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How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind
The Strange Career of Cold War Rationality
AvPaul Erickson,Judy L. Kleinm. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2013
830 kr
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In the United States at the height of the Cold War, roughly between the end of World War II and the early 1980s, a new project of redefining rationality commanded the attention of sharp minds, powerful politicians, wealthy foundations, and top military brass. Its home was the human sciences - psychology, sociology, political science, and economics, among others - and its participants enlisted in an intellectual campaign to figure out what rationality should mean and how it could be deployed. How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind brings to life the people - Herbert Simon, Oskar Morgenstern, Herman Kahn, Anatol Rapoport, Thomas Schelling, and many others - and places, including the RAND Corporation, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the Cowles Commission for Research and Economics, and the Council on Foreign Relations, that played a key role in putting forth a "Cold War rationality." Decision makers harnessed this picture of rationality - optimizing, formal, algorithmic, and mechanical - in their quest to understand phenomena as diverse as economic transactions, biological evolution, political elections, international relations, and military strategy.The authors chronicle and illuminate what it meant to be rational in the age of nuclear brinkmanship.
World the Game Theorists Made
AvPaul Erickson
Inbunden, Engelska, 2015
1 046 kr
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In recent decades game theory - the mathematics of rational decision-making by interacting individuals - has assumed a central place in our understanding of capitalist markets, the evolution of social behavior in animals, and even the ethics of altruism and fairness in human beings. With game theory's ubiquity, however, has come a great deal of misunderstanding Critics of the contemporary social sciences view it as part of an unwelcome trend toward the marginalization of historicist and interpretive styles of inquiry, and many accuse its proponents of presenting a thin and empirically dubious view of human choice. The World the Game Theorists Made seeks to explain the ascendency of game theory, focusing on the poorly understood period between the publication of John von Neumann and Oscar Morgenstern's seminal Theory of Games and Economic Behavior in 1944 and the theory's revival in economics in the 1980s.Drawing on a diverse collection of institutional archives, personal correspondence and papers, and interviews, Paul Erickson shows how game theory offered social scientists, biologists, military strategists, and others a common, flexible language that could facilitate wide-ranging thought and debate on some of the most critical issues of the day.
World the Game Theorists Made
AvPaul Erickson
Häftad, Engelska, 2015
323 kr
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In recent decades game theory-the mathematics of rational decision-making by interacting individuals-has assumed a central place in our understanding of capitalist markets, the evolution of social behavior in animals, and even the ethics of altruism and fairness in human beings. With game theory's ubiquity, however, has come a great deal of misunderstanding. Critics of the contemporary social sciences view it as part of an unwelcome trend toward the marginalization of historicist and interpretive styles of inquiry, and many accuse its proponents of presenting a thin and empirically dubious view of human choice. The World the Game Theorists Made seeks to explain the ascendency of game theory, focusing on the poorly understood period between the publication of John von Neumann and Oscar Morgenstern's seminal Theory of Games and Economic Behavior in 1944 and the theory's revival in economics in the 1980s.Drawing on a diverse collection of institutional archives, personal correspondence and papers, and interviews, Paul Erickson shows how game theory offered social scientists, biologists, military strategists, and others a common, flexible language that could facilitate wide-ranging thought and debate on some of the most critical issues of the day.
World the Game Theorists Made
AvPaul Erickson
E-bok
Engelska, 2015
726 kr
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In recent decades game theory—the mathematics of rational decision-making by interacting individuals—has assumed a central place in our understanding of capitalist markets, the evolution of social behavior in animals, and even the ethics of altruism and fairness in human beings. With game theory’s ubiquity, however, has come a great deal of misunderstanding. Critics of the contemporary social sciences view it as part of an unwelcome trend toward the marginalization of historicist and interpretive styles of inquiry, and many accuse its proponents of presenting a thin and empirically dubious view of human choice. The World the Game Theorists Made seeks to explain the ascendency of game theory, focusing on the poorly understood period between the publication of John von Neumann and Oscar Morgenstern’s seminal Theory of Games and Economic Behavior in 1944 and the theory’s revival in economics in the 1980s. Drawing on a diverse collection of institutional archives, personal correspondence and papers, and interviews, Paul Erickson shows how game theory offered social scientists, biologists, military strategists, and others a common, flexible language that could facilitate wide-ranging thought and debate on some of the most critical issues of the day.
How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind – The Strange Career of Cold War Rationality
AvPaul Erickson,Judy L. Kleinm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2015
231 kr
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In the United States at the height of the Cold War, roughly between the end of World War II and the early 1980s, a new project of redefining rationality commanded the attention of sharp minds, powerful politicians, wealthy foundations, and top military brass. Its home was the human sciences—psychology, sociology, political science, and economics, among others—and its participants enlisted in an intellectual campaign to figure out what rationality should mean and how it could be deployed. How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind brings to life the people—Herbert Simon, Oskar Morgenstern, Herman Kahn, Anatol Rapoport, Thomas Schelling, and many others—and places, including the RAND Corporation, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the Cowles Commission for Research and Economics, and the Council on Foreign Relations, that played a key role in putting forth a \u201cCold War rationality.\u201d Decision makers harnessed this picture of rationality—optimizing, formal, algorithmic, and mechanical—in their quest to understand phenomena as diverse as economic transactions, biological evolution, political elections, international relations, and military strategy.The authors chronicle and illuminate what it meant to be rational in the age of nuclear brinkmanship.
