The Past And Future of America's Economy: Long Waves of Innovation That Power Cycles of Growth

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`I congratulate the author on a great and important book. I couldn't agree more that the political party that comes closest to supporting humane growth economics should be the leader for the next 25 years. It's a great vision for the future, and his scholarly but readable mix of history, technology, economics and politics is very persuasive. It's the sort of stuff that should be taught in economics courses, but almost never is.' - David Moschella, author of Customer-driven IT: How Users Are Shaping Technology Industry Growth

`Rob Atkinson is one of the most creative thinkers about the American economy. In this fascinating book, he puts the "new economy" spurred by the digital revolution into the context of other historic transformations. By doing so, he shows how we can preserve the gains in productivity and implement policies that will keep the economy growing. Everyone concerned about our economic future should read this.' - Walter Isaacson, author of Benjamin Franklin: An American Life

Throughout American history, periodic cycles of economic change have fundamentally reordered the way we work, the organization of business and markets, the role of government, and even the nature of politics. If we are to control our future, we must understand this process of change.

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Guide to America's Future.......2005-06-05

As a former Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Assistant Director of the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment,I have long been conversant with the issues addressed in Dr. Atkinson's book. I find myself in complete agreement with his basic thesis and believe he has articulated it so effectively and done such a prodigious job in assembling evidence from so many disparate sources, while delineating specific actions to promote productivity growth for a more humane economy, that I consider it a classic guide for America's 21st Century.

The New Economy Lives.......2005-04-12

One of the best explanations of the New Economy I've read. Dr. Atkinson has written a readable economics book (no mean feat!) which explains and applies the work of Joseph Schumpeter, an economist people talk about but do not read.

As a professional in public policy, I find his recommendations innovative and challenging, and, above all, his explication of the New Economy clarifies why the 21st Century presents great progressive opportunities

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The Past and Future of America's Economy: Long Waves of Innovation That Power Cycles of Growth.(Book Review) : An article from: Independent Review
Alexander J. Field
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THE PAST AND FUTURE OF AMERICA'S ECONOMY: LONG WAVES OF INNOVATION THAT POWER CYCLES OF GROWTH

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THE PAST AND FUTURE OF AMERICA'S ECONOMY: LONG WAVES OF INNOVATION THAT POWER CYCLES OF GROWTH
Robert D. Atkinson
Manufacturer: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, MA
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Binding: Hardcover
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From the days of Plato, the problem of the efficacy and adequacy of the written word as a vehicle of human communication has challenged mankind, yet the mystery of how best to achieve clarity and exactitude of written expression has never been solved. The most repercussive instance of this universal problem has been the exegesis of the law embodied in Hebrew scripture. Peshat and Derash is the first book to trace the Jewish interpretative enterprise from a historical perspective. Applying his vast knowledge of Rabbinic materials to the long history of Jewish exegesis of both Bible and Talmud, Halivni investigates the tension that has often existed between the plain sense of the divine text (peshat) and its creative, Rabbinic interpretations (derash). Halivni addresses the theological implications of the deviation of derash from peshat and explores the differences between the ideological extreme of the religious right, which denies that Judaism has a history, and the religious left, which claims that history is all that Judaism has. A comprehensive and critical narration of the history and repercussions of Rabbinic exegesis, this analysis will interest students of legal texts, hermeneutics, and scriptural traditions, as well as anyone involved in Jewish studies.

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Two books in one.......2006-12-26

The title derives from peshat - the plain meaning of the text - and derash - the interpreted or homiletical meaning of the text in Rabbinic Judaism. The book is divided into two halves. The first half chronicles the history of rabbinic exegesis from ancient to renaissance times. The issue dealt with is the development of methodologies. The ancient rabbis were dealing with their predilection for justified law - that is, interpreting the Bible to justify the traditions codified in the foundation document of Rabbinic Judaism, the Mishnah (and the later Talmud). The second half of the book develops a theology, compatible with orthodox tradition, that accounts for the tension between peshat and derash.

This book is definately densely written, a mere 173 pages including appendices. It assumes a knowledge of the primary texts of Rabbinic Judaism, the medieval commentators (Rashi, Rashbam, Rambam, Ramban, Ibn Ezra), and medieval law codes. Before attempting this book, I recommend first becoming familiar with these sources. Barry Holtz's Back to the Sources is a good book to gain familiarity with these sources.

Halivni is definately in same intellectual vein as the more famous Jacob Neusner. No writer has produced more works on Judaism since Rabbi Judah Hanasi than Neusner. Like Neusner, Halivni writes in a secular scholarly context, however, he exhibits extreme sensitivity toward traditional belief and orthodoxy.

