Rationalistic theories of the workplace and the claims typically made by organizations stress that an individual's access to the resources and advantages of an organization are...
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Natural Resource Economics
Jon M. Conrad; Colin Whitcomb Clark · ISBN 9780521331883
Julkaistu 1987 Kieli englanti sidottu
In this book, Jon Conrad and Colin Clark develop the theory of resource economics. To begin, they provide an introduction to the required techniques of dynamic optimization. Thr...
Natural Resource Economics
Jon M. Conrad; Colin Whitcomb Clark · ISBN 9780521337694
Julkaistu 1987 Kieli englanti pokkari
In this book, Jon Conrad and Colin Clark develop the theory of resource economics. To begin, they provide an introduction to the required techniques of dynamic optimization. Thr...
This book examines a trans-Atlantic chain migration from a Norwegian fjord district to settlements in the nineteenth-century rural Upper Middle West and considers the social and...
Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences
Jon Elster · ISBN 9780521376068
Julkaistu 1989 Kieli englanti pokkari
This book is intended as an introductory survey of the philosophy of the social sciences. It is essentially a work of exposition which offers a tool-box of mechanisms - nuts and...
The question Jon Elster addresses in this challenging new book is what binds societies together and prevents them from disintegrating into chaos and war. He analyses two concept...
This volume of essays is very much a sequel to the two earlier collections by Jon Elster, Ulysses and the Sirens and Sour Grapes. His topic is rationality - its scope, its limit...
Foundations of Social Choice Theory
Jon Elster; Aanund Hylland · ISBN 9780521389136
Julkaistu 1989 Kieli englanti pokkari
The essays in this volume, first published in 1986, examine the philosophical foundations of social choice theory. This field, a modern and sophisticated outgrowth of welfare ec...
This provocative new textbook takes up and develops the themes of rationality and irrationality in Jon Elster's earlier work. Its purposes are threefold. First, Elster shows how...
This provocative new textbook takes up and develops the themes of rationality and irrationality in Jon Elster’s earlier work. Its purposes are threefold. First, Elster shows how...
Flannery O'Connor and Cold War Culture
Jon Lance Bacon · ISBN 9780521445290
Julkaistu 1994 Kieli englanti sidottu
This book reconsiders Flannery O’Connor, known primarily for her Catholicism. By recovering the historical circumstances in which Flannery O’Connor wrote her fiction, Jon Lance...
Speaking for the People, first published in 1998, draws our attention to the problematic nature of politicians' claims to represent others, and in doing so it challenges convent...
Institutional Design in Post-Communist Societies
Jon Elster; Claus Offe; Ulrich K. Preuss · ISBN 9780521473866
Julkaistu 1998 Kieli englanti sidottu
The authors of this book have developed a new and stimulating approach to the analysis of the transitions of Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia to democracy and...
Institutional Design in Post-Communist Societies
Jon Elster; Claus Offe; Ulrich K. Preuss · ISBN 9780521479318
Julkaistu 1998 Kieli englanti pokkari
The authors of this book have developed a new and stimulating approach to the analysis of the transitions of Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia to democracy and...
Alexis de Tocqueville, the First Social Scientist
Jon Elster · ISBN 9780521518444
Julkaistu 2009 Kieli englanti sidottu
The book proposes a new interpretation of Alexis de Tocqueville that views him first and foremost as a social scientist rather than as a political theorist. Drawing on his earli...
An analysis of transitional justice - retribution and reparation after a change of political regime - from Athens in the fifth century BC to the present. Part I, ‘The Universe o...
Information Flow
Jon Barwise; Jerry Seligman · ISBN 9780521583862
Julkaistu 1997 Kieli englanti sidottu
Information is a central topic in computer science, cognitive science, and philosophy. In spite of its importance in the ‘information age,’ there is no consensus on what informa...
Since the momentous events of the late 1980s, democratic transition has been a widely studied phenomenon. Most scholars who have investigated the causes and implications of the...
EMBOSS Developer's Guide
Jon C. Ison; Peter M. Rice; Alan J. Bleasby · ISBN 9780521607247
Julkaistu 2011 Kieli englanti pokkari
The European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite (EMBOSS) is a high quality, well documented package of open source software tools for molecular biology. EMBOSS includes exten...
Jon Elster has written a comprehensive, wide-ranging book on the emotions in which he considers the full range of theoretical approaches. Drawing on history, literature, philoso...