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Fishburn, Peter Clingerman was born on September 2, 1936 in Philipsburg, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Hummel and Rebecca Hicks (Clingerman) Fishburn.
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Approval voting systems; Congresses; Elections; General; Mathematics; Non-Fiction; Political Process; Political Science; Science; Set Theory; United States; Voting; Voting, Plural
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This book presents a simple and logical potential electoral reform. Under this system, voters may vote for, or approve of, as many candidates as they like in multicandidate elections. Among the many benefits of approval voting are its propensity to elect the majority candidate, its relative invulnerability to insincere or strategic voting, and a probable increase in voter turnout.
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It has long been recognized that an improved standard of living results from advances in technology, not from the accumulation of capital. It has also become clear that what truly separates developed from less-developed countries is not just a gap in resources or output but a gap in knowledge. In fact, the pace at which developing countries grow is largely a function of the pace at which they close that gap. Thus, to understand how countries grow and develop, it is essential to know how they learn and become more productive and what government can do to promote learning. In Creating a Learning Society, Joseph E. Stiglitz and Bruce C. Greenwald cast light on the significance of this insight for economic theory and policy. Taking as a starting point Kenneth J. Arrow's 1962 paper "Learning by Doing," they explain why the production of knowledge differs from that of other goods and why market economies alone typically do not produce and transmit knowledge efficiently. Closing knowledge gaps and helping laggards learn are central to growth and development. But creating a learning society is equally crucial if we are to sustain improved living standards in advanced countries. Combining accessible prose with technical economic analysis, Stiglitz and Greenwald provide new models of "endogenous growth," up-ending the thinking about both domestic and global policy and trade regimes. They show how well-designed government trade and industrial policies can help create a learning society, and how poorly designed intellectual property regimes can retard learning. They also explain how virtually every government policy has effects, both positive and negative, on learning, a fact that policymakers must recognize. They demonstrate why many standard policy prescriptions, especially those associated with "neoliberal" doctrines focusing on static resource allocations, have impeded learning. Among the provocative implications are that free trade may lead to stagnation whereas broad-based industrial protection and exchange rate interventions may bring benefits--not just to the industrial sector, but to the entire economy. The volume concludes with brief commentaries from Philippe Aghion and Michael Woodford, as well as from Nobel Laureates Kenneth J. Arrow and Robert M. Solow.
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During his life, Rich Mullins challenged the sensibilities of what it means to follow Jesus in today's world, and now in his death, he challenges all to build upon his legacy of joy, compassion, brokenness, unblinking honesty, and wonder of an Awesome God
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The Life & Revelations of Sr. Mary of St. Peter (1816-1848) on Devotion to the Holy Face of Jesus. At Tours, France, she received this devotion from Our Lord 1) to fight Communism, 2) to make reparation, 3) to be an unfailing tool of prayer. Approved worldwide. Impr. 246 pgs, PB
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A large family migrated over from Europe in the early 1700's and settled in Pennsylvania. After some time one of the sons, Marcus Boylan, and his family decided to join others to travel and settle the frontier. Disaster struck when two young boys were stolen by Indians, one being Marcus' son George. This is a true account of his life with this Indian tribe, his eventual escape and journey back home.
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Using declassified government material James C. Oskins and Michael H. Maggelet have written the most comprehensive and detailed study of the thirty six known U.S. nuclear weapons accidents, known as "Broken Arrows". The authors have poured through government documents, aircraft accident reports, nuclear weapon incident and accident reports, and first hand accounts to shed light on the Department of Defense's vague summaries of nuclear weapons accidents. Their research dispels myths surrounding the Tybee and Goldsboro accidents, and provides great insight into the human element and the condition of individual weapons and AEC or DOD recovery operations regarding nearly every Broken Arrow. The underlying cause of such accidents, be it human error or equipment malfunction, is clearly shown in formerly secret reports and photographs.
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Fishburn, Peter Clingerman was born on September 2, 1936 in Philipsburg, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Hummel and Rebecca Hicks (Clingerman) Fishburn.
Bachelor of Arts (Industrial Engineering) Pennsylvania State University, 1958. Doctor of Philosophy (Operations Research), Case Institute, Institution, Technology, 1962.
Technical Staff, Research Analysis Corporation, McLean, Virginia, 1964-1970. Visiting Lector, Technical University Denmark, 1967. Member, Institute, Institution Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, 1970-1971.
Research Professor Management Science, Pennsylvania State University, 1971-1978. Technical Staff, Mathematics Sciences Research Center, American Telephones & Telegraph Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey, United States of America, since 1978. Editorial Board, Econometrica,
1972-1978, Operations Research, 1974-1978, Annals Statistics, 1974-1980, Theory & Decision, since 1974, Mathematics Operations Research,
1975- SIAMJ. Applied Mathematics, 1976-1983,
J.Mathematics Psychol., since 1977, Discrete Applied Mathematics, since 1978, Journal of Economic Theory, since 1978, Mathematics Social Science, since 1979, Order, since 1982, Social Choice and Welfare,
1982 - Naval Research Logistics Quarterly, since 1982, Annals Operations Research, 1983.
( During his life, Rich Mullins challenged the sensibilit...)
( One fundamental premise of democratic theory is that so...)
(Approval voting systems; Congresses; Elections; General; ...)
(This book was originally published prior to 1923, and rep...)
( It has long been recognized that an improved standard o...)
(A large family migrated over from Europe in the early 170...)
( This book presents a simple and logical potential elect...)
(This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. T...)
(Using declassified government material James C. Oskins an...)
( The Life & Revelations of Sr. Mary of St. Peter (1816-1...)
(Statistics)
My early work focussed on expected utility theory (von Neumann & Morgenstern, Savage) and decision theory, including axiomatisations, analyses with incomplete information, and multivariate models. This led naturally to social choice theory in the late 1960s, and during the 1970s my research was divided about evenly between individual decision theory and social choice theory. These interests continue today, and in the early 1980s have involved concentrated efforts on new nonlinear utility theories and the practical assessment of alternative election schemes.
Concurrently, I have become more interested in several areas of discrete mathematics, includ
ing partially ordered sets and graph theory. These latter interests threaten to dominate the earlier interests but have not yet succeeded in doing so.
Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, Econometric Society, institute Mathematics Statistics. Member Institute Operations Research and Management Science (Frank P. Ramsey medal 1987, John von Neumann prize 1996), Society Mathematics Psychology, Mathematics Association American, American Mathematics Society.
Married Janet Louise Forsythe, August 23, 1958. Children: Susan, Katherine Fishburn Miller, Sally.