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American Exodus: The Dust Bowl Migration and Okie Culture in Californiaby James N. GregoryISBN 0195071360 (0-19-507136-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Exodus: The Dust Bowl Migration and Okie Culture in California'Book summary:Fifty years ago, John Steinbeck's now classic novel, The Grapes of Wrath, captured the epic story of an Oklahoma farm family driven west to California by dust storms, drought, and economic hardship. It was a story that generations of Americans have also come to know through Dorothea Lange's unforgettable photos of migrant families struggling to make a living in Depression-torn California. Now in James N. Gregory's pathbreaking American Exodus, there is at last an historical study that moves beyond the fiction of the 1930s to uncover the full meaning of these events.
American Exodus takes us back to the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and the war boom influx of the 1940s to explore the experiences of the more than one million Oklahomans, Arkansans, Texans, and Missourians who sought opportunities in California. Gregory reaches into the migrants' lives to reveal not only their economic trials but also their impact on California's culture and society. He traces the development of an "Okie subculture" that over the years has grown into an essential element in California's cultural landscape.
Gregory vividly depicts how Southwesterners brought with them on their journey west an allegiance to evangelical Protestantism, "plain-folk American" values, and a love of country music. These values gave Okies an expanding cultural presence their new home. In their neighborhoods, often called "Little Oklahomas," they created a community of churches and saloons, of church-goers and good-old-boys, mixing stern-minded religious thinking with hard-drinking irreverence. Today, Baptist and Pentecostal churches abound in this region, and from Gene Autry, "Oklahoma's singing cowboy," to Woody Guthrie, Bob Wills, and Merle Haggard, the special concerns of Southwesterners have long dominated the country music industry in California. The legacy of the Dust Bowl migration can also be measured in political terms. Throughout California and especially in the San Joaquin Valley Okies have implanted their own brand of populist conservatism.
The consequences reach far beyond California. The Dust Bowl migration was part of a larger heartland diaspora that has sent millions of Southerners and rural Midwesterners to the nation's northern and western industrial perimeter. American Exodus is the first book to examine the cultural implications of that massive 20th-century population shift. In this rich account of the experiences and impact of these migrant heartlanders, Gregory fills an important gap in recent American social history. [via]More editions of American Exodus: The Dust Bowl Migration and Okie Culture in California:
Asia's Next Giant: South Korea And Late Industrializationby Alice H. AmsdenISBN 0195076036 (0-19-507603-6)
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Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Eraby James M. McPhersonISBN 0195038630 (0-19-503863-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era'Book summary:Published in 1988 to universal acclaim, this single-volume treatment of the Civil War quickly became recognized as the new standard in its field. James M. McPherson, who won the Pulitzer Prize for this book, impressively combines a brisk writing style with an admirable thoroughness. He covers the military aspects of the war in all of the necessary detail, and also provides a helpful framework describing the complex economic, political, and social forces behind the conflict. Perhaps more than any other book, this one belongs on the bookshelf of every Civil War buff. [via]
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Beyond Interdependence: The Meshing of the World's Economy and the Earth's Economyby Jim MacNeill, Pieter Winsemius, Taizo YakushijiISBN 0195071263 (0-19-507126-3)
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Black Detroit and the Rise of the Uawby Elliott Rudwick, August and Elliott Rudwick MeierISBN 0195028953 (0-19-502895-3)
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China: Human Development Reportby United Nations Development Programme, Carl Riskin, Ching-Lien WuISBN 0195132106 (0-19-513210-6)
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Cities of the Gods: Communistic Utopias in Greek Thoughtby Doyne DawsonISBN 0195069838 (0-19-506983-8)
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Cognitive Dimensions of Social Scienceby Mark TurnerISBN 0195139046 (0-19-513904-6)
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Constitutional Democracyby Dennis C. MuellerISBN 0195144074 (0-19-514407-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Constitutional Democracy'Book summary:Constitutional Democracy systematically examines how the basic constitutional structure of governments affects what they can accomplish. This relationship is especially important at a time when Americans are increasingly disillusioned about government's fundamental ability to reach solutions for domestic problems, and when countries in the former Soviet block and around the world are rewriting their constitutions. Political economist Mueller illuminates the links between the structure of democratic government and the outcomes it achieves by drawing comparisons between the American system and other government systems around the world. Working from the "public choice" perspective in political science, the book analyzes electoral rules, voting rules, federalism, bicameralism, citizenship, and separation of powers. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of political economy. [via]
Culture, Inc.: The Corporate Takeover of Public Expressionby Herbert I. SchillerISBN 0195067835 (0-19-506783-5)
