Product Description: As the systems which form the fabric of modern society become more complex and more interdependent, the need for the understanding of the behavior of such systems becomes increasingly more essential. What are the causes and possible cures for the worldwide inflation which is posing a serious threat to the economic stability and social order of both developed and underdeveloped countries? What are the trade-offs between the urgent need for additional sources of energy and the risks posed by the proliferation of nuclear reactors? How can one devise mass transportation systems which are fast, comforta­ ble, convenient, and yet not prohibitively expensive? These issues are but some of the more visible problems posed by what might be called the crisis of undercoordination--a crisis rooted in the widen­ ing gap between the degree of interdependence in the systems of modern society and the degree of coordination which libertarian societies are willing to tolerate...read more

Product Description: Excerpt from the Preface: This volume contains contributions representing some of the major directions of recent modeling efforts, beginning with a focus on criminal (or delinquent) careers and their restraint. Chapter 1 by Greene and Stollmack contains a basic attempt to estimate the size of the offender population...read more

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Product Description: Keeping a Finger on the Public Pulse: Private Polling and Presidential Elections (Contributions in Women's Studies #72) [ Keeping a Finger on the Public Pulse: Private Polling and Presidential Elections (Contributions in Women's Studies #72) by Altschuler, Bruce E ( Author ) Hardcover Apr- 1982 ] Hardcover Apr- 29- 198...read more

Product Description: In this book two ethical systems are described in the language of mathematics. Ordinarily mathematics is thought to be a science of quantity. Indeed, manipulation of quantities constitutes much of mathematics. Elementary applied mathematics deals with reckoning and measurement, where concrete quantities are objects of attention, such as counting sheep or weighing corno But the operations on these quantities are performed with the help of symbols, from which concrete referents have been 'abstracted out': 3 + 5 = 8 regardless of whether the symbols stand for numbers of sheep or tons of corno Thus, the first principle that exhibits the power of mathematics is abstraction...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This is the paperback edition of the classic Conceptualization and Measurement in the Social Sciences, first published in hardback in 1982. Blalock challenges social scientists to move beyond simple manipulation of numbers, for he believes that significant advances in methods are impossible without conceptual developments to give them meaning...read more

Product Description: Book by Byron, David