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  • Partitions, Objective Indefiniteness, and Quantum Reality

    The Objective Indefiniteness Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics

    by David Ellerman ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book presents a new ‘partitional' approach to understanding or interpreting the math of standard quantum mechanics (QM). The thesis is that the mathematics (not the physics) of QM is the Hilbert space version of the math of partitions on a set and, conversely, the math of partitions is a skeletonized set level version of the math of QM. Since at the set level, partitions are the mathematical ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Helping People Help Themselves

    From the World Bank to an Alternative Philosophy of Development Assistance

    by David Ellerman ...
    Series series Evolving Values For A Capitalist World
    David Ellerman relates a deep theoretical groundwork for a philosophy of development, while offering a descriptive, practical suggestion of how goals of development can be better set and met. Beginning with the assertion that development assistance agencies are inherently structured to provide help that is ultimately unhelpful by overriding or undercutting the capacity of people to help themselves ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Putting Jurisprudence Back Into Economics

    What is Really Wrong With Today's Neoclassical Theory

    by David Ellerman ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book presents an integrated jurisprudential critique of neoclassical microeconomic theory. It explains what is ‘really wrong’ with the theory both descriptively, as well as normatively. The criticism presented is based on questions of jurisprudence, and on neoclassical theory’s sins of omission and commission concerning the underlying system of property and contract. On the positive side - ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • New Foundations for Information Theory

    Logical Entropy and Shannon Entropy

    by David Ellerman ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This monograph offers a new foundation for information theory that is based on the notion of information-as-distinctions, being directly measured by logical entropy, and on the re-quantification as Shannon entropy, which is the fundamental concept for the theory of coding and communications.Information is based on distinctions, differences, distinguishability, and diversity. Information sets are ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Democratic Worker-Owned Firm (Routledge Revivals)

    A New Model for the East and West

    by David Ellerman ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    When this book was first published in 1990, there were massive economic changes in the East and significant economic challenges to the West. This critical analysis of democratic theory discusses the principles and forces that push both socialist and capitalist economies toward a common ground of workplace democratization.This book is a comprehensive approach to the theory and practice of the ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Neo-Abolitionism

    Abolishing Human Rentals in Favor of Workplace Democracy

    by David Ellerman ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book argues for the abolition of the employment system in favor of workplace democracy and thus escapes the usual capitalism-versus-socialism binary choice by reframing the basic issue as the employment contract, not private property or a market economy.The author repositions the political and economic debate in the lineage of abolitionism - against the owning of other people - which in its ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Uses of Diversity

    Essays in Polycentricity

    by David Ellerman ...
    Series series Polycentricity: Studies in Institutional Diversity and Voluntary Governance
    The author argues for the virtues of diversity in cities, organizations, strategies for development, and human discourse in general. The opening chapter develops the vision of Jane Jacobs (the "diva of diversity") for the development of city regions. Many of the later chapters are based on the author's ten years in the World Bank and Senior Advisor and speechwriter for Joseph Stiglitz. Many of the ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • The Politics of Greed

    How Privatization Structured Politics in Central and Eastern Europe

    by Andrew Harrison Schwartz ...
    Series series World Social Change
    With the dissolution of the Soviet Empire, it seemed that market capitalism had triumphed and that democracy might replace authoritarian regimes. Economic reformers in the former Eastern Bloc rushed to liberalize prices and transfer state assets to private hands. They assumed that private owners in a market setting would have no choice but to behave rationally_that is, to invest in restructuring ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

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  • Gibbs Measures On Cayley Trees

    by Utkir A Rozikov ...
    The purpose of this book is to present systematically all known mathematical results on Gibbs measures on Cayley trees (Bethe lattices).The Gibbs measure is a probability measure, which has been an important object in many problems of probability theory and statistical mechanics. It is the measure associated with the Hamiltonian of a physical system (a model) and generalizes the notion of a ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Quantum Fields and Processes

    A Combinatorial Approach

    by John Gough, Joachim Kupsch ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics
    Wick ordering of creation and annihilation operators is of fundamental importance for computing averages and correlations in quantum field theory and, by extension, in the Hudson–Parthasarathy theory of quantum stochastic processes, quantum mechanics, stochastic processes, and probability. This book develops the unified combinatorial framework behind these examples, starting with the simplest ... Read more

    $85.29 USD

  • Cultures and Organizations: Software of the Mind, Third Edition

    by Geert Hofstede, Gert Jan Hofstede, Michael Minkov ...
    The revolutionary study of how the place where we grew up shapes the way we think, feel, and act-- with new dimensions and perspectivesBased on research conducted in more than seventy countries over a forty-year span, Cultures and Organizations examines what drives people apart—when cooperation is so clearly in everyone’s interest. With major new contributions from Michael Minkov’s analysis of ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Quantum Computing since Democritus

    by Scott Aaronson ...
    Written by noted quantum computing theorist Scott Aaronson, this book takes readers on a tour through some of the deepest ideas of maths, computer science and physics. Full of insights, arguments and philosophical perspectives, the book covers an amazing array of topics. Beginning in antiquity with Democritus, it progresses through logic and set theory, computability and complexity theory, quantum ... Read more

    $52.49 USD