Steven W Popper's Books

The Strategic Perspective and Long-Term Socioeconomic Strategies for Israel

Key Methods with an Application to Aging

By: Steven W. Popper,Howard J. Shatz,Shmuel Abramzon,Claude Berrebi,Shira Efron

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The Strategic Perspective and Long-Term Socioeconomic Strategies for Israel

Key Methods with an Application to Aging

By: Steven W. Popper,Howard J. Shatz,Shmuel Abramzon,Claude Berrebi,Shira Efron

This report highlights selected inputs made to a high-level Israeli government team assessing how to bring a strategic perspective to domestic policy deliberations. To illustrate a strategy process, it uses the example of policy for population aging.

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Rand Corporation

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0833090739

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9780833090737

Brain Korea 21 Phase II

A New Evaluation Model

By: Somi Seong,Steven W. Popper,Charles A. Goldman,David K. Evans

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Brain Korea 21 Phase II

A New Evaluation Model

By: Somi Seong,Steven W. Popper,Charles A. Goldman,David K. Evans

The Brain Korea 21 Program (BK21), which seeks to make Korean research universities globally competitive and to produce more high-quality researchers in Korea, provides funding to graduate students and professors who belong to research groups at top universities. The authors develop quantitative and qualitative models to evaluate how well BK21 is fulfilling its goals and make suggestions for further stimulating Korean university research.

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0833044478

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9780833044471

Effective Policing for 21st-Century Israel

By: Jessica Saunders,Steven W. Popper,Andrew R. Morral,Robert C. Davis,Claude Berrebi

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Effective Policing for 21st-Century Israel

By: Jessica Saunders,Steven W. Popper,Andrew R. Morral,Robert C. Davis,Claude Berrebi

The Israel Police is seeking to institute changes enabling it to better serve the needs of modern Israel. This report describes a study to address issues of civil-police relations, benchmarking, performance measurement, and deterrence.

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0833080946

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9780833080943

Civil Democratic Islam

Partners, Resources, and Strategies

By: Cheryl Benard,Andrew Riddile,Peter A. Wilson,Steven W. Popper

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Civil Democratic Islam

Partners, Resources, and Strategies

By: Cheryl Benard,Andrew Riddile,Peter A. Wilson,Steven W. Popper

In the face of Islam's own internal struggles, it is not easy to see who we should support and how. This report provides detailed descriptions of subgroups, their stands on various issues, and what those stands may mean for the West. Since the outcomes can matter greatly to international community, that community might wish to influence them by providing support to appropriate actors. The author recommends a mixed approach of providing specific types of support to those who can influence the outcomes in desirable ways.

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0833036203

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9780833036209

Reorganizing U.S. Domestic Intelligence

Assessing the Options

By: Gregory F. Treverton,Steven W. Popper,Steven C. Bankes,Gerald P. Frost

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Reorganizing U.S. Domestic Intelligence

Assessing the Options

By: Gregory F. Treverton,Steven W. Popper,Steven C. Bankes,Gerald P. Frost

One of the questions in the fight against terrorism is whether the United States needs a counterterrorism domestic intelligence agency separate from law enforcement. Drawing on an analysis of current counterterrorism efforts, an examination the domestic intelligence agencies in six other democracies, and interviews with intelligence and law enforcement experts, this volume lays out the relevant considerations for creating such an agency.

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083304821X

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9780833048219

Natural Gas and Israel's Energy Future

Near-Term Decisions from a Strategic Perspective

By: Steven W. Popper,Claude Berrebi,James Griffin,Thomas Light,Endy Y. Min

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Natural Gas and Israel's Energy Future

Near-Term Decisions from a Strategic Perspective

By: Steven W. Popper,Claude Berrebi,James Griffin,Thomas Light,Endy Y. Min

This book discusses the opportunities and risks the government of Israel faces in shifting to a greater reliance on domestic and imported natural gas. By applying newly developed methods for strategic planning and decisionmaking under deep uncertainty, the analysis seeks to help the Israeli government engage in managed change by choosing robust strategies that minimize potential consequences of relying more heavily on natural gas.

