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Lazear, Edward P. - The MIT Press

analysis. Edward Lazear, who founded the subfield of personnel economics, provides a quick introduction for economists who have …

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Science in History, Volume 4: The Social Sciences: A Conclusion

Bernal, J. D. - The MIT Press

J. D. Bernal's monumental work Science in History is the first full-scale attempt to analyze the relationship between science and society throughout history, from the perfection of the first flint hand ax to the construction of the hydrogen bomb. This remarkable study illustrates the impetus...

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Nothing is Sacred: Economic Ideas for the New Millennium

Barro, Robert J. - The MIT Press

legalization, the economics of beauty, and the relationship between abortion rights and crime reduction. The book opens with a …, including Joe DiMaggio and Bono. In the book's second part, Barro discusses the economics of social issues. In the third part …

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Economics and Psychology: A Promising New Cross-Disciplinary Field

Frey, Bruno S. (contributor); Stutzer, Alois (contributor) - The MIT Press

The integration of economics and psychology has created a vibrant and fruitful emerging field of study. The essays in … Economics and Psychology take a broad view of the interface between these two disciplines, going beyond the usual focus on … "behavioral economics." As documented in this volume, the influence of psychology on economics has been responsible for a view of …

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Models of Bounded Rationality, Volume 1: Economic Analysis and Public Policy

Simon, Herbert A. - The MIT Press

The Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to Herbert Simon in 1978. At Carnegie Mellon University he holds the title of … also to a new humanizing realism in economics, a way of taking into account and dealing with human behavior and …

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Economic Theory and Cognitive Science: Microexplanation

Ross, Don - The MIT Press

In this study, Don Ross explores the relationship of economics to other branches of behavioral science, asking, in the … course of his analysis, under what interpretation economics is a sound empirical science. The book explores the relationships … economics—the cognitive and behavioral sciences. It asks whether the increasingly sophisticated techniques of microeconomic …

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The Marketplace of Christianity

Robert B. Ekelund Jr.; Hebert, Robert F.; Tollison, … - The MIT Press

economics of religion has little to do with counting the money in the collection basket and much to do with understanding the … organized body of worshipers, it's natural to use a science that seeks to explain the behavior of organization—economics … and nontechnical background information on economics and the economics of religion before focusing on the Reformation and …

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Reasoning About Knowledge

Fagin, Ronald; Halpern, Joseph Y.; Moses, Yoram; Vardi, … - The MIT Press

Reasoning about knowledge—particularly the knowledge of agents who reason about the world and each other's knowledge—was once the exclusive province of philosophers and puzzle solvers. More recently, this type of reasoning has been shown to play a key role in a surprising number of contexts,...

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Economics and Psychology: A Promising New Cross-Disciplinary Field

Frey, Bruno S. (contributor); Stutzer, Alois (contributor) - The MIT Press

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Reworking Authority: Leading and Following in a Post-Modern Organization

Hirschhorn, Larry - The MIT Press

For many companies, the past decade has been marked by a sense of turbulence and redefinition. The growing role of information technologies and service businesses has prompted companies to reconsider how they are structured and even what business they are in. These changes have also affected how...

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