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Author : Charles C. Mann,Mark L. Plummer
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Nature
ISBN : UOM:39015032312475
The authors suggest new principles for striking a balance between the needs of human beings and the rest of the world.
Author : José Luis Bermúdez
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108420099
A distinguished group of philosophers, decision theorists, and psychologists offer new interdisciplinary perspectives on the rationality of self-control.
Author : Michael Yudanin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781793620194
In Animal Choice and Human Freedom: On the Genealogy of Self-Determined Action, Michael Yudanin argues that describing freedom conceptually is impossible without explaining how it can exist in the world. Yudanin develops an account of freedom’s instantiation in biological agents and provides several prerequisites that are necessary for its exercise. He demonstrates that freedom is linked to the form of life and distinguishes between choice in non-verbal animals and human freedom, where the latter is enabled by the development of language and thus possesses a distinct character. Following this descriptive account, Yudanin explores freedom’s evolutionary history, explaining how it developed in the course of the evolution of species.
Author : Shinsuke Ikeda
Publisher : Springer
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9784431557937
Based on recent advances in economics, especially those in behavioral economics, this book elucidates theoretically and empirically the mechanism of time-inconsistent decision making that leads to various forms of self-destructive behavior. The topics include over-eating and obesity, over-spending, over-borrowing, under-saving, procrastination, smoking, gambling, over-drinking, and other intemperate behaviors, all of which relate to serious social problems in advanced countries. In this book, the author attempts to construct a bridge between the basic theory of time discounting, especially as of hyperbolic discounting, and empirically observed “irrational (non-classical)” behavior in the various contexts just mentioned. The empirical validity of the theory is discussed using unique micro data as well as public macro data. The book proposes prescriptions for individual decision makers, whether sophisticated or naïve, to make better choices in self-control problems, and also provides policy makers with useful advice for influencing people’s decision making in the right directions. This work is recommended not only to general readers who seek to learn how to attain better self-regulation under self-control problems. It also helps researchers who seek an overview of positive and normative implications of hyperbolic discounting, and thereby reconstruct economic theory for a better understanding of actual human behavior and the resulting economic dynamics .
Author : Charles Grandison Finney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1028 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1851
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000576915
Author : Louis Anthony Cox Jr.
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781461508472
Risk Analysis: Foundations, Models, and Methods fully addresses the questions of "What is health risk analysis?" and "How can its potentialities be developed to be most valuable to public health decision-makers and other health risk managers?" Risk analysis provides methods and principles for answering these questions. It is divided into methods for assessing, communicating, and managing health risks. Risk assessment quantitatively estimates the health risks to individuals and to groups from hazardous exposures and from the decisions or activities that create them. It applies specialized models and methods to quantify likely exposures and their resulting health risks. Its goal is to produce information to improve decisions. It does this by relating alternative decisions to their probable consequences and by identifying those decisions that make preferred outcomes more likely. Health risk assessment draws on explicit engineering, biomathematical, and statistical consequence models to describe or simulate the causal relations between actions and their probable effects on health. Risk communication characterizes and presents information about health risks and uncertainties to decision-makers and stakeholders. Risk management applies principles for choosing among alternative decision alternatives or actions that affect exposure, health risks, or their consequences.