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0833049429

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9780833049421

Inclusive Economic Theory

By: Ralph William (Bill) Pfouts,Steven Rosefielde

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Inclusive Economic Theory

By: Ralph William (Bill) Pfouts,Steven Rosefielde

The goal of “Inclusive Economics” is to tie together various authoritative strands of contemporary economic theory into an easily comprehensible whole that illuminates the need for a broader approach to contemporary economic policymaking undistorted by obsolete 18th century rationalist assumptions about utility, ethics, worthiness and traditional culture. This is accomplished by elaborating the rationalist competitive ideal along the optimizing lines pioneered by Paul Samuelson (neoclassical economics); plumbing modifications necessitated by Herbert Simon's realist concepts of “bounded rationality” and “satisficing”; refined further by applying a pragmatist outlook to probe the consequences of relaxing Enlightenment teleological, ethical, spiritual and cultural taboos. The exercise will explain why competitive market economies guided by rational utility-seeking invariably are less productive, efficient, just and beneficent than most theorists concede, and will illuminate the full range of interventions needed to achieve better outcomes. We call this program in its entirety “Inclusive Economics”, including the integration of micro and macroeconomics.

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World Scientific

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9814566667

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9789814566667

Philosophy and Neuroscience

A Methodological Analysis

By: Steven S. Gouveia

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Philosophy and Neuroscience

A Methodological Analysis

By: Steven S. Gouveia

This book explores the methodological strategies for linking philosophy and neuroscience concerning the study of the conscious brain. The author focuses on four distinct methods for relating these two academic disciplines: isolationist, reductionist, neurophenomenological, and non-reductionist. After analyzing the pros and cons of these approaches, Steven S. Gouveia applies them to the concept of Qualia and Information to understand how the metaphilosophical assumptions of each approach influence the definitions of those specific concepts. Gouveia argues for an approach that conceives the interdisciplinarity of both philosophy and neuroscience, in a particular and sound methodology, offering empirical examples of the explanatory power of this methodology over the others. Additionally, he shows how the metaphilosophical assumptions of each methodology—usually taken by researchers implicitly and unconsciously—influence their own approach to the methodological problem.

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Springer Nature

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3030953696

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9783030953690

Strategic Issues Facing Transportation

Expediting future technologies for enhancing transportation system performance

By: Steven W. Popper

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Strategic Issues Facing Transportation

Expediting future technologies for enhancing transportation system performance

By: Steven W. Popper

TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 750, Volume 3: Strategic Issues Facing Transportation, Volume 3: Expediting Future Technologies for Enhancing Transportation System Performance presents the systematic technology reconnaissance, evaluation, and adoption methodology (STREAM). STREAM is a process that transportation agencies can use to identify, assess, shape, and adopt new and emerging technologies to help achieve long-term system performance objectives. The process reflects relevant trends in technologies and their applications and is designed to help transportation agencies anticipate, adapt to, and shape the future. NCHRP Report 750, Volume 3 is the third in a series of reports being produced by NCHRP Project 20-83: Long-Range Strategic Issues Facing the Transportation Industry. Major trends affecting the future of the United States and the world will dramatically reshape transportation priorities and needs. The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) established the NCHRP Project 20-83 research series to examine global and domestic long-range strategic issues and their implications for state departments of transportation (DOTs); AASHTO's aim for the research series is to help prepare the DOTs for the challenges and benefits created by these trends." -- publisher's description

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0309283604

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9780309283601

Enhancing Strategic Planning with Massive Scenario Generation

Theory and Experiments

By: Paul K. Davis,Steven C. Bankes,Michael Egner

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Enhancing Strategic Planning with Massive Scenario Generation

