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This third book in The New Style series offers a panoramic look at some of the most innovative cabin designs throughout the country. Cabins: The New Style is a collection of gateways for the modern isolationist. It includes many wonderful homes that range in size, have cutting-edge designs, and use sustainable materials while maintaining the warm feeling evoked by the traditional cabin.
A showcase of some of the most elegant and imaginative designs today, this book highlights how modern architectural elements can be integrated into a rustic landscape. With full-color illustrations throughout, Cabins: The New Style is a must-have for architects and cabin dwellers alike.
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Hawaii a Sense of Place: Island Interior Design
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Jocelyn Fujii's heartfelt paean to the land and people she loves, this lavish and vibrant book, captures and explores all of Hawai'i's beauty and singularity. A fantastic vacation between two hard covers.
Full-color photographs.
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A Fabulous Dream Book For Hawaii-lovers!.......2000-12-25
It is a shame that Jocelyn's wonderful, dreamy love letter to living in Hawaii is out of print. For starters, the dust jacket is pretty enough, but the book itself is bound in a handsome Hawaiian fabric print. Inside, colors jump off the page as homes ranging from surfers' one-room beach town digs to graceful Nuuanu mansions set you to fantasizing about living in Paradise. Chapters are divided into such themes as paniolo [cowboy] homes, mountain homes, beach homes, contemporary, plantation houses ranging in style from bare bones to elegant...the entire gamut is covered. There are delightful details and tableaux pictured everywhere, showing home dwellers' tabletop arrangements, Hawaiiana collections, hand crafted koa wood furniture, beautiful one of a kind local crafts...I could go on and on about the richness and variety of material in Under The Hula Moon. I write Hawaii guidebooks for a living and spend a lot of time in the islands, looking at the outside of peoples' homes, wondering what's going on inside. Since I'm not the type to just knock on strangers' doors to ask for a tour, Jocelyn has taken me into wonderful places I would otherwise never see.from0AAnyone who has fallen under Hawaii's spell and has ever fantasized about moving to the islands will treasure this book and spend many long hours with it in a favorite reading spot. Few books have given me the years of enjoyment that Jocelyn Fujii's has, and until some publisher has the good sense to bring it back into print, it is worth the seach to find a copy.
shaka, brah.......2000-09-13
I am sorry that I generously gave out as many copies of this far out book without saving a single copy for myself, because now I can't find it anywhere except at my friends' homes. And they all want to keep it as a reference for their visitors from the mainland.
Excellent Coffee Table Book!.......2000-05-02
If you looking for something that will catch your eye, and that you can just sit down, relax, and browse ... then this is book for you! It's a great book have around for others to look at and see Hawai`i through other people's eyes. It's always great to see how many different people can find the beauty in this paradise.
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Mainstream economics was founded on many strong assumptions. Institutions and politics were treated as irrelevant, government as exogenous, social norms as epiphenomena. As an initial gambit this was fine. But as the horizons of economic inquiry have broadened, these assumptions have become hindrances rather than aids. If we want to understand why some economies succeed and some fail, why some governments are effective and others not, why some communities prosper while others stagnate, it is essential to view economics as embedded in politics and society. Prelude to Political Economy is a study of this embeddedness; it argues for an 'inclusive' approach to institutions and the state. Modern economics recognizes that individuals' pursuit of their own selfish ends can result in socially suboptimal outcomes -- the Prisoner's Dilemma being the stark example. It has been suggested that what we need in such an eventuality is 'third-party' intervention, which can take the form of imposing punishment on players. Kaushik Basu objects to this method of wishing third parties out of thin air. He argues that if a third party that could impose its will on others were available, then it should have been modeled as a player to start with. The adoption of such an inclusive approach has implications for our conception of the state and the law. It means that the law cannot be construed as a factor that changes the game that citizens play. It is instead simply a set of beliefs of citizens; and, as such, it is similar to social norms. What the law does for an economy, so can social norms. The book discusses how the nature of policy advice and our conception of state power are affected by this altered view of the state and the law. As corollaries, the book addresses a variety of important social and philosophical questions, such as whether the state should guarantee freedom of speech, whether determinism is compatible with free will, and whether the free market can lead to coercion.
