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Creative Industries

Contracts Between Art and Commerce

By: Richard E. Caves

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Creative Industries

Contracts Between Art and Commerce

By: Richard E. Caves

To explain the logic of these arrangements, the author draws on the analytical resources of industrial economics and the theory of contracts. He addresses the winner-take-all character of many creative activities that brings wealth and renown to some artists while dooming others to frustration; why the "option" form of contract is so prevalent; and why even savvy producers get sucked into making "ten-ton turkeys," such as Heaven's Gate."--BOOK JACKET.

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0674001648

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The Longest Cave

By: Roger W. Brucker,Richard A. Watson

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The Longest Cave

By: Roger W. Brucker,Richard A. Watson

The dramatic story of several generations of cavers whose exciting and dangerous explorations in Kentucky's limestone labyrinths culminated in the big connection between the Flint Ridge Cave System and Mammoth Cave, forming the longest cave in the world.

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SIU Press

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0809313227

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Competition in the Open Economy

A Model Applied to Canada

By: Richard E. Caves,Michael E. Porter,Michael Spence

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Competition in the Open Economy

A Model Applied to Canada

By: Richard E. Caves,Michael E. Porter,Michael Spence

With the nations of the world becoming more interdependent, it is imperative to take international influences into account in understanding the organization of industry within a country. This book extends the structure/conduct/performance framework of analysis to present a fully specified simultaneous equation model of an open economy--Canada. By estimating a system of equations of all the major variables, the authors can identify which variables are dependent and which are independent. They are thus able to assess the relative importance of such factors as seller concentration, import competition, retailing structure, advertising expenditure, research and development spending, and technical and allocative efficiency in shaping the organization of industry in Canada. In addition, using both industry-level and firm-level data, the authors develop methods for assessing the effect of structural variables on diversification strategies and the consequences for market performance. They also study the effects of such variables on firms' access to capital markets. The book concludes with a discussion of the implications of the findings for government policy.

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Harvard University Press

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0674154258

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Switching Channels

Organization and Change in TV Broadcasting

By: Richard E CAVES,Richard E Caves,Karen Guo

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Switching Channels

Organization and Change in TV Broadcasting

By: Richard E CAVES,Richard E Caves,Karen Guo

Media critics invariably disparage the quality of programming produced by the U.S. television industry. But why the industry produces what it does is a question largely unasked. It is this question, at the crux of American popular culture, that Switching Channels explores.

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Harvard University Press

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0674029291

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The Ragged Edge

By: Richard Nisley

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The Ragged Edge

By: Richard Nisley

The Ragged Edge is the story of a man who is running— after the Grand Prix world championship he seems destined not to win, and after the woman who has left him. It’s a heart-stopping ride across three continents, on famed international circuits as glittering and intoxicating as Monaco and as beguiling and lethal as Germany’s ‘green hell’ Nurburg Ring.

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1665564377

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Industrial Efficiency in Six Nations

By: Richard E. Caves,Sheryl D. Bailey

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Industrial Efficiency in Six Nations

By: Richard E. Caves,Sheryl D. Bailey

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 productivity.

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MIT Press

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0262031930

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Multinational Enterprise and Economic Analysis

By: Richard E. Caves

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Multinational Enterprise and Economic Analysis

By: Richard E. Caves

The third edition of Multinational Enterprise and Economic Analysis surveys the contributions that economic analysis has made to our understanding of why multinational enterprises exist and what consequences they have for the workings of the national and international economies. It shows how economic analysis can explain multinationals' activity patterns and how economics can shed conceptual light on problems of business policies and managerial decisions arising in practice. It addresses the welfare problems arising from multinationals' activities and the logic of governments' preferences and choices in their dealings with multinationals. Suitable for researchers, graduates and upper-level undergraduates. The third edition of this highly accessible book incorporates the many additions to our knowledge of multinationals accumulated in research appearing in the past decade.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139465996

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The Sources of Economic Growth

By: Richard R. Nelson

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The Sources of Economic Growth

By: Richard R. Nelson

Technological advance is the key driving force behind economic growth, argues Richard Nelson. Drawing on a deep knowledge of economic and technological history as well as the tools of economic analysis, he exposes the intimate connections among government policies, science-based universities, and the growth of technology.

