Instant Economics: Key Thinkers, Theories, Discoveries and Concepts, Orrell David
Автор: Orrell David Название: Future of Everything: The Science of Prediction ISBN: 1568583699 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781568583693 Издательство: Little Brown Рейтинг: Цена: 27580.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Hurricane Katrina, the internet stock bubble, disease outbreaks -- are these predictable, preventable events, or are we merely the playthings of chaos? A compelling, irreverent, elegantly written history of our future that addresses the most important issues of our time, Apollo's Arrow examines such questions as: How well can we predict the future? Can past discoveries help us understand tomorrow's weather patterns, or tell us what our financial future will look like? Will scientists ever be able to forecast catastrophes, or will we always be at the mercy of Mother Nature, waiting for the next storm, epidemic, or economic crash to thunder through our lives? David Orrell looks back to show us how past scientists (and some charlatans) predicted the future, and where we are on the path to truly understanding what comes next. He asks how today's scientists can claim to predict future climate events when even three-day forecasts prove a serious challenge. Can we predict and control epidemics? Can we accurately foresee our financial future? Or will we only find out about tomorrow when tomorrow arrives?
Автор: Orrell David Название: Quantum Economics: The New Science of Money ISBN: 1785785087 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781785785085 Издательство: TBS/GBS Рейтинг: Цена: 17150.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The emerging science of quantum economics can help us create a `real-world` economics that actually works for us all
The word "quantum" is from the Latin for "how much" and in this book mathematician David Orrell shows how it applies to the world of economic transactions. Written in clear and accessible language, the book covers the essential mathematics behind topics such as quantum cognition, option pricing, and quantum game theory, and delves into the nuts and bolts of quantum mechanics, the principles of quantum economic modelling, and the basics of quantum computer logic. On the way the reader will learn how quantum interference can be used to model cognitive dissonance, how a quantum walk goes further than a random walk, and how financial entanglement explains the rate of mortgage default. It is aimed at anyone who wants to understand the quantum ideas working their way into economics and finance, without getting drowned in wave equations.
As interest in quantum computing grows, many companies from established banks to startups are looking at ways to perform financial simulations using quantum algorithms. But what if we should be using quantum models anyway - because the monetary system has quantum properties of its own, and because they work?
David Orrell is an applied mathematician with extensive experience in mathematical modelling, and the author of a dozen books on science and economics.
Автор: Orrell David Название: A Brief History of Money: 4000 Years of Markets, Currencies, Debt and Crisis ISBN: 178739445X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781787394452 Издательство: Carlton Books Рейтинг: Цена: 21120.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The story and history of money, finance and economics but also its interaction with people, governments and society.
Автор: Daniel Orrells Название: Imperious Passions: Greek Love, Empire and Orientalism at the Fin de Siecle ISBN: 178093789X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781780937892 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 68640.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: The significance of Greek pederasty for the invention and realisation of modern, western male homosexual identity has interested several scholars recently (see Dowling (1994), Evangelista (2009), Orrells (2011)). While acknowledging the importance of such scholarship, Imperious Passions argues that discussions about, and examinations of, Greek love in the 1880s and 1890s are best contextualised within the so-called new imperialism of late nineteenth-century Britain, which witnessed the expansion of the empire at an unprecedented rate. At this time, relations between coloniser and colonised, civilised and barbarian, were profoundly debated, questioned and contested.
Автор: Daniel Orrells Название: Sex: Antiquity and Its Legacy ISBN: 1848855192 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781848855199 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 95040.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: This divertingly readable book explores the contested relationships between ancient and modern ideas about sex and the erotic, encompassing homosexuality, paedophilia, auto-eroticism, cybersex and bestiality. The author shows why the very definition of what sex is has changed radically between ancient and modern times.
