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The Thermodynamics, Heat Transfer, and Fluid Flow Fundamentals Handbook was
developed to assist nuclear facility operating contractors provide operators, maintenance
personnel, and the technical staff with the necessary fundamentals training to…

The Thermodynamics, Heat Transfer, and Fluid Flow Fundamentals Handbook was
developed to assist nuclear facility operating contractors provide operators, maintenance
personnel, and the technical staff with the necessary fundamentals training to…

It is true that unmotivated subjects in unfamiliar situations don’t play as game theory predicts. So if game theory had to predict interactive human under all circumstances to be worthy of attention, it would in-
deed be a failure. But who would…

The idea for this book developed in October 1996 on the eve of the passage of the Economic Espionage Act (EEA) in discussions with a colleague
who specialized in intellectual property law and had been practicing for
some 15 years, litigating…

Globalisation is the remarkable result of innocuous choices. Companies
in one nation choose to employ workers in another, and consumers in a
third country choose to buy the stuff they make. To put it this way is not
to diminish the technological…

The psychologist Joel Davitz once wrote: ªI suspect that
most research in the social sciences has roots somewhere
in the personal life of the researcher, though these roots are
rarely reported in published papersº (Davitz, 1976). The
®rst part…

This book is part of the CESifo Seminar Series. The series aims to cover policy issues in economics from a largely European perspective. The books in this series are the products of the papers and intensive debates that took place during the seminars…

Defenders of economic orthodoxy often argue that asset inflation results from emotional intrusions into a rational world. But emotions are unavoidable. Rational calculations can be based only on the past. Instability continually arises, especially…