Written by Lars Peter Hansen (Nobel Laureate in Economics, 2013) and Thomas Sargent (Nobel Laureate in Economics, 2011), Uncertainty within Economic Models includes articles adapting and applying robust control theory to problems in economics and finance. This book extends rational expectations models by including agents who doubt their models and adopt precautionary decisions ...(展开全部)

The more precisely the position is determined, the less precisely the momentum is known in this instant, and vice versa. —Werner Heisenberg That God would choose to play dice with the world is something I cannot believe. —Albert Einstein Nothing exists until it is measured. —Neils Bohr The remarkable story of a startling scientific idea that ignited a battle among the ...(展开全部)

How should firms decide whether and when to invest in new capital equipment, additions to their workforce, or the development of new products? Why have traditional economic models of investment failed to explain the behavior of investment spending in the United States and other countries? In this book, Avinash Dixit and Robert Pindyck provide the first detailed exposition of a ...(展开全部)

How should judges, in America and elsewhere, interpret statutes and the Constitution? Previous work on these fundamental questions has typically started from abstract views about the nature of democracy or constitutionalism, or the nature of legal language, or the essence of the rule of law. From these conceptual premises, theorists typically deduce an ambitious role for judges...(展开全部)

In life, uncertainty surrounds us. Things that we thought were good for us turn out to be bad for us (and vice versa); people we thought we knew well behave in mysterious ways; the stock market takes a nosedive. Thanks to an inexplicable optimism, most of the time we are fairly cheerful about it all. But we do devote much effort to managing and ameliorating uncertainty. Is it a...(展开全部)

Emphasizing practical understanding over the technicalities of specific algorithms, this elegant textbook is an accessible introduction to the field of optimization, focusing on powerful and reliable convex optimization techniques. Students and practitioners will learn how to recognize, simplify, model and solve optimization problems - and apply these principles to their own pr...(展开全部)

Critical Models combines into a single volume two of Adorno's most important postwar works -- Interventions: Nine Critical Models (1963) and Catchwords: Critical Models II (1969). Written after his return to Germany in 1949, the articles, essays, and radio talks included in this volume speak to the pressing political, cultural, and philosophical concerns of the postwar era. T...(展开全部)

You have a genie that will grant your wishes. But, your genie will not grant wishes simply by rubbing a lamp or uncorking a magical bottle. The genie is your subconscious mind, and you must know how to it works and how to use it before it will be your powerful servant. This book is your instruction manual. The Genie Within is not "feel-good" stories and "have-faith" platitudes....(展开全部)

美国女权运动健将，也是最具影响力和开创性的作家与行动主义者，斯 坦能以自己长久以来对“自尊”的探询，揭示了什么是自尊、缺乏自尊人性将有 怎样的缺憾、扭曲；以及恢复自尊将如何惊人地改变你的生活。她坚信每个人的 过去都只是当时的“内在”的产物，任何受损伤的自尊都可治愈。全书无一说教 ，斯坦能创造了特有的对话方式，通过收集众多人的“自我实现”的动人故事， 帮助读者认真倾听自己所拥有的内在声音，为自己培育自由的心灵。虽然有人更 感兴趣于斯坦能当花花公子俱乐部“兔女郎”的经历和在半百之年龄身穿迷你裙 面对记者的洒脱举动，把本书作为斯坦能的“爱情生活秘密”来阅读，但我以为 斯坦能在本书中是亲切而又认真地讲述她自身超越岁月、外貌及性别而拥有内在 自由的历程，着重强调女性应保持内在的自尊。

在线阅读本书 Maira Kalman paints her highly personal worldview in an inimitable combination of image and text. The Principles of Uncertainty is an irresistible invitation to experience life through the psyche of Maira Kalman, one of this country's most beloved artists. The result is a book that is part personal narrative, part documentary, part travelogue, part chapbook, and ...(展开全部)