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What makes us love our things Why do we attach certain sentiments to certain items How is it that sometimes objects can tell stories more eloquently than people These are questions explored and answered in The Uncommon Life of Common Objects Author Akiko Busch devotes a chapter to each of 12 common objects and discusses her and others experiences that give everyday things their significance Through her examination of a video camera a cellular phone a vegetable peeler a snowboard a baby carriage a chair a refrigerator a mailbox a medicine cabinet a cereal box a backpack and a desk Busch illuminates the social and personal issues that shape our lives and the ownership of our things Lovingly illustrated always touching sometimes nostalgic and often hilarious The Uncommon Life of Common Objects is a topical reader that is at once a personal manifesto a look at how design influences and responds to our changing lives and a study of society and its values and the infusion of meaning into inanimate objects Each of the 12 chapters is accompanied by a fourcolor drawing
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A mother grandmother and ordained Episcopal priest reflects on the human condition in anecdotes about sewing machines and the passage of time about her fathers second marriage about the extremities of life and about everyday conflicts 12500 first printing 10000 adpromo
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Twenty of Virginias finest nature writers essayists and journalists immerse themselves in 20 different wild places In essays that range from natural history to social commentary to childhood memories their tone varies from reflective to outraged to humorous each one uniquely personal The editor is director of communications for the Virginia Chapter of The Nature Conservancy Lacks a subject index Published by Falcon Publishing Annotation c Book News Inc Portland OR booknewscom
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Commodity industries such as oil and gas chemicals metals and mining and many others can be described as follows You have to invest several billions of dollars into your facilities your market grows slowly and in line with the gross domestic product at best you can barely differentiate your product and your sales price and cost structure are highly cyclical Does this environment sound attractive to you Managers find these markets frustrating investors find them difficult and business school graduates find them boring Yet there are several companies that consistently outperform others and create billions of dollars in shareholder value such as ExxonMobil Methanex Cargill or Koch Industries How are these companies doing it This book provides answers with basic microeconomic concepts and realworld case examples Many of the explanations appear counterintuitive to commonly applied industry practices thereby providing for uncommon ideas in commoditized markets
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Commodity industries such as oil and gas chemicals metals and mining and many others can be described as follows You have to invest several billions of dollars into your facilities your market grows slowly and in line with the gross domestic product at best you can barely differentiate your product and your sales price and cost structure are highly cyclical Does this environment sound attractive to you Managers find these markets frustrating investors find them difficult and business school graduates find them boring Yet there are several companies that consistently outperform others and create billions of dollars in shareholder value such as ExxonMobil Methanex Cargill or Koch Industries How are these companies doing it This book provides answers with basic microeconomic concepts and realworld case examples Many of the explanations appear counterintuitive to commonly applied industry practices thereby providing for uncommon ideas in commoditized markets
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At the start of his career Innis set out to explain the significance of price rigidities in the cultural social and political institutions of new countries by the end of his intellectual journey he had become one of the most influential critics of modernity The essays in this collection address a variety of themes including the rise of industrialism and the expansion of international markets staples trades critical factors in Canadian development metropolitanism and nationality the problems of adjustment the political economy of communications the economics of cultural change and Inniss conception of the role of the intellectual as citizen Innis succeeded as few others have in providing an astute and comprehensive account of the economic and social forces shaping modernity His abiding interest in the contradictory and unintended consequences of markets in general the dominant structure of modern economic activity gave rise to the rich legacy of his prodigious output
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This book discusses a range of crimes committed by the powerless and the powerful Working against conventional analyses of criminal behavior as the result of social disadvantage unemployment or lack of resources the author argues that abundance of opportunities and resources may lead to specific forms of criminality
