Making"
Searching for the Keys to Adaptive Decision MakingKlein, Gary
Mit Press (2011)
- EAN: 9780262516723
- Páginas: 352
- Fecha de edición: 2011
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In making decisions, when should we go with our gut and when should we try to analyze every option? When should we use our intuition and when should we rely on logic and statistics? Most ...
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Unemployment Fluctuations and Stabilization Policies "A New Keynesian Perspective"
A New Keynesian PerspectiveGali, Jordi
Mit Press (2011)
- EAN: 9780262015974
- Páginas: 120
- Fecha de edición: 2011
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The past fifteen years have witnessed the rise of the New Keynesian model as a framework of reference for the analysis of fluctuations and stabilization policies. That framework, which combines the rigor and internal consistency ...
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Optimal Control Theory with Applications in Economics
Weber, Thomas A.
Mit Press (2011)
- EAN: 9780262015738
- Páginas: 280
- Fecha de edición: 2011
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This book bridges optimal control theory and economics, discussing ordinary differential equations, optimal control, game theory, and mechanism design in one volume. Technically rigorous and largely self-contained, it provides an introduction to the use of ...
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Competitive Strategy "Options and Games"
Options and GamesChevalier-Roignant, Benoit Trigeorgis, Lenos
Mit Press (2011)
- EAN: 9780262015998
- Páginas: 480
- Fecha de edición: 2011
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Corporate managers who face both strategic uncertainty and market uncertainty confront a classic trade-off between commitment and flexibility. They can stake a claim by making a large capital investment today, influencing their rivals' behavior; or ...
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The Economics of Taxation
Salanie, Bernard
Mit Press (2011)
- EAN: 9780262016346
- Páginas: 216
- Fecha de edición: 2011
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This concise introduction to the economic theories of taxation is intuitive yet rigorous, relating the theories both to existing tax systems and to key empirical studies. The Economics of Taxation offers a thorough discussion of ...
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Trade Policy Disaster "Lessons from the 1930s"
Lessons from the 1930sIrwin, Douglas
Mit Press (2012)
- EAN: 9780262016711
- Páginas: 184
- Fecha de edición: 2012
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The recent economic crisis--with the plunge in the stock market, numerous bank failures and widespread financial distress, declining output and rising unemployment--has been reminiscent of the Great Depression. The Depression of the 1930s was marked ...
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Guide for the Young Economist
Thomson, William
Mit Press (2011)
- EAN: 9780262515894
- Páginas: 184
- Fecha de edición: 2011
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This book is an invaluable handbook for young economists working on their dissertations, preparing their first articles for submission to professional journals, getting ready for their first presentations at conferences and job seminars, or undertaking ...
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Paths to a Green World "The Political Economy of the Global Environment"
The Political Economy of the Global EnvironmentClapp, Jennifer
Mit Press (2011)
- EAN: 9780262515825
- Páginas: 336
- Fecha de edición: 2011
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This comprehensive and accessible book fills the need for a political economy view of global environmental politics, focusing on the ways international economic processes affect environmental outcomes. It examines the main actors and forces shaping ...
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Perspectives on the Performance of the Continental Economies
Phelps, Edmund S.
Mit Press (2011)
- EAN: 9780262015318
- Páginas: 496
- Fecha de edición: 2011
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Economists disagree on what ails the economies of continental western Europe, which are widely perceived to be underperforming in terms of productivity and other metrics. Is it some deficiency in their economic system--in economic institutions ...
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Bringing the Biosphere Home "Learning to Perceive Global Environmental Change"
Learning to Perceive Global Environmental ChangeThomashow, Mitchell
Mit Press (2003)
- EAN: 9780262700993
- Páginas: 256
- Fecha de edición: 2003
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This book shows how to make global environmental problems more tangible, so that they become an integral part of everyday awareness. At its core is a simple assumption: that the best way to learn to ...
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Redesigning Leadership
Maeda, John
Mit Press (2011)
- EAN: 9780262015882
- Páginas: 104
- Fecha de edición: 2011
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When designer and computer scientist John Maeda was tapped to be president of the celebrated Rhode Island School of Design in 2008, he had to learn how to be a leader quickly. He had to ...
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New Directions in Financial Services Regulation
Porter, Roger B.
Mit Press (2011)
- EAN: 9780262015615
- Páginas: 225
- Fecha de edición: 2011
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The financial crisis of 2008 raised crucial questions regarding the effectiveness of the way the United States regulates financial markets. What caused the crisis? What regulatory changes are most needed and desirable? What regulatory structure ...
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The Resilient Enterprise "Overcoming Vulnerability for Competitive Advantage"
Overcoming Vulnerability for Competitive AdvantageSheffi, Yossi
Mit Press (2007)
- EAN: 9780262693493
- Páginas: 352
- Fecha de edición: 2007
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Gold Award Winner for Business and Economics in the 2005 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Awards What happens when fire strikes the manufacturing plant of the sole supplier for the brake pressure valve used ...
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Government's Place in the Market
Spitzer, Eliot
Mit Press (2011)
- EAN: 9780262015707
- Páginas: 96
- Fecha de edición: 2011
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As New York State Attorney General from 1998 to 2006, Eliot Spitzer successfully pursued corporate crime, including stock price inflation, securities fraud, and predatory lending practices. Drawing on those experiences, in this book Spitzer considers ...