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Release Date: December 6, 2012
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Release Date: December 6, 2012
Are Small Firms Important? Their Role and Impact proposes and supports the claim that small firms make two indispensable contributions to the economy. First, they are an integral part of the renewal process that pervades market economies. New and small firms play a crucial role in experimentation...
Pensions: More Information, Less Ideology
Assessing the Long-Term Sustainability of European Pension Systems: Data Requirements, Analysis and Evaluations
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Europeans are living longer, and fewer now remain in the labour force as they grow older. Many European countries have responded to the ensuing financial pressure by reforming their public pension systems and health care programmes. There is considerable uncertainty as to the effects of these reforms...
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Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Peter A. Coming Palo Alto, CA November, 2000 This volwne represents a distillation of the plenary sessions at a unique millenniwn year event -a World Congress of the Systems Sciences in conjunction with the 44th annual meeting of the International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS). The overall...
The Psychology of War and Peace
The Image of the Enemy
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Can a Baby Be an Enemy? Our world is in a deep, prolonged crisis. The threat of global nuclear war, the chronic condition of local wars, the imperilled environment, and mass star vation are among the major forms this crisis takes. The dangers of massive overkill, overexploitation of the environment,...
by Tadashi A. Hanami
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
The Saudi Arabian Economy
Policies, Achievements, and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2010
The Saudi Arabian economy has changed almost beyond recognition since the oil boom days of the 1980s, and the Kingdom itself has changed too economically, socially, and demographically. In the second edition of The Saudi Arabian Economy, Mohamed Ramady uses several overlapping themes to establish...
Diffusion in Natural Porous Media
Contaminant Transport, Sorption/Desorption and Dissolution Kinetics
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Diffusion in Natural Porous Media: Contaminant Transport, Sorption/Desorption and Dissolution Kinetics introduces the general principles of diffusion in the subsurface environment and discusses the implications for the fate and transport of contaminants in soils and groundwater. Emphasis is placed...
Information Systems Development
Challenges in Practice, Theory, and Education Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2008
Information Systems Development (ISD) progresses rapidly, continually creating new challenges for the professionals involved. New concepts, approaches and techniques of systems development emerge constantly in this field. Progress in ISD comes from research as well as from practice.
This conference...
Operational Risk Management
The Integration of Decision, Communications, and Multimedia Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Advanced communications and information technologies provide the basis for operational risk management. In order to support managers in real-time risk assessment and decision-making, the advanced technologies must be complemented by an appropriate reasoning logic.
This book presents such a reasoning...
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Release Date: November 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Information Systems (IS) as a discipline draws on diverse areas including, technology, organisational theory, management and social science. The field is recognized as very broad and encompassing many themes and areas. However, the development of artefacts, or information systems development (ISD),...
Beliefs and Decision Rules in Public Good Games
Theory and Experiments
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Part I provides an introduction to this study of players' beliefs and decision rules in to obtain data in order to public good games. The experimental method will be used test theoretical ideas about beliefs and decision rules. Chapter 1 discusses some methodological issues concerning experimentation...
by Thomas L. Saaty, Luis G. Vargas
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Models, Methods, Concepts and Applications of the Analytic Hierarchy Process is a volume dedicated to selected applications of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) focused on three themes: economics, the social sciences, and the linking of measurement with human values. (1) The AHP offers economists...
Capital, Accumulation, and Money
An Integration of Capital, Growth, and Monetary Theory
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2010
Capital, Accumulation, and Money: An Integration of Capital, Growth, and Monetary Theory is a book about capital and money. A root concept of capital is formulated that allows for most existing concepts of capital to be unified and related to one another in consistent fashion. Capital and monetary...
The Preparation of Monetary Policy
Essays on a Multi-Model Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Standard macroeconomic monographs often discuss the mechanism of monetary transmission, usually ending by highlighting the complexities and uncertainties involved in this mechanism. Conversely, The Preparation of Monetary Policy takes these uncertainties as a starting point, analytically investigating...