Author: Robert K. Merton
Publisher: Free Press
Keywords: social, structure, theory
Number of Pages: 702
Published: 1968-08-01
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0029211301
ISBN-13: 9780029211304

Author: Robert C. Merton
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: finance, macroeconomics, time, continuous
Number of Pages: 752
Published: 1992-11-10
List price: $72.95
ISBN-10: 0631185089
ISBN-13: 9780631185086

Robert C. Merton’s widely used text provides an overview and synthesis of finance theory from the perspective of continuous-time analysis. It covers individual financial choice, corporate finance, financial intermediation, capital markets, and selected topics on the interface between private and public finance. For this revised edition a new section on managing university endowments has been added. The book begins with a foreword by Paul Samuelson.

Author: Robert K. Merton
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: investigations, empirical, theoretical, science, sociology
Number of Pages: 636
Published: 1979-09-15
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0226520927
ISBN-13: 9780226520926

"The exploration of the social conditions that facilitate or retard the search for scientific knowledge has been the major theme of Robert K. Merton’s work for forty years. This collection of papers [is] a fascinating overview of this sustained inquiry. . . . There are very few other books in sociology . . . with such meticulous scholarship, or so elegant a style. This collection of papers is, and is likely to remain for a long time, one of the most important books in sociology."—Joseph Ben-David, New York Times Book Review "The novelty of the approach, the erudition and elegance, and

Author: Robert K. Merton
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Keywords: postscript, shandean, giants, shoulders
Number of Pages: 348
Published: 1993-05-15
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0226520862
ISBN-13: 9780226520865

With playfulness and a large dose of wit, Robert Merton traces the origin of Newton’s aphorism, "If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." Using as a model the discursive and digressive style of Sterne’s Tristram Shandy, Merton presents a whimsical yet scholarly work which deals with the questions of creativity, tradition, plagiarism, the transmission of knowledge, and the concept of progress. "This book is the delightful apotheosis of donmanship: Merton parodies scholarliness while being faultlessly scholarly; he scourges pedantry while brandis

Authors:Zvi Bodie, Robert C Merton,
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Keywords: finance
Number of Pages: 479
Published: 1999-08-26
List price: $140.80
ISBN-10: 0130151025
ISBN-13: 9780130151025

This significant new guide to finance has a broader scope and greater emphasis on general principles than most other books of its kind, which typically focus exclusively on corporate finance. Acclaimed authors Bodie and Merton offer an approach balanced among the three "pillars" of finance—optimization over time, asset valuation, and risk management. Encompasses all subfields of finance within a single unifying conceptual framework. Offers the "big picture" of resource allocation over time under conditions of uncertainty. Focuses on personal finance topics, such as saving and investing, as

Authors:David Sills, Robert Merton,
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Keywords: quotations, science, social
Number of Pages: 437
Published: 2000-09-19
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0765807203
ISBN-13: 9780765807205

The use of quotations in scientific writings often fails to capture the force of formulations that made the quotations memorable. In this reference work, the date and source of each quotation serve to help place them in their larger contexts, making it useful in examining the discipline’s history.

Authors:Robert K. Merton, Elinor Barber,  James L. Shu
Publisher: Princeton University Pre
Keywords: semantics, sociology, science, sociological, study, adventures, serendipity, travels
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2003-12-29
List price: $49.50
ISBN-10: 0691117543
ISBN-13: 9780691117546

From the names of cruise lines and bookstores to an Australian ranch and a nudist camp outside of Atlanta, the word serendipity--that happy blend of wisdom and luck by which something is discovered not quite by accident--is today ubiquitous. This book traces the word’s eventful history from its 1754 coinage into the twentieth century--chronicling along the way much of what we now call the natural and social sciences. The book charts where the term went, with whom it resided, and how it fared. We cross oceans and academic specialties and meet those people, both famous and now obscure, who