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Markets Information and Uncertainty is a collection of essays by leading theorists offering powerful new insights on the role of uncertainty and information in todays market This book features Kenneth Arrow on information and the organization of industry Roy Radner on new technologies Graciela Chichilnisky and Frank Hahn on humaninduced uncertainty Geoffrey Heal and Walter Heller on the creation of new markets and Edmund Phelps on unemployment It is an authoritative collection offering imaginative and fresh approaches to economic theory
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Collects essays published between 1940 and 1973 Includes The Significance of the Austrian School of Economics in the History of Ideas1960 Model Construction and the Market Economy1966 Methodological Individualism and the Market Economy1966 Ludwig von Mises and the Market Process 1971 The Market Economy and the Distribution of Wealth 1956 and more Includes Appendix and Index
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This volume consists of seventeen of Ludwig Lachmanns most important papers published during the period 194073 Two of the articles appear here in translation for the first time Prepared especially for this volume is a new essay about the present crisis in economic thought Walter Grinders extended introduction analyzes Lachmanns scholarly career in four countries and his overall intellectual development
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These original essays focus on a wide range of topics related to Frank Hahns distinguished work in economics Ranging from market analysis and game theory to the microeconomic foundations of macroeconomics and from equilibrium and optimality with missing markets to economics and society they reflect the diversity of modem research in economic theory What distinguishes Hahns work and many of the essays in this book is that the motivation often comes from practical concerns about unemployment savings and investment poverty or the stability of markets The essays in Part I deal with the microeconomic foundations of macroeconomics a field in which Hahn has made important contributions most notably in the theory of monetary economics Topics include an evaluation of Hahns contribution to the theory of distribution and such macroeconomic themes as coordination failure multiple equilibria and strategic issues Part II contains recent contributions to game theory reflecting Hahns interest in the question of what is rational behavior The essays in Part III concentrate on generalequilibrium theory with missing markets a field in which Hahn has made major advances Although the essays address a different set of issues they share with Hahns works such themes as market failure indeterminacy of equilibrium and the role of money Partha Dasgupta is Professor of Economics at Cambridge University Douglas Gale is Professor of Economics at Boston University Oliver Hart is Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Eric Maskin is Professor of Economics at Harvard University
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Israel Kirzner is the foremost proponent of the modern Austrian theory of the market process This book offers substantive insights in support of this theory and a new historical interpretation of how the ideas of modern Austrians emerged
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The essays contained herein span over a decade and reflect David Prychitkos thinking about the role of the market system and its relation to planning and democratic processes The collection consists of previously published and unpublished articles written not only for economists but also for an interdisciplinary audience Prychitko extends the Austrian Schools criticism of central planning to include the decentralized selfmanaged and democratic models of socialism those that were supposed to distinguish Yugoslavstyle socialism from Soviet socialism He critically evaluates the socialist and marketsocialist proposals of contemporary advocates including Michael Albert and Robin Hahnel Ted Burczak Branko Horvat and Joseph Stiglitz A younger Austrian economist Prychitko has also emerged as an internal critic within that tradition He questions the Austrian Schools claims that the unhampered market maximizes social welfare that any actions of the state necessarily reduce welfare and that anarchocapitalism is viable and desirable At the same time he carefully discusses the viability of workermanaged enterprise from a marketprocess perspective and offers a qualified defense Scholars particularly those with an interest in Austrian economic thought comparative political economy and free market libertarianism will find this collection a valuable resource
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Beginning in 1976 with the first issue of the journal Studies in Medievalism all things medieval and the concept of medievalism became a hot topic in culture studies Medievalism examines how different groups individuals or eras use and shape the image of the Middle Ages differentiating between historical knowledge of the Middle Ages and what we have made the period out to be The 13 essays in this book explore the medieval invasion of todays media and consider the various waysfrom film and print to websites and video gamesthat the Middle Ages have been packaged for consumption Essays encompass diverse theoretical perspectives and are grouped loosely around distinct functions of medievalism including the exposure of recent social concerns the use of medieval images in modern political contexts and the medievals influence on products of todays popular culture The legitimization of the study of medievalism and the effect of medievalism on the more traditional subject of medieval studies are also discussed Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here
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