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    • Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 5B
      • May 15, 2015
      • Gilles Duranton + 2 more
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Developments in methodologies, agglomeration, and a range of applied issues have characterized recent advances in regional and urban studies. Volume 5 concentrates on these developments while treating traditional subjects such as housing, the costs and benefits of cities, and policy issues beyond regional inequalities. Contributors make a habit of combining theory and empirics in each chapter, guiding research amid a trend in applied economics towards structural and quasi-experimental approaches. Clearly distinguished from the New Economic Geography covered by Volume 4, these articles feature an international approach that positions recent advances within the discipline of economics and society at large.

    • Handbook of Income Distribution

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 2A-2B
      • December 30, 2014
      • Anthony B. Atkinson + 1 more
      • English
      • Hardback
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      What new theories, evidence, explanations, and policies have shaped our studies of income distribution in the 21st century? Editors Tony Atkinson and Francois Bourguignon assemble the expertise of leading authorities in this survey of substantive issues. In two volumes they address subjects that were not covered in Volume 1 (2000), such as education, health and experimental economics; and subjects that were covered but where there have been substantial new developments, such as the historical study of income inequality and globalization. Some chapters discuss future growth areas, such as inheritance, the links between inequality and macro-economics and finance, and the distributional implications of climate change. They also update empirical advances and major changes in the policy environment.

    • Handbook of Income Distribution. Vol 2B

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 2B
      • December 18, 2014
      • Anthony B. Atkinson + 1 more
      • English
      • Hardback
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      What new theories, evidence, explanations, and policies have shaped our studies of income distribution in the 21st century? Editors Tony Atkinson and Francois Bourguignon assemble the expertise of leading authorities in this survey of substantive issues. In two volumes they address subjects that were not covered in Volume 1 (2000), such as education, health and experimental economics; and subjects that were covered but where there have been substantial new developments, such as the historical study of income inequality and globalization. Some chapters discuss future growth areas, such as inheritance, the links between inequality and macro-economics and finance, and the distributional implications of climate change. They also update empirical advances and major changes in the policy environment.

    • Handbook of Income Distribution, Vol 2A

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 2A
      • December 17, 2014
      • Anthony B. Atkinson + 1 more
      • English
      • Hardback
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      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 4 4 4 5 9 4 7 4 7
      What new theories, evidence, explanations, and policies have shaped our studies of income distribution in the 21st century?Editors Tony Atkinson and Francois Bourguignon assemble the expertise of leading authorities in this survey of substantive issues. In two volumes they address subjects that were not covered in Volume 1 (2000), such as education, health and experimental economics; and subjects that were covered but where there have been substantial new developments, such as the historical study of income inequality and globalization. Some chapters discuss future growth areas, such as inheritance, the links between inequality and macro-economics and finance, and the distributional implications of climate change. They also update empirical advances and major changes in the policy environment.

    • Handbook of the Economics of International Migration

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 1A+1B
      • December 8, 2014
      • Barry Chiswick + 1 more
      • English
      • Hardback
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      The economic literature on international migration interests policymakers as well as academics throughout the social sciences. These volumes, the first of a new subseries in the Handbooks in Economics, describe and analyze scholarship created since the inception of serious attention began in the late 1970s. This literature appears in the general economics journals, in various field journals in economics (especially, but not exclusively, those covering labor market and human resource issues), in interdisciplinary immigration journals, and in papers by economists published in journals associated with history, sociology, political science, demography, and linguistics, among others.

    • Methods of Contour Integration

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 3
      • December 3, 2014
      • M. L. Rasulov
      • H. A. Lauwerier + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Methods of Contour Integration contains two parts: (1) a systematic exposition of the computational method for solving boundary and mixed problems, and (2) the contour-integral method for investigating general linear mixed problems. The first part includes formulae for expanding arbitrary vector-valued functions in series from integral residues of solutions of boundary-value problems for systems of ordinary differential equations with discontinuous coefficients. These formulae give residue representations of solutions of the corresponding one-dimensional mixed problems for equations with discontinuous coefficients. The book also explains a computational method of separating the variables which is a generalization of the ordinary method of separating variables to the case of nonself-adjoint operators. In part two, the text discusses one-dimensional mixed problems for equations with discontinuous coefficients. Under regular boundary conditions, it proves the existence of solutions for these problems and the representability of the solutions in the form of contour integrals with a complex parameter. The text points out that the contour-integral method is also applicable to parabolic equations and to equations in which the coefficients are functions of time. The book is ideal for mathematicians, students, and professor of calculus and advanced mathematics.

