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Brendan O’Flaherty brings the tools of economic analysis—incentives, equilibrium, optimization—to bear on racial issues. From health care, housing, and education, to employment, wealth, and crime, he shows how racial differences powerfully determine American lives, and how progress in one area is often constrained by diminishing returns in another.

Race --- Minorities --- Physical anthropology --- History. --- Economic conditions. --- Social conditions. --- History --- Economic conditions --- Social conditions --- E-books --- United States

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Large-scale study of populations may contribute significantly to science’s understanding of the complex multi-factorial basis of disease and to improvements in prevention, detection, diagnosis, treatment and cure. This book summarises the proceedings of a conference on human genetic research databases.  It examines what they are and provides a number of examples. It looks at how they have been established, governed, and funded. And it looks at how they are managed and commercialised, exploring what the policy implications are for governments. 

Chromosome Mapping. --- Human genetics -- Databases -- Law and legislation -- Congresses. --- Human genetics -- Databases -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Congresses. --- Human genetics. --- Linkage (Genetics). --- Human genetics --- Databases, Factual --- Databases as Topic --- Information Storage and Retrieval --- Information Systems --- Medical Informatics Applications --- Information Science --- Medical Informatics --- Databases, Genetic --- Biology --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Genetics --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Databases --- Law and legislation --- Heredity, Human --- Human biology --- Physical anthropology

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This volume presents selected papers from the 7th Annual Consumer Culture Theory Conference held at Oxford University in August, 2012. The 18 papers in the volume together capture the latest research within this qualitative paradigm of consumer studies. Topics addressed cover a wide gamut including immigrant consumption experiences, gift-giving, sharing, transgressive gender roles, attachments to special possessions in online games and real life, the homeless consumer experience, disposition of possessions, privacy, metaphor analysis, sustainable consumption, alcohol consumption, cosmetics usage, and the negative consequences of sponsoring children in the less affluent world.

Consumer behavior --- Congresses --- Consommateurs --- Comportement --- Congrès --- Consumer behavior. --- Human behavior. --- Action, Human --- Behavior, Human --- Ethology --- Human action --- Human beings --- Human biology --- Physical anthropology --- Psychology --- Social sciences --- Psychology, Comparative --- Behavior, Consumer --- Buyer behavior --- Decision making, Consumer --- Human behavior --- Consumer profiling --- Market surveys --- Behavior --- E-books --- Business & Economics --- Market research. --- Advertising. --- Consumer Behavior. --- Marketing --- Research. --- General. --- Consumer behavior - Congresses

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An in-depth look at how to account for the human complexities at the heart of today's financial system Our economy may have recovered from the Great Recession--but not our economics. In The End of Theory, Richard Bookstaber discusses why the human condition and the radical uncertainty of our world renders the standard economic model--and the theory behind it--useless for dealing with financial crises. What model should replace it? None. At least not any version we've been using for the past two hundred years. Instead, Bookstaber argues for a new approach called agent-based economics, one that takes as a starting point the fact that we are humans, not the optimizing automatons that standard economics assumes we are. Bookstaber's groundbreaking paradigm promises to do a far better job at preventing crises and managing those that break out. As he explains, our varied memories and imaginations color our economic behavior in unexpected hues. Agent-based modeling embraces these nuances by avoiding the mechanistic, unrealistic structure of our current economic approach. Bookstaber tackles issues such as radical uncertainty, when circumstances take place beyond our anticipation, and emergence, when innocent, everyday interactions combine to create sudden chaos. Starting with the realization that future crises cannot be predicted by the past, he proposes an approach that recognizes the human narrative while addressing market realities. Sweeping aside the historic failure of twentieth-century economics, The End of Theory offers a novel and innovative perspective, along with a more realistic and human framework, to help prevent today's financial system from blowing up again.

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The management of river systems and water usage has enormous impacts on Australia's economy, environment and way of life. This book focuses on the current state of Australia's water resources in relation to water management, availability and quality. Water Resources and Rights also explains recently introduced national water regulation reforms and plans to save the struggling Murray-Darling Basin. How do we strike a balance between sustainable environmental flows, water allocations and trading rights? Also includes: worksheets and activities, fast facts, glossary, web links, index.

Water-supply --- Water rights --- Water conservation --- Conservation of water --- Water --- Conservation of natural resources --- Availability, Water --- Water availability --- Water resources --- Natural resources --- Public utilities --- Water resources development --- Water utilities --- Management. --- Conservation --- Management --- E-books --- Study and teaching (Secondary) --- teaching resource collection --- Rights, Water --- Riparian rights --- Water trusts --- Law and legislation --- Human genetics --- Genetic engineering --- Designed genetic change --- Engineering, Genetic --- Gene splicing --- Genetic intervention --- Genetic surgery --- Genetic recombination --- Biotechnology --- Transgenic organisms --- Genetics --- Heredity, Human --- Human biology --- Physical anthropology --- Moral and ethical aspects