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Over the last fifty years the private corporate sector in America has steadily widened its economic, political, and cultural role both in the United States and abroad, and Schiller finds the effects alarming. Corporate control of such arenas of culture as museums, theaters, performing arts centers and public broadcasting stations, he argues, has resulted in a broad manipulation of consciousness as well as an insidious form of censorship. Artists with views antithetical to big business, for instance, find they are unable to show in corporate-sponsored museums and galleries. And what does reach the public eye is non-provocative, watered down so as to be palatable to the largest number of potential consumers. "Blockbuster" museum exhibits present art objects abstracted from their social and historical contexts, and, he maintains, serve primarily as commmercial promotions for the corporations whose banners and logos adorn the exhibit halls.
But the cultural landscape is only one area of concern. Schiller points out that the suburban sites of social interaction-- malls and shopping centers-- commonly thought of as public spaces, are actually privately owned. Explicity designed for consumerism and inhospitable as true public meeting places, they act as little more than selling machines. Another conquered frontier, he points out, is the enormously expanded informational system of the last ten years, now owned and directed by a corporate handful. Not only is there massive concentration in the media sector, but information once dispensed and controlled by the government is now farmed out to private concerns, who turn once inexpensive information into a profitable commodity. Schiller also finds the dynamic of information commercialization at work in the nation's universities, where big-business support of research has led to a siphoning off of the findings for their own profit.
A disturbing but enlightening picture of corporate America, Culture Inc. exposes the agenda and methods of the corporate cultural takeover, reveals the growing threat to free access to information both at home and abroad, and explains how the few keep managing to benefit from the many. This eye-opening book is for anyone concerned with preserving variety and choice. [via]More editions of Culture, Inc.: The Corporate Takeover of Public Expression:
Democracy in Capitalist Times : Ideals, Limits and Strugglesby John S. DryzekISBN 0195106008 (0-19-510600-8)
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Econometric Theory and Methodsby James G. MacKinnonISBN 0195123727 (0-19-512372-7)
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Economics of the Law: Torts, Contracts, Property, Litigationby Thomas J. MiceliISBN 0195103904 (0-19-510390-4)
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Empirical Labor Economics: The Search Approachby Theresa J. Devine, Nicholas KieferISBN 0195059360 (0-19-505936-0)
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Entrepreneurial Economics: Bright Ideas from the Dismal Scienceby Alexander TabarrokISBN 0195145038 (0-19-514503-8)
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Estimation and Inference in Econometricsby Russell Davidson, James G. MacKinnonISBN 0195060113 (0-19-506011-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Estimation and Inference in Econometrics'Book summary:Offering a unifying theoretical perspective not readily available in any other text, this innovative guide to econometrics uses simple geometrical arguments to develop students' intuitive understanding of basic and advanced topics, emphasizing throughout the practical applications of modern theory and nonlinear techniques of estimation. One theme of the text is the use of artificial regressions for estimation, reference, and specification testing of nonlinear models, including diagnostic tests for parameter constancy, serial correlation, heteroscedasticity, and other types of mis-specification. Explaining how estimates can be obtained and tests can be carried out, the authors go beyond a mere algebraic description to one that can be easily translated into the commands of a standard econometric software package. Covering an unprecedented range of problems with a consistent emphasis on those that arise in applied work, this accessible and coherent guide to the most vital topics in econometrics today is indispensable for advanced students of econometrics and students of statistics interested in regression and related topics. It will also suit practising econometricians who want to update their skills. Flexibly designed to accommodate a variety of course levels, it offers both complete coverage of the basic material and separate chapters on areas of specialized interest. [via]
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Factory Production in Nineteenth-Century Britainby Elaine FreedgoodISBN 019514872X (0-19-514872-X)
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The Fifth Generation Fallacy: Why Japan Is Betting Its Future on Artificial Intelligenceby J. Marshall UngerISBN 019504939X (0-19-504939-X)
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In this fascinating new book, J. Marshall Unger reveals that the West has completely misunderstood Japan's interest in Artificial Intelligence. Contrary to the common view of Japan's unassailable superiority in technology and business, perpetuated recently by popular books like Japan as Number One, Unger shows that Japanese researchers are less concerned with economic coups than with solving a fundamental problem concerning their notoriously difficult written language and the challenges it poses for computer technology. The complex mixture of Chinese and phonetic characters that make up the script can only laboriously be typewritten and so are resistant to one of the most basic of computer functions -- entering data into the machine's memory banks.
