Download or read book The Missing Links written by James E. Rauch and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 2007-08-16 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Half of all workers are hired through personal referrals, and networks of social connections channel the flows of capital, technology, and international trade. Sociologists and economists alike recognize that economic exchange is shaped by social networks, which propagate information and facilitate trust, but each discipline brings a distinct theoretical perspective to the study of networks. Sociologists have focused on how networks shape individual behavior, economists on how individual choices shape networks. The Missing Links is a bold effort by an interdisciplinary group of scholars to synthesize sociological and economic theories of how economic networks emerge and evolve. Interweaving sophisticated theoretical models and concrete case studies, The Missing Links is both an introduction to the study of economic networks and a catalyst for further research. Economists Rachel Kranton and Deborah Minehart illustrate their field's approach to modeling network formation, showing how manufacturers form networks of suppliers in ways that maximize profits. Exemplifying the sociological approach, Ronald Burt analyzes patterns of cooperation and peer evaluations among colleagues at a financial organization. He finds that dense connections of shared acquaintances lead to more stable reputations. In the latter half of the book, contributors combine the insights of sociology and economics to explore a series of case studies. Ray Reagans, Ezra Zuckerman, and Bill McEvily investigate an R & D firm in which employees participate in overlapping collaborative teams, allowing the authors to disentangle the effects of network structure and individual human capital on team performance. Kaivan Munshi and Mark Rosenzweig examine how economic development and rising inequality in India are reshaping caste-based networks of mutual insurance and job referrals. Their study shows that people's economic decisions today are shaped both by the legacy of the caste hierarchies and by the particular incentives and constraints that each individual faces in an evolving labor market. Economic globalization is forging new connections between people in distant corners of the world, while unsettling long-standing social relations. Anyone interested in understanding the opportunities and challenges of this era of rapid change will find a highly informative guide in The Missing Links.
Download or read book Bang Your Head written by Dewey Robertson and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written with candor and the wisdom of experience, this account tells of struggles with substance--and with self--and of strength both in and out of the ring for the wrestler known as The Missing Link.
Download or read book Billions of Missing Links written by Simmons, Geoffrey and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Global Value Chains and the Missing Links written by Saon Ray and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global value chains (GVCs) are fraught with the phenomenon of fragmentation and dispersion of production across the world. India presents a unique example with its high potential in manufacturing capability but low integration in GVCs. This book examines the reasons why India has failed to integrate within GVCs so far and looks at key examples to understand the impediments in this process. The chapters bring together case studies from across the manufacturing industry – labour-intensive (garment, paper and diamond), capital-intensive (automobile and petrochemical), and knowledge-intensive (semi-conductor microchip, chemical and pharmaceutical) sectors. Together, they present stories of successful integration of some firms in GVCs as well as the difficulties faced by them. The volume also highlights the importance of GVCs in the context of developing countries in terms of benefits such as income and value generation, knowledge and technology collaborations, and advances in systems and processes. This book will interest scholars and researchers in economics, international trade studies, development economics and business management as well as to practitioners, policymakers, government officials, and those in the corporate sector.
Download or read book Missing Links written by John Reader and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Missing Links written by Jeremy Rich and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2012-01-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeremy Rich uses the eccentric life of R. L. Garner (1848-1920) to examine the commercial networks that brought the first apes to America during the Progressive Era, a critical time in the development of ideas about African wildlife, race, and evolution. Garner was a self-taught zoologist and atheist from southwest Virginia. Starting in 1892, he lived on and off in the French colony of Gabon, studying primates and trying to engage U.S. academics with his theories. Most prominently, Garner claimed that he could teach apes to speak human languages and that he could speak the languages of primates. Garner brought some of the first live primates to America, launching a traveling demonstration in which he claimed to communicate with a chimpanzee named Susie. He was often mocked by the increasingly professionalized scientific community, who were wary of his colorful escapades, such as his ill-fated plan to make a New York City socialite the queen of southern Gabon, and his efforts to convince Thomas Edison to finance him in Africa. Yet Garner did influence evolutionary debates, and as with many of his era, race dominated his thinking. Garner's arguments--for example, that chimpanzees were more loving than Africans, or that colonialism constituted a threat to the separation of the races--offer a fascinating perspective on the thinking and attitudes of his times. Missing Links explores the impact of colonialism on Africans, the complicated politics of buying and selling primates, and the popularization of biological racism.
Download or read book Missing Links written by John Reader and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2011-10-27 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previous eds. published as: Missing links: the hunt for earliest man.
Download or read book Money and Sustainability written by Bernard Lietaer and published by Triarchy Press. This book was released on 2012-05-30 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A report from the Club of Rome - EU Chapter to Finance Watch and the World Business Academy. Foreword by Dennis Meadows, co-author of the 1972 Club of Rome report The Limits to Growth.
Download or read book Fourth World written by Kate Thompson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2006-04-18 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen-year-old Christie and his older stepbrother, Danny, travel to the home and mysterious laboratory of the elder boy's scientist mother, where they learn a shocking truth about the nature of her experiments.
Download or read book Missing Link written by Frank Herbert and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-03-25 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Missing Link" is vintage Frank Herbert. It tells the story of Lewis Orne, junior I-A field man, on the planet Gienah III. He is there to investigate a missing ship, and the natives are nothing but trouble... Originally published in "Astounding Science Fiction" under the editorship of John W. Campbell, Jr., here is a tale from the Golden Age of Science Fiction!
