Critical Essays on Piero Sraffa's Legacy in Economics

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This collection offers a critical assessment of the published works of Piero Sraffa, one of the leading economists of the twentieth century, and their legacy for the economics profession. The topics covered explore Sraffa's interpretation of the classical economists; his theory of value and distribution; his critique of partial and general neoclassical equilibrium theory; his focus on the problem of capital; and his critique of Hayek's monetary overinvestment theory of the business cycle. Specific issues investigated include intertemporal general equilibrium theory and the capital problem; the probability of reswitching; Ricardo, Malthus, and the corn model; and the meaning and implication of the capital controversy. Among the contributors are many of the world's leading students of Sraffian economics.

The Legacy of Piero Sraffa (Intellectual Legacies in Modern Economic)

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The Legacy of Piero Sraffa (Intellectual Legacies in Modern Economic)

Manufacturer: Edward Elgar Publishing
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ASIN: 1840644397

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It is generally acknowledged that Piero Sraffa was one of the most original and important economic theorists of the twentieth century. The significance of Sraffa's contributions lies in the fact that he elaborated an alternative to the marginalist theory of value and distribution rooted in the analyses of the classical political economists from Adam Smith to David Ricardo.

This authoritative collection explores Piero Sraffa's contributions to economics. The volumes cover: the discussions around Sraffa's criticism of the Marshallian partial equilibrium method; his attack on Hayek's monetary over-investment theory of the business cycle; his edition of Ricardo's works and correspondence and his clarification of the analytical structure of the classical theory of value and distribution; his reformulation of the classical theory; and the role of his work in the debates about the theory of capital and income distribution.

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Recruited for his combination of size and speed, George Mills had the potential to become an outstanding college football player--but it never happened. A View from the Bench reveals the reality behind the glamour of college football and the tough experiences in the life of a benchwarmer.

Mills was a solid player who loved the game, but he had only one shot in nearly five years at making Nebraska's starting team. He found little time or energy left for academics after hours of drills, weight lifting, and team meetings. Now, with complete candor, Mills lays bare the true weight of emphasis in the "student-athlete" dichotomy.

Free from anger or malice, Mills tells of his struggle to come to terms with a sports career of "mediocrity." A View from the Bench is an honest reflection of the experiences of so many overlooked players. It will be meaningful to anyone who has watched or played competitive sports.

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The Story of an Ordinary player.......2007-05-10

Interesting insight into " big time " college athletics. Parents can learn to guide their children into the " best option" for college athletics by being realistic. The book confirms what we all know.

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Gangsters such as Al Capone and Lucky Luciano were considered by many people to be the most exciting personalities of the 1920s and 1930s. The public was hungry for press coverage about these mysterious and dangerous men. Most reports about them were sketchy, as the reporters did not want to get on the bad side of the racket bosses. Hollywood's response to the public's fascination was to portray the lives of gangsters on the movie screen, using actors such as Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, and Edward G. Robinson. Perhaps surprisingly, these men received not-so-favorable reviews from the Academy Award voters, and so however, other actors were brought in to play the roles. That's what this book is about-the personal and professional lives of William Bendix, Charles Bickford, Ward Bond, Broderick Crawford, Brian Donlevy, Paul Douglas, William Gargan, Barton MacLane, and Lloyd Nolan, second-string actors who replaced the big names and did a memorable job. A filmography is supplied for each actor.

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GUNMEN AND GANGSTERS BY MICHAEL SCHLOSSHEIMER.......2002-02-27

I highly recommend this book to all American Movie Classic, and Tuner Movie Classic fans.

If you are into old movies, you are going to love this very informative book on classic gangster movies and the mini bio's of nine famous actors that were considered second string, but deserved more credit. I find this book to be very accurate as well as informative.

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The dead entering the underworld on the backs of yellow dogs...turquoise snakes bursting into flames...gods creating humans from corn and water-Mesoamerican mythology is full of such fascinating events. This guide covers all of Mesoamerica from ancient times to the present, including the interweaving of mythology and Christianity within each culture.

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Informative and Reader-Friendly.......2001-07-01

Read and Gonzalez have a lot of informative things to say about legends in Central America and its mixing with Christianity. They discuss important issues like the passing of time that can alter people's beliefs. The range of topics is extensive, and they handle them with a special talent. This is an important work with deep content but it is reader-friendly. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in the Aztec and Maya.