Outlining the bewildering complexity of the Japanese script, which tested the limits of human intelligence even in bygone eras, Unger describes how in the modern age it has been the cause of disturbingly low levels of white-collar productivity and a surprisingly high degree of incomplete literacy in Japan. He goes on to demonstrate convincingly not only the ultimate incompatability of the script with existing computer technology but also the futility of the hope that AI, the goal of the hugely expensive Fifth Generation Project, will rescue the Japanese from this problem. He also explores the emotionally laden cultural mythology underlying Japanese resistance to script reform, which he points out is the obvious engineering solution to the drive to integrate computers into Japanese society. He concludes that the Japanese push towards AI and their refusal to acknowledge these fundamental facts about their writing system are intimately related and largely explain why Japan has been the first nation to spend vast amounts of money on AI research. [via]More editions of The Fifth Generation Fallacy: Why Japan Is Betting Its Future on Artificial Intelligence:
The Financial System in Nineteenth-Century Britainby Mary PooveyISBN 0195150570 (0-19-515057-0)
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Forgotten Families: Ending the Growing Crisis Confronting Children And Working Parents in the Global Economyby Jody HeymannISBN 0195156595 (0-19-515659-5)
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Free Markets and Social Justiceby Cass R. SunsteinISBN 0195102738 (0-19-510273-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Free Markets and Social Justice'Book summary:While not meant to be an overarching "theory of justice" Cass Sunstein's book supplies many of the theoretical components any grand theory ought to include. In the broadest terms, this collection of articles argues that achieving social justice should be of greater importance than the purity of free markets. Markets, he argues, are themselves only possible through political guarantees of rights and the rule of law, and they should be subordinate to discussions of justice. Sunstein considers seven principles that clarify what is at stake in contemporary discussions of law and economics, often exposing unfounded assumptions of libertarians and free market devotees, yet never losing sight of the value of markets and the goods they procure. Insightful chapters on the formation of preferences, the diversity of human goods, the context dependence of choice, and the vexing problems of rationality blend the author's broad knowledge of contemporary philosophy, his command of legal history and philosophy, and a solid grasp of economic theory. Those looking for sound and challenging thinking on these topics have an excellent source in this volume. [via]
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Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil Warby Eric FonerISBN 0195094972 (0-19-509497-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War'Book summary:Since its publication twenty-five years ago, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men has been recognized as a classic, an indispensable contribution to our understanding of the causes of the American Civil War. A key work in establishing political ideology as a major concern of modern American historians, it remains the only full-scale evaluation of the ideas of the early Republican party. Now with a new introduction, Eric Foner puts his argument into the context of contemporary scholarship, reassessing the concept of free labor in the light of the last twenty-five years of writing on such issues as work, gender, economic change, and political thought.
