Coordination, Cooperation, and Control - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Coordination, Cooperation, and Control write by Randall G. Holcombe. This book was released on 2020-07-23. Coordination, Cooperation, and Control available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. There are two ways people coordinate their actions: through cooperation, exercised by economic power, and through control, exercised by political power. When economic and political power are held by the same people, the result is stagnation; when those who hold economic power are not the same people who hold political power, the result is progress. This book presents the ways in which economic power and political power can be separated, and how they can remain so, by analyzing the nature of power and the differences between economic and political power. The book then discusses the history of economic and political power, including hunter-gatherer societies, agrarian societies, and modern commercial and industrial societies. This background lends insight into why political and economic power were typically held by the same people, and why recently those without political power have been able to acquire economic power. Incentives play a key role in understanding how those two types of power can become separated, and why there is always a tendency for them to recombine. But ideas also play a crucial role, including the influence of the Enlightenment, on the progress that has occurred in the last several hundred years.
The Cambridge Rawls Lexicon
The Cambridge Rawls Lexicon - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cambridge Rawls Lexicon write by Jon Mandle. This book was released on 2014-12-11. The Cambridge Rawls Lexicon available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. John Rawls is widely regarded as one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century, and his work has permanently shaped the nature and terms of moral and political philosophy, deploying a robust and specialized vocabulary that reaches beyond philosophy to political science, economics, sociology, and law. This volume is a complete and accessible guide to Rawls' vocabulary, with over 200 alphabetical encyclopaedic entries written by the world's leading Rawls scholars. From 'basic structure' to 'burdened society', from 'Sidgwick' to 'strains of commitment', and from 'Nash point' to 'natural duties', the volume covers the entirety of Rawls' central ideas and terminology, with illuminating detail and careful cross-referencing. It will be an essential resource for students and scholars of Rawls, as well as for other readers in political philosophy, ethics, political science, sociology, international relations and law.
Cooperative Control
Cooperative Control - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cooperative Control write by Vijay Kumar. This book was released on 2004-10-20. Cooperative Control available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Are there universal principles of coordinated group motion and if so what might they be? This carefully edited book presents how natural groupings such as fish schools, bird flocks, deer herds etc. coordinate themselves and move so flawlessly, often without an apparent leader or any form of centralized control. It shows how the underlying principles of cooperative control may be used for groups of mobile autonomous agents to help enable a large group of autonomous robotic vehicles in the air, on land or sea or underwater, to collectively accomplish useful tasks such as distributed, adaptive scientific data gathering, search and rescue, or reconnaissance.
Defending Planet Earth
Defending Planet Earth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Defending Planet Earth write by National Research Council. This book was released on 2010-07-21. Defending Planet Earth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The United States spends approximately $4 million each year searching for near-Earth objects (NEOs). The objective is to detect those that may collide with Earth. The majority of this funding supports the operation of several observatories that scan the sky searching for NEOs. This, however, is insufficient in detecting the majority of NEOs that may present a tangible threat to humanity. A significantly smaller amount of funding supports ways to protect the Earth from such a potential collision or "mitigation." In 2005, a Congressional mandate called for NASA to detect 90 percent of NEOs with diameters of 140 meters of greater by 2020. Defending Planet Earth: Near-Earth Object Surveys and Hazard Mitigation Strategies identifies the need for detection of objects as small as 30 to 50 meters as these can be highly destructive. The book explores four main types of mitigation including civil defense, "slow push" or "pull" methods, kinetic impactors and nuclear explosions. It also asserts that responding effectively to hazards posed by NEOs requires national and international cooperation. Defending Planet Earth: Near-Earth Object Surveys and Hazard Mitigation Strategies is a useful guide for scientists, astronomers, policy makers and engineers.
Coordination and Cooperation in Complex Adaptive Systems: Theory and Application
Coordination and Cooperation in Complex Adaptive Systems: Theory and Application - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Coordination and Cooperation in Complex Adaptive Systems: Theory and Application write by Xiaojie Chen. This book was released on 2019-07-31. Coordination and Cooperation in Complex Adaptive Systems: Theory and Application available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. During the past decade, plenty of studies have been carried out in the literature to address the coordination and cooperation problems in complex adaptive systems, and have continued to grow. This Research Topic eBook publishes 14 papers by 39 authors, and most of these published papers present current research illustrating the depth and breadth of ongoing work on the coordination and cooperation problems in complex adaptive systems. It thus provides a timely discussion for researchers on the hotspots and challenges of the study on coordination and cooperation in theoretical models and applied systems.