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Remodelling government into game-theoretic reasoning.......2001-03-12
This is a delightful and well-argued account of how government may be endogenised in economic analysis. The author would have us believe that government as an actor is in the same category as a consumer or an entrepreneur. Basu bravely questions conventional wisdom about assumptions held regarding institutions in economic analysis. Ambitiously titled "A Study of the Social and Political Foundations of Economics", the best part of this book are the author's numerous examples to show how economists have a poor understanding of motives, powerbases and collective action. There are just a few typographical errors (for instance the missing curve I in Figure 9.2 on page 207). However, what stops me from giving it five-star rating is that the book does have some conceptual infirmities (for instance, the author confuses the notion of government with the concept of nation-state, collective action is insufficiently explored, unconscious group processes not hypothesised at all, the terms lawful and legal are occasionally used interchangeably etc.). The most intellectually stimulating part of the book is the appendix that takes us through a hilarious account of the Fallacy of the Ignored Bridging Function. This was not an easy book to walk off from and I am glad to have finished it at one sitting. The author's clarity of expression and his sense of humour make this a book to remember and to recommend to others.
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These two volumes bring together a set of important essays that represent a "new Keynesian" perspective in economics today. This recent work shows how the Keynesian approach to economic fluctuations can be supported by rigorous microeconomic models of economic behavior. The essays are grouped in seven parts that cover costly price adjustment, staggering of wages and prices, imperfect competition, coordination failures, and the markets for labor, credit, and goods. An overall introduction, brief introductions to each of the parts, and a bibliography of additional papers in the field round out this valuable collection.
Volume 1 focuses on how friction in price setting at the microeconomic level leads to nominal rigidity at the macroeconomic level, and on the macroeconomic consequences of imperfect competition, including aggregate demand externalities and multipliers. Volume 2 addresses recent research on non-Walrasian features of the labor, credit, and goods markets.
N. Gregory Mankiw is Professor of Economics at Harvard University. David Romer is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of California at Berkeley.
Contributors: George A Akerlof. Costas Azariadis. Laurence Ball. Ben S. Bernanke. Mark Bits. Olivier J. Blanchard. Alan S. Blinder. John Bryant. Andrew S. Caplin. Dennis W. Carlton. Stephen G. Cecchetti. Russell Cooper. Peter A. Diamond. Gary Fethke. Stanley Fischer. Robert E. Hall. Oliver Hart. Andrew John. Nobuhiro Kiyotaki. Alan B. Krueger. David M. Lilien. Ian M. McDonald. N. David Mankiw. Arthur M. Okun. Andres Policano. David Romer. Julio J. Rotemberg. Garth Saloner. Carl Shapiro. Andrei Shleifer. Robert M. Solow. Daniel F. Spulber. Joseph E. Stiglitz. Lawrence H. Summers. John Taylor. Andrew Weiss. Michael Woodford. Janet L. Yellen.
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A good textbook exposition.......2000-08-19
Lavoie's attempt to write a textbook introduction to Post Keynesian Economics is a success. It accomplishes its goal to help people that are interested in the topic but don't know from where to start. It also helps people that have already started to have an overall perspective of the field. This is truly an accomplishment considering the fact that the different people have different ideas about what Post Keynesian Economics is all about. I enjoyed particularly the division of the book. After an overall introduction, Lavoie gives us two most welcome chapters about Post Keynesian Microeconomic Theory (about consumer theory and the theory of the firm), which are followed by four Macroeconomic chapters (about money and banking, the principle of effective demand, growth economics and inflation). Of course, as all of these topics are "as complex as it gets" and the space avaliable is limited, everyone will probably have some particular complaint about the treatment given to some particular topic. One must acknowledge that the advanced references to all the topics (and to almost all the different tribes within the Post Keynesian label) are there, though. Therefore, if you are interested in the topic you should buy the book. And do not pay attention to some of Lavoie's romantic excesses (specially in the first and last chapters).
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New Guide to Post-Keynesian Economics
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Eichner's classic A Guide to Post-Keynesian Economics (1978) is still seen as the definitive staging post for those wishing to familiarise themselves with the Post-Keynesian School. This book brings the story up-to-date.
Of all the subgroups within heterodox economics, Post-Keynesianism has provided the most convincing alternative to mainstream theory. The main representatives of Post-Keynesianism from both sides of the Atlantic are represented here, including Paul Davidson, Geoff Harcourt and Sheila Dow.