A significant reevaluation of the causes of the Civil War, Foner's study looks beyond the North's opposition to slavery and its emphasis upon preserving the Union to determine the broader grounds of its willingness to undertake a war against the South in 1861. Its search is for those social concepts the North accepted as vital to its way of life, finding these concepts most clearly expressed in the ideology of the growing Republican party in the decade before the war's start. Through a careful analysis of the attitudes of leading factions in the party's formation (northern Whigs, former Democrats, and political abolitionists) Foner is able to show what each contributed to Republican ideology. He also shows how northern ideas of human rights--in particular a man's right to work where and how he wanted, and to accumulate property in his own name--and the goals of American society were implicit in that ideology. This was the ideology that permeated the North in the period directly before the Civil War, led to the election of Abraham Lincoln, and led, almost immediately, to the Civil War itself. At the heart of the controversy over the extension of slavery, he argues, is the issue of whether the northern or southern form of society would take root in the West, whose development would determine the nation's destiny.
In his new introductory essay, Foner presents a greatly altered view of the subject. Only entrepreneurs and farmers were actually "free men" in the sense used in the ideology of the period. Actually, by the time the Civil War was initiated, half the workers in the North were wage-earners, not independent workers. And this did not account for women and blacks, who had little freedom in choosing what work they did. He goes onto show that even after the Civil War these guarantees for "free soil, free labor, free men" did not really apply for most Americans, and especially not for blacks.
Demonstrating the profoundly successful fusion of value and interest within Republican ideology prior to the Civil War, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men remains a classic of modern American historical writing. Eloquent and influential, it shows how this ideology provided the moral consensus which allowed the North, for the first time in history, to mobilize an entire society in modern warfare. [via]More editions of Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War:
Global Report on Crime and Justiceby Centre for International Crime Prevention (United Nations), Graeme NewmanISBN 019513317X (0-19-513317-X)
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God and Mammon: Protestants, Money, and the Market, 1790-1860by Mark A. NollISBN 0195148010 (0-19-514801-0)
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The Hidden Cost of Being African-American: How Wealth Perpetuates Inequalityby Thomas M. ShapiroISBN 019515147X (0-19-515147-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hidden Cost of Being African-American: How Wealth Perpetuates Inequality'Book summary:Over the past three decades, racial prejudice in America has declined significantly and many African American families have seen a steady rise in employment and annual income. But alongside these encouraging signs, Thomas Shapiro argues in The Hidden Cost of Being African American, fundamental levels of racial inequality persist, particularly in the area of asset accumulation--inheritance, savings accounts, stocks, bonds, home equity, and other investments-. Shapiro reveals how the lack of these family assets along with continuing racial discrimination in crucial areas like homeownership dramatically impact the everyday lives of many black families, reversing gains earned in schools and on jobs, and perpetuating the cycle of poverty in which far too many find themselves trapped.
Shapiro uses a combination of in-depth interviews with almost 200 families from Los Angeles, Boston, and St. Louis, and national survey data with 10,000 families to show how racial inequality is transmitted across generations. We see how those families with private wealth are able to move up from generation to generation, relocating to safer communities with better schools and passing along the accompanying advantages to their children. At the same time those without significant wealth remain trapped in communities that don't allow them to move up, no matter how hard they work. Shapiro challenges white middle class families to consider how the privileges that wealth brings not only improve their own chances but also hold back people who don't have them. This "wealthfare" is a legacy of inequality that, if unchanged, will project social injustice far into the future.
Showing that over half of black families fall below the asset poverty line at the beginning of the new century, The Hidden Cost of Being African American will challenge all Americans to reconsider what must be done to end racial inequality. [via]More editions of The Hidden Cost of Being African-American: How Wealth Perpetuates Inequality:
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How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideasby David BornsteinISBN 0195138058 (0-19-513805-8)
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Published in over twenty countries, How to Change the World has become the Bible for social entrepreneurship. It profiles men and women from around the world who have found innovative solutions to a wide variety of social and economic problems. Whether they work to deliver solar energy to Brazilian villagers, or improve access to college in the United States, social entrepreneurs offer pioneering solutions that change lives.Discover surprising facts about social entrepreneurs from author David Bornstein
- According to a recent Harris Poll, a whopping 97% of Generation Y are looking for work that allows them "to have an impact on the world."
