Learn IT - Books tags economics

The Nuclear Imperative: A Critical Look at the Approaching Energy Crisis (Topics in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality)

Springer, 2006

Part of this book was originally written in 1976 when some thirty copies were printed and distributed to interested parties. A wider distribution was planned but never carried out. In re-reading the first edition written 29 years ago, I am struck by the fact that arguments for a nuclear-powered future and a need to develop portable synfuels and new...

Mathematics of Economics and Business

Routledge, 2006

Today, a firm understanding of mathematics is essential for any serious student of economics. Students of economics need nowadays several important mathematical tools. These include calculus for functions of one or several variables as well as a basic understanding of optimization with and without constraints, e.g. linear programming plays an...

The Economics of Speed: Machine Speed as the Key Factor in Productivity (Lecture Notes in Production Engineering)

Springer, 2019

This is the first book to examine the “nuts and bolts” of production processes. It proposes a truly consilient approach to modeling production processes – one that goes beyond the vague principles found in standard economics – and provides details that are consistent with the applied mechanics and engineering...

VSAT Networks

John Wiley & Sons, 2004

Now fully revised and updated, VSAT Networks continues to cover all of the essential issues involved with the installation and operation of networks of small earth stations called ‘Very Small Aperture Terminal’. VSATs are typically one to two meters in antenna reflector diameter and communicate with one another, or with a...

Financial Modeling with Crystal Ball and Excel (Wiley Finance)

John Wiley & Sons, 2007

"Professor Charnes's book drives clarity into applied Monte Carlo analysis using examples and tools relevant to real-world finance. The book will prove useful for analysts of all levels and as a supplement to academic courses in multiple disciplines."
-Mark Odermann, Senior Financial Analyst, Microsoft

"Think...

Beautiful Architecture: Leading Thinkers Reveal the Hidden Beauty in Software Design

O'Reilly, 2009

What are the ingredients of robust, elegant, flexible, and maintainable software architecture? Beautiful Architecture answers this question through a collection of intriguing essays from more than a dozen of today's leading software designers and architects. In each essay, contributors present a notable software architecture, and analyze...

Managing Globally with Information Technology

IRM Press, 2003

As the world economy becomes more interdependent and competition for business continues to be more globally oriented, it has become necessary to address the issues of IT management from a broader global focus. Information technology is not only the enabler of the global marketplace but also a potential solution base for achieving global...

A History of the Crusades, Volume I: The First Hundred Years

University of Wisconsin Press, 2006

“A highly-respected series . . . [a] 30-year project known for its high quality of research, editing, and printing. . . . Recommended for all libraries”—Choice

“Like the Crusades themselves, this History will . . . long stand as a monument to the vision of its founders and the dogged persistence...

Doing Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy: Adapting Psychodynamic Treatment to Contemporary Practice

John Wiley & Sons, 2007

Almost 10 years ago I wrote a guide to child therapy. I worked hard, then, to make the book relevant, timely, and thorough. But a lot has happened over the past decade. The economics of mental health, a euphemism for managed care and insurance companies, have grown from supporters of what we do to dictators of it. Even as we meet...

The Economics of Information Security and Privacy

Springer, 2013

In the late 1990s, researchers began to grasp that the roots of many information security failures can be better explained with the language of economics than by pointing to instances of technical flaws. This led to a thriving new interdisciplinary research field combining economic and engineering insights, measurement approaches and...

The Essential John Nash

Princeton Press, 2007

"John Nash's creative work in game theory has of course had the most profound influence on both its mathematics and its practical applications in economics. It is very good to see his work in this area joined with his other mathematical contributions in a single volume, to give a more rounded perspective."--Kenneth J. Arrow, 1972 Nobel...

Global Outsourcing Discourse: Exploring Modes of IT Governance (Technology, Work and Globalization)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

The aim of this book is to investigate the discursive power of two original, theoretical lenses when applied to real outsourcing arrangements and phenomena. The Transaction Cost Economics (TCE) and Foucauldian perspectives are brought to bear on five outsourcing relationships in order to test the application of these discourses...

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