Better to Try Miller.......2001-06-24

As an amateur archeologist I have interest in the ancient Maya, but this book let me down. Miller did a much better job with "An Illustrated Dictionary of the Gods and Symbols of Ancient Mexico and the Maya" (which is cheaper). Many of the illustrations were poorly composed. On a positive note, it had some interesting syntheses.

The Handbook of Mesoamerican Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Heroes, Rituals, and Beliefs of Mexico and Central America.(Book Review): An article from: Latin American Antiquity

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The Handbook of Mesoamerican Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Heroes, Rituals, and Beliefs of Mexico and Central America.(Book Review): An article from: Latin American Antiquity
Hilary E. Kahn
Manufacturer: Society for American Archaeology
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Title: The Handbook of Mesoamerican Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Heroes, Rituals, and Beliefs of Mexico and Central America.(Book Review)
Author: Hilary E. Kahn
Publication: Latin American Antiquity (Refereed)
Date: September 1, 2003
Publisher: Society for American Archaeology
Volume: 14 Issue: 3 Page: 365(2)

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Want to put a new spin on dreidel games? Or a new twist on making challah? Well then roll up your sleeves, put on your dancin' shoes, and get out your thinking caps, because The Jewish Family Fun Book will help you find something fun in everything that's Jewish and something Jewish in everything that's fun.

This celebration of Jewish family life is the perfect guide for families wanting to put a new Jewish spin on holidays, holy days, and even the everyday. Featuring activities, games, and history, The Jewish Family Fun Book is sure to inspire parents, children, and extended family to connect with Judaism in fun, creative ways.

With over eighty-five easy-to-do activities to re-invigorate age-old Jewish customs and make them fun for the whole family, this book is more than just kids' stuff. It's about taking the Jewish family experience to a new educational and entertaining level.

The Jewish Family Fun Book details activities for fun at home and away from home, including recipes, meaningful everyday and holiday crafts, travel guides, enriching entertainment…and much, much more!

Clearly illustrated and full of easy-to-follow instructions, this hands-on guide shows us how to take an active approach to exploring Jewish tradition and have fun along the way.

Each of The Jewish Family Fun Book's three sections offer dozens of ideas and easy-to-understand instructions:

"Holiday Fun" aims to enrich the appropriate seriousness of Jewish holidays with a healthy dose of fun. How about having a Passover seder in a tent, like Israelites in the desert? Or celebrating the harvest holiday of Shavuot by taking your kids strawberry picking?

"Fun at Home" features Jewish activities ranging from relaxing (with a guide to Jewish books, music, movies, and websites) to exhausting (instructions for games and other outdoor fun); from creative (ideas for arts and crafts projects and recipes) to unforgettable (mitzvah and volunteer opportunities).

"Fun on the Road" is an easy-to-use travel guide, with suggestions for adding a memorable Jewish component to already built-for-fun family vacations. There's information on Jewish museums, historical sites, camps, festivals, and kosher restaurants across the U.S.

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The Jewish Family Fun Book, 2nd Edition: Holiday Projects, Everyday Activities, and Travel Ideas with Jewish Themes
Danielle Dardashti , and Roni Sarig
Manufacturer: Jewish Lights Publishing
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First Week with my new PC

First Week With My new PC

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First Week With My New PC :A Very Basic Guide for Mature Adults & Everyone Else (Capital First Week) (Capital First Week)
Pamela R. Lessing
Manufacturer: Capital Books
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This book was specifically written for the author's 85-year-old mother who is now a master, but it was also "field-tested" by adults of all ages. Within one moth everyone was an "expert" - sending and receiving e-mail, using the Internet, writing and correspondence, and playing music and games. You'll "be connected" without the fuss and frustration - just simple step-by-step instructions, no jargon, no complications.

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First Week with my new PC.......2007-03-12

My mom said this book helped dispell some of the fear about getting started with her computer. She says it answered a lot of her questions in a format that was easy to understand. She would recommend this book to other seniors getting started with a computer.

First Week With My new PC.......2005-09-05

The book is well written. The author writes to those who are not computer literate. Examples are helpful as well as the step by step instructions.

It's the best!.......2005-06-21

I bought this as a Father's Day gift for my 89 year old father. He got a new computer and was completely overwhelmed. After attempting to read several other computer books he was about to give up. He is thrilled with this one and is very excited about using the computer again. He said "Finally, a book written in clear, easy-to-understand language that I can follow. This is the best!"

Better than the Dummies series for the Complete New User.......2004-03-05

I bought this book and a dummies book for my 73 year old father who had never used a computer in his life before. He read both and learned more, and faster from this book - First Week with My New PC. His comment was that this book was the one geared to the complete newbie. He felt that the dummies book required a knowledge base that he, as a brand new user, did not yet have! Definitely highly recommended!