- In recent years, courses or centers in social entrepreneurship have been created in over 250 universities and colleges such as Harvard Business School, Yale School of Management, Duke, NYU's Stern & Wagner, Wharton, Oxford, and Stanford.
- Teach for America received 25,000 applications for 3,700 slots in 2008, an increase of more than a third over 2007. In Ivy League schools such as Yale, Cornell, and Dartmouth, close to 10% of all graduates applied to the program.
- In the past two years, the Acumen Fund, an organization that supports social entrepreneurs who solve major problems through business solutions (eg. malaria nets, water purification, loans for housing), received more than 1,000 applications from top ranked business students for just 15 fellowship positions.
- The list of top business entrepreneurs who are focusing either full time or a considerable amount of time on social entrepreneurship is highly impressive:
- Pierre Omidyar, founder of ebay, created Omidyar Network to "enable individual self-empowerment on a global scale."
- Jeff Skoll, cofounder of ebay, also runs Participant Productions, which makes socially conscious films including An Inconvenient Truth and Goodnight and Good Luck.
- Bill Gates has left Microsoft to pursue a full-time career in philanthropy.
- Warren Buffett recently donated $30 billion to the Gates Foundation.
- William Draper, one of the biggest venture capitalists in Silicon Valley, created the Draper Richards Foundation to support social entrepreneurs.
- Klaus Schwab, the founder of the World Economic Forum (Davos), founded the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship.
- Sergey Brin and Larry Page, founders of Google, created Google.org, which supports social entrepreneurs and has raised over $1 billion.
- Legendary venture capitalist John Doerr is leading an effort to raise $100 million for microcredit loans.
- The Grameen Bank, the leading example for social entrepreneurs worldwide, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006.
- The Bridgespan Group, a consulting group that advises social entrepreneurs, received 1,800 applications for 18 job openings in 2006.
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Human Development Report 1995ISBN 0195100239 (0-19-510023-9)
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The Illustrated Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era Leatherby James M. McPhersonISBN 0195159012 (0-19-515901-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Illustrated Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era Leather'Book summary:Winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for History and a New York Times Bestseller, Battle Cry of Freedom is universally recognized as the definitive account of the Civil War. It was hailed in The New York Times as "historical writing of the highest order." The Washington Post called it "the finest single volume on the war and its background." And The Los Angeles Times wrote that "of the 50,000 books written on the Civil War, it is the finest compression of that national paroxysm ever fitted between two covers."
Now available in a splendid new edition is The Illustrated Battle Cry of Freedom. Boasting some seven hundred pictures, including a hundred and fifty color images and twenty-four full-color maps, here is the ultimate gift book for everyone interested in American history. McPherson has selected all the illustrations, including rare contemporary photographs, period cartoons, etchings, woodcuts, and paintings, carefully choosing those that best illuminate the narrative. More important, he has written extensive captions (some 35,000 words in all, virtually a book in themselves), many of which offer genuinely new information and interpretations that significantly enhance the text. The text itself, streamlined by McPherson, remains a fast-paced narrative that brilliantly captures two decades of contentious American history, from the Mexican War to Lee's surrender at Appomattox. The reader will find a truly masterful chronicle of the war itself--the battles, the strategic maneuvering on both sides, the politics, and the personalities--as well as McPherson's thoughtful commentary on such matters as the slavery expansion issue in the 1850s, the origins of the Republican Party, the causes of secession, internal dissent and anti-war opposition in the North and the South, and the reasons for the Union's victory.
