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Works like a Charm

Incentive Rhetoric and the Economization of Everyday Life

By: Robert O. McDonald

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Works like a Charm

Incentive Rhetoric and the Economization of Everyday Life

By: Robert O. McDonald

Works like a Charm addresses a simple question: Why are “incentives” everywhere now? From inducements to work harder at our jobs to tax rebates for corporations, “incentive” names a general theory of motivation—according to economists, we are incentive-driven creatures. Yet far from being a neutral generalization, this understanding of human behavior smuggles in a quintessentially economic way of seeing the world. Works like a Charm applies Jacques Lacan's psychoanalytic concept of retroactive causality to explain the metastasis of the language and logic of incentives: To discover an incentive is to place in the untouchable past an economic cause for a contextual, historical force. Tracing “incentive” from its roots in antiquity to its uptake by neoclassical and then Chicago-school economists, Robert O. McDonald diagnoses the spread of incentives across the social, cultural, and political field and warns readers of the dangers of handing over causality to the economists.

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357

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State University of New York Press

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1438494106

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9781438494104

The Official Overstreet Comic Book Companion

By: Robert M. Overstreet

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The Official Overstreet Comic Book Companion

By: Robert M. Overstreet

Describes and lists the values of popular collectible comics and graphic novels issued from the 1950s to today, providing tips on buying, collecting, selling, grading, and caring for comics and including a section on related toys and rings.

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498

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Random House Digital, Inc.

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0375722815

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9780375722813

Population

An Introduction to Concepts and Issues

By: John Robert Weeks

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Population

An Introduction to Concepts and Issues

By: John Robert Weeks

Includes bibliograpical references and index.

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616

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0534211208

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9780534211202

Chronological History of the Robinson Family and their descendants

By: Robert Lorenzo Lockley

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Chronological History of the Robinson Family and their descendants

By: Robert Lorenzo Lockley

The information in this book was gathered from information in the census records, order books, wills, Vital Statics and deeds all available at the Virginia Library, Richmond, Va. and the King & Queen County, Va. Court, which provided the basis for this book about a family that lived in King & Queen County, Virginia at a time when being a person of Color came with many restrictions.

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513

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Xlibris Corporation

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1503518086

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9781503518087

Roger's Textbook of Pediatric Intensive Care

By: Donald H. Shaffner,John J. McCloskey,Elizabeth A. Hunt,Robert C. Tasker

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Roger's Textbook of Pediatric Intensive Care

By: Donald H. Shaffner,John J. McCloskey,Elizabeth A. Hunt,Robert C. Tasker

Long recognized as the leading text in this dynamic field, Rogers’ Textbook of Pediatric Intensive Care provides comprehensive, clear explanations of both the principles underlying pediatric critical care disease and trauma as well as how these principles are applied. Led by Drs. Donald H. Shaffner, John J. McCloskey, Elizabeth A. Hunt, and Robert C. Tasker, along with a team of 27 section editors as well as more than 250 expert global contributors, the fully revised Sixth Edition brings you completely up to date on today’s understanding, treatments, technologies, and outcomes regarding critical illness in children.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1975174224

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9781975174224

Sacramento City and County Directory for 1868

By: Robert E. Draper

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Sacramento City and County Directory for 1868

By: Robert E. Draper

Reprint of the original, first published in 1868.

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330

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3375048300

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9783375048303

Distributions for Modeling Location, Scale, and Shape

Using GAMLSS in R

By: Robert A. Rigby,Mikis D. Stasinopoulos,Gillian Z. Heller,Fernanda De Bastiani

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Distributions for Modeling Location, Scale, and Shape

Using GAMLSS in R

By: Robert A. Rigby,Mikis D. Stasinopoulos,Gillian Z. Heller,Fernanda De Bastiani

This is a book about statistical distributions, their properties, and their application to modelling the dependence of the location, scale, and shape of the distribution of a response variable on explanatory variables. It will be especially useful to applied statisticians and data scientists in a wide range of application areas, and also to those interested in the theoretical properties of distributions. This book follows the earlier book ‘Flexible Regression and Smoothing: Using GAMLSS in R’, [Stasinopoulos et al., 2017], which focused on the GAMLSS model and software. GAMLSS (the Generalized Additive Model for Location, Scale, and Shape, [Rigby and Stasinopoulos, 2005]), is a regression framework in which the response variable can have any parametric distribution and all the distribution parameters can be modelled as linear or smooth functions of explanatory variables. The current book focuses on distributions and their application. Key features: Describes over 100 distributions, (implemented in the GAMLSS packages in R), including continuous, discrete and mixed distributions. Comprehensive summary tables of the properties of the distributions. Discusses properties of distributions, including skewness, kurtosis, robustness and an important classification of tail heaviness. Includes mixed distributions which are continuous distributions with additional specific values with point probabilities. Includes many real data examples, with R code integrated in the text for ease of understanding and replication. Supplemented by the gamlss website. This book will be useful for applied statisticians and data scientists in selecting a distribution for a univariate response variable and modelling its dependence on explanatory variables, and to those interested in the properties of distributions.

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CRC Press

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100069996X

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9781000699968

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Works like a Charm

Works like a Charm

The Official Overstreet Comic Book Companion

The Official Overstreet Comic Book Companion

Population

Population

Chronological History of the Robinson Family and their descendants

Chronological History of the Robinson Family and their descendants

Roger's Textbook of Pediatric Intensive Care

Roger's Textbook of Pediatric Intensive Care

Sacramento City and County Directory for 1868

Sacramento City and County Directory for 1868

Distributions for Modeling Location, Scale, and Shape

Distributions for Modeling Location, Scale, and Shape

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