Author: Colin F. Camerer
Publisher: Princeton University Pre
Keywords: behavioral, roundtable, series, economics, interaction, strategic, game, theory, experiments
Number of Pages: 544
Published: 2003-02-25
List price: $99.50
ISBN-10: 0691090394
ISBN-13: 9780691090399

Game theory, the formalized study of strategy, began in the 1940s by asking how emotionless geniuses should play games, but ignored until recently how average people with emotions and limited foresight actually play games. This book marks the first substantial and authoritative effort to close this gap. Colin Camerer, one of the field’s leading figures, uses psychological principles and hundreds of experiments to develop mathematical theories of reciprocity, limited strategizing, and learning, which help predict what real people and companies do in strategic situations. Unifying a wealth

Authors:Colin F. Camerer, George Loewenstein, Matthew Rabin,
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: behavioral, economics, series, roundtable, advances
Number of Pages: 776
Published: 2003-12-08
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0691116822
ISBN-13: 9780691116822

Twenty years ago, behavioral economics did not exist as a field. Most economists were deeply skeptical--even antagonistic--toward the idea of importing insights from psychology into their field. Today, behavioral economics has become virtually mainstream. It is well represented in prominent journals and top economics departments, and behavioral economists, including several contributors to this volume, have garnered some of the most prestigious awards in the profession. This book assembles the most important papers on behavioral economics published since around 1990. Among the 25 articles are

Authors:Paul W. Glimcher, Colin Camerer, Russell Alan Poldra
Publisher: Academic Press
Keywords: brain, making, decision, neuroeconomics
Number of Pages: 552
Published: 2008-10-01
List price: $69.95
ISBN-10: 0123741769
ISBN-13: 9780123741769

Neuroeconomics is a new highly promising approach to understanding the neurobiology of decision making and how it affects cognitive social interactions between humans and societies/economies. This book is the first edited reference to examine the science behind neuroeconomics, including how it influences human behavior and societal decision making from a behavioral economics point of view. Presenting a truly interdisciplinary approach, Neuroeconomics presents research from neuroscience, psychology, and behavioral economics, and includes chapters by all the major figures in the field, including

Authors:Larry Colin, Laura Colin,
Publisher: Career Press
Keywords: family, children, laws, business, spouses, siblings, inc, manage, parents
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2008-03-01
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 1564149854
ISBN-13: 9781564149855

More than 24 family businesses in the United States. employ 62 percent of America’s workforce. And in Asia, Europe, Australia, and Latin America, experts say family businesses could account for as much as 80 percent of the private sector. What’s different about dealing with family members than dealing with underlings and managers at an impersonal corporation? When was the last time sales for a Fortune 500 company slumped because two brothers couldn’t get along? Not that often, if ever. But it happens all the time in family businesses. Millions of families spanning the glob

Authors:Colin Archibald, Colin Archibald, Emil Petriu,
Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc
Keywords: series, computer, science, applications, strategies, machine, vision, advances
Number of Pages: 450
Published: 1992-07
List price: $108.00
ISBN-10: 9810209762
ISBN-13: 9789810209766

This book describes recent strategies and applications for extracting useful information from sensor data. For example, the methods presented by Roth and Levine are becoming widely accepted as the "best" way to segment range images, and the neural network methods for alpha numeric character recognition, presented by K. Yamada, are believed to be the best yet presented. An applied system to analyze the images of dental imprints presented by J. Cote, et al is one of several examples of image processing system designer. Important aspects of the automation of processes are presented in a practical

Authors:Dr Colin Brock, Colin Brock, Withold Tulasiewicz,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: europe, single, education
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2000-02-23
List price: $69.95
ISBN-10: 0415164419
ISBN-13: 9780415164412

This book brings together contributors from the different member states of the European Union in order to understand the different degrees of subscription to the concept of Europe and the role education plays in such a process. The material presented will make a significant contribution to the literatue in this field of research and study.

Authors:Colin C Williams, Colin C. Williams, Jan Windebank,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: human, geography, studies, routledge, third, way, poverty
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2002-12-27
List price: $185.00
ISBN-10: 0415257255
ISBN-13: 9780415257251

Poverty and the Third Way uncovers how New Labour’s employment-focussed approach causes, rather than resolves, poverty. Searching for another approach, the authors find the seeds of an alternative ’third way’ in radical European social democratic and ecological thought which seeks to transcend capitalism and socialism by developing work beyond employment. Exploring the reasons why such an approach is needed and how it can be implemented, the authors transcend the ’there is no alternative’ to capitalism school of thought dominant in many advanced economies by provi