Authors:Pavel Pelikan, Gerhard Wegner,
Publisher: Edward Elgar Pub
Keywords: evolutionary, institutional, economics, series, horizons, new, analysis, economic, policy
Number of Pages: 269
Published: 2004-11
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 1845421337
ISBN-13: 9781845421335

This important book analyzes evolutionary approaches to economic policy. Its main purpose is to explore the policy implications of evolutionary economics, particularly those approaches inspired on the one hand by Schumpeter and revived by Nelson and Winter which deal with industrial evolution under constant institutions and, on the other hand, approaches inspired by Hayek and North which analyze the ways in which institutions themselves evolve.

Authors:Professor Jaroslav Pelikan, Jaroslav Pelikan,
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: culture, history, place, centuries, jesus
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1999-11-10
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0300079877
ISBN-13: 9780300079876

A discussion about how each age created Jesus in its own image, discovering in his life and teachings the answers to fundamental questions of human life and destiny. It studies the images of Jesus cherished by successive ages, suggesting that the depictions are key to understanding each era.

Author: Jaroslav Pelikan
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: spirit, eastern, christendom, vol, doctrine, tradition, history, development, christian
Number of Pages: 329
Published: 1977-07-15
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0226653730
ISBN-13: 9780226653730

The line that separated Eastern Christendom from Western on the medieval map is similar to the "iron curtain" of recent times. Linguistic barriers, political divisions, and liturgical differences combined to isolate the two cultures from each other. Except for such episodes as the schism between East and West or the Crusades, the development of non-Western Christendom has been largely ignored by church historians. In The Spirit of Eastern Christendom, Jaroslav Pelikan explains the divisions between Eastern and Western Christendom, and identifies and describes the development of the distinctive

Author: Jaroslav Pelikan
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: doctrine, christian, modern, culture, vol, development, tradition, history
Number of Pages: 414
Published: 1991-10-04
List price: $23.00
ISBN-10: 0226653803
ISBN-13: 9780226653808

Jaroslav Pelikan begins this volume with the crisis of orthodoxy that confronted all Christian denominations by the beginning of the eighteenth century and continues through the twentieth century in its particular concerns with ecumenism. The modern period in the history of Christian doctrine, Pelikan demonstrates, may be defined as the time when doctrines that had been assumed more than debated for most of Christian history were themselves called into question: the idea of revelation, the uniqueness of Christ, the authority of Scripture, the expectation of life after death, even the very tran

Author: Jaroslav Pelikan
Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
Keywords: theologians, among, bach
Number of Pages: 172
Published: 2003-11
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 1597522775
ISBN-13: 9781597522779

Author: Martin Pelikan
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: studies, algorithms, fuzziness, soft, computing, evolutionary, generation, bayesian, optimization, algorithm, new, hierarchical
Number of Pages: 166
Published: 2005-03-24
List price: $189.00
ISBN-10: 3540237747
ISBN-13: 9783540237747

This book provides a framework for the design of competent optimization techniques by combining advanced evolutionary algorithms with state-of-the-art machine learning techniques. The primary focus of the book is on two algorithms that replace traditional variation operators of evolutionary algorithms by learning and sampling Bayesian networks: the Bayesian optimization algorithm (BOA) and the hierarchical BOA (hBOA) . They provide a scalable solution to a broad class of problems. The book provides an overview of evolutionary algorithms that use probabilistic models to guide their search, moti

Author: Jaroslav Pelikan
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: tradition, emergence, catholic, vol, development, history, christian, doctrine
Number of Pages: 442
Published: 1975-08-15
List price: $23.00
ISBN-10: 0226653714
ISBN-13: 9780226653716

In this five-volume opus—now available in its entirety in paperback—Pelikan traces the development of Christian doctrine from the first century to the twentieth. "Pelikan’s The Christian Tradition [is] a series for which they must have coined words like ’magisterial’."—Martin Marty, Commonweal