DEEP.......2005-09-25

the book is great for someone who has a master's degree in bible study, it is written in a very highly sophisticated matter that needs to be brought down for the masses to understand. overall, i love it

Peshat and Derash: Plain and Applied Meaning in Rabbinic Exegesis

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Peshat and Derash: Plain and Applied Meaning in Rabbinic Exegesis
David Weiss Halivni
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Peshat and Derash: Plain and Applied Meaning in Rabbinic Exegesis
David Weiss Halivni
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press
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Gives business people all the up-to-date information they need to take advantage of business opportunities in Shanghai and the rest of China's Yangtze River Delta.Not only is the Yangtze River Delta emerging as China's most powerful economic region, it has been blessed by Beijing's central government to lead China to world economic supremacy. This book reveals the awesome economic potential of the entire region, including Nanjing, Suzhou, Shanghai, and the entire delta. It covers the region's locational advantages, special economic zones, and dynamic real estate, tourism and banking sectors. It also presents the economic relevance of town and village enterprises, and specific case studies of large state-owned and joint-venture enterprises.This book is for all business people, investors, professionals and academics interested in an insider's view of doing business in the Yangtze River Delta in China.

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Business Opportunities in the Yangtze River Delta, China
Low Aik Meng, John J. Williams, Cao Yong, Shi Yuwei Teck Meng Tan
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall PTR
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How many times have you picked up a sales management or training book and found that after you spent all that time reading, you only got a few helpful hints that actually worked for your sales environment? Due to their busy schedules, sales managers and trainers can't afford to spend time on something that is only going to bear a few small seeds (and not even a full fruit).

With this book, you need not spend all your waking moments for the next 3 months trying to figure out exactly what the PH.D. is trying to tell you. Hear it from someone who started in sales and worked their way up the ladder. You will find tons of useful information packed into a small, easy and fun-to-read book.

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Title: Taking out the trash: it's law in Indiana. Come up with a plan to cut garbage in half by the turn of the century. Can local government do it? (includes related articles) (Environment)
Author: Robin Reid
Publication: Indiana Business Magazine (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 1, 1992
Publisher: Curtis Magazine Group, Inc.
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CUT OUT THE GARBAGE
Fred Stacey
Manufacturer: NY
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Structured Credit Products: Pricing, Rating, Risk Management and Basel II

Manufacturer: Risk Books
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Written by leading industry participants, regulators and academics active within the market, this new title will help you understand the very latest developments in the pricing, rating and risk management of structured products as well as the related regulatory issues. And to bring you fully up-to-date, Structured Credit Products concludes with a highly topical analysis of the very latest Basel proposals related to structured exposures.

The emergence of new markets in structured products has transformed the banking business. Structured Credit Products unites the leading industry experts and regulators to provide a formidable reference to your understanding of the entire area. Whether you are new to structured products or already have experience in the field, this book will prove invaluable.

Describes the nature of typical structured products in detail, lucidly explaining the different categories of transactions and features of the market.

Sets out the many considerations that influence the valuation of structured products.

Describes new techniques for modelling statistically the losses on pools of correlated credit exposures, focusing on how correlation between defaults may be described.

Examines how different models applied to structured product exposures compare in their implications for expected losses and capital.

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Contributes significantly to the current limited state of knowledge of the empirical behaviour of structured product ratings.

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Excellent book for Data Mining

Very Interesting book

A must-have book for your technical library

Excellent introduction

Practical examples not convincing, lack of benchmarking

Data Mining Techniques: For Marketing, Sales, and Customer Relationship Management
Michael J. A. Berry , and Gordon S. Linoff
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Packed with more than forty percent new and updated material, this edition shows business managers, marketing analysts, and data mining specialists how to harness fundamental data mining methods and techniques to solve common types of business problems
Each chapter covers a new data mining technique, and then shows readers how to apply the technique for improved marketing, sales, and customer support
The authors build on their reputation for concise, clear, and practical explanations of complex concepts, making this book the perfect introduction to data mining
More advanced chapters cover such topics as how to prepare data for analysis and how to create the necessary infrastructure for data mining
Covers core data mining techniques, including decision trees, neural networks, collaborative filtering, association rules, link analysis, clustering, and survival analysis

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* Packed with more than forty percent new and updated material, this edition shows business managers, marketing analysts, and data mining specialists how to harness fundamental data mining methods and techniques to solve common types of business problems

* Each chapter covers a new data mining technique, and then shows readers how to apply the technique for improved marketing, sales, and customer support

* The authors build on their reputation for concise, clear, and practical explanations of complex concepts, making this book the perfect introduction to data mining

* More advanced chapters cover such topics as how to prepare data for analysis and how to create the necessary infrastructure for data mining

* Covers core data mining techniques, including decision trees, neural networks, collaborative filtering, association rules, link analysis, clustering, and survival analysis

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Excellent book for Data Mining.......2007-06-01

As a novice to data mining, I was searching for a book that would explain the concepts, NOT mathematical formulas. This text provides the reader with a clear and comprehensive explanation of each concept, provided examples, and the readability is excellent. Who should read the book? Anyone in business - marketers to CEOs; and college students at all levels who are trying to understand data mining concepts. The book is not for mathematicians who are searching for algorithms. I would rate this book 5-stars.

