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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Routledge is now re-issuing this prestigious series of 204 volumes
originally published between 1910 and 1965. The titles include
works by key figures such asC.G. Jung, Sigmund Freud, Jean Piaget,
Otto Rank, James Hillman, Erich Fromm, Karen Horney and Susan
Isaacs. Each volume is available on its own, as part of a themed
mini-set, or as part of a specially-priced 204-volume set. A
brochure listing each title in the "International Library of
Psychology" series is available upon request.
First Published in 1999. This is Volume VII of a twenty-eight
volume library of psychology on Psychoanalysis. This book is an
essay on the Technique of Psycho-Analysis initially given as an
address to members of the Psycho-neurological Society in London
when the author was the Society president.
The last few decades have witnessed substantial liberalization
trends in various industries and countries. Starting with the
deregulation of the US airline industry in 1978, regulatory
restructuring took place in further network industries such as
telecommunications, electricity or railways in various countries
around the world. Although most of the liberalization movements
were initially triggered by the worrying performances of the
respective regulatory frameworks, increases in competition and
corresponding improvements in allocative and productive efficiency
were typically associated with the respective liberalization
efforts. From an academic perspective, the transition from
regulated industries to liberalized industries has attracted a
substantial amount of research reflected in many books and research
articles which can be distilled to three main questions: (1) What
are the forces that have given rise to regulatory reform? (2) What
is the structure of the regulatory change which has occurred to
date and is likely to occur in the immediate future? (3) What have
been the effects on industry efficiency, prices and profits of the
reforms which have occurred to date? Liberalization in Aviation
brings together renowned academics and practitioners from around
the world to address all three questions and draw policy
conclusions. The book is divided into five sections, in turn
dealing with aspects of competition in various liberalized markets,
the emergence and growth of low-cost carriers, horizontal mergers
and alliances, infrastructures, and concluding with economic
assessments of liberalization steps so far and proposed steps in
the future.
The break-up of BAA and the blocked takeover of Bratislava airport
by the competing Vienna airport have brought the issue of airport
competition to the top of the agenda for air transport policy in
Europe. Airport Competition reviews the current state of the debate
and asks whether airport competition is strong enough to
effectively limit market power. It provides evidence on how
travellers chose an airport, thereby altering its competitive
position, and on how airports compete in different regions and
markets. The book also discusses the main policy implications of
mergers and subsidies.
The break-up of BAA and the blocked takeover of Bratislava airport
by the competing Vienna airport have brought the issue of airport
competition to the top of the agenda for air transport policy in
Europe. Airport Competition reviews the current state of the debate
and asks whether airport competition is strong enough to
effectively limit market power. It provides evidence on how
travellers chose an airport, thereby altering its competitive
position, and on how airports compete in different regions and
markets. The book also discusses the main policy implications of
mergers and subsidies.
This tour d'horizon book reviews airport regulation and competition
in different regions of the world and contrasts different policy
perspectives. Organized in four parts, the first three examine, in
turn, Australasia, North America, and Europe, while the last
section looks at the institutional reforms that have taken place in
these regions. The book covers the regulation of airports, and
competition in different regions, as well as privatization policy,
the interaction between airports and airlines, and regional
economic impacts. It also examines the linkages between governance
structures and forms of regulation. The book's global sweep
embraces all the large aviation markets, bringing together the
ideas and challenges of academic economists, airlines, airport
managers, consultants and government regulators. As well as looking
at different methods, degrees and paradigms of regulation it also
spells out the stress-points, in a way that makes essential reading
for airport operators, airline operations staff, as well as
academic economists concerned with transport studies. It also
offers interesting reading and important lessons for those
concerned with regulation of the utility industries such as,
telecommunications, water and power generation and distribution -
where infrastructure can be subject to natural monopoly
characteristics and where firms competing in downstream markets are
dependent on the investment and operational strategies of the
upstream infrastructure operator.
Diana E. Forsythe was a leading anthropologist of science,
technology, and work, and especially of the field of artificial
intelligence. This volume collects her best-known essays, along
with other major works that remained unpublished upon her death in
1997.
The essays proceed as a series of developing variations on the key
questions that still confront science and technology studies today.
What assumptions do expert systems designers make about users, and
about knowledge more broadly, when they build software? How should
humans interact with computers, and how do they, really? Why do
computing firms hire anthropologists to study human-computer
interaction, and what do anthropologists find once they are hired?
And how and why are traditional power asymmetries between men and
women produced and maintained in engineering firms and
laboratories?
The book is not only a significant anthropological study of
artificial intelligence and informatics, but is also an exemplar of
how reflexive ethnography should be done. Among several pioneering
strands of thought, it investigates the roles of gender and power
in computer engineering, looking at the cultural mechanisms that
support the persistent male domination of engineering, and
analyzing the laboratory as a fictive kin group that reproduces
gender asymmetries.
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