Authors:Zeuthen Symposium, Steven L. Kleiman, H. G. Zeuthen,
Publisher: American Mathematical Society
Keywords: proceedings, symposium, support, fro, contemporary, mathematics, august, july, algebraic, zeuthen, enumerative, geometry
Number of Pages: 278
Published: 1991-12
List price: $54.00
ISBN-10: 0821851314
ISBN-13: 9780821851319

1989 marked the 150th anniversary of the birth of the great Danish mathematician Hieronymus Georg Zeuthen. Zeuthen’s name is known to every algebraic geometer because of his discovery of a basic invariant of surfaces. However, he also did fundamental research in intersection theory, enumerative geometry, and the projective geometry of curves and surfaces. Zeuthen’s extraordinary devotion to his subject, his characteristic depth, thoroughness, and clarity of thought, and his precise and succinct writing style are truly inspiring. During the past ten years or so, a

Author: Zeuthen H. G. (Hieronymus Georg)
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: mittelalter, german, und, altertum, der, mathematik, geschichte
Number of Pages: 358
Published: 2009-07-18
List price: $31.75
ISBN-10: 1113152826
ISBN-13: 9781113152824

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.

Author: Dale T. Mortensen
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: differently, zeuthen, lectures, paid, workers, dispersion, similar, wage
Number of Pages: 157
Published: 2005-03-01
List price: $19.00
ISBN-10: 0262633191
ISBN-13: 9780262633192

Why are workers with identical skills found in both "good" jobs and "bad" jobs? Why are workers who do similar jobs paid differently, contrary to standard competitive theory? Observable differences in workers doing the same job account for only 30 percent of wage variation. In Wage Dispersion, Dale Mortensen examines the reasons for pay differentials in the other 70 percent. He finds that these differentials, or wage dispersion, are largely the result of job search friction (which arises when workers do not know the wages offered by all employers) and cross-firm differences in wage policy and

Authors:Torsten Persson, Guido Tabellini,
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: zeuthen, lectures, policy, economic, economics, explaining, political
Number of Pages: 553
Published: 2002-02-07
List price: $43.00
ISBN-10: 0262661314
ISBN-13: 9780262661317

What determines the size and form of redistributive programs, the extent and type of public goods provision, the burden of taxation across alternative tax bases, the size of government deficits, and the stance of monetary policy during the course of business and electoral cycles? A large and rapidly growing literature in political economics attempts to answer these questions. But so far there is little consensus on the answers and disagreement on the appropriate mode of analysis. Combining the best of three separate traditions--the theory of macroeconomic policy, public choice, and rational

Authors:Michael P. Clements, David F. Hendry,
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: series, zeuthen, lectures, time, economic, non, stationary, forecasting
Number of Pages: 392
Published: 2001-03-01
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0262531895
ISBN-13: 9780262531894

In their second book on economic forecasting, Michael Clements and David Hendry ask why some practices seem to work empirically despite a lack of formal support from theory. After reviewing the conventional approach to economic forecasting, they look at the implications for causal modeling, present a taxonomy of forecast errors, and delineate the sources of forecast failure. They show that forecast-period shifts in deterministic factors--interacting with model misspecification, collinearity, and inconsistent estimation--are the dominant source of systematic failure. They then consider various

Authors:Wilfred D. Stein, Thomas Zeuthen,
Publisher: Academic Press
Keywords: volume, international, review, cytology, membranes, biological, mechanisms, water, transport, across, molecular
Number of Pages: 442
Published: 2002-04-16
List price: $156.00
ISBN-10: 0123646197
ISBN-13: 9780123646194

International Review of Cytology presents current advances and comprehensive reviews in cell biology--both plant and animal. Authored by some of the foremost scientists in the field, each volume provides up-to-date information and directions for future research.This volume looks at water movements from a wide range of levels. It examines how water interacts with the major components of the cell, including proteins and lipids. It discusses how water moves across cell membranes by diffusion, how it is chanelled across these membranes or, in certain cases, pumped across, and how water movements a