The Evolution of Institutional Economics (Economics as Social Theory)

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This exciting new book from Geoffrey Hodgson is eagerly awaited by social scientists from many different backgrounds. This book charts the rise, fall and renewal of institutional economics in the critical, analytical and readable style that Hodgson's fans have come to know and love, and that a new generation of readers will surely come to appreciate.

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The Evolution of Institutional Economics (Economics as Social Theory) Review

Darwin's influence in the social sciences is growing, and at the same time, it is often resisted. Economics and economists though (taken as a whole) haven't had a lot to say about Darwin or Darwinism. Institutional Economics however (both new and original) tries to analyze how economies change over time. It seems only natural therefore that economists should consider Darwin and Darwin's ideas. Geoffrey Hodgson writes well about the potential importance of Darwin and Darwinism for economics and also how Darwin relates to a lot of other new developments in the social sciences. He approaches these issues primarily by examining the development of original Institutional Economics as formulated by Thorstein Veblen.

Professor Hodgson devotes several chapters to some complex issues in philosopy of science. I enjoyed his treatment of concepts such as emergentism, reductionism and realism. I especially enjoyed his treatment of structure-agency theory, a concept that has gotten a lot of attention in sociology, but little (unfortunately) in economics.

Based on this discussion he proceeds to analyze the growth and demise of Veblenian thought. He analyzes Darwin's influence on Veblen and the relationship of Veblenian theory to habit instinct theory and philosophical pragmatism. Hodgson argues that Veblenians have Darwinian roots-a point that some original Institutional Economists would argue against. Personally, I agree with Hodgson but his assertions are bound to provoke some controversy (which is a good thing).

Hodgson argues that we (economists) should rethink the discipline and re-form it. We should use Veblen and Darwin as foundations. Bud Hodgson is not a Sociobiologist and he is not trying to biologize economics. He views culture as emergent and recognizes you cannot translate biological evolutionary models wholesale to economic evolution.

I recently heard a well known biologist state that Charlie Darwin was "Wall Street's kind of guy." I cringed when I heard this since it conjured up images of Darwinism providing biological cover for capitalism. Hodgson is no idealogue of the right or the left and eschews imposing politics on science, including the social sciences. But he definitely shows how Darwinism has influenced one of the most politically progressive thinkers in American history-Thorstein Veblen.

His views are extremely relevant. New Institutional Economists often ignore Veblen's contributions. Economics as a whole still tries to ape physics and there is much confusion among economists about what science is and is not.

My only criticism of Hodgson's book is probably unfair. His goal is to analyze the Veblenian tradition. So it is no surprise that he does not discuss other traditions in the original Institutional Economics such as Karl Polanyi's. Nor does he discuss the various evolutionary schools in economic anthropology. A discussion of these issues would have been of some interest to me. But then agaain, as I said, this is probably an unfair criticism of Hodgson given his stated goal of the book: to reexamine Veblen's contribution to economic thought and the relationship of Veblen to Darwin.

Taken as a whole I thoroughly enjoyed the book. I recommend it to any economist willing to look beyond constrained optimization problems. It will also interest (or should interest) anthropologists, sociologists, political scientists, or anyone interested in philosophical foundations of the social sciences and the relationship of the social sciences to Darwin and Darwinism.

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Festival and Events Management

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Festival and Events Management: an international perspective is a unique text looking at the central role of events management in the cultural, tourism and arts industries.

With international contributions from industry and academia, the text looks at the following:
* Events & cultural environments
* Managing the arts & leisure experience
* Marketing, policies and strategies of art and leisure management

Chapters include exercises, and additional teaching materials and solutions to questions are provided as part of an accompanying online resource.

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I am currently in an Event Management course and this book has helped me understand the workings of the industry.

It is very clear and has seperate sections relating to the industry eg, catering and rostering.

I bought it because I live in Australia and it has relevant articles to events held here particularly the Sydney Olympic games, it also has large references to Edinbourough/England and Scottish festivals.

All the aside it is an excellent book to help anyone understand the scope of how and what yuo need to take into account for a medium to large scale event.

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Fiduciary Law

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In Fiduciary Law, Tamar Frankel examines the structure, principles, themes, and objectives of fiduciary law. Fiduciaries, which include corporate managers, money managers, lawyers, and physicians among others, are entrusted with money or power. Frankel explains how fiduciary law is designed to offer protection from abuse of this method of safekeeping. She deals with fiduciaries in general, and identifies situations in which fiduciary law falls short of offering protection. Frankel analyzes fiduciary debates, and argues that greater preventive measures are required. She offers guidelines for determining the boundaries and substance of fiduciary law, and discusses how failure to enforce fiduciary law can contribute to failing financial and economic systems. Frankel offers ideas and explanations for the courts, regulators, and legislatures, as well as the fiduciaries and entrustors. She argues for strong legal protection against abuse of entrustment as a means of encouraging fiduciary services in society. Fiduciary Law can help lawyers and policy makers designing the future law and the systems that it protects.

