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L'ingénierie et son organisation
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ISBN: 2708102346 9782708102347 Year: 1974 Publisher: Paris: Éditions d'organisation,

The case against perfection : ethics in the age of genetic engineering
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ISBN: 9780674019270 067401927X 9780674036383 0674036387 0674043065 Year: 2009 Publisher: Cambridge: Belknap press of Harvard university press,

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Breakthroughs in genetics present us with a promise and a predicament. Although most people find at least some forms of genetic engineering disquieting, it is not easy to articulate why. This work explores these and other moral quandaries connected with the quest to perfect ourselves and our children.


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Real options, ambiguity, risk and insurance
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ISBN: 9781614992387 161499238X 1614992371 9781614992370 Year: 2013 Publisher: Amsterdam : IOS Press,


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Développement durable et économique environnementale régionale
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ISBN: 9782802802099 2802802097 Year: 2012 Volume: 60 Publisher: Bruxelles: Faculté Universitaire Saint-Louis,

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Le présent ouvrage, pour lequel ont collaboré des chercheurs belges, français et canadiens, aborde dans un premier temps des concepts de développement durable en économie avant de les appliquer, dans un second temps, à des problématiques régionales. Les méthodes d'évaluation de la durabilité, l'analyse du cycle de vie ainsi que l'étude du développement soutenable comme un problème d'innovation technique permettent de mieux comprendre et de pouvoir évaluer l'impact de nos actions en termes de soutenabilité. L'implémentation régionale qui s'en suit, qu'elle soit théorique ou empirique, traite, entre autres, de l'impact de la pollution par le bruit des aéroports sur les riverains, d'interactions entre système économique et services écosystémiques pour des nourriceries de poissons, ou de calculs d'indicateurs et de mesures de bien-être sur base de statistiques régionales.

Advances in econometrics : sixth World Congress
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ISBN: 052140374X 9780521528603 9780521403740 0521528607 0521444594 0521444608 052156610X 1139052039 0521566096 1139052047 9780521444590 9780521444606 Year: 1994 Volume: 23-24 Publisher: Cambridge [England]: Cambridge university press,

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This is the second of a 1994 two-volume set of articles reflecting the state of research in theoretical and applied econometrics. The topics covered include time series methods, semiparametric methods, seasonality, financial economics, model solution techniques, economic development and labour economics. All the contributions were commissioned to be presented at the plenary sessions of the Sixth World Congress of the Econometric Society in Barcelona.

Seeing like a state : how certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed
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ISBN: 0300070160 9781281729132 9780300128789 0300078153 9780300078152 9786611729134 1281729132 0300128789 9780300246759 9780300070163 Year: 1998 Publisher: New Haven (Conn.): Yale university press,

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Compulsory ujamaa villages in Tanzania, collectivization in Russia, Le Corbusier's urban planning theory realized in Brasilia, the Great Leap Forward in China, agricultural "modernization" in the Tropics-the twentieth century has been racked by grand utopian schemes that have inadvertently brought death and disruption to millions. Why do well-intentioned plans for improving the human condition go tragically awry?In this wide-ranging and original book, James C. Scott analyzes failed cases of large-scale authoritarian plans in a variety of fields. Centrally managed social plans misfire, Scott argues, when they impose schematic visions that do violence to complex interdependencies that are not-and cannot-be fully understood. Further, the success of designs for social organization depends upon the recognition that local, practical knowledge is as important as formal, epistemic knowledge. The author builds a persuasive case against "development theory" and imperialistic state planning that disregards the values, desires, and objections of its subjects. He identifies and discusses four conditions common to all planning disasters: administrative ordering of nature and society by the state; a "high-modernist ideology" that places confidence in the ability of science to improve every aspect of human life; a willingness to use authoritarian state power to effect large- scale interventions; and a prostrate civil society that cannot effectively resist such plans.

Monte Carlo methods in financial engineering
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ISBN: 0387004513 9780387004518 Year: 2003 Volume: 53 Publisher: New York: Springer,

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