    • Boundary Integral Equation Methods in Eigenvalue Problems of Elastodynamics and Thin Plates

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 10
      • December 3, 2014
      • M. Kitahara
      • English
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      The boundary integral equation (BIE) method has been used more and more in the last 20 years for solving various engineering problems. It has important advantages over other techniques for numerical treatment of a wide class of boundary value problems and is now regarded as an indispensable tool for potential problems, electromagnetism problems, heat transfer, fluid flow, elastostatics, stress concentration and fracture problems, geomechanical problems, and steady-state and transient electrodynamics.In this book, the author gives a complete, thorough and detailed survey of the method. It provides the only self-contained description of the method and fills a gap in the literature. No-one seriously interested in eigenvalue problems of elasticity or in the boundary integral equation method can afford not to read this book. Research workers, practising engineers and students will all find much of benefit to them.Contents: Introduction. Part I. Applications of Boundary Integral Equation Methods to Eigenvalue Problems of Elastodynamics. Fundamentals of BIE Methods for Elastodynamics. Formulation of BIEs for Steady-State Elastodynamics. Formulation of Eigenvalue Problems by the BIEs. Analytical Treatment of Integral Equations for Circular and Annular Domains. Numerical Procedures for Eigenvalue Problems. Numerical Analysis of Eigenvalue Problems in Antiplane Elastodynamics. Numerical Analysis of Eigenvalue Problems in Elastodynamics. Appendix: Dominant mode analysis around caverns in a semi-infinite domain. Part II. Applications of BIE Methods to Eigenvalue Problems of Thin Plates. Fundamentals of BIE Methods for Thin Plates. Formulation of BIEs for Thin Plates and Eigenvalue Problems. Numerical Analysis of Eigenvalue Problems in Plate Problems. Indexes.

    • Applied Graph Theory

      • 2nd Edition
      • Volume 13
      • November 28, 2014
      • Wai-Kai Chen
      • H. A. Lauwerier + 1 more
      • English
      • eBook
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      Applied Graph Theory: Graphs and Electrical Networks, Second Revised Edition provides a concise discussion of the fundamentals of graph and its application to the electrical network theory. The book emphasizes the mathematical precision of the concepts and principles involved. The text first covers the basic theory of graph, and then proceeds to tackling in the next three chapters the various applications of graph to electrical network theory. These chapters also discuss the foundations of electrical network theory; directed-graph solutions of linear algebraic equations; and topological analysis of linear systems. Next, the book covers trees and their generation. Chapter 6 deals with the realizability of directed graphs with prescribed degrees, while Chapter 7 talks about state equations of networks. The book will be of great use to researchers of network topology, linear systems, and circuitries.

    • Computational Logic

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 9
      • November 28, 2014
      • Dov M. Gabbay + 2 more
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Handbook of the History of Logic brings to the development of logic the best in modern techniques of historical and interpretative scholarship. Computational logic was born in the twentieth century and evolved in close symbiosis with the advent of the first electronic computers and the growing importance of computer science, informatics and artificial intelligence. With more than ten thousand people working in research and development of logic and logic-related methods, with several dozen international conferences and several times as many workshops addressing the growing richness and diversity of the field, and with the foundational role and importance these methods now assume in mathematics, computer science, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, linguistics, law and many engineering fields where logic-related techniques are used inter alia to state and settle correctness issues, the field has diversified in ways that even the pure logicians working in the early decades of the twentieth century could have hardly anticipated. Logical calculi, which capture an important aspect of human thought, are now amenable to investigation with mathematical rigour and computational support and fertilized the early dreams of mechanised reasoning: “Calculemus”. The Dartmouth Conference in 1956 – generally considered as the birthplace of artificial intelligence – raised explicitly the hopes for the new possibilities that the advent of electronic computing machinery offered: logical statements could now be executed on a machine with all the far-reaching consequences that ultimately led to logic programming, deduction systems for mathematics and engineering, logical design and verification of computer software and hardware, deductive databases and software synthesis as well as logical techniques for analysis in the field of mechanical engineering. This volume covers some of the main subareas of computational logic and its applications.

    • The New Institutional Economics and Development

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 183
      • November 28, 2014
      • M.K. Nabli + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      The New Institutional Economics (NIE) and its two main branches, namely, the theory of transaction cost and contractual choice on the one hand, and that of collective action on the other, broaden the analytical framework of mainstream economics. In doing so the NIE attempts to explain the institutional phenomena which, although almost universally recognised as important, have previously eluded the group of economists. This book is concerned with the NIE and its possible application to Development Economics. It has two specific objectives. The first is to show the relevance and assess the applicability of the principles and insights of the NIE to the analysis of the problems of the LDC's. The second is to provide another set of applications and empirical investigations of the NIE. By combining the relevant theoretical background with applications, the book is self-contained and presented in such a way as to be accessible to each of the following types of reader: (1) development economists and practitioners (2) readers interested in institutions and the NIE (3) regional specialists in North Africa and in countries such as Tunisia and (4) those interested in political economy.

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