Author: John V. Duca
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Category : Biotechnology
Languages : en
Pages : 15
Book Description
An Overview of Science and Cents
Author: John V. Duca
Publisher:
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Category : Biotechnology
Languages : en
Pages : 15
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Biotechnology
Languages : en
Pages : 15
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Cents and Sensibility
Author: Gary Saul Morson
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691183228
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
In Cents and Sensibility, an eminent literary critic and a leading economist make the case that the humanities—especially the study of literature—offer economists ways to make their models more realistic, their predictions more accurate, and their policies more effective and just. Arguing that Adam Smith’s heirs include Austen, Chekhov, and Tolstoy as much as Keynes and Friedman, Gary Saul Morson and Morton Schapiro trace the connection between Adam Smith’s great classic, The Wealth of Nations, and his less celebrated book on ethics, The Theory of Moral Sentiments. The authors contend that a few decades later, Jane Austen invented her groundbreaking method of novelistic narration in order to give life to the empathy that Smith believed essential to humanity. More than anyone, the great writers can offer economists something they need—a richer appreciation of behavior, ethics, culture, and narrative. Original, provocative, and inspiring, Cents and Sensibility demonstrates the benefits of a dialogue between economics and the humanities and also shows how looking at real-world problems can revitalize the study of literature itself. Featuring a new preface, this book brings economics back to its place in the human conversation.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691183228
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
In Cents and Sensibility, an eminent literary critic and a leading economist make the case that the humanities—especially the study of literature—offer economists ways to make their models more realistic, their predictions more accurate, and their policies more effective and just. Arguing that Adam Smith’s heirs include Austen, Chekhov, and Tolstoy as much as Keynes and Friedman, Gary Saul Morson and Morton Schapiro trace the connection between Adam Smith’s great classic, The Wealth of Nations, and his less celebrated book on ethics, The Theory of Moral Sentiments. The authors contend that a few decades later, Jane Austen invented her groundbreaking method of novelistic narration in order to give life to the empathy that Smith believed essential to humanity. More than anyone, the great writers can offer economists something they need—a richer appreciation of behavior, ethics, culture, and narrative. Original, provocative, and inspiring, Cents and Sensibility demonstrates the benefits of a dialogue between economics and the humanities and also shows how looking at real-world problems can revitalize the study of literature itself. Featuring a new preface, this book brings economics back to its place in the human conversation.
The Science of TV's the Big Bang Theory
Author: Dave Zobel
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781770412170
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The highest-rated scripted show on TV, The Big Bang Theory (CBS) often features Sheldon, Howard, Leonard and Raj wisecracking about scientific principles as if the rest of us should know exactly what they're talking about. THE SCIENCE OF TV'S THE BIG BANG THEORY lets all of us in on the punchline by breaking down the show's scientific conversations. Covering every angle, author Dave Zobel maintains a humorous and informative approach and gives readers enough knowledge to make them welcome on Sheldon's couch.
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ISBN: 9781770412170
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The highest-rated scripted show on TV, The Big Bang Theory (CBS) often features Sheldon, Howard, Leonard and Raj wisecracking about scientific principles as if the rest of us should know exactly what they're talking about. THE SCIENCE OF TV'S THE BIG BANG THEORY lets all of us in on the punchline by breaking down the show's scientific conversations. Covering every angle, author Dave Zobel maintains a humorous and informative approach and gives readers enough knowledge to make them welcome on Sheldon's couch.
