Time Series Techniques for Economists

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The application of time series techniques in economics has become increasingly important, both for forecasting purposes and in the empirical analysis of time series in general. This book brings together recent research at the frontiers of the subject and analyzes the areas of time series analysis of most importance to applied economics. The author discusses three basic areas of time series analysis: univariate models, multivariate models, and nonlinear models. Particular emphasis is placed on applications of the theory to important areas of applied economics and on the computer software and programs needed to implement the techniques. It is an up-to-date text, extending the basic techniques of analysis to cover the development of methods that can be used to analyze a wide range of economic problems.

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Excellent foundation for empirical work........1999-09-13

This book is suitable for Econometricians looking for a book without too much theoretical work. Sufficient explaination given for empirical work. Easy to read.

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Time Series Techniques for Economists
Terence C. Mills
Manufacturer: NY
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"Metanational" is the term that Jose Santos, Peter Williamson, and Yves L. Doz--management and technology professors at the international INSEAD graduate school of business--coined to describe a new type of global corporation. It refers, they explain in From Global to Metanational, to "a company that builds a new kind of competitive advantage by discovering, accessing, mobilizing, and leveraging knowledge from many locations around the world." And as they unveil and dissect the concept, it becomes apparent that it may indeed be an apt description for those worldwide enterprises most likely to succeed in our rapidly changing times. Based on interviews with 36 companies from America, Asia, and Europe (including long-established firms like 3M and Toyota and newcomers like Acer and Shiseido), the authors describe innovative ways to efficiently tap into "pockets of technology, market intelligence and ... specialist knowledge scattered around the world," rather than relying solely on input from a home nation or a few select locales. They explore how trailblazers are identifying this information wherever they find it, parlaying it into new products, services and processes, and merging the result with all sales, distribution, and marketing efforts. Anyone involved in multinational business should find this both provocative and potentially useful. --Howard Rothman

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Becoming a global company once meant penetrating markets around the world. But the demands of the knowledge economy are turning this strategy on its head. Today, the challenge is to innovate by learning from the world .

This book provides a blueprint for companies ready to embrace this new globalization challenge. In From Global to Metanational , international business and strategy experts Yves Doz, José Santos, and Peter Williamson introduce a radically different kind of company-the metanational-defined by three core capabilities: being the first to identify and capture new knowledge emerging all over the world; mobilizing this globally scattered knowledge to out-innovate competitors; and turning this innovation into value by producing, marketing, and delivering efficiently on a global scale.

The authors explain why traditional global strategies are no longer sufficient to differentiate leading competitors, what the knowledge economy means for managers, and why opportunities to leverage globally dispersed knowledge are growing. Most important, they outline exactly how managers can build a metanational advantage for their own organizations by:

* Prospecting for and accessing untapped pockets of technology and emerging consumer trends from around the world

* Leveraging knowledge imprisoned in a multinational's local subsidiaries

* Mobilizing this fragmented knowledge to generate innovations, profits, and shareholder value

Drawing from the experiences of pioneering metanationals including STMicroelectronics, ARM, Acer, Nokia, Shiseido, and PolyGram, the book shows how today's multinationals can use their existing global networks to gain an important head start in the global game-and how newcomers can leapfrog traditional competitors by rapidly building a new-style metanational corporation.

Must-reading for every leader-from the CEO of a new global venture, to the executive of a currently successful multinational, to the founder of an e-business startup getting ready to "go global"-this pathbreaking book shows how to reshape strategies to compete and win in the global knowledge economy.
AUTHORBIO: Yves Doz is Timken Professor of Global Technology and Innovation at INSEAD. José Santos is Professor of International Management at INSEAD. Peter Williamson is Professor of International Management and Asian Business at INSEAD's Euro-Asia Centre.[EBK1]

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The new small world.......2003-02-10

I was delighted to grab a better understanding on global competitiveness and the new productive opportunities provided by the Metanationals.

You don't know about it yet?? God, your business is under great danger...

Finding knowledge in unlikely places.......2002-09-26

What does a large company need to concentrate on for sustained success in a globalized world? Doz and his colleagues claim that it is to become metanational and to become good at innovating from a platform of bringing together knowledge from many different parts of the world. Metanationals differ from globalized companies in that they recognise that new ideas, products or directions may originate somewhere other than the corporate centre.

The focus of the authors is on innovation and they argue that this requires that the organization becomes good at :
* identifying where good ideas and special competencies are;
* mobilizing the often scattered capabilities and opportunities (they use the term 'becoming a magnet' for such capabilities); and
* optimising the size and configuration of operations for efficiency, flexibility and financial discipline.