Theory and Experiments

By: Paul K. Davis,Steven C. Bankes,Michael Egner

This report extends research on using scenarios for strategic planning, with experiments in what can be called massive scenario generation (MSG), a computationally intensive technique that seeks to combine virtues of human- and model-based exploration of "the possibility space." The authors measure particular approaches to MSG against four metrics: not needing a good initial model; the dimensionality of the possibility space considered; the degree of exploration of that space; and the quality of resulting knowledge. The authors then describe two MSG experiments for contrasting cases, one that began with a reasonable but untested analytical model, and one that began without an analytical model, but with a thoughtful list of the conditions that might characterize and distinguish among circumstances in the situation considered, a list derived from a combination of single-analyst thinking and group brainstorming. The authors experimented with a variety of methods and tools for interpreting and making sense of the "data" arising from MSG, using ordinary linear sensitivity analysis, a generalization using analyst-inspired aggregation fragments, some advanced filtering methods drawing on data-mining and machine-learning methods, and motivated metamodeling. On the basis of this preliminary work, we conclude that MSG has the potential to expand the scope of what are recognized as possible developments, provide an understanding of how those developments might come about, and help identify aspects of the world that should be studied more carefully, tested, or monitored. It should assist planners by enriching their mental library of the patterns used to guide reasoning and action at the time of crisis or decision and should help them identify anomalous situations requiring unusual actions. Finally, it should identify crucial issues worthy of testing or experimentation in games or other venues and, in some cases, suggest better ways to design mission rehearsals. If MSG can be built into training, education, research, and socialization exercises, it should leave participants with a wider and better sense of the possible, while developing skill at problem-solving in situations other than those of the "best estimate." Much development is needed, but prospects are encouraging.

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0833040170

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9780833040176

Business Analytics for Decision Making

By: Steven Orla Kimbrough,Hoong Chuin Lau

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Business Analytics for Decision Making

By: Steven Orla Kimbrough,Hoong Chuin Lau

Business Analytics for Decision Making, the first complete text suitable for use in introductory Business Analytics courses, establishes a national syllabus for an emerging first course at an MBA or upper undergraduate level. This timely text is mainly about model analytics, particularly analytics for constrained optimization. It uses implementations that allow students to explore models and data for the sake of discovery, understanding, and decision making. Business analytics is about using data and models to solve various kinds of decision problems. There are three aspects for those who want to make the most of their analytics: encoding, solution design, and post-solution analysis. This textbook addresses all three. Emphasizing the use of constrained optimization models for decision making, the book concentrates on post-solution analysis of models. The text focuses on computationally challenging problems that commonly arise in business environments. Unique among business analytics texts, it emphasizes using heuristics for solving difficult optimization problems important in business practice by making best use of methods from Computer Science and Operations Research. Furthermore, case studies and examples illustrate the real-world applications of these methods. The authors supply examples in Excel®, GAMS, MATLAB®, and OPL. The metaheuristics code is also made available at the book's website in a documented library of Python modules, along with data and material for homework exercises. From the beginning, the authors emphasize analytics and de-emphasize representation and encoding so students will have plenty to sink their teeth into regardless of their computer programming experience.

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CRC Press

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1315362597

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9781315362595

Stealing the State

Control and Collapse in Soviet Institutions

By: Steven Lee Solnick

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Stealing the State

Control and Collapse in Soviet Institutions

By: Steven Lee Solnick

Solnick argues that the Soviet system fell victim not to stalemate at the top nor to revolution from below, but to opportunism from within. In case studies on the Communist Youth League, the system of job assignments for university graduates, and military conscription, he tells the story from a new perspective, testing Western theories of reform.

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Harvard University Press

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0674836804

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9780674836808

100 Science Experiments with Paper

By: Steven W. Moje

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100 Science Experiments with Paper

By: Steven W. Moje

What fun things can you do with paper besides origami, you wonder? Lots!...make helicopters, bridges, telephones, spinners, and many other toys....demonstrate density, properties of sound, Bernoulli's principle, gravity, etc....your children can learn tons of science by doing these quick and easy activities. You can just stand around, admire, and be amazed."--Parent Council(r). Selected as Outstanding by Parent Council(r).

