Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 900
Book Description
Arctic Research of the United States
Author: Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
Statistical Abstract of the United States
Author: Nolen, Jr. V. National Railroad Passenger Corporation
Author: Soil Analysis
Author: K. I. PeverillPublisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN: 0643063765
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 427
Book Description
A practical guide to soil tests for Australian soils and conditions.
New Developments and Techniques in Structural Equation Modeling
Author: George A. MarcoulidesPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 1135657815
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
The revision of this edited volume introduces the latest issues and developments in SEM techniques. The book provides an understanding and working knowledge of advanced SEM techniques with a minimum of mathematical derivations. Includes cases & examples.
The Economics of Science: A Critical Realist Overview
Author: David TyfieldPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136587438
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Dramatic and controversial changes in the funding of science over the past two decades, towards its increasing commercialization, have stimulated a huge literature trying to set out an "economics of science". Whether broadly in favour or against these changes, the vast majority of these frameworks employ ahistorical analyses that cannot conceptualise, let alone address, the questions of "why have these changes occurred?" and "why now?" Nor, therefore, can they offer much insight into the crucial question of future trends. Given the growing importance of science and innovation in an age of both a globalizing knowledge-based economy (itself in crisis) and enormous challenges that demand scientific and technological responses, these are significant gaps in our understanding of important contemporary social processes. This book argues that the fundamental underlying problem in all cases is the ontological shallowness of these theories, which can only be remedied by attention to ontological presuppositions. Conversely, a critical realist approach affords the integration of a realist political economy into the analysis of the economics of science that does afford explicit attention to these crucial questions; a ‘cultural political economy of research and innovation’ (CPERI). Accordingly, the book sets out an introduction to the existing literature on the economics of science together with novel discussion of the field from a critical realist perspective. In arguing thus across levels of abstraction, however, the book also explores how concerted engagement with substantive social enquiry and theoretical debate develops and strengthens critical realism as a philosophical project, rather than simply ‘applying’ it. Divided into two volumes, in this first volume the book explores the ‘top’ and ‘tail’ of the argument, regarding substantive and philosophical aspects. Starting with substantive illustrations, we explore the social challenges associated with the contemporary commercialization of science and the movement towards a knowledge-based bio-economy. Having shown the explanatory benefits of assuming a realist political economy perspective, the book then turns to the task of reconstructing and justifying that theoretical perspective. True to the overall argument regarding attention to ontological presuppositions, this starts with critical realism’s critique of mainstream economics but also develops critical realism itself towards what may be called a ‘transcendental constructivism’.
Overview of Federal Ship Chartering Practices
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Merchant MarinePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Summary Report of and Papers Presented at the Tenth Session of the Working Party on Fish Technology and Marketing
Author: Asia-Pacific Fishery Commission. Working Party on Fish Technology and MarketingPublisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9789251040355
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Fiscal Year 1998 Budget Authorization Request
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science. Subcommittee on Energy and EnvironmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description