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Harvard University Press

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0674001729

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9780674001725

Trade and Economic Structure

Models and Methods

By: Richard E. Caves

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Trade and Economic Structure

Models and Methods

By: Richard E. Caves

Hinduism and Ecology looks at the environmental values of the Hindu tradition--its past and present teachings and practices. In it the author speaks to prominent Hindu environment activists and thinkers, presents their ideas and explains what they are doing. The book is complementary to Buddhism and Ecology also published by Motilal Banarsidass Publishers Private Limited.

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8120801571

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9788120801578

Monte Albán's Hinterland, Part II

Prehispanic Settlement Patterns in Tlacolula, Etla, and Ocotlan, the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico, Vols. 1 and 2

By: Stephen Kowalewski,Gary Feinman,Laura Finsten,Richard E. Blanton,Linda Nicholas

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Monte Albán's Hinterland, Part II

Prehispanic Settlement Patterns in Tlacolula, Etla, and Ocotlan, the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico, Vols. 1 and 2

By: Stephen Kowalewski,Gary Feinman,Laura Finsten,Richard E. Blanton,Linda Nicholas

This two-volume monograph is the final report and synthesis of the Valley of Oaxaca Settlement Pattern Project’s full-coverage surface survey and makes significant theoretical and methodological contributions to the investigation of social evolution, cultural ecology, and regional analysis.

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U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY

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0915703750

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9780915703753

Capital Transfers and Economic Policy: Canada, 1951-1962

By: Richard E. Caves,Grant L. Reuber

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Capital Transfers and Economic Policy: Canada, 1951-1962

By: Richard E. Caves,Grant L. Reuber

Between 1951 and 1962 nearly ten billion dollars in long-term capital (both direct investment and purchase of securities) flowed into Canada. This massive amount represented one third of all long-term capital moving among industrial nations. Its transfer marked the first time since before World War I that the world witnessed such a large-scale international movement of capital motivated primarily by a prospect of higher rates of return. In Capital Transfers and Economic Policy the authors test the theory of the causes and effects of international capital movements against the evidence drawn from Canada's experience. They explore Canada's adjustment to capital flows and show how the operation of her economic policy is affected by the sensitivity of capital flows to the country's interest rates and foreign-exchange rate. Their brilliant analysis is particularly valuable in light of current trends in capital flows among industrial nations and the June 1970 return of the Canadian dollar to a flexible exchange rate, which put the economy in a working situation similar to that of the fifties.

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Harvard University Press

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0674094859

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9780674094857

The Snowy Owl

By: Eugene Potapov,Richard Sale

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The Snowy Owl

By: Eugene Potapov,Richard Sale

A comprehensive monograph of the beautiful Snowy Owl, famed for its elegant, all-white plumage. The Snowy Owl needs little introduction. This massive white owl breeds throughout the Arctic, wherever there are voles or lemmings to hunt, from Scandinavia through northern Russia to Canada and Greenland. Southerly movements in winter see North American birds travel as far south as the northern United States, while infrequent vagrants on the Shetlands and other northern isles are a magnet for birders. The Snowy Owl gives this popular bird the full Poyser treatment, with sections on morphology, distribution, palaeontology and evolution, habitat, breeding, diet, population dynamics, movements, interspecific relationships and conservation, supported by some fabulous photography. The award-winning author team also had access to Russian research literature, which is generally out of reach for Western scientists.

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A&C Black

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1408172186

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Contrived Competition

Regulation and Deregulation in America

By: Richard H. K. Vietor

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Contrived Competition

Regulation and Deregulation in America

By: Richard H. K. Vietor

And Bank-America, caught short with bad loans and a deep recession in the early eighties, nearly failed before Sam Armacost and then Tom Clausen achieved an amazing turnaround in the mid-1980s.

