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Evolutionary Dynamics and Extensive Form Games

Cressman, Ross - The MIT Press

Evolutionary game theory attempts to predict individual behavior (whether of humans or other species) when interactions between individuals are modeled as a noncooperative game. Most dynamic analyses of evolutionary games are based on their normal forms, despite the fact that many interesting...

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Children and Pensions

Cigno, Alessandro; Werding, Martin - The MIT Press

Children and Pensions, Alessandro Cigno and Martin Werding examine the way pension policy and child-related benefits affect … they are currently designed, discourage parents from private human capital investment in their children to improve the … children's future earning capacity. After an overview of pension and child benefit policies (focusing on the European Union …

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Frontiers in Health Policy Research: Volume 6

Cutler, David M. (contributor); Garber, Alan M. (contributor) - The MIT Press

outcomes, health care output and productivity, the role of health-related behavior, health and aging, health and children, and …

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Frontiers in Health Policy Research, Volume 1

Garber, Alan M. (contributor) - The MIT Press

care output and productivity, health-related behavior, health and aging, and health and children. …

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Building Genetic Medicine: Breast Cancer, Technology, and the Comparative Politics of Health Care

Parthasarathy, Shobita - The MIT Press

In Building Genetic Medicine, Shobita Parthasarathy shows how, even in an era of globalization, national context is playing an important role in the development and use of genetic technologies. Focusing on the development and deployment of genetic testing for breast and ovarian cancer (known as...

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Dollar and Yen: Resolving Economic Conflict between the United States and Japan

McKinnon, Ronald I.; Ohno, Kenichi - The MIT Press

From the mid-1950s to the early 1990s, Japan grew faster than any other major industrial economy, displacing the United States in dominance of worldwide manufacturing markets. In the 1970s and 1980s, many books appeared linking the apparent decline of the United States in the world economy to...

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Pension Strategies in Europe and the United States

Fenge, Robert (contributor); Ménil, Georges de (contributor) - The MIT Press

Demographic realities will soon force developed countries to find ways to pay for longer retirements for more people. In Pension Strategies in Europe and the United States, leading economists analyze topical issues in pension policy, with a focus on raising the retirement age, increasing...

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Escape from Empire: The Developing World's Journey through Heaven and Hell

Amsden, Alice H. - The MIT Press

The American government has been both miracle worker and villain in the developing world. From the end of World War II until the 1980s poor countries, including many in Africa and the Middle East, enjoyed a modicum of economic growth. New industries mushroomed and skilled jobs multiplied, thanks...

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From Tellers to Sellers: Changing Employment Relations in Banks

Regini, Marino (contributor); Kitay, Jim (contributor); … - The MIT Press

Once stolid, strictly regulated organizations that epitomized lifetime employment, retail banks are now highly competitive enterprises with fragmented career structures and a new focus on sales and performance. Because banks are a major employer of labor, such changes have important implications...

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Industrial Efficiency in Six Nations

Caves, Richard E. - The MIT Press

Industrial Efficiency in Six Nations continues the pioneering research begun in Caves and Barton's Efficiency in U.S. Manufacturing Industries, extending it to the international sphere and laying the empirical groundwork for a deeper understanding of the sources of inefficiency and their cost in...

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