The Pier at the End of the World
AvPaul Erickson
Inbunden, 2019
191 kr
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*THE PIER AT THE END OF THE WORLD is on the CBC NSTA 2016 Outstanding Science List* With lyrical writing and stunning underwater photography, this picture book follows a day in the life of the denizens lurking in the cold, tide-swept waters beneath a remote pier on the shore of a northern sea.
Don't Mess with Me
The Strange Lives of Venomous Sea Creatures
AvPaul Erickson
Inbunden, Engelska, 2018
191 kr
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Scorpions and brown recluse spiders are fine as far as they go, but if you want daily contact with venomous creatures, the ocean is the place to be. Blue-ringed octopi, stony corals, sea jellies, stonefish, lionfish, poison-fanged blennies, stingrays, cone snails, blind remipedes, fire urchins—you can choose your poison in the ocean. Venoms are often but not always defensive weapons. The banded sea krait, an aquatic snake, wriggles into undersea caves to prey on vicious moray eels, killing them with one of the world’s most deadly neurotoxins, which it injects through fangs that resemble hypodermic needles.
Doctor Who: The TV Episodes Collection
1st Doctor TV Soundtracks
AvIan Stuart Black,Donald Toshm. fl.
Ljudbok
Engelska, 2021
187 kr
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Six classic Doctor Who TV soundtrack adventures starring William Hartnell as the First Doctor. In ''The Sensorites'' the Doctor and his friends visit an alien society with dark secrets. In ''The Romans'' Ian and Barbara are sold into slavery in First Century Rome, and the Doctor encounters Nero! In ''The Space Museum'' the travellers must work to avert a terrible potential future for themselves. In ''The Ark'' the Doctor, Steven and Dodo encounter the last humans to flee Earth with their alien servants, the Monoids. In ''The Gunfighters'' the TARDIS crewmembers try to avoid getting caught in crossfire at the OK Corral. In ''The War Machines'' the TARDIS lands in London, 1966, to find the brand new Post Office Tower being controlled by sinister supercomputer. Each story has additional linking narration, and there are bonus interviews with William Russell, Maureen O''Brien, Peter Purves and Anneke Wills.
Doctor Who: The Apocalypse Collection
1st, 4th, 10th and 11th Doctor Novelisation
AvSteven Moffatt,Terrance Dicksm. fl.
Ljudbok
Engelska, 2024
198 kr
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Whole civilisations are threatened in these four classic TV novelisations featuring the First, Fourth, Tenth and Eleventh Doctors.In Galaxy Four, by William Emms, the First Doctor, Steven and Vicki find the Drahvins and the Rills engaged in battle on a desolate planet - one that will explode in two days'' time.In The Ark, by Paul Erickson, the Earth is about to plunge into the Sun and humanity is heading for a new planet, but the Doctor''s arrival has a terrible impact on mankind.In The Armageddon Factor, by Terrance Dicks, the TARDIS lands in the middle of an atomic war. The Doctor, Romana and K9 meet the Marshal of Atrios, whose actions look set to bring about the end of everything.In The Day of the Doctor, by Steven Moffat, three different versions of the Doctor unite to save Earth, the Universe...and their own soul.Maureen O''Brien, Peter Purves, John Leeson and Nicholas Briggs read these exciting and action-packed adaptations from the BBC TV series.Readings produced by Neil Gardner. Sound design by Simon Power. Executive Producer for BBC Studios: Michael Stevens? 2024 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd © 2024 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd.
Doctor Who: The Ark
1st Doctor Novelisation
AvPaul Erickson
Ljudbok
Engelska, 2018
115 kr
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An unabridged reading of this exciting novelisation of a First Doctor television adventure. It is ten million years in the future, and the Earth is about to plunge into the Sun. A gigantic Space Ark has been launched, to take the last of humanity to a new life on the planet Refusis II. Accompanying the humans on their journey are the Monoids, strange reptilian creatures from an alien world. When the TARDIS materialises on board, the Doctor and his friends are greeted with suspicion, which soon turns to open hostility when Dodo inadvertently infects the Ark''s crew with a long-forgotten virus. It is an accident which will have a terrible effect on mankind, an effect which will last for seven hundred years...
Woman of Glass
AvPaul Erickson
Häftad, Engelska, 2024
126 kr
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Sail Makers Legacy
AvPaul Erickson
Häftad, Engelska, 2024
126 kr
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War was?
Das geheime Krieg-der-Sterne-Tagebuch
AvPaul Erickson
E-bok
Tyska, 2018
113 kr
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Auf einer Convention in Chicago findet der »Star Wars«-Fan Paul Erickson im Mülleimer ein altes, aber gut erhaltenes Notizbuch. Als er hineinblättert, traut er seinen Augen nicht: Ein geheimnisvoller »G.L.« erzählt dort von dem Top-Secret-Filmprojekt »Star Wars«, das er im Jahr 1973 entwickeln will. Das Buch liest sich wie ein Krimi: Welchen Plot hätte »Star Wars« um ein Haar gehabt? Woher stammte die Idee für Darth Vaders Helm? Warum tragen alle Sturmtruppen Weiß? Und weshalb gibt es sie doch, die Geräusche im Weltall? In diesem erstmals öffentlich gemachten Tagebuch erfährt man endlich alles über die wahre Entstehungsgeschichte von »Star Wars«. Und wir alle können froh sein, dass nur aufgrund winziger Zufälle nicht alles ganz anders gekommen ist ...

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Paul Erickson – författare

How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind

World the Game Theorists Made

World the Game Theorists Made

World the Game Theorists Made

How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind – The Strange Career of Cold War Rationality

The Pier at the End of the World

Don't Mess with Me

Doctor Who: The TV Episodes Collection

Doctor Who: The Apocalypse Collection

Doctor Who: The Ark

Woman of Glass

Sail Makers Legacy

War was?

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