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For courses in Cost-Benefit Analysis, taught in Economics Departments, Public Policy Departments, and Public Administration Departments. Also ideal forpracticing policy analysts andpublic managers.This authoritative, market leading book is distinct for it's consistent application of a nine-step framework for conducting or interpreting a cost-benefit analysis.
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Not the most useful, but comprehensive........2007-09-09
This book by Anthony Boardman et al. is a heavy read. It is not a book you would want to read from A to Z in order to understand Cost-Benefit Analysis or CBA, but it is one of the better reference books I have found. The only downside I found was a very theoretical approach and lack of really useful examples. Nevertheless, not one element of CBA seems to be left untouched. This book is a valuable reference to anyone relying on CBA as a decision-making tool, because it will assist you in understanding what it is that you are analyzing when applying CBA.
Wonderful.......2007-02-22
I have received in the data they promised me, very quick, even I received it early in the morning!!!!!!!
Even the prof had a difficult time getting through it.......2006-12-31
I had to buy this book for a class I took on Cost-benefit analysis (which is probably why you're thinking of buying it, too). The contents of my review won't have much influence on your choice to purchase it, as that decision has already been made by your prof. But I think I owe you a few warnings.
Some of the chapters are well-written (the chapters on discounting and compounding and time value), but most of them are confusing (the chapters on option value and the section about the optimal growth discount model). Even our professor, who has a BA in econ from Yale and a PhD in econ from Berkeley, had trouble getting through these sections. Some of the homework problems at the ends of the chapters ask about material that the text never fully explains. In a few instances, the book reminds you why you hate integral calculus.
So although I can't stop you from buying this, I can at least warn you that your trip through its pages will be nothing like a trip through the beautiful mountains on the cover. Unless you were planning on climbing the mountains. In January. Without GPS or crampons.
Straightforward.......2003-01-25
The authors have put approached this topic in a step by step way. It explains important background topics as well. I bought this book for a class, so I really didn't have much choice in the matter. I expect that most buyers will do so for the same reason. To them, I say "don't worry about it," this won't hurt as much as you think." If you are considering this for pleasure reading, well, don't let me stop you.
Complete, Comprehensive, but lengthy.......2003-01-17
Probably one of the few only books available that talks about CBA. Lacks in real life examples, otherwise a good read for grasping basic concepts and tools.
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Hyperinnovation: Multidimensional Enterprise in the Connected Economy
Chris Harris
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The business world has been changing at a faster rate than before and has become more complex and interdependent. This has given rise to greater opportunities for new business platforms and growth, but the need for new understanding of this complexity. Hyperinnovation provides a complete rethink of strategies for innovation in a multidimensional and connected economy.
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It seems Hype-less books don't work well !!.......2004-03-27
The author is proposing a new management model, but it's farthest from being another hype book,and may be this is why it didn't get as much coverage and attention that it should have got.
What really makes this book serious and different is its deep investigation of the business world around us as a "Complex system" and how we can deal with it according the new angle. The complexity theory, which is the inspiration for many of the insights of the book, is concerned with how many different related agents work as a whole, and how the new and multidimensional connections between these agents can give possibility to utterly new relations to emerge.
The author then applies this on the business world in a compelling way, esp in his explanation of how a single new agent, and consequently the new connections that get fromed, can influence the whole web of innovation/the business world. I see that the book explains a lot of what's going around in the business world. for example, the introduction of a single new agent to the innovation web; Google's technology, has triggered new connections everywhere, and has prompted the giants like Microsoft to catch up. But stil in the complext system, Google remains as an influential agent that has affected the whole Web.
Also, accoring the complexity theory, you can never predict the outcomes, and you just have to cope uncertainty, and if you embrace that you can even thrive at these times (as the book states). This, i think, should inspire us of how to eye Microsoft now. Any viewer of the threats to Microsoft now, would come up with the idea that Microsoft is facing a multitude of invincible threats on a myriad fronts, from Open-source threat (which is REALLY a major one) to being kicked back in search market by google, to being knocked off by Sony in Game console market, to be threatened at the web-browser market by the alliance between IBM and Opera to produce a Voice-enhanced browser.. and many others. All these threats seem not to scare Microsoft, may be they are able to survive, if not thrive, in the era of uncertainty and the unpredictable, as they view threats as a part of the complex-system package.
