Part I: Basic Framework -- Chapter 1.: Beyond Reification: Envisioning the Earth -- Chapter 2: The Modern Institution of Science -- Chapter 3: The History of Political Economy -- Part II. Conceptual Development and Critique of Capitalism -- Chapter 4: Fictitious Capital: Money, the Symbol and...

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Projects are commonly over budget and behind schedule, to some extent because uncertainties are not accounted for in cost and schedule estimates. Research and practice is now addressing this problem, often by using Monte Carlo methods to simulate the effect of variances in work package costs and...

Probabilistic Risk Assessment is being increasingly used in a number of industries such as nuclear, aerospace, chemical process, to name a few. Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA) characterizes risk in terms of three questions: (1) What can go wrong? (2) How likely is it? (3) What are the...

To maintain a competitive edge, companies today must be able to efficiently allocate resources to optimally commit and fulfill requested orders. As such, order processing and resource allocation models have become increasingly sophisticated to handle the complexity of these decisions. In our...