The papers in this book are grouped into three sections: the first on price bubbles is primarily financial; the second on speculative attacks (on exchange rate regimes) is international in scope; and
The Tax Policy and the Economy series presents new research bearing on the economic effects of taxation on economic performance and analyzing the effects of potential tax reforms. Research results are
Baumol studies the effect of the allocation of entrepreneurs between productive and unproductive activities on an economy's performance. Although it is admittedly difficult to theorize and make pred
Baumol studies the effect of the allocation of entrepreneurs between productive and unproductive activities on an economy's performance.Although it is admittedly difficult to theorize and make predict
Most recent research in generative morphology has avoided the treatment of purely morphological phenomena and has focused instead on interface questions, such as the relation between morphology and sy
The Tax Policy and the Economy series presents new research bearing on the economic effects of taxation on economic performance and analysis of the effects of potential tax reforms. Results of researc
Alternating discursive accounts with fictional vignettes that recreate time andplace, this book skillfully integrates the history of French gardens with the modern history ofideas.Denise Le Dantec is
Traditional growth theory emphasizes the incentives for capital accumulation rather than technological progress. Innovation is treated as an exogenous process or a by-product of investment in machine
In Artificial Experts, Collins explains what computers can't do, but he also studiesthe ordinary and extraordinary things that they can do. He argues that the machines we create arelimited because we
The Tax Policy and the Economy series presents new research bearing on the economic effects of taxation on economic performance and analysis of the effects of potential tax reforms. Research results a
Aircraft Engines and Gas Turbines is widely used as a text in the United States and abroad, and has also become a standard reference for professionals in the aircraft engine industry. Unique in treati
Drawing on preliminary results from a massive study conducted by the World Bank to probe the links between stabilization and growth, Cooper examines the experience of developing countries faced by the
As the former Eastern Bloc countries and the developing nations endeavor to modernize their economies, much macroeconomic research in the next decade will involve stabilization and reconstruction. The
The Tax Policy and the Economy series presents new research bearing on the economic effects of taxation on economic performance and analyzing the effects of potential tax reforms.
The Tax Policy and Economy series presents new research bearing on the effects of taxation on economic performance and analyzing the effects of potential tax reforms. Research results are, presented i
Interpretations of Poetry and Religion is the third volume in a new critical edition of the complete works of George Santayana that restores Santayana's original text and provides important new schola
Interpretations of Poetry and Religion is the third volume in a new critical edition of the complete works of George Santayana that restores Santayana's original text and provides important new schola
In this imaginative and generously illustrated book, Tadahiko Higuchi applies amethodology to landscape that is similar to that developed by Kevin Lynch for investigating theextent to which urban sett
Tax policy debates, generated by one of the most sweeping reforms of the Federal income tax system since its inception, are certain to continue for years to come, providing a fertile field for economi
Since economics emerged as a distinct field of inquiry, no other single factor hasoccupied so central an analytical role as labor. A review in the library journal, Choice, noted thatthis book "does fo
This collection of 17 essays by the author offers a comprehensive theory of mind, encompassing traditional issues of consciousness and free will. Using careful arguments and ingenious thought-experim
This book is a collection of published writings of Samuel Bing, a Parisian art dealer whose Salon de l'Art Nouveau not only gave the name but was pivotal to the movement that generated an internationa
This book on stability theory and robustness will interest researchers and advancedgraduate students in the area of feedback control engineering, circuits, and systems. It will alsoappeal to mathemati
A detailed analysis of Soviet historiography between 1956 and 1966 and the special tensions placed on the Soviet historian of that period. Historiography in the USSR is charged to an unprecedented d
Writers including Vannevar Bush and Herbert A. Simon discuss the impact of the computer in its first twenty years.Writers discuss the extraordinary growth of the computer in its first twenty years and
Game Sound has two underlying themes: how and why games are different from or similar to film or other linear audiovisual media; and technology and the constraints it has placed on the production of
An examination of the many complex aspects of game audio, from the perspectives of both sound design and music composition. A distinguishing feature of video games is their interactivity, and sound
This Report of the Study of Critical Environmental Problems (SCEP) presents theresults of a one-month interdisciplinary examination of the global climatic and ecological effectsof man's activities.
In this two-volume set, Talmy approaches the question of how language organizesconceptual material both at a general level and by analyzing a crucial set of particular conceptualdomains: space and tim
In this two-volume set, Talmy approaches the question of how language organizes conceptual material both at a general level and by analyzing a crucial set of particular conceptual domains: space and t
Buddhism shares with science the task of examining the mind empirically; it has pursued, for two millennia, direct investigation of the mind through penetrating introspection. Neuroscience, on the oth
There are zombies among us! From the rotting hordes of TV's The Walking Dead to the blockbuster nightmares of World War Z and 28 Days Later, our popular culture is overrun with the ravenous undead.
"McGinn is an ingenious philosopher who thinks like a laser and writes like a dream"--Steven PinkerThis book is a hymn to the hand. In Prehension, Colin McGinn links
On the eve of Google's IPO in 2004, Larry Page and Sergey Brin vowed not to be evil. Today, a growing number of technologists would go further, trying to ensure that their work actively improves peopl
This classic book, first published in 1991, was one of the first to propose the "embodied cognition" approach in cognitive science. It pioneered the connections between p
At the end of the nineteenth century, acoustics was a science of musical sounds; the musically trained ear was the ultimate reference. Just a few decades into the twentie