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The vast majority of Keynesian probabilities are intervals.......2005-06-26
This book contains a collection of essays that explain what Post Keynesian economics is(for instance,a heavy emphasis on fundamental uncertainty[Keynes defined this type of uncertainty to be ignorance in his A Treatise on Probability(TP,1921),p.315,and p.315,ft.2.The weight of the evidence,w,would equal 0.],expectations,and the importance of historical time as opposed to purely logical/mathematical treatments of time)and how it is applied to such areas as pricing theory, economic growth,money,inflation,the labor market,government institutions and debt finance.All of the essays are badly marred because they,implicitly or explicitly(Dow,p.14;Wray,p.82),accept an error filled assessment of Keynes's logical theory of probability and decision theory made by J.Barkley Rosser Jr.in essay number 6 that supposedly deals with Keynes's analysis of uncertainty and expectations.Rosser apparently believes that p.33 of the TP alone contains Keynes's entire approach to the measurability of probability.The same identical error was made by F Ramsey in two error filled reviews of Keynes's TP in 1922 and 1926.Rosser claims that"...where Keynes(1921,33)distinguishes four cases:there are no probabilities at all...;there may be some partial ordering of probable events but no cardinal numbers can be placed on them;there may be numbers but they can not be discovered for some reason;and there may be numbers but they are difficult to discover"(Rosser,p.54;many other similar errors are committed on pp.55-61).Keynes made it very clear on p.37 that his final word on measurement was contained in Part II(chapters 15 and 17)of the TP.On pp.160-163 and pp.186-194 of the TP,Keynes makes it very clear that most probabilities can be specified by interval estimates.However,per his discussion in chapter III,in many cases such interval estimates will overlap to some degree and hence cause problems of nonrankability,nonmeasurability,noncomparability and incommensurability.The only purpose for purchasing this book would be in order to compare the numerous incorrect statements about probability made in this book with the actual analysis provided by Keynes in the TP.The TP contains the first systematic exposition of an interval estimate approach to probability in the history of probability and decision theory.Nowhere in this book or in any other book published by Post Keynesians has the basic interval estimate nature of Keynesian probabilities been acknowledged.
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Keynes always intended to write "footnotes" to his masterwork The General Theory, which would take account of the criticisms it received and allow him to develop and refine his ideas further. However, a number of factors combined to prevent him from doing so before his death in 1946.
A wide range of Keynes scholars--including James Tobin, Paul Davidson and Lord Skidelsky--have written here the "footnotes" that Keynes never did. This second volume contains essays which relate to developments in Keynes scholarship in the years since his death and demonstrates the ongoing validity of the Keynesian tradition.
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This "Second Edition"fails to cover Keynes' math model.......2004-11-16
This "Second Edition" of the General Theory fails to improve upon Keynes's two basic models,the D-Z model of chapters 3,20-21 and the Y- multiplier model of chapter 10 of the General Theory(GT).The major result that Keynes derives from his analysis of the interactions of these two models is not even discussed.That result was that w/p=MPL/(MPC+MPI),where w equals the money wage,p represents the optimal expected price level,MPL is equal to the marginal product of labor,MPC equals the marginal propensity to spend on consumption goods,and MPI equals the marginal propensity to spend on investment goods,which are completely different in nature from consumption goods.The classical and/or neoclassical theory can be represented by the macroscopic,labor market clearing equation w/P=MPL,where P is the actual price level.This result is a special case of Keynes's general theory if and only if price expectations are optimal(p=P)and if the MPC+MPI=1.In this case the economy will be operating on the boundary of its static and dynamic Production Possibilities Frontiers(PPF's).There will be no involuntary unemployment.Involuntary unemployment will occur if P<p and/or if MPC+MPI<1.Any reader of this review can obtain these results if they are able to differentiate and integrate(take the anti derivative)Keynes's mathematical analysis in chapters 10,20 and 21 of the GT and know how to specify elasticities.It is an easy matter to extent Keynes's results so as to incorporate a government sector and international trade.Define MPG to be equal to the marginal propensity to spend on public goods,MPE equals the marginal propensity to spend on exports,and MPM equals the marginal propensity to spend on imports,where all marginal propensities are defined to lie between 0 and 1.Then w/p=MPL/(MPC+MPI+MPG+MPE-MPM).The only essay in the entire book that deals with chapters 20 and 21 was written by R O'Donnell.Nowhere in his essay does he attempt to derive the general results provided by Keynes in his footnotes to chapter 20 and then contrasted with the special results of A C Pigou in the appendix to chapter 19 of the General Theory.O'Donnell's results are completely inferior to the results obtained by Keynes some 60 years before this"Second Edition" was published.