I'm really disappointed that an excellent book like HyperInnovation doesn't get what it deserves, compared to other hype books that rise to fame at the blink of an eye.
The author of the book, Chris Harris, who is the former Development and Innovation at Boeing, gave the common reader insights that they wouldn't find otherwise in any other book.
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Comparative Farming Systems
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Through a series of 12 original case studies, prepared by 19 international, multidisciplinary experts, this volume offers a comprehensive comparative examination of world agriculture. The 12 farming systems explored here encompass the broad array of environmental, demographic, and socioeconomic conditions in which agriculture exists--from Amazonian swidden to Hungarian cooperative farms. B.L. Turner II and Stephen B. Brush have provided a three-part classification of the systems based on output intensity, technology employed, and production goals. The contributors bring to their case studies the perspectives of anthropology, economics, geography, and rural sociology. Farming Systems will be a valuable reference work on individual farming systems, a rich source of comparative data for researchers, and a text for advanced courses in farming systems and world agriculture.
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The Swedish Farmers' Movement and Government Agricultural Policy:
Michele Micheletti
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This comprehensive study explores the influence and organization of the Swedish farmers' movement in the 20th century. The first such study of its kind to appear in print, the analysis focuses on the ways in which the movement has represented its members in light of the myriad social, political, and economic changes that have affected its strategy, tactics, and overall position within the Swedish economy. Writing for scholars of political economy in general and Scandinavian area studies in particular, the author both explains the history of the incorporation of the interest organizations of farmers into the Swedish state and fully examines the effect of current reforms that are forcing the farmers' movement to change its traditional structures and ways of thinking. Among the issues addressed by the author are the advantages and disadvantages of the corporatist exchange for the farmers' movement and the important role played by farmers in the electoral politics of Sweden's political parties. Micheletti concludes that vote maximization is an important reason for the concern shown by the parties for the interests of farmers. She further discusses the development of Swedish agricultural policy, the changes in policy resulting from social democracy, and the role played by consumer interest organizations within the Swedish social democratic system. Throughout, Micheletti emphasizes the influence of Swedish political traditions and the prevailing political culture as well as the impact of international developments in the current reform of agriculture in Sweden. How the farmer's movement copes with the changes and the new issues of the environment and deregulation are also a key focus of inquiry.
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Study of cost of production and comparative advantage of crops under different farming systems in Sudan, 1980/81
A Sattar
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Galileo's poor case against the church.......2007-07-27
The Copernican model of the universe was at first little more than a mathematical theory, enabling Copernicans to avoid clashes with the church by arguing, as Osiander did in his preface to De Revolutionibus, that "it is not possible to know the true case of the motions of the heavenly bodies, it is only possible to invent theories which will account for the past motions and predict future ones" (p. 29). Of course, no real scientist ever believed that nonsense. Mathematical and empirical truth is one, as noted, for example, by Kepler: "Never have I been able to assent to the opinion of those people ... who try to prove that the hypotheses admitted by Copernicus may be false and that, nevertheless, true phenomena may be deduced from them ... I do not hesitate to declare that everything that Copernicus gathered a posteriori and proved by observation could without any embarrassment have been demonstrated a priori by means of geometrical axioms" (p. 34). Be that as it may, the rules of the game changed with the invention of telescopes, which lead to the discovery of much empirical support for the Copernican theory, such as for instance Galileo's discovery of the phases of Venus. "One problem which the Copernican system posed was that it predicted that Venus should be at some times sixteen times nearer the earth than at others. ... When Galileo turned his telescope to Venus he was able to discern that the planet's appearance varied between a long thin crescent and a small disc---the barely variant brightness of Venus was accounted for by the exhibition of phases, a 'new' face coinciding with a position close to the earth and a 'full' phase with a distant position" (p. 21, two typos corrected). So now Galileo could claim with confidence that the Copernican system did indeed describe reality, whereupon he was attacked by the church, of course. He defended himself in his Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina, from which we read excerpts on pp. 36-51. On empirical evidence Galileo notes in passing that "in order to banish the [Copernican theory] from the world ... it would be necessary not only to prohibit the book of Copernicus ... but to ban the whole science of astronomy. Furthermore, it would be necessary to look at the heavens, in order that they might not see Mars and Venus sometimes quite near the earth and sometimes very distant ... as well as many other sensory observations which can never be reconciled with the Ptolemaic system in any way, but are very strong arguments for the Copernican. ... [T]o prohibit the whole science would be to censure a hundred passages of holy scripture which teach us that the glory and greatness of Almighty God are marvellously discerned in all his works and divinely read in the open book of heaven" (pp. 45-46). This is all Galileo has to say on empirical evidence in his long letter. He focuses instead on trying to beat the church at their own game, quoting St. Augustine and St. Jerome and arguing that "in expounding the Bible if one were always to confine oneself to the unadorned grammatical meaning, one might fall into error" because "propositions uttered by the Holy Ghost were set down in that manner by the sacred scribes in order to accommodate them to the capacities of the common people, who are rude and unlearned" (pp. 36-37), a principle which he immediately abandons to argue that Joshua's stopping of the sun, read literary, makes more sense in the Copernican system that in the Ptolemaic because, supposedly, "just as if the motion of the heart should cease in an animal, all other motions of its members would also cease, so if the rotation of the sun were to stop, the rotations of the planets would stop too" (p. 49), for which there was of course no evidence whatsoever. "But Galileo, who came so close to discovering the law of inertia, knew better than anybody that if the earth suddenly stopped dead in its track, mountain and cities would collapse like match-boxes ... Joshua would have destroyed not only the Philistines, but the whole earth" (Koestler, p. 54). So why did Galileo resort to such nonsense arguments instead of bringing the battle into the area of empirical science? Presumably because he knew he would have lost there. "If he had talked to the point, instead of around it, he would have had to admit that Copernicus' forty-odd epicycles and eccentrics were not only not proven but a physical impossibility...; that the absence of an annular parallax ... weighted heavily against Copernicus; that the phases of Venus disproved Ptolemy, but not Herakleides or Tycho" (Koestler, p. 53). It is thus absurd to conclude, as Morphet does, that while "superficially, at least, Galileo was defeated by the Inquisition" it is still "clear to all of us that his science survived" in that "the empirical method has ousted a priori argument and religious revelation" (p. 58). The essence of science, the real reason for believing Copernicus, was not empirical evidence but the trust in reason and mathematics expressed by Kepler above. Galileo, on the other hand, chose to defended himself with pseudo-scientific arguments and did this so poorly that he was deservedly defeated and had to retract his case in public. Some hero.
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Title: The Renaissance Dialogue: Literary Dialogue in its Social and Political Contexts, Castiglione to Galileo.
Author: Daniel Javitch
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Renaissance Quarterly (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 1994
Publisher: Renaissance Society of America
Volume: v47
Issue: n3
Page: p646(4)
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The Renaissance Dialogue: Literary Dialogue in its Social and Political Contexts, Castiglione to Galileo (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture)
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This is the first full-length study of the use of the dialogue form in Italy from the early sixteenth century until Galileo. Drawing on a wide range of sources, it examines the characteristics which determined the genre’s unrivalled popularity in the period as a vehicle for polemic, debate, technical exposition and comic drama. More than simply an account of the development of an individual literary genre, however, the book is a contribution to the broader social and cultural history of the period. As representations of conversation, miniature dramas of persuasion, the dialogues of the Italian Renaissance constitute an extraordinarily rich - and largely untapped - source of information about the ideals and practice of communication in the early modern age.
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Galileo in Context
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This survey of recent attempts to dispel the myth of Galileo as isolated pioneer explores the intellectual, cultural and social contexts that substantially shaped Galilean science. Particular attention is paid to the influence of contemporary engineer-scientists on Galilean experimental physics, the influence of artists on the visual representation techniques used in Galilean astronomy, and the influence of the power structures of Galileo's day on the way in which scientific information was organized and communicated.
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