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The World Trade System
Trends and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
Leading trade esperts examine the world trading system today, from the multilateralism of the WTO to explosive bilateralism and the mega-regionals TPP and TTIP.
When the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) metamorphosed into the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1994, it seemed that...
Arguments that Count
Physics, Computing, and Missile Defense, 1949-2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2013
How differing assessments of risk by physicists and computer scientists have influenced public debate over nuclear defense.
In a rapidly changing world, we rely upon experts to assess the promise and risks of new technology. But how do these experts make sense of a highly uncertain future?...
The Empire of Value
A New Foundation for Economics
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
An argument that conceiving of economic value as a social force makes it possible to develop a new and more powerful theory of market behavior.
With the advent of the 2007–2008 financial crisis, the economics profession itself entered into a crisis of legitimacy from which it has yet to emerge....
Acting with Technology
Activity Theory and Interaction Design
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2009
A systematic presentation of activity theory, its application to interaction design, and an argument for the development of activity theory as a basis for understanding how people interact with technology.
Activity theory holds that the human mind is the product of our interaction with people...
The Reputation Society
How Online Opinions Are Reshaping the Offline World
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012
Experts discuss the benefits and risks of online reputation systems.
In making decisions, we often seek advice. Online, we check Amazon recommendations, eBay vendors' histories, TripAdvisor ratings, and even our elected representatives' voting records. These online reputation systems serve...
The Bubble Economy
Is Sustainable Growth Possible?
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Why the global economy has become increasingly unstable, and how financial “de-carbonization” could break the pattern of bubble-driven wealth destruction.
The global economy has become increasingly, perhaps chronically, unstable. Since 2008, we have heard about the housing bubble, subprime...
Macroeconomic Essentials
Understanding Economics in the News
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
The new edition of a concise and nontechnical but rigorous introductory text that emphasizes fundamental concepts and real-world applications, thoroughly revised and updated.
This introductory text offers an alternative to the encyclopedic, technically oriented approach taken by traditional...
Happiness
A Revolution in Economics
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2010
A leading economist discusses the potential of happiness research (the quantification of well-being) to answer important questions that standard economics methods are unable to analyze.
Revolutionary developments in economics are rare. The conservative bias of the field and its enshrined knowledge...
Social Economics
Current and Emerging Avenues
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
A rich collection of current research in the growing field of social economics, covering such issues as culture, gender, ethics, and philanthropic behavior.
The growing field of social economics explores how individual behavior is affected by group-level influences, extending the approach of...
by Sebastian Thrun, Wolfram Burgard, Dieter Fox
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2005
An introduction to the techniques and algorithms of the newest field in robotics.
Probabilistic robotics is a new and growing area in robotics, concerned with perception and control in the face of uncertainty. Building on the field of mathematical statistics, probabilistic robotics endows robots...
Paying with Plastic
The Digital Revolution in Buying and Borrowing
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2004
The definitive account of the trillion-dollar payment card industry.
The payment card business has evolved from its inception in the 1950s as a way to handle payment for expense-account lunches (the Diners Club card) into today's complex, sprawling industry that drives trillions of dollars...
Dirty Gold
How Activism Transformed the Jewelry Industry
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
The response from the jewelry industry to a campaign for ethically sourced gold as a case study in the power of business in global environmental politics.
Gold mining can be a dirty business. It creates immense amounts of toxic materials that are difficult to dispose of. Mines are often developed...
The Microsoft Antitrust Cases
Competition Policy for the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
A comprehensive account of the decades-long, multiple antitrust actions against Microsoft and an assessment of the effectiveness of antitrust law in the digital age.
For more than two decades, the U.S. Department of Justice, various states, the European Commission, and many private litigants...
The Power of Resilience
How the Best Companies Manage the Unexpected
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
How the best companies prepare for and manage modern vulnerabilities—from cybersecurity risks to climate change: new tools, processes and organizations for developing corporate resilience.
A catastrophic earthquake is followed by a tsunami that inundates the coastline, and around the globe...