This is a book that makes an important point about success in a globalized world, but presents one factor in success as if it was the whole. As with a number of books, I had an uncomfortable feeling that the content of a very good article was expanded into an only moderately good book.

The core message is important and useful. Organizations that operate on a global scale need to move beyond the extension of a unitary culture into new localities and recognise that new knowledge is found in unlikely places. They need to become excellent at recognising that knowledge, becoming an attractor for it, mobilizing it to provide a superior stream of innovations and operationalizing production, distribution and marketing into diverse markets.

The weakness is that the book is written at a fairly high conceptual level - for all the detailed example - that fails to get to grips with how to manage multiple cultures or the detail of innovation, or the issues of governance across countries. It also has surprisingly little on the major changes that are occurring in world consumer markets.

The book also falls into the 'one size fits all' trap. Issues of being effective globally are very different for a consumer fashion business, a high tech product or service industry and a major commodity business, but this is not recognised explicitly in the book.

Must reading for international business.......2002-07-23

This is one of the most refreshing books about managing multinationals that I have read. It goes one step beyond the idea of a transnational, proposing a new model of how a company can succeed by prospecting the world for new knowledge about technologies and customer behaviour and using this to innovate. It won't be easy to implement, but the last three chapters provide a good starting point about how to make it happen. I was convinced that if we didn't try and build a metanational we would simply be left behind.

Nostalgia for Globalization.......2002-05-20

The first two chapters tell you the picture and that is it. The kernel is summarized in a table at page 83 (end of chapter 3). Make a copy of this page, file it for later reference, and you are done. At best, this book reviews the vaunted wisdom of globalization, which many companies have been living at and dealing for years. At worst, it recites the squabbles between the global platform (the standardization) and regional initiatives (the deviations and the sensing ends). No specific solution or action is advised for the first & most obvious problem - how to transcend the intracompany transaction, which more than often bogs down companies attempting to quickly profit from the global learning.

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This book is a comprehensive up-to-date treatise that includes information on virus-, viroid- and phytoplasma-induced potato diseases. The chapters of this book were written by internationally well-known experts and include novel techniques of detection, virus isolation, transmission and epidemiology of the pathogens, as well as their control by rapid propagation of the virus-tested clones, breeding for resistance by conventional and biotechnological methods and implementation of certification schemes.
Also included are chapters on the botanical characteristics and economic importance of the potato, main cultivars, historical perspectives and emerging viruses in relation to control procedures and regulations.
This book will be of major value to all those interested in potatoes - researchers and students, general practitioners, seed potato growers, tissue culture laboratories, inspection services and regulatory authorities; and should attract audiences from all potato growing areas: US, Europe, South America, Russia, India and China.

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Virus and Virus-like Diseases of Potatoes and Production of Seed-Potatoes
Gad Loebenstein
Manufacturer: Kluwer Academic Publishers
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Mind/Body Problems = Body Problems? Yup!.......2001-06-14

We know that nerves receive and relay nervous impulses, but "who" controls these cells so that this information is sent to the right places at the right times? Can it really be that our consciousness is built up of the complex interplay of neurons? These are problems about which philosophers have groped along for centuries, but which are now coming into the light with the advancing knowledge of neurologists.

One such neurologist who has been prominent in communicating to the public about the human brain is Dr. Richard M. Restak, author of two previous books, The Brain and The mind, which accompanied the PBS series of the same name. His book on The Modular Brain is especially enlightening on how the human personality can be the product of neuron impulses. He cites many examples of brain disorders that demonstrate that there is no central point in the brain wherein our consciousness resides, and that our brains create all the aspects of our personalities by an imponderable division of labor.

Neurologists have observed, for example, that awareness and consciousness are not the same and are not created from one brain area. The self-contradictory and strange beliefs encountered in patients suffering from "anosognosia" (denial of loss of capacity) are evidence for this. Dr. Restak explains that this kind of denial is altogether different from denials by patients who know something is wrong but try to pretend otherwise. Anosognosia usually occurs in patients with damage to the right hemisphere of the brain, is not accompanied by other symptoms of mental illness, does not occur with injuries to any other parts of the body, and causes "a breakdown in conscious awareness that cuts across different domains."