The Economics of Science: A Critical Realist Overview
Author: David Tyfield
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136587438
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Dramatic and controversial changes in the funding of science over the past two decades, towards its increasing commercialization, have stimulated a huge literature trying to set out an "economics of science". Whether broadly in favour or against these changes, the vast majority of these frameworks employ ahistorical analyses that cannot conceptualise, let alone address, the questions of "why have these changes occurred?" and "why now?" Nor, therefore, can they offer much insight into the crucial question of future trends. Given the growing importance of science and innovation in an age of both a globalizing knowledge-based economy (itself in crisis) and enormous challenges that demand scientific and technological responses, these are significant gaps in our understanding of important contemporary social processes. This book argues that the fundamental underlying problem in all cases is the ontological shallowness of these theories, which can only be remedied by attention to ontological presuppositions. Conversely, a critical realist approach affords the integration of a realist political economy into the analysis of the economics of science that does afford explicit attention to these crucial questions; a ‘cultural political economy of research and innovation’ (CPERI). Accordingly, the book sets out an introduction to the existing literature on the economics of science together with novel discussion of the field from a critical realist perspective. In arguing thus across levels of abstraction, however, the book also explores how concerted engagement with substantive social enquiry and theoretical debate develops and strengthens critical realism as a philosophical project, rather than simply ‘applying’ it. Divided into two volumes, in this first volume the book explores the ‘top’ and ‘tail’ of the argument, regarding substantive and philosophical aspects. Starting with substantive illustrations, we explore the social challenges associated with the contemporary commercialization of science and the movement towards a knowledge-based bio-economy. Having shown the explanatory benefits of assuming a realist political economy perspective, the book then turns to the task of reconstructing and justifying that theoretical perspective. True to the overall argument regarding attention to ontological presuppositions, this starts with critical realism’s critique of mainstream economics but also develops critical realism itself towards what may be called a ‘transcendental constructivism’.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136587438
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Dramatic and controversial changes in the funding of science over the past two decades, towards its increasing commercialization, have stimulated a huge literature trying to set out an "economics of science". Whether broadly in favour or against these changes, the vast majority of these frameworks employ ahistorical analyses that cannot conceptualise, let alone address, the questions of "why have these changes occurred?" and "why now?" Nor, therefore, can they offer much insight into the crucial question of future trends. Given the growing importance of science and innovation in an age of both a globalizing knowledge-based economy (itself in crisis) and enormous challenges that demand scientific and technological responses, these are significant gaps in our understanding of important contemporary social processes. This book argues that the fundamental underlying problem in all cases is the ontological shallowness of these theories, which can only be remedied by attention to ontological presuppositions. Conversely, a critical realist approach affords the integration of a realist political economy into the analysis of the economics of science that does afford explicit attention to these crucial questions; a ‘cultural political economy of research and innovation’ (CPERI). Accordingly, the book sets out an introduction to the existing literature on the economics of science together with novel discussion of the field from a critical realist perspective. In arguing thus across levels of abstraction, however, the book also explores how concerted engagement with substantive social enquiry and theoretical debate develops and strengthens critical realism as a philosophical project, rather than simply ‘applying’ it. Divided into two volumes, in this first volume the book explores the ‘top’ and ‘tail’ of the argument, regarding substantive and philosophical aspects. Starting with substantive illustrations, we explore the social challenges associated with the contemporary commercialization of science and the movement towards a knowledge-based bio-economy. Having shown the explanatory benefits of assuming a realist political economy perspective, the book then turns to the task of reconstructing and justifying that theoretical perspective. True to the overall argument regarding attention to ontological presuppositions, this starts with critical realism’s critique of mainstream economics but also develops critical realism itself towards what may be called a ‘transcendental constructivism’.
The Kansas City Review of Science and Industry
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Languages : en
Pages : 848
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Languages : en
Pages : 848
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Sciencia
Author: Matt Tweed
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0802778992
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
Collects six short illustrated volumes covering topics in mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, evolution, and astronomy.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0802778992
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
Collects six short illustrated volumes covering topics in mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, evolution, and astronomy.
Educational Review
Author: Nicholas Murray Butler
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Vols. 19-34 include "Bibliography of education" for 1899-1906, compiled by James I. Wyer and others.
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Vols. 19-34 include "Bibliography of education" for 1899-1906, compiled by James I. Wyer and others.
Syllabus Series
Author: University of California (System)
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 618
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 618
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The Western Review of Science and Industry
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 808
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Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description
Science as a Contact Sport
Author: Stephen H. Schneider
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1426205406
Category : Climatic changes
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Schneider's firsthand account of a scientific and political odyssey, in which he navigates both the turbulent waters of the world's power structures and the arcane theater of academic debaters.
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1426205406
Category : Climatic changes
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Schneider's firsthand account of a scientific and political odyssey, in which he navigates both the turbulent waters of the world's power structures and the arcane theater of academic debaters.