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Author : Hazel Spears
Release : 1996
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Book Synopsis Preferential Treatment, Self-interest, and Resource Allocation by : Hazel Spears
Download or read book Preferential Treatment, Self-interest, and Resource Allocation written by Hazel Spears. This book was released on 1996. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Donald E. Campbell
Release : 1987-04-24
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Synopsis Resource Allocation Mechanisms by : Donald E. Campbell
Download or read book Resource Allocation Mechanisms written by Donald E. Campbell. This book was released on 1987-04-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resource Allocation Mechanisms derives the general welfare properties of systems in which individuals are motivated by self-interest. Satisfactory outcomes will emerge only if individual incentives are harnessed by means of a communication and payoff process, or mechanism, involving every agent. Professor Campbell employs a formal and abstract model of a mechanism that brings into prominence the criteria by which the performance of an economy is to be judged. The mechanism approach is used to prove some fundamental theorems about the possibility of designing an economic system satisfying the criteria. It also establishes a way of thinking about economic issues that is becoming increasingly useful in special branches of economics, such as industrial organization and public finance. This book can be viewed as two different texts: one constitutes an introduction to the theory of mechanism design and the other is a treatment of welfare economics with conventional emphasis on Pareto optimality as well as providing substantial material on incentives, uncertainty, and existence of equilibrium.
Author : Stephen J. Ball
Release : 2013-05-13
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Rating : 679/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Foucault and Education by : Stephen J. Ball
Download or read book Foucault and Education written by Stephen J. Ball. This book was released on 2013-05-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1990, this book was the first to explore Foucault's work in relation to education, arguing that schools, like prisons and asylums, are institutions of moral and social regulation, complex technologies of disciplinary control where power and knowledge are crucial. Original and challenging, the essays assess the relevance of Foucault's work to educational practice, and show how the application of Foucauldian analysis to education enables us to see the politics of educational reform in a new light.
Author : Melvin J. Lerner
Release : 2013-11-11
Genre : Psychology
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Book Synopsis The Justice Motive in Social Behavior by : Melvin J. Lerner
Download or read book The Justice Motive in Social Behavior written by Melvin J. Lerner. This book was released on 2013-11-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume was conceived out of the concern with what the imminent future holds for the "have" countries ... those societies, such as the United States, which are based on complex technology and a high level of energy consumption. Even the most sanguine projection includes as base minimum relatively rapid and radical change in all aspects of the society, reflecting adaptation or reactions to demands created by poten tial threat to the technological base, sources of energy, to the life-support system itself. Whatever the source of these threats-whether they are the result of politically endogeneous or exogeneous forces-they will elicit changes in our social institutions; changes resulting not only from attempts to adapt but also from unintended consequences of failures to adapt. One reasonable assumption is that whatever the future holds for us, we would prefer to live in a world of minimal suffering with the greatest opportunity for fulfilling the human potential. The question then becomes one of how we can provide for these goals in that scenario for the imminent future ... a world of threat, change, need to adapt, diminishing access to that which has been familiar, comfortable, needed.
Author : Ivor F. Goodson
Release : 2013-04-03
Genre : Education
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Book Synopsis School Subjects and Curriculum Change by : Ivor F. Goodson
Download or read book School Subjects and Curriculum Change written by Ivor F. Goodson. This book was released on 2013-04-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The process of curriculum development is highly practical, as Goodson shows in this enlarged anniversary third edition of his seminal work. The position of subjects and their development within the curriculum is illustrated by looking at how school subjects, in particular, geography and biology, gained academic and intellectual respectability within the whole curriculum during the late 1960s and early 1970s. He highlights how subjects owe their formation and accreditation to competing status and their power to compete in the provision of 'worthwhile' knowledge and considers subjects as continually changing sub-groups of information. Such subjects from the framework of the society in which individuals live and over which they have influence. This volume questions the basis on which subject disciplines are developed and formulates new possibilities for curriculum development and reform in a post-modrnist age.
