Author: Lawrence J. Lau
Publisher: The MIT Pre
Keywords: econometrics, capital, vol, cost
Number of Pages: 450
Published: 2000-10-23
List price: $70.00
ISBN-10: 0262100835
ISBN-13: 9780262100830

The essays in this volume provide a comprehensive view of applications of the cost of capital. The cost of capital is the key concept in the analysis of taxation of business income. It is also critical to the formulation of a new system of national accounts, where it plays the role of the price of capital services. Empirical measurements of productivity and economic welfare generated by these accounts underlie recent innovations in the econometric modeling of consumer and producer behavior.

Author: Kenneth D. Garbade
Publisher: The MIT Pre
Keywords: analytics, income, fixed
Number of Pages: 484
Published: 1996-11-15
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0262071762
ISBN-13: 9780262071765

"Fixed Income Analytics is an outstanding combination of the precision of academics with the institutional detail of the real world. It is required reading for any serious MBA student." -- William L. Silber, Professor of Finance and Economics, New York University "I am convinced that the ideal text for an introduction to fixed- income analytics has been written . . . in a series of Bankers Trust working papers principally authored by Kenneth Garbade . . . [that] provide mathematically rigorous and self-contained gems on everything from the ideal way to define true yield to how best to compute

Authors:H. Behnke, F. Bachmann, K. Fladt, W. Süss, S. H. G
Publisher: The MIT Pre
Keywords: geometry, volume, mathematics, fundamentals
Number of Pages: 696
Published: 1974-10-15
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0262020696
ISBN-13: 9780262020695

Fundamentals of Mathematics represents a new kind of mathematical publication. While excellent technical treatises have been written about specialized fields, they provide little help for the nonspecialist; and other books, some of them semipopular in nature, give an overview of mathematics while omitting some necessary details. Fundamentals of Mathematics strikes a unique balance, presenting an irreproachable treatment of specialized fields and at the same time providing a very clear view of their interrelations, a feature of great value to students, instructors, and those who use mathematics

Author: Ross Cressma
Publisher: The MIT Pre
Keywords: learning, social, evolution, economic, games, dynamics, extensive, form, evolutionary
Number of Pages: 330
Published: 2003-07-13
List price: $48.00
ISBN-10: 0262033054
ISBN-13: 9780262033053

Evolutionary game theory attempts to predict individual behavior (whether of humans or other species) when interactions between individuals are modeled as a noncooperative game. Most dynamic analyses of evolutionary games are based on their normal forms, despite the fact that many interesting games are specified more naturally through their extensive forms. Because every extensive form game has a normal form representation, some theorists hold that the best way to analyze an extensive form game is simply to ignore the extensive form structure and study the game in its normal form representatio

Author: Brian Harvey
Publisher: The MIT Pre
Keywords: symbolic, computing, vol, style, science, logo, computer
Number of Pages: 340
Published: 1997-02-14
List price: $47.00
ISBN-10: 0262581485
ISBN-13: 9780262581486

"In the world of theatre `Harvey’ is a large, white rabbit who happens to be invisible. Elementary computer science’s `Harvey’ is more like a tiger - clever, colorful, powerful, and, thanks to this revised edition of a classic set of texts, very visible indeed." -- William Higginson, Coordinator; Mathematics, Science and Technology Education Group, Queen’s University at Kingston, Canada This series is for people--adults and teenagers--who are interested in computer programming because it’s fun. The three volumes use the Logo programming language as the vehicle for

Authors:Thomas H. Lee, James J. Monga,
Publisher: The MIT Pre
Keywords: care, health, organization, chaos
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2009-10-30
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0262013533
ISBN-13: 9780262013536

One of the most daunting challenges facing the new U.S. administration is health care reform. The size of the system, the number of stakeholders, and ever-rising costs make the problem seem almost intractable. But in Chaos and Organization in Health Care, two leading physicians offer an optimistic prognosis. In their frontline work as providers, Thomas Lee and James Mongan see the inefficiency, the missed opportunities, and the occasional harm that can result from the current system. The root cause of these problems, they argue, is chaos in the delivery of care. If the problem is chaos, the so

Author: Michael Lerner
Publisher: The MIT Pre
Keywords: approaches, cancer, complementary, conventional, healing, integrating, choices
Number of Pages: 696
Published: 1996-02-28
List price: $31.95
ISBN-10: 0262621045
ISBN-13: 9780262621045

"Here we have a truly remarkable book. Unlike anything in the alternative literature, Choices in Healing gives a scrupulously nonjudgemental review of the world of alternative treatments for cancer. Michael Lerner is a talented, scientifically astute and well-educated individual.... His compilation of both orthodox and alternative approaches to cancer is superb.... This is essential reading." -- Karol Sikora, New Scientist "A bridge that many skeptics can at least approach. The text is both critical and hopeful toward both conventional and complementary methods of therapy. Physicans will certa