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067416962X

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9780674169623

Geology

By: Edward P. Ortleb,Richard Cadice

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Geology

By: Edward P. Ortleb,Richard Cadice

Basic study of geology do for students in grades 5-9.

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Lorenz Educational Press

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1558630910

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The Collected Essays of Richard E. Quandt

By: Richard E. Quandt

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The Collected Essays of Richard E. Quandt

By: Richard E. Quandt

Professor Richard Quandt has made a major contribution to the development of economics in the 20th century. The range and significance of his work has long required a collection of his essays which will allow his contribution to be assessed as a whole. Despite an early interest in microeconomic theory, Richard Quandt has devoted most of his career to econometrics and, in particular, modal split estimation. More recently his work has focused on the econometrics of disequilibrium models with reference to both free market and planned economies. As well as outlining his many articles in microtheory, general econometrics, disequilibrium modeling, financial economics and the economics of planned economies, this collection should have a particular value for all scholars interested in the emergence of the new economies in Eastern Europe, a subject to which Professor Quandt has applied himself in recent years. This book includes an introduction by Professor Quandt describing his early life in Budapest and the circumstances which led him to study economics in America.

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1782543171

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The Last Human

A Guide to Twenty-two Species of Extinct Humans

By: Esteban E. Sarmiento,Kenneth Mowbray,Gary J. Sawyer,Richard Milner,Viktor Deak,Ian Tattersall

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The Last Human

A Guide to Twenty-two Species of Extinct Humans

By: Esteban E. Sarmiento,Kenneth Mowbray,Gary J. Sawyer,Richard Milner,Viktor Deak,Ian Tattersall

Creates three-dimensional scientific reconstructions for twenty-two species of extinct humans, providing information for each one on its emergence, chronology, geographic range, classification, physiology, environment, habitat, cultural achievements, coex

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Yale University Press

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0300100477

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Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism

Schumpeter, Chandler, and the New Economy

By: Richard N. Langlois

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Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism

Schumpeter, Chandler, and the New Economy

By: Richard N. Langlois

Co-winner of the 2006 Schumpeter Prize of the International Joseph A. Schumpeter Society.This book explains the shift of the organizational landscape away from vertically integrated firms and towards more specialized entities connected by markets and networks. In doing so, it places in a larger theoretical framework the work of Joseph Schumpeter an

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1135982678

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Physical Geography

The Global Environment

By: Harm J. De Blij,Peter O. Muller,Richard S. Williams (Jr.)

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Physical Geography

The Global Environment

By: Harm J. De Blij,Peter O. Muller,Richard S. Williams (Jr.)

This is an introductory physical geography text designed for 1st or 2nd year undergraduate students of geography, geology and environmental sciences.

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0195171144

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Creative Industries

Contracts between Art and Commerce

By: Richard E. Caves

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Creative Industries

Contracts between Art and Commerce

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This book explores the organization of creative industries, including the visual and performing arts, movies, theater, sound recordings, and book publishing. In each, artistic inputs are combined with other, "humdrum" inputs. But the deals that bring these inputs together are inherently problematic: artists have strong views; the muse whispers erratically; and consumer approval remains highly uncertain until all costs have been incurred. To assemble, distribute, and store creative products, business firms are organized, some employing creative personnel on long-term contracts, others dealing with them as outside contractors; agents emerge as intermediaries, negotiating contracts and matching creative talents with employers. Firms in creative industries are either small-scale pickers that concentrate on the selection and development of new creative talents or large-scale promoters that undertake the packaging and widespread distribution of established creative goods. In some activities, such as the performing arts, creative ventures facing high fixed costs turn to nonprofit firms. To explain the logic of these arrangements, the author draws on the analytical resources of industrial economics and the theory of contracts. He addresses the winner-take-all character of many creative activities that brings wealth and renown to some artists while dooming others to frustration; why the "option" form of contract is so prevalent; and why even savvy producers get sucked into making "ten-ton turkeys," such as Heaven's Gate. However different their superficial organization and aesthetic properties, whether high or low in cultural ranking, creative industries share the same underlying organizational logic.