It can involve not only left-sided paralysis and loss of leftsided awareness but also total blindness. It is hard to imagine how blindness could escape someone's awareness when they are otherwise fully conscious and rational. Nevertheless, Dr. Restak tells of a brain-damaged patient who lost not only her sight but also ability to know that she could not see. Out of frustration with his inability to convince her of her disability, he made the mistake of suggesting that she prove she could see by getting out of bed and walking. "At this," he says, "she promptly leaped from her bed and ran squarely into the nearest wall, breaking her nose in the effort." From cases like this and other evidence explained in his book, Dr. Restak suggests that, "in the presence of anosognosia, beliefs can become modular and exist independently and even in contradiction to one another."

Other facets of our personalities are also investigated with a wealth of examples lucidly explained for the layman. This book brings together a wide range of evidence in support of the modular theory of brain function, a theory which leaves little or no room for metaphysical or spiritual theories of consciousness relating to the "mind-body" problem so familiar to philosophers.

Moreover, I found the application of science to philosophical questions made the science more interesting, the philosophy less bogus, and the reading entirely delightful.

A well-written, valid treatise on modularity........2000-07-20

It is a shame that this book is out of print. It is an excellent book for those interested in or going into neuroscience to read. Over the past ten years which were named the Decade of the Brain, there have been significant arguments into whether the brain acts like a computer with parallel processing, or whether it performs its functions in separate modules which talk with other modules while doing so. Distributed processing and a combination of all of these ideas is also being discussed or argued depending on who is doing it at the Society for Neuroscience!

The point is, while much has been learned about the brain, we still have a long way to go. Restak is aware of this, and is very good about giving credit to those in the past who made very educated guesses about what the brain and mind consist of. Restak is another of our good science writers and his area tends to stick with topics concerning the brain. I don't always agree with his arguments, but he presents them well and of course, I am always fascinated by the descriptions of the patients he has seen. I hope he continues to write for us, and that a publisher will put this book out in paperback for a new generation of up and coming neuroscientists and educators to read. It is just as important for educators to know about the brain as it is for doctors because they are the ones who help to wire or rewire the brain, and they can either do great good, or great harm depending upon their teaching methods and their attitudes towards others. Karen Sadler Science Education, University of Pittsburgh

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Modular Psychology 7E & Study Guide & Critical Thinking Complanion & Sci Am Rdr. Improving Mind and Brain
David G. Myers , Jane S. Halonen , and Scientific American
Manufacturer: Worth Publishers
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The Physiological Basis of Behaviour: Neural and Hormonal Processes (Routledge Modular Psychology)
Kevin Silber
Manufacturer: Routledge
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ASIN: 0415186536

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This concise and accessible introduction to neural and hormonal processes discusses the basic techniques of investigating brain structure and function, the structure and functioning of neurons and how the central nervous system is considered for its important role in the control of emotional behaviors.

The Reciprocal Modular Brain in Economics and Politics

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New Look at the Triune Brain
No, we're not totally selfish!
A Great Title, but does not Deliver the Goods

The Reciprocal Modular Brain in Economics and Politics

Manufacturer: Springer
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0306461838

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This book draws on the research and insights of Paul MacLean in his book, The Triune Brain, as well as the work of Abraham Maslow, to show that reciprocity, not conflict, is the endpoint of human development. As such, Cory uses neuroscience as the bridge between the natural and the social sciences. The modular view of the computational brain is tied to insights of evolutionary biology. Strongly endorsed by Edward O. Wilson, Paul MacLean, and Kurt Steiner.

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New Look at the Triune Brain.......2000-07-09

It was a pleasure to read Gerald Cory's pathbreaking new book The Reciprocal Modular Brain in Economics and Politics. This book represents a profoundly important synthesis of neuroscience, Paul Maclean's triune brain theory, psychology, sociology, and economic theory that revolves around Cory's central thesis that human beings are more than inherently selfish, bloodlessly rational, and price-driven consumers of material goods; yes, we humans are selfish, scarcity-obsessed products of millions of years of biological evolution and thousands of years of cultural evolution, but Cory convinces us that we are equally designed to love, cooperate, and share fairly with other members of our species. Cory has forever shattered the brittle and Procrustean notion that we human beings are nothing more than robotic pawns of our own self-interest- we are instead vibrant, dynamic, and not always perfectly predictable social beings and the social science and economic theory of the next millenium must confront that fact. As icing on the cake, the book is eloquently and engagingly written and will certainly be a major intellectual contribution in a number of domains of thought: evolutionary cognitive psychology, the neuroscience of triune brain theory, social psychology, and evolutionary-based economic theory.

