Joshua Gans

Autor(a) de Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence

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About the Author

Joshua Gans is Professor of Strategic Management and holds the Jeffrey S. Skoll Chair of Tecical Innovation and Entrepreneurs hip at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management. He is the author of The Disruption Dilemma (MIT Press), Prediction Machines, and other books, and coauthor of mostrar mais Innovation + Equality (MIT Press). mostrar menos

Inclui os nomes: Joshua Gans, Joshua S. Gans

Obras de Joshua Gans

Parentonomics: An Economist Dad Looks at Parenting (2008) 34 cópias

Principles of Microeconomics (1999) 31 cópias

Principles of Economics (2000) 20 cópias

The Disruption Dilemma (MIT Press) (2016) 14 cópias

Innovation Equality: How to Create a Future That Is More Star Trek Than Terminator (The MIT Press) (2019) 11 cópias

Information Wants to Be Shared (2012) 9 cópias

Core Economics for Managers (2005) 8 cópias

The Pandemic Information Gap: The Brutal Economics of COVID-19 (2020) 8 cópias

Economics in the Age of COVID-19 (MIT Press First Reads) (2020) 5 cópias

Parentonomics (2010) 3 cópias

Finishing the Job: Real-World Policy Solutions in Health, Housing, Education and Transport (2005) 2 cópias

Publishing Economics: Analyses of the Academic Journal Market in Economics (2001) 2 cópias

Scholarly Publishing and its Discontents: An economist's perspective on dealing with market power and its consequences (2017) 1 exemplar(es)

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Data de nascimento: 1968
Sexo: male
Local de nascimento: Sydney, Australia
Locais de residência: Sydney, Australia
Brisbane, Australia
Stanford, California, USA
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Relacionamentos: Milgrom, Paul (doctoral advisor)
Arrow, Kenneth (doctoral advisor)

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Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of… de Ajay Agrawal

Excellent explanation of what Machine Learning is (as distinct form AI), and some very practical use cases

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starkravingmad | Jun 1, 2019 |

Parentonomics: An Economist Dad Looks at Parenting de Joshua Gans

Going into this, I was expecting this book to be a mix of Steven Levitt (Freakonomics) and Alfie Kohn (Unconditional Parenting), maybe with some funny sprinkled throughout. Instead, I get this very awkward, stale book -- no new insights, which was a prime disappointment. Most of the other pop economics books out there are great for getting you to think about everyday life in new ways, and this book just didn't have enough of that.

And while there are some funny bits, much of it feels forced and awkward. Reading it left me picturing an author who is funny at faculty parties and as a lecturer, but whose only writing experience had been academic journal articles and textbooks, and who just didn't quite feel comfortable bringing the casual funny side of himself to writing.… (mais)

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miki | Sep 10, 2009 |

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