A Nobel laureate reveals the often surprising rules that govern a vast array of activities — both mundane and life-changing — in which money may play little or no role. If you’ve ever sought a job or hired someone, applied to college or guided your child into a good kindergarten, asked someone out on a date or been asked out, you’ve participated in a kind of market. Most of th...(展开全部)

This collection assesses the development of 'Coasean Economics' - those aspects of economic analysis that have evolved out of the ground-breaking work of Ronald Coase. Two major strands of research can be identified here: law and economics and the New Institutional Economics. While both law and economics and the analysis of institutions by no means originated with or evolv...(展开全部)

From dogs to gods, the science of understanding mysterious minds—including your own. Nothing seems more real than the minds of other people. When you consider what your boss is thinking or whether your spouse is happy, you are admitting them into the "mind club." It’s easy to assume other humans can think and feel, but what about a cow, a computer, a corporation? What kinds of ...(展开全部)

A Turing Award-winning computer scientist and statistician shows how understanding causality has revolutionized science and will revolutionize artificial intelligence “Correlation is not causation.” This mantra, chanted by scientists for more than a century, has led to a virtual prohibition on causal talk. Today, that taboo is dead. The causal revolution, instigated by Judea Pe...(展开全部)

A Turing Award-winning computer scientist and statistician shows how understanding causality has revolutionized science and will revolutionize artificial intelligence "Correlation is not causation." This mantra, chanted by scientists for more than a century, has led to a virtual prohibition on causal talk. Today, that taboo is dead. The causal revolution, instigated by Judea Pe...(展开全部)

朱迪亚·珀尓（Judea Pearl） 现加州大学洛杉矶分校计算机科学教授，“贝叶斯网络”之父，2011年因创立因果推理演算法获得图灵奖，同时也是美国国家科学院院士，IEEE 智能系统名人堂第一批10位入选者之一。目前已出版3本关于因果关系科学的经典著作，分别为《启发法》(1984)、《智能系统中的概率推理》(1988) 和《因果论：模型、论证、推理》(2009)。他还获得过多项顶级科学荣誉，包括认知科学领域的鲁梅哈特奖、物理学及技术领域的富兰克林奖章以及科学哲学领域的拉卡托斯奖。 达纳·麦肯齐（Dana Mackenzie） 普林斯顿大学数学博士，自由科学记者，知名科普作家，著有《无言的宇宙》等作品，其学术论文多次收录于《科学》《新科学家》《科学美国》《探索》等重量级期刊。

Many popular ideas about terrorists and why they seek to harm us are fueled by falsehoods and misinformation. Leading politicians and scholars have argued that poverty and lack of education breed terrorism, despite the wealth of evidence showing that most terrorists come from middle-class, and often college-educated, backgrounds. In What Makes a Terrorist, Alan Krueger argues t...(展开全部)

Discusses the mechanisms by which securities are traded and economic models of asymmetric information, inventory control, and cost-minimizing trading strategies.

This book gives information on studies based on sociology and capitalism.

The Economics of Uncertainty and Information may be used in conjunction with Loffont's Fundamentals of Economics in an advanced course in microeconomics. Both texts provide a thorough account of modern thinking on the subject and a wealth of carefully chosen examples and problems.The first four chapters of The Economics of Uncertainty and Information summarize the essential too...(展开全部)