Product Description: It is increasingly accepted that 'institutions matter' for economic organization and outcomes. The last decade has seen significant expansion in research examining how institutional contexts affect the nature and behaviour of firms, the operation of markets, and economic outcomes...read more

Product Description: Statistics has permeated every aspect of our lives it shapes our attitudes and determines the things we buy. Statistics are so difficult to avoid that John L. Campbell has written this educational easy-to-read book so that the average person can become statistically literate...read more

Product Description: In this text, John L. Campbell "examines modern science, its origins, its method, and its dovetailing with society and with religion."  Readers will learn that science is a general, flexible, and therefore versatile approach to knowing nature (basic science) and to knowing how to use nature (applied science)...read more

Product Description: Energy, Physics and the Environment provides a foundational quantitative account of energy and related environmental issues for university students in science who have a first-year preparation in Physics. The text discusses the numbers involved in the various dimensions of the overall energy issue in order to help the reader develop a quantitative grasp on them...read more

Product Description: Denmark has out-performed most other advanced capitalist countries since the mid-1980s Contributors to National Identity and the Varieties of Capitalism draw from the literature on capitalism and small states and corporatism to explore why this is the case...read more

Product Description: This book is about institutional change, how to recognize it, when it occurs, and the mechanisms that cause it to happen. It is the first book to identify problems with the "new institutional analysis," which has emerged as one of the dominant approaches to the study of organizations, economic and political sociology, comparative political economy, politics, and international relations...read more

Product Description: This volume analyzes the rebuilding of central and east European economies after the collapse of Communism in 1989. It examines institutional change in five of the most important areas of economic life in the region: international and regional economic reintegration; industrial restructuring and military conversion; the representation of economic interests; fiscal and budgetary reform; and social welfare reform...read more

Product Description: Long proven as an analytical tool of uncommon accuracy and utility, particle-induced X-ray emission has enjoyed a solid, if narrow, reputation in the area of chemical analysis. Capable of detecting elemental concentrations down to parts per million, PIXE is now a standard component of the analytical arsenal of the nuclear physics laboratory...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: An edited collection of readings offering a combination of institutional, historical and theoretical perspectives on US political institutions and public policymaking, and on the social groups and movements that have participated in modern American national politics...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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In this tightly edited volume, a single theoretical framework is developed to explain institutional transformation in the governance of the U.S. economy in the twentieth century, and this framework is applied to case studies of eight American industries in various sectors: telecommunications, nuclear energy, railroads, steel automobiles, dairies, meatpacking, and hospitals. By "governance" the contributors refer to the systems of rules, procedures and norms that define ownership and control the means of production, govern transactions and determine the efficiency with which resources and information are allocated. An important new evolutionary model of the governance transformation process emerges, and a new perspective on the role of the state is developed, which argues that the volume addresses questions about the governance of capitalist economies in general. (view table of contents)

Product Description: The first comprehensive review of the basic physics, and modern applications, of proton-induced x-ray emission. The physics section and the applications section are relatively independent, making for easy reference. The authors discuss instrument design, and how to handle specimens...read more