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After Adam Smith
A Century of Transformation in Politics and Political Economy
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2011
Few issues are more central to our present predicaments than the relationship between economics and politics. In the century after Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations the British economy was transformed. After Adam Smith looks at how politics and political economy were articulated and altered. It considers...
The New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus
Rereading the Principle of Population
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
The New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus is a sweeping global and intellectual history that radically recasts our understanding of Malthus's Essay on the Principle of Population, the most famous book on population ever written or ever likely to be. Malthus's Essay is also persistently misunderstood....
Immigrants
Your Country Needs Them
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
Immigration divides our globalizing world like no other issue. We are swamped by illegal immigrants and infiltrated by terrorists, our jobs stolen, our welfare system abused, our way of life destroyed--or so we are told. At a time when National Guard units are deployed alongside vigilante Minutemen...
by Peter Turchin, Sergey A. Nefedov
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2009
Many historical processes exhibit recurrent patterns of change. Century-long periods of population expansion come before long periods of stagnation and decline; the dynamics of prices mirror population oscillations; and states go through strong expansionist phases followed by periods of state failure,...
The National Origins of Policy Ideas
Knowledge Regimes in the United States, France, Germany, and Denmark
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2014
In politics, ideas matter. They provide the foundation for economic policymaking, which in turn shapes what is possible in domestic and international politics. Yet until now, little attention has been paid to how these ideas are produced and disseminated, and how this process varies between countries....
Friction
An Ethnography of Global Connection
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2011
A wheel turns because of its encounter with the surface of the road; spinning in the air it goes nowhere. Rubbing two sticks together produces heat and light; one stick alone is just a stick. In both cases, it is friction that produces movement, action, effect. Challenging the widespread view that...
The Gay Archipelago
Sexuality and Nation in Indonesia
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2005
The Gay Archipelago is the first book-length exploration of the lives of gay men in Indonesia, the world's fourth most populous nation and home to more Muslims than any other country. Based on a range of field methods, it explores how Indonesian gay and lesbian identities are shaped by nationalism...
Wild Profusion
Biodiversity Conservation in an Indonesian Archipelago
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Wild Profusion tells the fascinating story of biodiversity conservation in Indonesia in the decade culminating in the great fires of 1997-98--a time when the country's environment became a point of concern for social and environmental activists, scientists, and the many fishermen and farmers nationwide...
Encountering Development
The Making and Unmaking of the Third World
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2011
How did the industrialized nations of North America and Europe come to be seen as the appropriate models for post-World War II societies in Asia, Africa, and Latin America? How did the postwar discourse on development actually create the so-called Third World? And what will happen when development...
by Andrzej Ruszczynski
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
Optimization is one of the most important areas of modern applied mathematics, with applications in fields from engineering and economics to finance, statistics, management science, and medicine. While many books have addressed its various aspects, Nonlinear Optimization is the first comprehensive...
Optimization
Insights and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2011
This self-contained textbook is an informal introduction to optimization through the use of numerous illustrations and applications. The focus is on analytically solving optimization problems with a finite number of continuous variables. In addition, the authors provide introductions to classical...
by Lars Peter Hansen, Thomas J. Sargent
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2013
A common set of mathematical tools underlies dynamic optimization, dynamic estimation, and filtering. In Recursive Models of Dynamic Linear Economies, Lars Peter Hansen and Thomas Sargent use these tools to create a class of econometrically tractable models of prices and quantities. They present examples...
Finding Equilibrium
Arrow, Debreu, McKenzie and the Problem of Scientific Credit
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2014
Finding Equilibrium explores the post–World War II transformation of economics by constructing a history of the proof of its central dogma—that a competitive market economy may possess a set of equilibrium prices. The model economy for which the theorem could be proved was mapped out in 1954 by...
All Politics Is Global
Explaining International Regulatory Regimes
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2008
Has globalization diluted the power of national governments to regulate their own economies? Are international governmental and nongovernmental organizations weakening the hold of nation-states on global regulatory agendas? Many observers think so. But in All Politics Is Global, Daniel Drezner argues...