A must-have purchase for the legions of Civil War buffs, The Illustrated Battle Cry of Freedom is both a spectacularly beautiful volume and the definitive account of the most important conflict in our nation's history. [via]More editions of The Illustrated Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era Leather:
Inequalityby Larry S. TemkinISBN 0195078608 (0-19-507860-8)
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Information and Coordination: Essays in Macroeconomic Theoryby Axel LeijonhufvudISBN 0195028155 (0-19-502815-5)
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International Economics: The Theory of Policyby Gerald M. MeierISBN 0195026365 (0-19-502636-5)
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International Monetary Economicsby Bennett T. McCallumISBN 0195094948 (0-19-509494-8)
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An Introduction to Game Theoryby Martin J. OsborneISBN 0195128958 (0-19-512895-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Introduction to Game Theory'Book summary:Game-theoretic reasoning pervades economic theory and is used widely in other social and behavioral sciences. An Introduction to Game Theory, by Martin J. Osborne, presents the main principles of game theory and shows how they can be used to understand economic, social, political, and biological phenomena. The book introduces in an accessible manner the main ideas behind the theory rather than their mathematical expression. All concepts are defined precisely, and logical reasoning is used throughout. The book requires an understanding of basic mathematics but assumes no specific knowledge of economics, political science, or other social or behavioral sciences.
Coverage includes the fundamental concepts of strategic games, extensive games with perfect information, and coalitional games; the more advanced subjects of Bayesian games and extensive games with imperfect information; and the topics of repeated games, bargaining theory, evolutionary equilibrium, rationalizability, and maxminimization. The book offers a wide variety of illustrations from the social and behavioral sciences and more than 280 exercises. Each topic features examples that highlight theoretical points and illustrations that demonstrate how the theory may be used. Explaining the key concepts of game theory as simply as possible while maintaining complete precision, An Introduction to Game Theory is ideal for undergraduate and introductory graduate courses in game theory. [via]More editions of An Introduction to Game Theory:
Introductory Mathematical Economicsby D. Wade HandsISBN 0195133781 (0-19-513378-1)
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Investment Scienceby David G. LuenbergerISBN 0195108094 (0-19-510809-4)
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The Joyless Economy: The Psychology of Human Satisfactionby Tibor ScitovskyISBN 0195073479 (0-19-507347-9)
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Law and Disorder in Cyberspace: Abolish the Fcc and Let Common Law Rule the Telecosmby Peter W. HuberISBN 0195116143 (0-19-511614-3)
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Leading Issues in Economic Developmentby Gerald M. MeierISBN 0195071808 (0-19-507180-8)
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Many Globalizations: Cultural Diversity in the Contemporary Worldby Peter L. Berger, Samuel P. HuntingtonISBN 0195151461 (0-19-515146-1)
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The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America 1815-1846by Charles Grier SellersISBN 0195089200 (0-19-508920-0)
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The Market Revolution : Jacksonian America, 1815-1846by Charles C. SellersISBN 0195038894 (0-19-503889-4)
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The Marketplace Of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independenceby T. H. BreenISBN 0195063953 (0-19-506395-3)
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The Meaning of Karl Marxby Bruce MazlishISBN 0195047834 (0-19-504783-4)
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Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory : A Journey into the Evangelical Subculture in Americaby Randall H. BalmerISBN 019507985X (0-19-507985-X)
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Modern Latin Americaby Thomas E. Skidmore, Peter H. SmithISBN 0195129954 (0-19-512995-4)
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Monopolies in America: Empire Builders and Their Enemies from Jay Gould to Bill Gatesby Charles R. GeisstISBN 0195123018 (0-19-512301-8)
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The Myth of Americas Decline: Leading the World Economy into the 1990'sby Henry R. NauISBN 0195072723 (0-19-507272-3)
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The Nature of the Firm: Origins, Evolution, and Developmentby Oliver E. Williamson, Sidney G. WinterISBN 0195083563 (0-19-508356-3)
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Organization Theory: From Chester Barnard to the Present and Beyondby Oliver E. WilliamsonISBN 0195098307 (0-19-509830-7)
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The Origin and Evolution of New Businessesby Amar BhideISBN 0195131444 (0-19-513144-4)
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Out to Work: The History of Wage-earning Women in the United Statesby Alice Kessler-HarrisISBN 0195157095 (0-19-515709-5)
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The Oxford W.E.B. Du Bois Readerby Eric J. Sundquist, W. E. B. Du BoisISBN 0195091787 (0-19-509178-7)
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Pharmaceutical Economics and Policyby Stuart O. SchweitzerISBN 0195105249 (0-19-510524-9)
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The Philippine Economy: Development, Policies, and Challengesby Hal Hill, A. M. BalisacanISBN 0195158989 (0-19-515898-9)
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The Postwar Japanese System: Cultural Economy and Economic Transformationby William K. TabbISBN 0195089502 (0-19-508950-2)
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The Power Eliteby Charles Wright MillsISBN 0195133544 (0-19-513354-4)
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Rainbow's End: The Crash of 1929by Maury KleinISBN 0195158016 (0-19-515801-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rainbow's End: The Crash of 1929'Book summary:The first major history of the Crash in over a decade, Rainbow's End tells the story of the stock market collapse in a colorful, swift-moving narrative that blends a vivid portrait of the 1920s with an intensely gripping account of Wall Street's greatest catastrophe.
