Cornell University Library ebooks

Posted by Celia Walter | 15 May, 2009
Cornell University Library ebooks
This section of the Internet Archive provides free access to several thousand full text out of copyright books digitised from Cornell University Libraries. Digitization was sponsored by Microsoft Corporation, and scanning done on Kirtas scanners. OCR and derivative formats created by the Internet Archive. They include many classic and rare books covering a wide range of subject areas from the humanities, arts and social sciences. Topics include anthropology, historical gazettes, philosophy, European and American history and literature. There are large collections of materials on the American civil war, French revolution and early history of the founding of the American political system. The site can be browsed or searched by keyword. Information on copyright policy is displayed. From Intute.ac.uk
http://www.archive.org/details/cornell

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Predictably Irrational [web site]: topics include "The fallacy of supply and demand"

Posted by Celia Walter | 15 May, 2009
Predictably irrational
Predictably Irrational is a website that accompanies the book of the same title written by Dan Ariely, a Professor of Behavioral Economics at Duke and MIT. It is an "attempt to take research findings in behavioral economics and describe them in non academic terms so that more people will learn about this type of research, discover the excitement of this field, and possibly use some of the insights to enrich their own lives". The website includes videos supporting each chapter on topics such as, the fallacy of supply and demand, the effect of expectations and the power of price. The site also includes links to a large selection of academic papers on behavioural economics that detail the research that the book is based upon, a blog that relates subjects in the book to topical events, test yourself exercises / visual illusions and selected chapter excerpts. From Intute.ac.uk
http://www.predictablyirrational.com/

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