Can be enjoyed by any.......2001-02-13

While The First Week With My New PC was written for the author's 85-year-old mother who is now a PC master, it can be enjoyed by any - including business managers who have resisted the lure of the computer screen. From how to watch the stock market and produce a document to emailing and formatting work, this is packed with fine basics in simple language any can readily understand.

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A book for everyone!.......2001-10-04

This is a book that young adults (middle school) and older can read, enjoy, and learn from. It's great to browse through...each piece is about three pages long and includes a photo or drawing. Any such listing is of course going to be controversial...and that's part of the author's purpose. Who do you think is in it? Who should be? Is Mother Jones (number 14) more influential than Elizabeth I (number 16)? And who was Ida Tarbell? In the end, it's not the ranking that matters but the stories. Well done!

One of the Most Important Books of the Decade.......2000-05-21

I have learned a great deal from reading this book. It is important for all women and men to know these influential women and what they did to affect our world. When read completely, this book can change how we as women perceive ourselves. Using Woman Studies professors as judges was a stroke of genius. I think the editors need to brush up some errors in facts and pictures, and rerelease it.

I thought it was a great book. Enjoyed every minute of it........1999-06-26

I have read many of Ms Felder's books and I have enjoyed each and everyone. She is good writer.

Overall very good but the author needs to do more research.......1999-03-17

I read this book and was very impressed with the women featured and the research that had gone into it until I reached Queen Victoria. Ms. Felder stated that Queen Victoria had commissioned the Victoria Cross for bravery where it was in fact her husband, Prince Albert, who commissioned the medal in his wifes name. It is of course a small point but it had me wondering what else was inaccurate in her book. Saying that though, her choices revealed women that I had not even heard of or realised their contribution to society as a whole, so where I would have easily given 4 stars as I found the book very educational I must deduct at least 1 for lack of research.

The 100 Most Influential Women of All Time A Ranking Past and Present

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The 100 Most Influential Women of All Time A Ranking Past and Present
Deborah G. Felder
Manufacturer: New York: Carol Publishing Group, 1966
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The 100 Most Influential Women of All Time: A Ranking Past and Present
Deborah G. Felder
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The 100 Most Influential Women of All Time: A Ranking Past and Present
Deborah G. Felder
Manufacturer: Citadel Pr
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What is dreaming? What causes dreaming? Why are dreams so strange and why are they so hard to remember? Modern science has given us a new and increasingly clear and complete picture of how dreaming is created by the brain. This picture is important not only for understanding dreaming itself, but also for a science of consciousness and of mental health and illness. This book focuses on dreaming to introduce the reader to sleep laboratory science and to the cellular and molecular mechanisms of sleep. It shows how the new science of dreaming affects theories in psychoanalysis, and how it helps to understand the basis of mental illness.

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forget your freud.......2007-01-18

Forget Freud. Save any money you might spend on the couches of his psychoanalytic priests who divine sophisticated interpretations of the content of your dreams. In this slender volume Hobson, a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School who specializes in sleep research, uses the latest in neurobiology to supercede what he considers the "scientifically naive and flawed ideas" of the psychoanalytic tradition of the ostensibly hidden meanings of dreams. Instead of chasing content analysis as the holy grail of dream theory, he proffers what he calls a formal analysis of dreams. Dream content varies from person to person, but their formal properties are virtually identical in everyone --emotional salience, perceptual or visual vividness, bizarre logic and cognition, and difficulty in recall.

In the Freudian tradition a person's dream is precisely not what the dreamer experiences it to be; instead, it is an encoded, veiled, and mysterious message that must be decoded (for a price, of course). Dreams are unconscious or repressed desires that bubble up when the ego is asleep. There is, thus, a separation between the dreamer and the dream, the brain and the mind, the ego and the id. Hobson dismisses this Freudian analysis of dream content as a "hopeless fantasy," and he admits that he wants to "discredit Freud emphatically." To do this he proposes the unapologetically reductionistic notion that the mental mind-physical brain is one and the same thing (or, our minds are "functional states of our brain"). Dreaming, then, is nothing more or less than the spontaneous, self-activation of the mind-brain during sleep. Why the brain self-activates just so, we do not know. Nor can we be sure about any purpose of such neurological functions, if there are any. The difference between waking and sleeping is one of brain chemistry, our mental state being "a constantly negotiated compromise between the poles of waking sanity and dreaming madness." Thus, "we do not dream because our unconscious wishes or drives would, if undisguised, wake us up. We dream because our brains are activated during sleep."

