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Published online: 21 May 2020
Published in print: 16 September 2019
... subdivided, human well-being depends on assembling useful lumps and carving out useful slices. From hot-button issues like eminent domain and the sharing economy to personal struggles over the management of time, money, and diet, issues of aggregation and division abound. This book highlights the ubiquity...
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Revealing Comparative Advantage: Chaotic or Coherent Patterns across Time and Sector and U.S. Trading Partner?
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J. David Richardson and Chi Zhang
Published: 01 April 2001
... of the world, and the differences seem to have changed during the period 1980–1995. These differences look different at different levels of aggregation. The chapter compares U.S. exports in 1980 and 1995 to those of thirty-eight of its largest trading partners and rivals. These thirty-eight also form both...
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Counting the Dead: Risk and the Limits of Epidemiology
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Richard C. Keller
Published: 07 May 2015
... effect on victims like these, yet they remain at high risk. Finally, it examines how aggregate pictures of vulnerability stereotype victimhood. In the aftermath of the heat wave, it became easy to associate vulnerability with advanced age and poverty, but increasingly difficult to ascribe the deaths...
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Living with Complexity circa 1700
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Jonathan Sheehan and Dror Wahrman
Published: 20 April 2015
... of aggregation. accident complexity Defoe Daniel Ezekiel book of neologisms and changing meanings Oxford English Dictionary OED providence Scotland 1707 union with England wheels charity schools self organization credit Cudworth Ralph financial revolutions Gassendi Pierre Lucretius...
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Group Selection and the Origins of Life and Death
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Pierre M. Durand
Published: 09 December 2020
... relatedness between individuals was low, selection for groups of cooperating cells seems most likely. Selection may have acted upon traits that result from aggregation or emergence. Examples of the first instance are the population densities and frequencies of PCD that are critical for groups with PCD...