Book Reviews : Åke Sandberg et al.: Technological Change and Co-determination in Sweden. Foreword by Andrew Martin. Temple University Press, 1992

1993 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 158-160
Author(s):  
Inga Hellberg
2016 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 589-591

Dimitrios Diamantaras of Temple University reviews “An Introduction to the Theory of Mechanism Design,” by Tilman Börgers. The Econlit abstract of this book begins: “Presents explanations of classic results in the theory of mechanism design and examines the frontiers of research in mechanism design in a text written for advanced undergraduate and graduate students of economics who have a good understanding of game theory. Discusses screening; examples of Bayesian mechanism design; examples of dominant strategy mechanisms; incentive compatibility; Bayesian mechanism design; dominant strategy mechanisms; nontransferable utility; informational interdependence; robust mechanism design; and dynamic mechanism design. Börgers is Samuel Zell Professor of the Economics of Risk at the University of Michigan.”


2005 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-225

Manufacturing Suburbs , by Robert Lewis ( ed. ). Philadelphia : Temple University Press , 2004 . 304 pp . ISBN 1‐59213‐085‐2 ( cloth ) $68.50. ISBN 1‐59213‐086‐0 ( paper ) $24.95. Hollow City: The Siege of San Francisco and the Crisis of American Urbanism , by Rebecca Solnit and Susan Schwartzenberg . New York , NY : Verso , 2002 . 182 pp . ISBN 1‐85984‐363‐8 ( cloth ) $20.00 . Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Fear and Fantasy in Suburban Los Angeles , by Eric Avila . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2004 . Volume 13 in the American Crossroads Series , edited by Earl Lewis, George Lipsitz, Peggy Pascoe, George Sánchez, and Dana Tagaki . 308 pp . ISBN 0‐520‐24121‐5 ( cloth ) $39.95 . Challenges for Rural America in the Twenty‐First Century , by David Brown and Louis Swanson ( eds .). State College , PA : Pennsylvania State University Press , 2003 . 513 pp ., NPL . Home Ownership and Social Inequality in Comparative Perspective , by Karin Kurz and Hans‐Peter Blossfeld ( eds. ). Stanford , California : Stanford University Press , 2004 . 385 pp . ISBN 0‐8047‐4851‐9 ( cloth ) $70.00 .


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