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Beyond Sovereignty: Issues for a Global Agenda

Author: Maryann Cusimano Lov

Beyond Sovereignty takes a fully revised, post-September 11th look at the pressing global issues that sovereign nation-states cannot solve alone-including terrorism, disease, refugees, nuclear smuggling, environmental problems, cyber threats, international crime, and drug trafficking. Maryann Cusimano Love helps readers put the events of September 11th into the larger context of globalization, challenges to globalization, the rise of non-state actors and transsovereign problems, and the difficulties of managing cross-border problems in a world of sovereign states. Throughout, the author argues that global issues go beyond sovereign borders-and therefore, that solutions must also go beyond sovereignty.

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Economics Lab: An Intensive Course In Experimental Economics

Author: Dan Friedman

Laboratory experiments with human subjects provide crucial data in most fields of economics. There has been a tremendous upsurge in interest in this relatively new field of economics.

This textbook is an introduction to the world of experimental economics. Contributors such as Reinhard Selten and Axel Leijonhufvud add to a book that begins with an exploration of the history of experimental economics before moving on to describing how to set up an economics experiment and surveying selected applications and the latest methods. This user-friendly book demonstrates how students can use the lessons learned within it to conduct original research.

With their free-flowing, discursive yet precise style, Friedman and Cassar have created a book that will be simply essential to students of experimental economics across the world. Thanks to its authoritative content, the book will also find its way onto every respectable economists bookshelf.

Table of Contents:

	List of illustrations
	List of contributors
	Acknowledgments
Pt. I	Introductions	1
	An intensive course in experimental economics	3
1	The Trento Summer School : adaptive economic dynamics	5
2	Economists go to the laboratory : who, what, when, and why	12
Pt. II	Laboratory methods	23
3	First principles : induced value theory	25
4	The art of experimental design	32
5	Dialogues with the data	38
6	Do it : running a laboratory session	65
7	Finish what you started : project management	75
Pt. III	Applications	81
8	Markets	83
9	Auctions	92
10	Oligopoly	105
11	Games	115
12	Learning direction theory and impulse balance equilibrium	133
13	Imitation equilibrium	141
14	Choice anomalies	148
15	Policy analysis and institutional engineering	161
Pt. IV	Student projects	171
16	An asset market experiment	173
17	Bifurcation in a stock market experiment	179
18	Price instability and search	187
19	Animal-spirits cycles	195
20	The restart effect	202
21	Zone of agreement bias in integrative negotiation	210
22	Culture from scratch : evolution of an experiment	220
	Index	229