“ON NUMEROUS occasions I have been requested to write a review of my articles on persistent enuresis, juvenile delinquency, and psychopathic personality which were published over a period of 18 years. In response I have attempted here to synthesize the individual reports into an integrated whole. All of the work stemmed originally from a clinical interest spurred on by a clinical hunch that there was an intimate association between persistent enuresis and personality mal-integration. This same interest led finally, in the later papers, to the consideration of character problems. The conceptions elaborated here are simple. I believe that they have general validity and that their fundamental nature can lead to significant bio-psycho-social implications.”—Dr. Joseph J. Michaels Dr. Joseph J. Michaels has divided his 12 papers, published over an 18-year period, into four series: The first series (four papers) deals with studies of so-called normal children (controls) and neuropsychiatric patients, presenting data and their analysis primarily from a statistical standpoint. The second series (four papers) consists in the analysis and interpretation of data pertaining to enuresis in the reports of other authors on delinquent and psychotic individuals. The third series (two papers) is concerned with the relationship of enuresis, and of neurotic and anti-social traits to the electroencephalogram in children with behavior disorders. The fourth series (two papers) is much broader in scope: the previous data, hypotheses and conclusions are re-evaluated against a background of the total personality viewed psychobiologically and psychoanalytically.
“ON NUMEROUS occasions I have been requested to write a review of my articles on persistent enuresis, juvenile delinquency, and psychopathic personality which were published over a period of 18 years. In response I have attempted here to synthesize the individual reports into an integrated whole. All of the work stemmed originally from a clinical interest spurred on by a clinical hunch that there was an intimate association between persistent enuresis and personality mal-integration. This same interest led finally, in the later papers, to the consideration of character problems. The conceptions elaborated here are simple. I believe that they have general validity and that their fundamental nature can lead to significant bio-psycho-social implications.”—Dr. Joseph J. Michaels Dr. Joseph J. Michaels has divided his 12 papers, published over an 18-year period, into four series: The first series (four papers) deals with studies of so-called normal children (controls) and neuropsychiatric patients, presenting data and their analysis primarily from a statistical standpoint. The second series (four papers) consists in the analysis and interpretation of data pertaining to enuresis in the reports of other authors on delinquent and psychotic individuals. The third series (two papers) is concerned with the relationship of enuresis, and of neurotic and anti-social traits to the electroencephalogram in children with behavior disorders. The fourth series (two papers) is much broader in scope: the previous data, hypotheses and conclusions are re-evaluated against a background of the total personality viewed psychobiologically and psychoanalytically.
A substantially revised and updated new edition of the leading text on business and government, with new material reflecting recent theoretical and methodological advances; includes further coverage of the Microsoft antitrust case, the deregulation of telecommunications and electric power, and new environmental regulations. This new edition of the leading text on business and government focuses on the insights economic reasoning can provide in analyzing regulatory and antitrust issues. Departing from the traditional emphasis on institutions, Economics of Regulation and Antitrust asks how economic theory and empirical analyses can illuminate the character of market operation and the role for government action and brings new developments in theory and empirical methodology to bear on these questions. The fourth edition has been substantially revised and updated throughout, with new material added and extended discussion of many topics. Part I, on antitrust, has been given a major revision to reflect advances in economic theory and recent antitrust cases, including the case against Microsoft and the Supreme Court's Kodak decision. Part II, on economic regulation, updates its treatment of the restructuring and deregulation of the telecommunications and electric power industries, and includes an analysis of what went wrong in the California energy market in 2000 and 2001. Part III, on social regulation, now includes increased discussion of risk-risk analysis and extensive changes to its discussion of environmental regulation. The many case studies included provide students not only pertinent insights for today but also the economic tools to analyze the implications of regulations and antitrust policies in the future.The book is suitable for use in a wide range of courses in business, law, and public policy, for undergraduates as well at the graduate level. The structure of the book allows instructors to combine the chapters in various ways according to their needs. Presentation of more advanced material is self-contained. Each chapter concludes with questions and problems.
It is difficult to find an area of public policy more plagued by misunderstanding than energy policy. Even worse, every time the subject is raised, we are obligated to get mired in pointless arguments about the weather. This book helps set the record straight. Not convinced? Consider some of these inconvenient truths: The cost of green energy climate remediation is anywhere from 10-to-1,000 times greater than the damage from the climate change it attempts to alleviate. Germany, the worlds leader in solar energy, will spend more than $280 billion by 2030 on solar subsidies. But all of that investment will only forestall 22nd century global warming by 37 hours. Obamas carbon tax would cost Americans $1.2 trillion over just ten years. But it would only reduce the midrange 3 degree modeled 22nd century global temperature increase by 0.038 degrees Celsius. At their current emissions growth rate, it will take China nine months to replace the entire U.S. emissions cut that Obama wants to achieve over seven years, at a staggering cost in American jobs and lost economic growth. The U.S. biofuel program imposes a cost on consumers 9,862 times greater than any climate benefit they or their distant progeny will ever derive. This is not another skeptical global warming polemic but an economic evaluation of how and why green energy will fail. The world has too many pressing needs. For the money Obama squandered on just a single bankrupt crony solar company, the U.S. could have prevented 300,000 childhood malaria deaths in poor countries. A thoroughly researched, heavily documented book by an expert in his field, it will demonstrate in meticulous detail how wasteful and economically inefficient Obamas green energy dead end future will be compared to other worthy alternatives. Its time to end the hysterical climate cynicism and get on humanitys side.
Around Oxford features vintage postcards and photographs from Oxford and the surrounding area, including Lincoln Universitythe oldest African American institution of higher learning in Americaand Nottingham. With the arrival of the Philadelphia-to-Baltimore railroad in 1860, Oxford began to grow and prosper. Because the area is one of the most fertile regions of Pennsylvania, it became a major agricultural center. Along with carriage and candy making, the surrounding area produced important industries, including chrome and magnesium mining, pottery making, and the quarrying of limestone.
A collection of articles written by experienced primary, secondary, and collegiate educators. It explains why discrete mathematics should be taught in K-12 classrooms and offers guidance on how to do so. It offers school and district curriculum leaders material that addresses how discrete mathematics can be introduced into their curricula.
In the natural gas industry, competition and contracting are gradually replacing monopoly and regulation. In this volume, many leading economists who follow the gas industry present their views on current and future industry trends. To help regulators and industry leaders better understand these changes and to reform regulation, the authors apply economic theories of contestable markets, public choice, transaction costs and dynamic entrepreneurship to the gas industry. The issues addressed in this work are crucial, not just for the gas industry, but for all industries that have traditionally been treated as regulated monopolies.
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