Author: Alexander Tabarrok
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: dismal, science, ideas, bright, economics, entrepreneurial
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2002-02-28
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0195145038
ISBN-13: 9780195145038

This intriguing collection is designed to show how economists can play a more active role in designing and directing the nation’s social institutions. By taking the task of political economy seriously, the contributors (including some of today’s most distinguished economists) reveal the power of economic thought to offer innovative solutions to some of the most difficult problems facing society today. By creating markets where none existed before, the authors propose efficient, reliable, and profitable improvements to current systems of health insurance, financial markets, human or

Author: Alexander Tabarrok
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: dismal, science, ideas, bright, economics, entrepreneurial
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2002-01-15
List price: $125.00
ISBN-10: 0195150287
ISBN-13: 9780195150285

Intriguing collection designed to show how economists can play a more active role in designing and directing the nation’s social institutions. Written in the entrepreneurial spirit, these essays show economics to be an ambitious, dynamic, and far from dismal science. Softcover.

Authors:David T. Beito, Peter Gordon, Alexander Tabarrok,
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Keywords: society, economics, cognition, civil, community, city, choice, voluntary
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2002-05-10
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0472088378
ISBN-13: 9780472088379

The rise and decline of American civic life has provoked wide-ranging responses from all quarters of society. Unfortunately, many proposals for improving our communities rely on renewed governmental efforts without a similar recognition that the inflexibility and poor accountability of governments have often worsened society’s ills. The Voluntary City investigates the history of large-scale, private provision of social services, the for-profit provision of urban infrastructure and community governance, and the growing privatization of residential life in the United States to argue that m

Authors:Tyler Cowen, Alex Tabarrok,
Publisher: Worth Publishers
Keywords: microeconomics, principles, modern
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2009-10-09
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1429202483
ISBN-13: 9781429202480

Authors:Paul Lecoq, Alexander Annenkov, Alexander Gektin, Mik
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: engineering, particle, acceleration, detection, crystal, principles, scintillators, detector, systems, physical, inorganic
Number of Pages: 251
Published: 2006-04-11
List price: $169.00
ISBN-10: 3540277668
ISBN-13: 9783540277668

The development of new scintillators as components of modern detector systems is increasingly defined by the end user’s needs. This book provides an introduction to this emerging topic at the interface of physics and materials sciences, with emphasis on bulk inorganic scintillators. After surveying the end user’s needs in a vast range of applications, ranging from astrophysics to industrial R and D, the authors move on to review scintillating mechanisms and the properties of the most important materials used. A chapter on crystal engineering and examples of recent developments in t

Authors:Alexander Baklanov, Alexander Mahura, Ranjeet Sokhi,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: transport, models, chemical, meteorological, systems, meso, integrated
Number of Pages: 202
Published: 2011-01-12
List price: $129.00
ISBN-10: 3642139795
ISBN-13: 9783642139796

This book, as the outcome of the COST-728/NetFAM workshop, focuses on the follow­ing main topics: 1) on-line coupled meteorology-chemistry modelling with two-way feedbacks, 2) off-line coupled modelling and interfaces, 3) validation and case studies including air quality related episodes, and 4) integration of atmospheric chemical transport (ACT) models with numerical weather prediction (NWP).This book is one of the first attempts to give an overall look on such integrated meso-meteorology and chemistry modelling approach. It reviews the current situation with the on-line and off-line couplin

Authors:Alexander Baklanov, Grimmond Sue, Mahura Alexander
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: urban, areas, models, quality, air, meteorological
Number of Pages: 183
Published: 2009-08-12
List price: $89.95
ISBN-10: 3642002978
ISBN-13: 9783642002977

This book for the first time gives an overall view of the current situation in urbanization of meteorological and air quality models around the world. It discusses and makes recommendations on the best practice and strategy for urbanization of different types of meteorological and air quality models. Based on the selected presentations given at the COST728 workshop, the contributions are arranged in four parts: urban morphology and databases; parameterizations of urban canopy; strategy for urbanization of different types of models; and evaluation and city case studies / field studies. The chap