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0806963530

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9780806963532

Models and Reality in Economics

By: Steven Rappaport

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Models and Reality in Economics

By: Steven Rappaport

This work addresses philosophy in economics and the conduct of inquiry into economics (What do economists do, and what is economics about?). It opens with a discussion of the work of McCloskey and rhetorical approaches to understanding economics, going on to ask, Is economics a science'.

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1858985757

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9781858985756

Sun Tzu Strategies for Marketing: 12 Essential Principles for Winning the War for Customers

12 Essential Principles for Winning the War for Customers

By: Gerald A. Michaelson,Steven W. Michaelson

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Sun Tzu Strategies for Marketing: 12 Essential Principles for Winning the War for Customers

12 Essential Principles for Winning the War for Customers

By: Gerald A. Michaelson,Steven W. Michaelson

Battle-tested strategies for marketing your product or service to victory! Millions of business warriors have been inspired by lessons from one of the world's greatest strategists, Sun Tzu. In Sun Tzu Strategies for Winning the Marketing War, the bestselling author and Sun Tzu expert Gerald Michaelson interprets the influential thinker's classic battle strategies specifically for today's marketing professionals by boiling down the classic The Art of War into "The Principles of the Marketing War," such as: Organization of Intelligence: Know your market as well as you know yourself Economy of Force: Assess accurately where you employ your resources Simplicity: Even the simplest plans are difficult to execute Each principle is followed by strategic and tactical applications of the principle as adapted by the most successful armies of the world throughout history. The book features real-life applications of Sun Tzu's theories drawn from some of the business world's most successful marketing campaigns.

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McGraw Hill Professional

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0071762787

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9780071762786

Brownstone Diploma for Windows to Accompany Canadian Organizational Behaviour

By: Steven Lattimore McShane,Brownstone Research Group

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Brownstone Diploma for Windows to Accompany Canadian Organizational Behaviour

By: Steven Lattimore McShane,Brownstone Research Group

The #1 Canadian and only 100% Canadian-authored Organizational Behaviour text has been thoroughly updated and finely tuned to reflect the continuous changes Canadian organizations face in today's business world. There's a revolution going on in the workplace. Knowledge is replacing infrastructure. Self-leadership is replacing direct supervision. Networks are replacing hierarchies. Virtual teams are replacing committees. Companies are looking for employees with emotional intelligence, not just technical smarts. Globalization has become the mantra of corporate survival. Co-workers aren't just down the hall; they're at the other end of an Internet connection. Canadian Organizational Behaviour (COB) is written with this revolution in mind

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[Whitby, Ont.] : McGraw-Hill Ryerson

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0070871809

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9780070871809

Book's by Steven W Popper

The Strategic Perspective and Long-Term Socioeconomic Strategies for Israel

The Strategic Perspective and Long-Term Socioeconomic Strategies for Israel

Brain Korea 21 Phase II

Brain Korea 21 Phase II

Effective Policing for 21st-Century Israel

Effective Policing for 21st-Century Israel

Civil Democratic Islam

Civil Democratic Islam

Reorganizing U.S. Domestic Intelligence

Reorganizing U.S. Domestic Intelligence

Natural Gas and Israel's Energy Future

Natural Gas and Israel's Energy Future

Inclusive Economic Theory

Inclusive Economic Theory

Philosophy and Neuroscience

Philosophy and Neuroscience

Strategic Issues Facing Transportation

Strategic Issues Facing Transportation

Enhancing Strategic Planning with Massive Scenario Generation

Enhancing Strategic Planning with Massive Scenario Generation

Business Analytics for Decision Making

Business Analytics for Decision Making

Stealing the State

Stealing the State

100 Science Experiments with Paper

100 Science Experiments with Paper

Models and Reality in Economics

Models and Reality in Economics

Sun Tzu Strategies for Marketing: 12 Essential Principles for Winning the War for Customers

Sun Tzu Strategies for Marketing: 12 Essential Principles for Winning the War for Customers

Brownstone Diploma for Windows to Accompany Canadian Organizational Behaviour

Brownstone Diploma for Windows to Accompany Canadian Organizational Behaviour

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