The book offers a vibrant picture of a world full of plungers, powerful bankers, corporate titans, millionaire brokers, and buoyantly optimistic stock market bulls. We meet Sunshine Charley Mitchell, head of the National City Bank, powerful financiers Jack Morgan and Jacob Schiff, Wall Street manipulators such as the legendary Jesse Livermore, and the lavish-living Billy Durant, founder of General Motors. As Klein follows the careers of these men, he shows us how the financial house of cards gradually grew taller, as the irrational exuberance of an earlier age gripped America and convinced us that the market would continue to rise forever. Then, in October 1929, came a "perfect storm"-like convergence of factors that shook Wall Street to its foundations. We relive Black Thursday, when police lined Wall Street, brokers grew hysterical, customers "bellowed like lunatics," and the ticker tape fell hours behind. This is followed by the even worse Bloody Tuesday, when an irrational desire to sell at any price gripped the market and even blue chip stocks plummeted precariously.
This compelling history of the Crash--the first to follow the market closely for the two years leading up to the disaster--illuminates a major turning point in our history. [via]More editions of Rainbow's End: The Crash of 1929:
Readings in Input-Output Analysis: Theory and Applicationsby Ira SohnISBN 0195036743 (0-19-503674-3)
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Reaganomics: An Insider's Account of the Policies and the Peopleby William A. NiskanenISBN 019505394X (0-19-505394-X)
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Rethinking the Soviet Experience: Politics And History Since 1917by Stephen F CohenISBN 0195040163 (0-19-504016-3)
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Cohen's lucidly written, revisionist analysis reopens an array of major historical questions. As he probes Soviet history, society, and politics, Cohen demonstrates how this country has remained stable during its long journey from revolution to conservatism. It the process, he suggests more enlightened approaches to American/Soviet relations. Based on the author's many years of study and research, including numerous visits to the USSR, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in the state of world affairs today. [via]More editions of Rethinking the Soviet Experience: Politics And History Since 1917:
Screening Out the Past: The Birth of Mass Culture and the Motion Picture Industryby Lary MayISBN 0195027620 (0-19-502762-0)
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Second Thoughts: Myths and Morals of U.S. Economic Historyby Donald N. McCloskeyISBN 0195101189 (0-19-510118-9)
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Shakespeare's Twenty-First-Century Economics: The Morality of Love and Moneyby Frederick TurnerISBN 0195128613 (0-19-512861-3)
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Technology, Growth, and Development: An Induced Innovation Perspectiveby Vernon W. RuttanISBN 0195118715 (0-19-511871-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Technology, Growth, and Development: An Induced Innovation Perspective'Book summary:Technology, Growth, and Development uniquely presents the complexities of technical and institutional change on the foundation of modern growth theory. The author shows how the rates and directions of technical change are induced by changes in competitive funding and institutional innovations in the modern research university and industrial laboratory. In turn, technical change itself becomes a powerful source of institutional change. Organized by the author in four parts, the first-Productivity and Economic Growth-gives specific reasons for the slowing of productivity growth in the United States and other leading industrial countries during the last quarter of the twentieth century. In Part II-Sources of Technical Change-the author examines a host of economic factors that influence invention and innovation; the rate and direction of institutional change; and the adoption, diffusion, and transfer of technology. In Part III-Technical Innovation and Industrial Change-he traces the sources and impact of technical change in five strategically important industries: agriculture, electric power, chemical, computer, and biotechnology. The final section, Part IV-Technology Policy-evaluates the role of technical change in international competition, the role of science and technology in environmental policy, and the evolution of U.S. science and technology policy. Technology, Growth, and Development makes few mathematical demands on students, and will be used in courses within economics departments as well as management and public affairs. In addition, it will be required reading for professional economists, managers, and policy analysts at all levels. [via]
