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 Thaler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 1837, the Prussian Thaler became part of a new currency used in southern Germany and the Rhineland, with the Gulden (equal to 4/7 Thaler) as the standard unit of account.
As silver flooded into the European economy from domestic and overseas sources, Thalers and Thaler-sized coins were minted all over with equivalent coins such as the crown, daalder from which the English word dollar is derived, krona, and eventually the peso being issued and in widespread use.
Indeed, in England the word dollar was in use for the Thaler for 200 years before the issue of the United States dollar, and until the half crown ceased to be used following decimalisation in 1971, the term "half a dollar" could be heard for "half a crown".
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thaler   (876 words)

  
 Richard Thaler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Thaler has also organized a series of behavioral finance seminars along with Robert Shiller, another behavioral finance expert at the Yale School of Management.
Thaler gained some attention in the field of economics for publishing a regular column in the Journal of Economic Perspectives from 1987 to 1990 titled "Anomalies", in which he documented individual instances of economic behavior that seemed to violate traditional microeconomic theory.
Thaler also is the founder of an asset management firm [2] that enables a select group of investors to capitalize on cognitive biases such as the endowment effect, loss aversion and status quo bias.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Richard_Thaler   (358 words)

  
 Physicist William Thaler Dies; Worked on Nuclear Arms Tests   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
William J. Thaler, 79, a Georgetown University physicist who was a hero of the period when Americans were gravely worried about the threat of Soviet missiles and nuclear attacks, died of a stroke June 5 in his Centreville home.
Thaler burst onto the public scene like a supernova in 1959 when the Defense Department announced that the 33-year-old Navy physicist had discovered a way for radar to "see" over the horizon to detect enemy missiles up to 5,000 miles away.
After he achieved a measure of fame, Dr. Thaler urged high school students to consider physics as a career, adding that "you don't have to be a genius or a near-genius" to be good at the work.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/11/AR2005061100624_pf.html   (842 words)

  
 William Thaler, 79, Physicist on Secret Project for the Navy, Dies - New York Times   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Dr. Thaler conducted most of his secret research for the military in the 1950's before spending the rest of his career at Georgetown University, where he was chairman of the physics department from 1960 to 1976.
Dr. Thaler's expertise was then used in the Navy's nuclear testing of the hydrogen bomb and for Project Argus in 1958, which was intended to measure the effects of radiation from three atomic bombs detonated in the upper atmosphere.
Dr. Thaler is survived by his wife of 54 years, Barbara; a daughter, Dr. Alice Thaler of Thurmont, Md.; three sons, Gregory, of Herndon, Va.; Paul, of Rixeyville, Va.; and Peter, of Gainesville, Va.; and nine grandchildren.
www.nytimes.com /2005/06/18/national/18thaler.html?ex=1276747200&en=5a4a2307323a539e&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss   (598 words)

  
 Vita
Thaler, Richard H., "Maximization and Self-Control," a commentary on "Maximization Theory in Behavioral Psychology," by Rachlin, Battalio, Kagel and Green, in The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1981.
Thaler, Richard H., "The Psychology and Economics Conference Handbook: Commentary on papers by H. Simon, H. Einhorn and R. Hogarth, and A. Tversky and D. Kahneman." Journal of Business.
Thaler, Richard H., "From Homo Economicus to Homo Sapiens." Journal of Economics Perspectives 14, (2000):133-141.
gsbwww.uchicago.edu /fac/richard.thaler/research/vita.htm   (2182 words)

  
 Saudi Aramco World : Tales of a Thaler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Maria Theresa's thaler coin had its origins in the 16th century as well, when the first Habsburg thalers were minted in an empire that then included Central Europe, the Low Countries and Spain with its American dominions.
The Maria Theresa thaler was similarly enmeshed in political intrigue, hoarded in subterranean chambers and used by European governments in the purchase and rental of such strategic Arabian Sea and Red Sea ports as Aden and Massawa.
In Semple's own collection is a necklace that alternates thalers with coral and glass beads; there are pendants, an elaborate headband, and a wide leather and embroidery belt incorporating a clutch of layered thalers worn smooth with use.
www.saudiaramcoworld.com /issue/200301/tales.of.a.thaler.htm   (3581 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Winner's Curse: Books: Richard H. Thaler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Richard Thaler is one of the foremost behavioral economists.
Thaler offers a highly insightful analysis of the various anomalies in capital market behavior that appear to be inconsistent with the standard economic assumptions built into the efficient capital markets hypothesis and the capital asset pricing model.
Thaler calls them anomalies since each defies 'classical' economic theory, generally the notion that markets are efficient and participants know what they are doing.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0691019347?v=glance   (2284 words)

  
 Dr. Stephen Thaler, President & CEO, Imagination Engines, Incorporated   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Using high-energy lasers borrowed from the 'Star Wars' initiative, Thaler was able to grow single crystals of diamond as well as convert the native carbon within tungsten carbide and high-speed steel tools to the diamond phase.
Thaler has proposed such neural cascade as a canonical model of consciousness in which the former net manifests what can only be called a stream of consciousness while the second net develops an attitude about the cognitive turnover within the first net (i.e., the subjective feel of consciousness).
Of course, if Thaler is correct about his technology (i.e., US Patent 5,659,666) providing a working model of creative human cognition, then we can expect the application of these novel AI techniques to every aspect of human endeavor.
www.imagination-engines.com /thaler.htm   (972 words)

