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Genetic and cultural evolution of cooperation

Current thinking in evolutionary biology holds that competition among individuals is the key to understanding natural selection. When competition exists, it is obvious that conflict arises; the emergence of cooperation, however, is less straightforward and calls for in-depth analysis. Much research is now focused on ...

Solutions manual and supplementary materials for econometric analysis of cross section and panel data

Tax policy and the economy, Volume 17, 2003

This NBER series presents current academic research in the areas of taxation and government spending. The papers included provide important background information for policy analysis without making specific policy recommendations. Volume 17 continues the series tradition of addressing topics that are relevant to current issues ...

Management

inventing and delivering its future

The MIT Sloan School of Management, as conceived by the legendary General Motors chairman Alfred P. Sloan, was founded in 1952 to draw on the scientific and technical resources of MIT and approach the problems of management with the rigorous research practices for which MIT ...

Dictionnaire de la culture juridique

Inventing the organizations of the 21st century

Technological changes have displaced the hierarchical corporation as the model for business organization; the large corporations of the new century are decentralizing and externalizing, creating networks of "industry ecosystems" that will replace the top-down organizations of the last century. Inventing the Organizations of the 21st ...

Rethinking rights and regulations

institutional responses to new communications technologies

The contributors to this volume examine issues raised by the intersection of new communications technologies and public policy in this post-boom, post- bust era. Originally presented at the 30th Research Conference on Communication, Information, and Internet Policy (TPRC 2002)-- traditionally a showcase for the best ...

Digital library use

social practice in design and evaluation

The contributors to this volume view digital libraries (DLs) from a social as well as technological perspective. They see DLs as sociotechnical systems, networks of technology, information artifacts, and people and practices interacting with the larger world of work and society. As Bruce Schatz observes ...

Software ecosystem

understanding an indispensable technology and industry

Software has gone from obscurity to indispensability in less than fifty years. Although other industries have followed a similar trajectory, software and its supporting industry are different. In this book the authors explain, from a variety of perspectives, how software and the software industry are ...

A history of online information services, 1963-1976

The other war

global poverty and the millennium challenge account

Retrench and regeneration in rural newfoundland

Set against the background of momentous economic changes over the last decade, this collection of essays looks at the economic, political, and social circumstances thet have led to the current crisis in rural newfoundland. In this timely work, twelve social scientits explore outporters ways of ...

A grand strategy for America

Las edades del hombre

el árbol de la vida

Structural reform in Japan

breaking the iron triangle

In this unusually candid book, Japan#s former top financial diplomat asserts the urgent need for wholesale structural reform to revitalize the long-stagnant Japanese economy. Eisuke Sakakibara, whose influence over global currency markets earned him the nickname of #Mr. Yen,# envisions a social and economic ...

The future of domestic capital markets in developing countries

Now in its fifth year, the "Emerging Markets Series" from the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and Brookings Institution offers financial policymakers and practitioners a unique resource. Drawn from the proceedings of the 2003 Financial Markets and Development conference, this volume brings together financial sector ...

Turbulent waters

cross-border finance and international governance

The world economy at the end of the twentieth century was afflicted with financial turbulence. Millions of people in emerging-market nations endured severe recessions, and many residents of wealthy nations also experienced losses. Some scholars describe this instability as a consequence of a progressively integrated ...

High-stakes antitrust

the last hurrah?

Regionalism, multilateralism, and economic integration

the recent experience

In recent years, the central question relating to regional trade agreements has been whether or not they have led to a new form of economic cooperation by promoting deeper integration in the regulatory structures of the participating countries. The answer to this question has profound ...

Perspectives on growth and poverty

The relationship between growth and poverty lies at the heart of development economics. While many see aggregate growth as both necessary and sufficient for reducing poverty, and consequently focus their efforts on achieving the desired macroeconomic outcomes, others stress that the benefits from growth may ...