Hobson uses a number of examples from his own dream journal to illustrate his points, along with sleep lab reports from science research, and home-based reports. One feature that I especially enjoyed was the nine "sidebar" boxes that interact with common, popular questions. Do animals dream? Probably. Do we dream in color? Yes. Do blind people see in their dreams? It depends. Are men's and women's dreams different? No. Hobson has also done a fine job avoiding academic jargon; he writes in an unusually accessible style. If Hobson is right that Freud is wrong, I find it comforting to know that any number of my "bad dreams" can be explained by simple brain chemistry rather than by foreboding, speculative and expensive interpretations by so-called experts.

Decent.......2003-12-06

This is a decent book on dreaming. It answered many of the questions that I might have raised about the subject. It does so in an informed and easy-to-read manner. It is not stuffed with references (both pro and con). Much of the medical science is filtered so that the person-on-the-street will understand it. Many sidebars answer some basic questions. The headings are brief and accurate, making it easy to skim and find answers to questions. Overall, a worthwhile reading. Recommended.

What Dreams Mean, Scientifically.......2003-07-22

Everyone is interested in dreams. If you are lucky enough to remember one, it will be something you think about upon awakening and perhaps through the day. Dreams are strange, frightening, and funny enough that it isn't at all uncommon to tell a friend, "Guess what I dreamt last night?" if there is a peculiar dream that bears relating. Most of us are convinced that dreams mean something. It used to be thought that gods communicated their intentions to us via dreams. Other people insisted that dreams could predict the future, and there were dream books in which you could look up the subject of your dream, say "cat," and find that dreaming of a cat was a certain prediction for maybe riches or maybe love. Freud's thoughts about dreams were close to this sort of thinking; the content of a dream had hidden meanings that were available for interpretations. But everyone who looked to dream content for meaning was looking in the wrong place, according to J. Allan Hobson in _Dreaming: An Introduction to the Science of Sleep_ (Oxford). Not the content of dreams, but the form involved and the neurological basis for it are where the meanings of dreams lie.

Dreams are characterized by visual hallucinations, emotionalism, disorientation, and other characteristics of delirium. Hobson makes the case that we do not have to wait for senility or brain damage to descend into delirium, but we do it every night. Careful analysis of what happens to the brain in dreaming indicates some basic neurobiology. Dreaming represents an alternate form of consciousness represented by alternate neurochemical functioning within the dreaming brain; noradrenaline and serotonin in particular, chemicals that neurons use between each other as signal transmitters, are shut off in the dreaming brain in the parts that would allow a waking brain to direct thoughts, make decisions based on experience, and so on. Brain scanning has revealed that the regions of the brain involved in vision and in emotional reactions are quite busy in dreams, but the areas governing decision-making and judgment are quiet. The state of Rapid Eye Movement, when dreams are most likely, seems to be important in consolidating memories and in giving children rehearsal for action, enabling them to become their own agents when awake.

These REM activities are what is important, and will need much more research; what we dream is not exactly a random side effect of the brain's REM work, but the content of the dream seems to defy scientific interpretation. Freud's concentration on content, and his insistence that there was a wish drive producing the dream, and a censorship function that made the dream bizarre so that we could handle the wishes in a distorted form, has been a bedrock of psychoanalysis, but has not leant itself to confirmation the way science is done now. For Hobson, who does his research in the sleep labs at Harvard, the dream is not symbolic, nor is it wish fulfillment, nor a process of censorship. The dream is simply the dream; what was cryptic for Freud is, for researchers with scanners and brain wave recorders, clear and penetrable because of scientific tools Freud could never have dreamed of. Hobson's pithy book, full of humor and of examples from the journal he keeps of his own dreams, is a fine basic primer to a new way that science is investigating this aspect of consciousness.

The Neuroscience of Dreaming.......2003-02-25

If one is looking for a book that is a cookbook for the interpretation of dreams or a guide to the collective conscious of dreams, then keep on searching. However, if you are seeking an introduction to the science of dreams, the underlying physiological and chemical basis of dreaming, then look no further.

J. Allan Hobson provides an excellent introduction to neuroscience models of dreaming and their application to common psychological phenomena such as disruptive dreams, learning, and dream consciousness. Very informative and very readable.

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Dreaming: An Introduction To The Science of Sleep
J. Allan HOBSON
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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ASIN: B000OKAHFO

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