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  • Encompassing

    Practical Applications Through Simulation

    by Jean-Francois Richard, Robert C. Marshall, Chaohai Shen ...
    An operational simulation-based implementation of a fundamental research principle in the sciences—the idea that a model must account for, or encompass, findings of alternative models.To account for the universal deficiency of all economic models, Jean-François Richard, Robert Marshall, and Chaohai Shen propose in this book an operational test of whether a model accounts for—or encompasses—key ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • The Economics of Collusion

    Cartels and Bidding Rings

    by Robert C. Marshall, Leslie M. Marx ...
    An examination of collusive behavior: what it is, why it is profitable, how it is implemented, and how it might be detected.Explicit collusion is an agreement among competitors to suppress rivalry that relies on interfirm communication and/or transfers. Rivalry between competitors erodes profits; the suppression of rivalry through collusion is one avenue by which firms can enhance profits. Many ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Cooperation in Economy and Society

    by James Acheson, Matthew Bird, Gracia Clark, Bruce Dahlin, Malcolm Dow, E Anthon Eff, Katrina T. Greene, Julie Hogeland, Carolyn Lesorogol, Daniel Mazeau, Kathleen Millar, Rahul Oka, Benjamin Porter, Ronald Rich, Agustín Fuentes, Scott R. Hutson ...
    Series series Society for Economic Anthropology Monograph Series
    The essays in the book analyze cases of cooperation in a wide range of ethnographic, archaeological and evolutionary settings. Cooperation is examined in situations of market exchange, local and long-distance reciprocity, hierarchical relations, common property and commons access, and cooperatives. Not all of these analyses show stable and long-term results of successful cooperation. The ... Read more

    $129.99 USD

  • Labor in Cross-Cultural Perspective

    by Katherine A. Bowie, Barbara J. Dilly, G Feinman, V Heredia, Dolores Koenig, S Kowalewski, Robert C. Marshall, L Nicholas, Sutti Ortiz, John R. Pulskamp, Martha Woodson Rees, Karaleah S. Reichart, Susan D. Russell, John M. Steinberg, Tamar Diana Wilson, Frank Zeidler, Christian Zlolniski ...
    Series series Society for Economic Anthropology Monograph Series
    This excellent new volume in the series from the Society for Economic Anthropology focuses on the role of labor in contrasting world economies. The contributors offer a diverse collection of case studies, illustrating labor processes in a wide range of contexts in both western and nonwestern societies. The volume presents a detailed portrait of how the mobilization of labor changes dramatically ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

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  • Governing the Commons

    The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action

    by Elinor Ostrom ...
    Series series Canto Classics
    The governance of natural resources used by many individuals in common is an issue of increasing concern to policy analysts. Both state control and privatization of resources have been advocated, but neither the state nor the market have been uniformly successful in solving common pool resource problems. After critiquing the foundations of policy analysis as applied to natural resources, Elinor ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • The Environment in Anthropology, Second Edition

    A Reader in Ecology, Culture, and Sustainable Living

    Edited by Nora Haenn, Allison Harnish, Richard Wilk ...
    Presents ecology and current environmental studies from an anthropological point of viewThe Environment in Anthropology presents ecology and current environmental studies from an anthropological point of view. From the classics to the most current scholarship, this text connects the theory and practice in environment and anthropology, providing readers with a strong intellectual foundation as well ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • Reimagining Political Ecology

    by Arturo Escobar, Dianne Rocheleau, Michael R. Dove ...
    Series series New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century
    Reimagining Political Ecology is a state-of-the-art collection of ethnographies grounded in political ecology. When political ecology first emerged as a distinct field in the early 1970s, it was rooted in the neo-Marxism of world system theory. This collection showcases second-generation political ecology, which retains the Marxist interest in capitalism as a global structure but which is also ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Political Economy, Neoliberalism, and the Prehistoric Economies of Latin America

    by Donald C. Wood ...
    Series Book 32 - Research in Economic Anthropology
    Volume 32 of REA continues the series' on-going presentation of new and highly engaging anthropological research. Chapters contained herein reflect the diverse range of broad based and localized topics economic anthropologists currently explore from various critical perspectives. Spanning deep history and present day economic processes, the contributions to this volume are subdivided into three ... Read more

    $147.99 USD

  • Practical Environmental Ethics

    by A. Pablo Iannone ...
    This essential volume for professionals and academics proposes a new approach to environmental ethics and to environmental policymaking in particular. All too frequently, policy makers focus only on what ends should ideally be pursued, ignoring whether the means have any negative unintended consequences. Such approaches tend to have a focus on consequentialist, deontological, virtue-cantered, or ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Politics of Fresh Water

    Access, conflict and identity

    Edited by Catherine M. Ashcraft, Tamar Mayer ...
    Series series Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management
    Water scarcity is not simply the result of what nature has to offer but always involves power relations and political decisions. This volume discusses the politics of the freshwater crisis, specifically how access to water is determined in different regions and historical periods, how conflict is constructed and managed, and how identity and efforts to control water systems, through development, ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • A Handbook of Analytics

    A Guide to Statistics and Analytics

    by Ankita Sinha ...
    A Handbook of Analytics is a guide to statistics and analytics. Data analytics are used to predict future patterns of data using mathematical and statistical models. Therefore, it is imperative for the professionals working in the field of data analytics to not only be able to use multiple functionalities on various tools but to have in-depth knowledge of statistics, predictive analytics and ... Read more

    $1.35 USD

  • ObamaCare Survival Guide

    The Affordable Care Act and What It Means for You and Your Healthcare

    by Nick J. Tate ...
    We Read the Law So You Don’t Have ToThe practical handbook to making good decisions in our changing healthcare marketplace.At over 2,700 pages - with an additional 20,000 pages of regulations -the ObamaCare law is longer than the Bible, with many more rules. Rules that will, in the words of the president, fundamentally transform” healthcare in America.What no one explains is if the transformation ... Read more

    $21.59 USD