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This is the best book on fiduciary law that I have ever seen! It explains absolutely everything including definitions, origins, and judicial actions. Today's America sometimes has trouble understanding responsibility, and taking responsibility for someone else is just as important as taking it for ourselves. Fiduciary duty is acting on behalf of another to do what they would do.

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From Medical School to Residency: How to Compete Successfully in the Residency Match Program

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Looking for a guide to help you understand "The Match"? Look no further than this indispensable resource from a noted physician who has spent years advising students and selecting residents. This book gives the student all he/she needs to know to successfully match in a residency program in 2000 and beyond. It is the only guide that fully covers the electronic application and match process, complete with lots of screen shots. This manual will also address questions students should ask and strategies for successful matching.

From Medical School to Residency: How to Compete Successfully in the Residency Match Program Review

This is a strong resource for medical students near the time they are applying for residency. It was well organized and covered the Match process sequentially, from choosing a residency, a time table, choosing an advisor, recommendation letters, interviews, and making your List, etc. I thought the coverage on "what are they [residency programs] looking for?" was particularly strong.

It has a chapter on special situations, but be aware that coverage for international graduates is very brief. It also doesn't cover a lot about choosing a specialty (I thought Anita Taylor's book on how to choose a medical specialty was best for that). It also doesn't cover a lot about strategizing the early medical school years, but that doesn't mean that a first or second year student couldn't benefit from it. I got this book right before starting medical school and matched at my first-choice ophthalmology residency, and this book was great help. Although coverage of some topics (such as for international graduates) was brief, its conciseness was a strong point when I didn't have a lot of time to read, enabling me to read it during my first year and "prime" myself for the match. I was also able to review it again during the interview/match process, and since it was not a heavy book, I was able to take it with me to interviews. This was a very worthwhile book for me.

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The Game Programmer's Guide to Torque: Under the Hood of the Torque Game Engine (GarageGames)

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The author takes readers on an in-depth walkthrough of the Torque Game Engine---one of the most popular, powerful, and easy to use game engines available today. With clear explanations of how to use Torque to create your own games and detailed discussions of the engine's inner workings, this book is a must read for any programmer interested in making games for fun or profit. It offers step-by-step examples, detailed system descriptions, in-depth references, practical tips, tricks, and more that provide readers all they need to understand the Torque Game Engine. See the Support page on the author's website for a revision of Chapter 15 (Torque Lighting). A CD is included with the book.

The Game Programmer's Guide to Torque: Under the Hood of the Torque Game Engine (GarageGames) Review

This book could have really been excellent with a little more work. It contains all the elements you'd want. A programming overview, a Torque overview, sections on the architecture of Torque, sections on torque script, really nice large reference sections, a step by step game project in torque, and lots more. Sounds great right? Well, it would be, except for the really poor organization of the book. Fully half of the book is not in the bound softcover book, but rather on the cdrom that accompanies it. To me this largely defeats the purpose of buying a book, since if I wanted to rely on online references I could always just go to the garagegames website.

The other part that really frustrates me about the book is that the book and the cdrom don't seem to be ingegrated well together. The book constantly references "the appendix", yet there is actually no appendix in the book. There are adobe acrobat documents on the cdrom named "appendix" yet they don't always contain the things that the book is referencing. Also the game project which is at the very heart of the book is also very disorganized. If you try to read the book and do the project, you won't be able to, because many of the steps needed are written about only in the appendix, and the book does not point those out.

So what's the bottom line, is the book worth getting? That is a tough call. Given that it is so disorganized, and carries such a high price tag, I'm tempted to say "no". But there really aren't many alternatives, and it does contain useful infrmation if you have enough patience to dig through it. You might check out the book: 3D Proramming All-In-One, which is also written about the torque engine. That book is much better organized and professionally put together, but the problem with that book is that it's based on an ancient version of Torque, and doesn't have near as much treatment of the Torque script language as this book.

One additional thing to be aware of: This book is certainly not aimed at those new to programming. If you are new to programming, I don't think this book will be of much use to you. If you are comfortable with C/C++/C#/Java, or something similar, you can get something out of the book if you try hard enough, but be prepared for a lot of frustration.

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Goal-directed Behavior (Frontiers of Social Psychology)

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This volume presents chapters from internationally renowned scholars in the area of goals and social behavior. The book is organized around a series of topics that are of critical importance to understanding the social-cognitive aspects of goal-directed behavior. In each chapter, the authors offer an introduction to past research on a specific topic and combine this with a presentation of their own empirical work to provide an integrated overview of the topic at hand. As a whole, this volume is designed to provide a broad portrait of goal research as it has been and is currently being conducted in the social psychological literature. It serves as an introduction to essential issues, while at the same time offering a sampling of cutting-edge research on core topics in the study of goal-directed behavior, such as how goals are represented, where goals come from, and what goals do in the process of regulation.

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Goal-directed Behavior (Frontiers of Social Psychology) Review

at first perusal, seems very well done. Haven't yet had the time to read and review. Will update this review when I can.

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