Download or read book The Case of the Missing Links written by Christopher King and published by . This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Case of the Missing Links written by Lee Tyler and published by Daniel & Daniel Publishers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Golfing sleuths Harry Win Winslow and June Jacobs have to solve a mystery in Pebble Beach, the mecca for golf fanatics. At first the problem seems simple: Somebody has stolen the route plan for a golf course from Moore's architecture firm. Was it the assistant designer, the agronomist, the business manager (Moore's former mistress), the office gofer (Moore's current mistress)? Or was it a rival, a rabid environmentalist, or maybe even his own wife?At first it's an easy par-three case -- a little sleuthing with enough time for a few rounds at Pebble Beach -- until Moore turns up dead. All of a sudden the sleuth's hole-in-one just hit a sand-trap.Set in the spectacular scenery along Seventeen Mile Drive, this is a whodunit for anyone who loves golf(an estimated 24 million ) -- and everyone who loves a good yarn filled with humor, suspense, romance, danger -- and a wicked slice.
Download or read book Final Judgment written by Michael Collins Piper and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Networks and Markets written by James E. Rauch and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 2001-06-21 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Networks and Markets argues that economists' knowledge of markets and sociologists' rich understanding of networks can and should be combined. Together they can help us achieve a more coherent view of economic life, where transactions follow both the logic of economic incentives and the established channels of personal relationships. Market exchange is impersonal, episodic, and carried out at arm's length. All that matters is how much the seller is asking, and how much the buyer is offering. An economic network, by contrast, is based upon more personalized and enduring relationships between people tied together by more than just price. Networks and Markets focuses on how the two concepts relate to each other: Are social networks an essential precondition for successful markets, or do networks arise naturally out of markets, as faceless traders build reputations and gain confidence in each other? The book includes contributions by both sociologists and economists, applying the concepts of markets and networks to concrete empirical phenomena. Among the topics analyzed, the book explains how, in Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan, firms combine into tightly-knit business blocs, how wholesalers in a Marseille fish market earn the loyalty of customers, and how ethnic retailers in the U.S. share valuable market information with other shopkeepers from their ethnic group. A response to each chapter discusses the issue from the standpoint of the other discipline. Sociologists are challenged to go beyond small-scale economic exchange and to integrate their concept of networks into a broader understanding of the economic system as a whole, while economists are challenged to consider the economic implications of network ties, which can be strong or weak, unconditional or highly contingent. This book proves that both economics and sociology provide stronger insights when they study markets and networks as parallel forms of exchange. But it also clarifies the healthy division of labor that remains between the two disciplines. Sociologists are adept at showing how markets are framed by social institutions; economists specialize in explaining how markets perform, taking the social context as a given. Networks and Markets showcases what each discipline does best and reveals where each discipline would do better by borrowing from the other.
Download or read book The Missing Link written by Lee Meadows and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For too long, evolution has been denied its place in the science curriculum. School policies driven by misunderstanding or fea regularly displace widely recognized principles of science. But without understanding evolution, students--no matter what their religious beliefs--will never achieve the level of scientific literacy they need to make sense of even everyday practicalities like how human viruses work. In The Missing Link, Lee Meadows has crafted an approach to teaching evolution that helps students understand its explanatory power whether they accept its principles or not. All students are invited to engage in inquiry, where questions, evidence, and exploration supplant values-based debates over right and wrong answers. Teachers will find the tools and resources they need to develop a unit on evolution including: an overview of inquiry-based science teaching outlines for lesson plans a plethora of internet resources. An appendix also provides a refresher course for teachers who may want to sharpen their content knowledge of evolution. And a study guide makes this ideal for book study groups. Bring The Missing Link to your teaching and keep the doors to science open for all your students.
Download or read book X Men Legends Vol 1 written by Fabian Nicieza and published by Marvel Entertainment. This book was released on 2021-11-24 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects X-Men Legends (2021) #1-6. Legendary X-Men creators craft all-new, in-continuity stories set during their fan-favorite runs! Break out the yellows and blues, fire up the Danger Room and prepare for a return to the classic eras of the X-Men! Fabian Nicieza kicks things off with a special saga of Cyclops and Havok as the Shi’ar hunt the Forsaken One! When the Summers brothers search for answers, the full truth behind Adam-X’s lineage is revealed in a story nearly 30 years in the making! Then, Louise and Walter Simonson once again pit the original X-Factor against their arch-nemesis Apocalypse — plus an unexpected face from the team’s past! And Peter David returns to his fan-favorite team of Havok, Polaris, Wolfsbane, Strong Guy, Quicksilver and Madrox! Mutants have taken hostages at the Latverian Embassy, and the blame is falling on X-Factor!
Download or read book The Missing Link written by Kate Thompson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-01-30 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Danny has always believed that his scientist mother is dead. But when a talking dog tells him it isn't true, Danny sets out on a mission to find his mother and her hidden laboratory in Fourth World. But Danny is locked in his own world, so he will need the help of his step-brother Christie, if he is to succeed. After a long and difficult journey the boys discover that Danny's mother is involved in some complex genetic engineering, and she holds the key to Danny's past and his future.