Very Interesting book.......2007-05-13

I'm very interesting in Data Mining and i think that this book is a good introduction to this field. Thanks Amazon

A must-have book for your technical library.......2006-12-28

Anyone interested in automating and improving decisions should have this book. It is one of the classic works on data mining and well worth the read.
I really liked the book both because it is well written and because, although it drilled into a fair amount of detail about some of the techniques, it started each new section off at a high level. This allows someone without a statistical background, such as me, to read as far as I can in each section and then skip ahead to the next technique. This is a nice change from books that simply get more and more detailed as page follows page, preventing you from gaining an overview of the subject.
The book introduces data mining and a methodology for applying it, talks about some of the applications in "Marketing, Sales, and Customer Relationship Management" (as the subtitle puts it), walks through some statistical techniques and then spends the bulk of the book on various data mining techniques. It wraps up with a nice summary of how data mining plays with other technologies and with some practical advice on getting started.
One of the best summaries of where data mining fits is given early in the book where an enterprise is encouraged to:
- Notice what its customers are doing
- Remember what it and its customers have done over time
- Learn from what it has remembered
- Act on what if has learned to make customers more profitable
The authors point out that Data Mining is focused on the "Learn" stage or, as they put it data mining suggests but businesses decide.
The methodology section, and the subsequent notes that relate to applying these techniques in real life, talked about the feedback loops between steps in data mining - there is not a linear "waterfall" sequence of steps but constant iteration and learning. They also emphasized the importance of finding the right business problem at the beginning - start as someone once said, with the end in mind. This was reiterated when they quote Voltaire who said "Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien" ("The best is the enemy of good"). In other words, don't get hung up on trying to find the perfect algorithm, perfect answer. Instead build something that is good, that works, and learn and improve over time.
The authors made a big point out of the value of data mining for "mass intimacy", where you want to treat customers differently and there is a business reason to do so but where customers are too numerous to be assigned to staff. One of the issues they pointed out was that staff must be trained in customer interaction skills while also using all the data you have. The value of data mining in building a customer-centric organization cannot be overestimated.

Excellent introduction.......2005-09-08

This well-written book is an excellent introduction to the data mining and predictive analytics space. The reader should be comfortable with data and data analysis. The reader, however, does not need any pre-existing knowledge specific to data mining and predictive analytics. Much of the book, including the middle chapters which describe specific analytic techniques, has general applicability to business problems beyond CRM.

I am an actuary working in the insurance industry and am ordering my second copy of the book.

Practical examples not convincing, lack of benchmarking.......2005-06-17

While the book is easy to read and not too technical, the applications investigated by the authors are too simplistic and not really convincing as to why we should use advanced techniques. It would have been nice to add an additional, more detailed chapter comparing the various implementations of data mining techniques by software companies (SAS Entreprise Miner, Clementine, Insightfull Miner, etc.)

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Standards and Global Trade: A Voice for Africa provides information and guidance for policymakers, the development community, and others in the critical area of "behind the border" barriers to trade. With a view to promoting efforts to strengthen Africa's capacity to meet trade standards and comply with technical regulations, the volume examines the link between those standards and regulations and export success in case studies of five countries: Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa, and Uganda.

Each chapter describes the economic context of trade standards in a country and examines the mechanisms by which standards and regulations are established and revised at the local and international levels. The authors--local experts in the region--review existing trade regulations and determine the extent to which they are consistent with international practices. They also analyze each country's physical infrastructure, organizational capacities, and current standard implementation process and consider the probable impact of new standards, regulations, and related production / marketing practices in key industries.

The first comprehensive assessment of the relationship between trade standards and development priorities in Sub-Saharan Africa, this volume offers concrete action plans for supporting African firms and farmers in their efforts to improve product quality and reach international markets in key commodity sectors.

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This volume contributes to ongoing search for prospects to strengthen Africa's capacity to comply with international trade standards and technical regulations. It provides a comprehensive and in-depth case-by-case assessment of the current and anticipated use of international standards, and capacity for compliance in five African countries - Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa, and Mozambique. It is intended to be a resource for information and guidance for policymakers, the development community, and others in a critical new are of 'behind the border" barrier to trade. Each chapter discusses the economic context in which standards apply to each country and examines the mechanisms with which the country and its representatives have participated in the process of setting/revising standards and technical regulations at the local and international level. The analysis includes a review of existing laws and regulations and the extent to which they are consistent with current international norms. It examines each country's physical infrastructure and organizational capacities to design and implement standards and technical regulations. The authors also discuss and analyze the implementation processes and some estimated impact of various standards, technical regulations, and related production/marketing practices in about five specific industry segments in each country. The volume suggests concrete action plans on how African firms and farmers can be supported to improve product quality and reach to international markets in key commodity sectors.

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The changing phases of Malaysian economy
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Honduras Business and Investment Opportunities Yearbook (World Foreign Policy and Government Library)

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This yearbook contains information on investment business opportunities, international economic projects, tenders, government projects, marketing and export-import opportunities information.

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Major investment, export-import and other strategic business opportunities and contacts, basic information for conducting business in the country

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