  
 Alan V. Thaler, Collections Attorney
Thaler is admitted to practice in all of the Courts of the States of California and Georgia as well as the United States Courts of Appeal for the Ninth, Tenth and Eleventh Circuits, plus the District of Wyoming and the Northern District of Georgia.
The Thaler Law Firm continues to pursue collections from debtors on behalf of its creditor clientele, whether the debtors are already in bankruptcy or heading in that direction.
Thaler earned his A.B. degree in Sociology in only 3 years from the University of California at Berkeley.
www.yourlegaleagle.com /thalerav.htm   (381 words)

  
 Stephen Thaler's Computer Creativity Machine Simulates the Human Brain TINA HESMAN / St. Louis Post-Dispatch 24jan04   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Thaler, the president and chief executive of Imagination Engines Inc. in Maryland Heights, gets credit for all those things, but he's really just "the man behind the curtain," he says.
What Thaler has created is essentially "Thomas Edison in a box," said Rusty Miller, a government contractor at General Dynamics and one of Thaler's chief cheerleaders.
Thaler reasoned that if a neural network were an accurate representation of a biological system, he could kill it and figure out what happens in the brain as it dies.
www.mindfully.org /Technology/2004/Creativity-Machine-Thaler24jan04.htm   (2315 words)

  
 The University of Chicago Magazine
Thaler and Cronqvist’s only quibble with the default fund is that it leaned too heavily toward Swedish firms’ stocks.
Good thing the default was intelligently designed, Thaler and Cronqvist say, because given human nature and a tendency to stick with the status quo or procrastinate, defaults attract a disproportionate market share; in Sweden the default received the highest market share—33 percent—of any fund.
THALER IS IN HIS LATE 50S, has wavy silver hair, and dresses casually in dark chinos and fl loafers, button-down shirt open at the collar.
magazine.uchicago.edu /0502/features/economics.shtml   (3628 words)

  
 Thaler - Metaweb   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Thaler reverse, 1701 Austria (Hall) Thaler of Leopold I (the Hog-mouth)
The Maria Theresa Thaler (MTT) coin, which has been used in world trade continuously since the first minted in 1741, has considerably extended the fame of Empress Maria Theresa, who ruled Austria, Hungary, and Bohemia from 1740 to 1780.
It was one of the first coins used in the United States and probably contributed (along with the Spanish eight-bit dollar and the Straits dollar) to the US choice of a dollar as the main unit of currency.
www.metaweb.com /wiki/wiki.phtml?title=Thaler   (967 words)

  
 THALER FILMS::HOME
Thaler Films has been producing Shooting and editing Film and video for the past 15 years.
Thaler Films was founded by brothers Chris and David Thaler in 1988 and in the past 15 years they have created a fun and creative business that has taken them world wide to produce film and video for the most demanding clients.
The Thaler brothers continue to develop their company by choosing new and exciting projects that will challenge their entire staff.
www.thalerfilms.com   (588 words)

  
 The Maria Theresa Thaler 1780
The Maria Theresa Thaler is probably one of the most famous and well known coins of the world.
Originally struck in Austria from 1740 to 1780, the Thaler was the currency of the Austrian Empire.
Various articles claim that the Maria Theresa Thaler was re-struck with an unchanged appearance since 1780.
www.theresia.name /en/index.html   (381 words)

  
 Maria Theresa Thaler
The thaler has been minted in several world mints since, always with the same date, with minor differences that allows one to identify the source of any particular coin.
Though dated 1780 the Maria Theresa thaler was first minted in 1782 in Gunzberg, Germany, in what was then part of the Austrian Empire.
After their occupation of Ethiopia, the Italians declared the Lira the official coin of the new colony and would give out five for each thaler (the 5 lire coin weighed 1/5 of the thaler!).
www.geocities.com /funboywrk/maria_theresa_thaler.htm   (724 words)

  
 The New Yorker: Fact
I thought of Thaler when I began to look into whether advertising, which plays such a large role in the American economy, might be ailing, and how it was being affected by new media and by new technologies.
Thaler could be seen as something of a bridge between the Madison Avenue of David Ogilvy and the new multinational order.
Thaler loved it, she said, but when she sent five different mockups to be tested by a focus group the duck came in fifth.
www.newyorker.com /fact/content/articles/050328fa_fact   (3989 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Kaplan Thaler ads shoot for 'Big Bang'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
While Kaplan Thaler heads the second-fastest growing agency in revenue among the country's top 50 shops, according to a study this year by trade publication Advertising Age, colleagues say she is a down-to-earth woman who brings a sense of humor and a personal touch to her management style.
Kaplan Thaler, who also helped create the Aflac duck, rarely does business across her desk or in a boardroom, believing that gathering employees on couches in her office fosters better ideas.
The key to Kaplan Thaler's formula for a breakthrough ad is what she calls The Big Bang: an idea that disrupts, has immediate impact and can't be ignored.
www.usatoday.com /money/companies/management/2004-07-25-thaler_x.htm   (1646 words)