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Telecommunication in Latin Americaby Eli NoamISBN 0195102002 (0-19-510200-2)
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The Theoretical Evolution of International Political Economy: A Readerby George T. Crane, Abla AmawiISBN 0195094433 (0-19-509443-3)
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Thomas East and Music Publishing in Renaissance Englandby Jeremy L. SmithISBN 0195139054 (0-19-513905-4)
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The Tobin Tax: Coping With Financial Volatilityby Mahbub Ul Haq, Inge Kaul, Isabelle GrunbergISBN 019511180X (0-19-511180-X)
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Understanding Capitalism: Competition, Command, And Changeby Samuel Bowles, Richard Edwards, Frank RooseveltISBN 0195138651 (0-19-513865-1)
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Understanding the Gender Gap: An Economic History of American Womenby Claudia GoldinISBN 0195072707 (0-19-507270-7)
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Visions of the Futureby Robert HeilbronerISBN 019510286X (0-19-510286-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Visions of the Future'Book summary:"This is an exceedingly long short book, stretching at least fifty thousand years into the past and who knows how many into the future." So begins Visions of the Future, the prophetic new book by eminent economist Robert Heilbroner. Heilbroner's basic premise is stunning in its elegant simplicity. He contends that throughout all of human history, despite the huge gulf in social organization, technological development, and cultural achievement that divides us from the earliest known traces of homo sapiens, there have really only been three distinct ways of looking at the future.
During a period Heilbroner refers to simply as the Distant Past, stretching from prehistory to the appearance of modern nation-states in seventeenth century Europe, there was no notion of a future measurably and materially different from the present or the past. From the Stone Age to the Bronze, Mesopotamia and Egypt to Greece and Rome, and throughout the Middle Ages, a continuum of cultures and civilizations shared one defining expectation--the absence of any expectation of material progress for the great masses of people.
Heilbroner maintains that it was not until the first stirrings of the period he refers to as Yesterday, spanning from roughly 1700 to 1950, that the future entered into human consciousness as a great beckoning force. Capitalism, continually reinvigorated by the seemingly endless forward march of science and an evolving sense of democracy, appeared to promise all levels of society some expectation of a future at least somewhat better than the past. It was this unwavering faith in the superiority of the future that separated Yesterday from the age we have now entered, that of Today. While we are still driven towards tomorrow by the same forces that determined the recent past, the lessons of Hiroshima and Chernobyl, the chaos in the former Soviet Union, the stagnation of the West, and the anarchic rage unleashed in our inner cities and in hot spots around the globe have brought on a palpable anxiety that is quite apart from both the resignation of the Distant Past or the bright optimism of Yesterday.
In a brilliant conclusion drawing together the threat of nuclear blackmail, global warming and the growing commodification of life represented by video games, voice mail, and VCRs, Visions of the Future issues a call to face the challenges of the twenty-first century with a new resolve strengthened by the inspiration of our collective past. [via] 
Visions of Utopiaby Martin E. Marty, Herbert Muschamp, Edward RothsteinISBN 0195144619 (0-19-514461-9)
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