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This digital document is a journal article from Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Price rigidity is the key mechanism for propagating business cycles in traditional Keynesian theory. Yet the new Keynesian literature has failed to show that sticky prices by themselves can effectively propagate business cycles. We show that price rigidity in fact can (by itself) give rise to a strong propagation mechanism in standard models, provided that investment is also subject to a cash-in-advance constraint. Reasonable price stickiness can generate highly persistent, hump-shaped movements in output under either monetary or non-monetary shocks. Hence, whether or not price rigidity is responsible for output persistence is not a theoretical question, but an empirical one.
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The BFH payments system in new classical and new Keynesian models.: An article from: Atlantic Economic Journal
W. William Woolsey
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From the author: This paper develops a dynamic stochastic model of the BFH payments system with versions consistent with new classical and new Keynesian assumptions about aggregate supply. The new classical version suggests BFH provides perfect inflation and output performance. The new Keynesian version implies more ambiguous consequences. (JEL E42)
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Title: The BFH payments system in new classical and new Keynesian models.
Author: W. William Woolsey
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Atlantic Economic Journal (Refereed)
Date: June 1, 1993
Publisher: Atlantic Economic Society
Volume: v21
Issue: n2
Page: p62(9)
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We draw on the literature on dynamic factor demand equations to provide evidence for the calibration of capital adjustment costs in the New-Keynesian model. The findings support previous work which shows that for a wide range of values of the capital adjustment cost parameter, the New-Keynesian model gives plausible estimates of the degree of price stickiness.
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The baseline New Keynesian model cannot replicate the observed persistence in inflation, output, and real wages for sensible parameter values. As a result, several extensions have been suggested to improve its fit to the data. We use a Bayesian approach to estimate and compare the baseline sticky price model of Calvo's [1983. Staggered prices in a utility maximizing framework. Journal of Monetary Economics 12, 383-398.] and three extensions. Our empirical results are as follows. First, we find that adding price indexation improves the fit of Calvo's [1983. Staggered prices in a utility maximizing framework. Journal of Monetary Economics 12, 383-398.] model. Second, models with both staggered price and wage setting dominate models with only price rigidities. Third, introducing wage indexation does not significantly improve the fit. Fourth, all model estimates suggest a high degree of price stickiness. Fifth, the estimates of labor supply elasticity are higher in models with both staggered price and wage contracts. Finally, the estimated inflation parameters of the Taylor ruleare stable across models.
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This article discusses a more general interpretation of the two-step minimum distance estimation procedure proposed in Sbordone (2002). The estimator is again applied to a version of the New Keynesian Phillips curve, where inflation dynamics are driven by the expected evolution of marginal costs. The article clarifies econometric issues, addresses concerns about uncertainty and model misspecification raised in recent studies, and assesses the robustness of previous results. While confirming the importance of forward-looking terms in accounting for inflation dynamics, it suggests how the methodology can be applied to extend the analysis of inflation to a multivariate setting.
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- GA/SK Knowledge
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Ga and Sk Etiquette: Guidelines for Telecommunications in the Deaf Community
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A manual for assisting both hearing and deaf callers to become more aware of suggested etiquette for using a TTY for telephone communications.
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GA/SK Knowledge.......2002-11-10
A great resource for anyone wanting to use a TTY in the appropriate manner with deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals. Many stores have TTYs for the deaf and hard-of-hearing to use, but do not know who to use them theirselves.
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It's better than nothing..........1999-06-07
This book contains some valuable information, however some information is dated (it hasn't been revised since publication). Out of the fifty-one pages, half are cartoon-type illustrations and some pages contain only a few sentences. It fails to touch on some major points such as the relay-service and tty answering machines. This book might a good investment for a company that has to train people to use a tty on a regular basis. Even then it is a bit tedious shuffling through the pages for an amount of knowledge that could be contained on a sheet of looseleaf.
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The Bigness Complex confronts head-on the myth that organizational giantism leads to economic efficiency and well-being in the modern age. On the contrary, it demonstrates how bigness undermines our economic productivity and progress, endangers our democratic freedoms, and exacerbates our economic problems and challenges.
This new edition has a thoroughly updated variety of issues, examples, and new developments, including government bailouts of the airline industry; regulation of biotechnology; the fiasco of recent electricity deregulation; and mergers and consolidations in oil, radio, and grocery retailing. The analysis is framed in the timeless context of American distrust of concentrations of power. The authors show how both the left and the right fail to address the central problem of power in formulating their diagnoses and recommendations. The book concludes with an alternative public philosophy as a viable guidepost for public policy toward business in a free-enterprise democracy.
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