  
 Eastern Economic Journal: Maria Theresa's Thaler: A case of international money   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The first thaler with the portrait of Maria Theresa dates to 1741, the year after she acceded to the throne.
Earlier and later thalers also migrated, as Freeman-Grenville [1977] discusses with respect to a collection of thalers from Yemen, but the 1780 MTT came to dominate.
The thalers moved through Trieste and were important in the trade of coffee, which was shipped from the former port of Al Mukha (Mocca) in Yemen.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3620/is_200110/ai_n8957691   (1342 words)

  
 About Thaler Construction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Prior to establishing Thaler Construction, Scott worked for his father’s construction business as a carpenter.
When you hire Thaler Construction as your remodeling contractor, you can feel confident that you will be given insightful solutions, will stay within budget, and your project will be completed in a timely manner.
rom completed plans to the design of an entire project, Thaler Construction works closely with its clients to insure the company has an absolute understanding of the project, and of the client’s needs and desires from start to finish.
www.thalerconstruction.com /about_us.htm   (245 words)

  
 Fuller & Thaler Biographies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Prior to establishing Fuller and Thaler, Russ worked at two investment management firms, and began his investment career as a security analyst with a brokerage firm that later merged with Paine Webber.
Prior to joining Fuller and Thaler he was Chief Investment Officer of Heidt Capital Group and Assistant Treasurer of Amgen.
Prior to joining Fuller and Thaler, Ding was a senior investment analyst at Nicholas Applegate Capital Management where he spent about two and a half years doing research on stock and industry selection and portfolio optimization.
www.fullerthaler.com /Biographies.html   (1725 words)

  
 Decision Science News: Richard H. Thaler
DECISION SCIENCE RESEARCHER PROFILE: RICHARD H. THALER Richard Thaler is the Robert P. Gwinn Professor of behavioral science and economics at University of Chicago.
He currently serves as the director of the Center for Decision Research, and is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and co-director of the project on behavioral economics.
Thaler earned his B.A. in economics from Case Western Reserve University and his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Rochester.
www.dangoldstein.com /dsn/archives/2004/08/richard_h_thale.html   (961 words)

  
 Sloan-Kettering - Howard Thaler's Research Page: Publications
Karadimitris A, Manavalan JS, THALER HT, Notaro R, Araten DJ, Nafa K, Roberts IA, Weksler ME, Luzzatto L: Abnormal T-cell repertoire is consistent with immune process underlying the pathogenesis of paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria.
Butler LM, Agus DB, Scher HI, Higgins B, Rose A, Cordon-Cardo C, THALER HT, Rifkind RA, Marks PA, Richon VM: Suberoylanilide hydroxamic acid, an inhibitor of histone deacetylase, suppresses the growth of prostate cancer cells in vitro and in vivo.
Gupta M, THALER HT, Steinherz L. Persence of prolonged dispersion of QT intervals in late survivors of chilhood anthracycline therapy.
www.mskcc.org /mskcc/html/13609.cfm   (707 words)

  
 Physicist William Thaler developed missile radar | IndyStar.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
WASHINGTON -- William J. Thaler, a Georgetown University physicist who was a hero of the period when Americans were gravely worried about the threat of Soviet missiles and nuclear attacks, died of a stroke June 5 in Centreville, Va. He was 79.
Thaler burst onto the public scene in 1959 when the Defense Department announced that the 33-year-old Navy physicist had discovered a way for radar to "see" over the horizon to detect enemy missiles up to 5,000 miles away.
Thaler previously had directed the Office of Naval Research portion of the secret Argus Project, in which atomic bombs were exploded 300 miles above the South Atlantic to study the impact of high-altitude nuclear explosions on radio transmissions and radar operations.
www.indystar.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050613/NEWS06/506130405/1012   (424 words)

  
 Feature on Tom and Mike Thaler :: Sentinel-Tribune story of Oct. 21.
The father of Falcons' senior defensive tackle Mike Thaler, Tom sees the game through the view-finder of his digital camera as he roams the sidelines.
The elder Thaler not only takes pictures of his son, but focuses on every Falcon as a hobby which has evolved into a labor of love.
The Thalers will be on the field Saturday for Family Weekend at Perry Stadium against Western Michigan.
bgsufalcons.collegesports.com /sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/102105aac.html   (792 words)

  
 Chicago Sun-Times: Things looking ducky for Kaplan Thaler CEO
She is perhaps best known for the squawking duck icon that is now inextricably linked to AFLAC insurance, a once nearly invisible company that Thaler's clever ads have made familiar to millions of Americans.
Thaler now is trying to make her mark in the world of book publishing with the release of Bang!
Whether you like the AFLAC duck or find it ridiculous, it's still interesting to see how Thaler and her creatives at the agency finally arrived at the idea of using the duck as a campaign centerpiece.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4155/is_20031020/ai_n12522103   (335 words)

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