Author : Charles Grandison Finney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1032 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1851
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0017585699
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1847
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433081666574
Author : Charles G. Finney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1847
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0023231965
Author : W.L. Harper,G.A. Pearce,R. Stalnaker
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400991170
With publication of the present volume, The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science enters its second phase. The first fourteen volumes in the Series were produced under the managing editorship of Professor James J. Leach, with the cooperation of a local editorial board. Many of these volumes resulted from colloguia and workshops held in con nection with the University of Western Ontario Graduate Programme in Philosophy of Science. Throughout its seven year history, the Series has been devoted to publication of high quality work in philosophy of science con sidered in its widest extent, including work in philosophy of the special sciences and history of the conceptual development of science. In future, this general editorial emphasis will be maintained, and hopefully, broadened to include important works by scholars working outside the local context. Appointment of a new managing editor, together with an expanded editorial board, brings with it the hope of an enlarged international presence for the Series. Serving the publication needs of those working in the various subfields within philosophy of science is a many-faceted operation. Thus in future the Series will continue to produce edited proceedings of worthwhile scholarly meetings and edited collections of seminal background papers. How ever, the publication priorities will shift emphasis to favour production of monographs in the various fields covered by the scope of the Series. THE MANAGING EDITOR vii W. L. Harper, R. Stalnaker, and G. Pearce (eds.), lIs, vii.
Author : J.K. Friend,W.N. Jessop
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781483136431
Local Government and Strategic Choice, Second Edition is the result of a study of policy-formation in the City Council of Coventry during a four-year period. This edition is a reappraisal of the earlier edition, with an emphasis on ""connective planning."" Part I describes the planning strategies made in an urban setting. This part explains the City and the City Council, organization of the local authority, decision-making mechanisms, developmental planning including land use, school system planning, and cross-departmental planning. Part II is a study of city planning as a process of strategic choice that has been altered in many different ways depending on the purpose. This part also discusses the problems encountered in the planning process such as the existence of organization boundaries in the government sector. Part III deals with a fictional case that relates the uncertainties and political realities of decision-making in an urban setting. The case studies cover land allocation and development, tax, and traffic issues. Part IV discusses organizational challenge and also touches in some way on the future organizational structure of local governments. This text then explains the need for ""connective planning"" of how individuals build flexible networks among decision-making agencies to serve the various interests of both the private and government sectors. This book is suitable for sociologists, city administrators and officials, local government officials, heads of government agencies, and heads of planning and engineering departments of local government units.
Author : John Friend,Neil Jessop
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135120085
First published in 1969, this book is concerned with the processes of policy-making in local government. The authors address themselves to the basic challenge of planning in a democracy and consider issues such as how those elected to exercise choice on our behalf can preserve and expand their capacity to choose discriminatingly, when the sheer complexity of the issues facing them tends all the time to make them increasingly dependent on the skills and judgements of their professional advisers. This question is explored in relation to the many different, yet interdependent, aspects of the planning process which impinge on any local community – with particular reference to the planning of housing, transport, education, and shopping, of land use and local government finance. The book is the outcome of a four-year program of research during which a mixed team of operational research and social scientists was given a unique opportunity to observe the ways in which decisions were made and plans formulated in one particular city- Coventry. It covers both political and professional aspects of local government in 1960s Great Britain and has had important implications for urban governments throughout the world.
Author : Horacio Falcao
Publisher : FT Press
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780133410013
Value Negotiation: How to Finally Get the Win-Win Right examines the complicated world of negotiation and provides a simple and practical approach in helping negotiators learn how to consistently deliver the highest possible value at the lowest possible risk in the widest range of situations. The textbook consists of three parts: in Become a Negotiator, challenge yourself to rethink your foundations and assumptions about negotiation, in Prepare for Negotiation, find out how to choose a negotiation goal and strategy, and anticipate critical moments during negotiation and in Negotiate!, uncover how you can connect with negotiating parties, work towards gaining mutual value, and finally, make the best possible decision. In each part, a wide variety of dialogues, scenarios, discussion questions and exercises have been specially designed to prepare you for commonly experienced situations and settings in negotiation. For university professors, adopting the Value Negotiation book entitles you to request a comprehensive Instructor’s Package that includes an Instructor’s Manual and a set of teaching slides.
Author : Lin Lougheed
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 565 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781506288123
Barron's TOEIC Premium is designed for ESL students preparing to take the Test of English for International Communication.
Author : Lin Lougheed
Publisher : Barrons Educational Series
Page : 1876 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-30
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9781506258829
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