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Geomorphology

By: Richard J. Chorley,Stanley A. Schumm,David E. Sugden

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Geomorphology

By: Richard J. Chorley,Stanley A. Schumm,David E. Sugden

Originally published in 1984. This major text covers the whole discipline of geomorphology, presenting a clear and comprehensive overview of the field, drawing on the full range of modern research. Landforms and their formative processes are treated on a broad spectrum of spatial scales, and examples are drawn from the major geological, climatic and biotic environments. The book is divided conveniently into some 170 clearly defined sections to allow readers to make the most efficient use of those parts of the text relevant to their particular needs. After introducing the basic concepts such as systems analysis, morphologic and cascading systems, the historical-evolutionary approach and process-response geomorphology, the book moves on to the geological background to geomorphology and then the extensive third part deals with the geomorphic processes and responding landforms. Part four examines climatic geomorphology and the appendix touches on applied geomorphology, especially fluvial processes.

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1000000265

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The Early Prehistory of Fiji

By: Geoffrey Richard Clark,Atholl Anderson

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The Early Prehistory of Fiji

By: Geoffrey Richard Clark,Atholl Anderson

I enjoyed reading this volume. It is rare to see such a comprehensive report on hard data published these days, especially one so insightfully contextualised by the editors' introductory and concluding chapters. These scholars and the others involved in the work really know their stuff, and it shows. The editors connect the preoccupations of Pacific archaeologists with those of their colleagues working in other island regions and on "big questions" of colonisation, migration, interaction and patterns and processes of cultural change in hitherto-uninhabited environments. These sorts of outward-looking, big-picture contextual studies are invaluable, but all too often are missing from locally- and regionally-oriented writing, very much to its detriment. In sum, the work strongly advances our understanding of the early prehistory of Fiji through its well-integrated combination of original research and the reinterpretation of existing knowledge in the context of wider theoretical and historical concerns. In doing so The Early Prehistory of Fiji makes a truly substantial contribution to Pacific and archaeological scholarship. Professor Ian Lilley, The University of Queensland

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ANU E Press

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1921666072

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Tropical Infectious Diseases: Principles, Pathogens and Practice E-Book

By: Richard L. Guerrant,David H. Walker,Peter F. Weller

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Tropical Infectious Diseases: Principles, Pathogens and Practice E-Book

By: Richard L. Guerrant,David H. Walker,Peter F. Weller

Tropical Infectious Diseases: Principles, Pathogens and Practice, by Drs. Richard L. Guerrant, David H. Walker, and Peter F. Weller, delivers the expert, encyclopedic guidance you need to overcome the toughest clinical challenges in diagnosing and treating diseases caused by infectious agents from tropical regions. Sweeping updates to this 3rd edition include vaccines, SARS, hepatitis A-E, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus, tick-borne encephalitis and Omsk hemorrhagic fever, human papilloma virus, and mucormycosis. New full-color images throughout allow you to more accurately view the clinical manifestations of each disease and better visualize the life cycles of infectious agents. Definitive, state-of-the-art coverage of pathophysiology as well as clinical management makes this the reference you'll want to consult whenever you are confronted with tropical infections, whether familiar or unfamiliar! - Obtain complete and trustworthy advice from hundreds of the leading experts on tropical diseases worldwide, including cutting-edge summaries of pathophysiology and epidemiology as well as clinical management. - Get the latest answers on vaccines, SARS, hepatitis A-E, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus, tick-borne encephalitis and Omsk hemorrhagic fever, human papilloma virus, mucormycosis, and much more. - Implement best practices from all over the world with guidance from almost twice as many international authors - over 100 representing more than 35 countries. - Accurately view the clinical manifestations of each disease and visualize the life cycles of infectious agents with new full-color images throughout. - Access the complete contents online at www.expertconsult.com, rapidly searchable; rapidly locate and download all of the images in either PowerPoint or JPEG format; and follow links to PubMed abstracts for most references. - Reference the book more easily thanks to a new streamlined, single-volume format, with all of the references online.

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