No, we're not totally selfish!.......2000-06-25

Gerald Cory's The Reciprocal Modular Brain in Politics and Economics is a nice short book that is ahead of its time in relating the human brain to the social sciences. First of all he argues forcefully that whatever details of its methodology need to be ironed out, Paul MacLean's seminal theory of the Triune Brain (reptilian for habits, old mammalian for emotions, and new mammalian for reason) remains fresh and relevant for human social behavior. Then he proceeds to discuss how these different parts of the brain contribute to economic and political behavior. In particular he counters the bias that still prevails among academic economists in favor of self-interest by stating that self-interest and empathy (based on both reciprocity AND concern for others) are both important, and there is a constant tension and trade-off between the two.

This book is almost more a manifesto than it is a detailed academic argument. But at this stage of knowledge that is precisely what is needed: it lays out a fundamental set of ideas that need to be considered by academic social scientists really interested in the betterment of society. The general argument still needs to be fleshed out with details both at the biological/psychological end and at the economic/political end. But Cory provides a vitally important set of organizing principles that the people searching for the details can hang their hats on. For this reason I think it is must reading both for socially progressive economics and political scientists and for psychologists seeking to apply their work to bettering human institutions.

Daniel S. Levine -- Professor of Psychology, University of Texas at Arlington -- levine@uta.edu

A Great Title, but does not Deliver the Goods.......2000-04-21

I write as an economist who works in behavioral ecology in general, and on the analytical modeling and empirical testing of theories of reciprocity in particular. From my point of view, the book leaves much to be desired.

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About twenty percent of patients with acquired brain injury suffer from visual deficits; the examination and treatment of these patients therefore represents a particular challenge in its own right. Furthermore, adequate visual perception is a crucial prerequisite for almost all cognitive and motor activities. Despite a long research tradition in visual neuroscience, the rehabilitation of cerebral visual deficits has, until recently, been neglected. This book is the first to report systematic observations on spontaneous recovery of cerebral visual deficits after acquired brain injury, and the outcome of treating these deficits. The whole range of human visual functions and capacities is covered: visual field, visual acuity and contrast sensitivity, visual adaptation, color vision, visual space perception, and visual cognition. Additionally, there is a special section devoted to patients with central scotoma. All treatment procedures described are empirically founded.

This highly innovativecontribution to neuropsychological rehabilitation shows that the study of restitution and compensation of impaired and lost brain functions represents a unique opportunity to increase our understanding of brain plasticity. Of interest to both the practitioner and the scientist, it aims to stimulate further developments and improvements in the field.

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Internationally recognized research in the field of vision.......2000-12-20

Visual impairments influence all activities of daily living. Therefore, the examination of vision and the treatment of patients with visual deficits is of major importance, and the book by Josef Zihl closes a big gap in the series of handbooks about neuropsychological rehabilitation. In the last 30 years Prof. Josef Zihl conducted exciting and internationally recognized research in the field of brain damaged patients with visual defects. Many of his investigations were interesting single-case studies which have inspired other scientists to examine larger group of patients. The book summarizes many of his findings and compares them with the results of other researchers. On 186 pages, the author conveys detailed knowledge of the whole range of human visual functions as well as possible disturbances. The book starts with the description of visual field restrictions such as homonymous hemianopia, a frequent consequence of stroke of the posterior cerebral artery. Zihl then deals with disorders of visual acuity, color vision deficits, and impaired visual space perception. Chapter 6 is dedicated to visual agnosia, a very interesting topic in its own. The last part of the book is devoted to central scotoma, causing almost unbearable handicaps for patients. The author presents many helpful compensatory therapies for patients with visual deficits. For example, Zihl himself had developed an electronic reading aid, a saccadic eye movement training, and a computer-based tachistoscopic apparatus for text material. All of them proved their effectivity in several investigations and are helpful for many patients. Particularly for clinical neuropsychologists, these hints are helpful and valuable to decide which test is appropriate for the investigation of a given patient. I think that this book is of interest for both, scientists and clinical practitioners, and we would highly recommend it for anybody working in the field of brain-damaged patients with visual defects.

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The Modular Brain
Richard Restak
Manufacturer: Scribner
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NWKHYO

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The Modular Brain
Richard Restak
Manufacturer: Scribner
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ASIN: B000JVGQ80

The Reciprocal Modular Brain in Economics and Politics by Cory Jr

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The Reciprocal Modular Brain in Economics and Politics by Cory Jr
Editor-Gerald A. Cory Jr.
Manufacturer: Springer
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OSPK6C

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