Prescription Games

Author : Jeffrey Robinson
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prescription Games written by Jeffrey Robinson and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2001 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The major pharmaceutical companies, according to John le Carré – who has based his novel The Constant Gardener on their depredations – “are engaged in the systematic corruption of the medical profession, country by country.” Jeffrey Robinson can back up that charge. In Prescription Games, Jeffrey Robinson exposes the yawning abyss between the claims to altruism made by pharmaceutical companies and the harsh reality of their everyday practice. When the industry claims that the enormous markup they charge for new drugs pays the cost of developing new ones, they don’t say that as much as 80 per cent of R&D money is actually directed at developing drugs designed to compete with existing brands, or at creating variations on drugs whose patents are about to expire – expenditures only the industry itself (and its shareholders) will benefit from. Within the industry, there are “blockbuster” drugs that create vast wealth for the companies that manufacture them. Most are designed to treat conditions that are endemic among prosperous, western populations that can afford them. But there are no blockbuster drugs to treat diseases like tuberculosis, cholera, and malaria that ravage the Third World, because Third World countries can’t afford the prices. People in Africa and Asia die from new strains of tuberculosis while people in Europe and North America are offered expensive treatments for obesity, hair loss, and sexual dysfunction. In this hard-hitting exposé, Robinson also examines the extension of patent protection, the end of generic drug competition in Canada, the Nancy Olivieri scandal (how a drug manufacturer fought to conceal research findings that would damage sales of its product), the illicit drug trade, and espionage among drug manufacturers.

Author : XY. Brams
Publisher : Physica
ISBN 13 : 3662415011
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Applied Game Theory written by XY. Brams and published by Physica. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Prajit K. Dutta
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262368501
Total Pages : 713 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strategies and Games, second edition written by Prajit K. Dutta and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2022-08-09 with total page 713 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new edition of a widely used introduction to game theory and its applications, with a focus on economics, business, and politics. This widely used introduction to game theory is rigorous but accessible, unique in its balance between the theoretical and the practical, with examples and applications following almost every theory-driven chapter. In recent years, game theory has become an important methodological tool for all fields of social sciences, biology and computer science. This second edition of Strategies and Games not only takes into account new game theoretical concepts and applications such as bargaining and matching, it also provides an array of chapters on game theory applied to the political arena. New examples, case studies, and applications relevant to a wide range of behavioral disciplines are now included. The authors map out alternate pathways through the book for instructors in economics, business, and political science. The book contains four parts: strategic form games, extensive form games, asymmetric information games, and cooperative games and matching. Theoretical topics include dominance solutions, Nash equilibrium, Condorcet paradox, backward induction, subgame perfection, repeated and dynamic games, Bayes-Nash equilibrium, mechanism design, auction theory, signaling, the Shapley value, and stable matchings. Applications and case studies include OPEC, voting, poison pills, Treasury auctions, trade agreements, pork-barrel spending, climate change, bargaining and audience costs, markets for lemons, and school choice. Each chapter includes concept checks and tallies end-of-chapter problems. An appendix offers a thorough discussion of single-agent decision theory, which underpins game theory.

Author : Ruth Chambers
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1315347989
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prescription for Learning written by Ruth Chambers and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-08-11 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book consists of more than 400 questions (multiple true-false and extended matching types) covering basic surgical sciences and clinical general surgery in an integrated fashion. As well as all the major areas of surgery other topics covered include pre-operative assessment anaesthesia intensive care trauma surgical oncology and post-operative complications. Short answers to all the questions are included. Although aimed at candidates preparing for Papers 1 and 2 of the new MRCS AFRCS and American Board examinations others such as undergraduate medical students and GPs will also find the book valuable.

Author : David R. Mottram
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135258244
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Drugs in Sport written by David R. Mottram and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-11-12 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drug use and abuse is perhaps the biggest challenge facing sport today. However, in the eye of the storm of public and press opinion and with medals and morals at stake, it can be difficult to gain a clear perspective on this complex issue. Drugs in Sport is the most comprehensive and accurate text available on the subject. Now in a fully revised and updated fifth edition, taking into account the latest regulations, methods and landmark cases, the book explores the hard science behind drug use in sport, as well as the ethical, social, political and administrative context. Key topics include: mode of action and side effects of each major class of drugs used in sport discussion of cutting-edge issues, including gene doping the latest doping control regulations of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) methods and advances in doping control, including new intelligence-led detection policies the use of Therapeutic Use Exemption for certain drugs banned in sport issues surrounding non-prohibited substances and ergogenic aids an assessment of the prevalence of drug taking in sport. Accessibly written, extensively referenced, and supported throughout with illustrative case studies and data, Drugs in Sport provides a comprehensive, objective resource for students and researchers, athletes, sports scientists, coaches, journalists, sports administrators and policymakers.

Author : Genserik Reniers
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 144715052X
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Using Game Theory to Improve Safety within Chemical Industrial Parks written by Genserik Reniers and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-05 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though the game-theoretic approach has been vastly studied and utilized in relation to economics of industrial organizations, it has hardly been used to tackle safety management in multi-plant chemical industrial settings. Using Game Theory for Improving Safety within Chemical Industrial Parks presents an in-depth discussion of game-theoretic modeling which may be applied to improve cross-company prevention and -safety management in a chemical industrial park. By systematically analyzing game-theoretic models and approaches in relation to managing safety in chemical industrial parks, Using Game Theory for Improving Safety within Chemical Industrial Parks explores the ways game theory can predict the outcome of complex strategic investment decision making processes involving several adjacent chemical plants. A number of game-theoretic decision models are discussed to provide strategic tools for decision-making situations. Offering clear and straightforward explanations of methodologies, Using Game Theory for Improving Safety within Chemical Industrial Parks provides managers and management teams with approaches to asses situations and to improve strategic safety- and prevention arrangements.

Author : Leon A. Petrosyan
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030936163
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Frontiers of Dynamic Games written by Leon A. Petrosyan and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-03-09 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book features contributions from the GTM 2020 International Meeting on Game Theory held virtually from St. Petersburg, Russia, including presentations by plenary speakers. The topics cover a wide range of game-theoretic models and include both theory and applications, including applications to management.

Author : A. Mark Williams
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000856267
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Science and Soccer written by A. Mark Williams and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-06-13 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Still the market-leading introduction to the science underpinning the world’s most popular sport New edition is fully updated throughout Multi-disciplinary approach, covering physiology, biomechanics, psychology, skill acquisition and performance analysis Includes contributions from world leading sport scientists and practitioners from the UK, US, Europe and South Africa Covers every aspect of training, testing, match preparation, recovery and match analysis

Author : Kendall L. Walton
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674576032
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mimesis as Make-Believe written by Kendall L. Walton and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Representations in visual arts and fiction play an important part in our lives and culture. Walton presents a theory of the nature of representation, which shows its many varieties and explains its importance. His analysis is illustrated with examples from film, art, literature and theatre.

Author : Frank Hahn
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Economics of Missing Markets, Information, and Games written by Frank Hahn and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1989 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of papers is the result of a Cambridge University study of the consequences of missing markets, asymmetric information, market-dependent information, strategic market situations, and the role of quantity signals. The contributors also consider the behavior of overlapping generation models and their macroeconomic implications, providing a useful reference text on most of the main issues of current interest to economic theorists.