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Economics of networks is an increasing new field on the border of economics and network sciences. It is concerned with understanding of economic phenomena by using network concepts and the tools of network science. Some main authors in this field are Sanjeev Goyal, Matthew O. Jackson and Rachel Kranton. This term shoul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46885960 |
Economics of networks The outcome of transactions can be determined by, for example, the number of sellers a buyer is connected to, or vice versa for which Corominas-Bosch built a very simple model. Another case is when the agents agree on the transaction through an auction and their decision making during the auction ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46885960 |
Economics of networks Recent studies have tried to examine the deeper connection between socioeconomic factors and phenomena and the scale free property. They found that business networks have scale-free property, and that the merger among companies decreases the average separation between firms and increase cliquishne... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46885960 |
Economics of networks It seems, despite their embeddedness into the global economy, that the unusual economic measures following Germany’s unification in 1992 and the Plaza Accord in 1985 (which appreciated the Japanese Yen), drove these two countries off the normal economic track. The importance of regional economic (... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46885960 |
Networks in labor economics The importance of social ties in job searching is known, and empirically proved for quite a while, workers often find jobs through their friends and relatives. However, the exploration of the role of social networks in labor market outcomes has just recently started. New evidence shows that ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46897892 |
Networks in labor economics On the other hand, it can also give an explanation for long term unemployment. If someone’s acquaintances are unemployed as well, she has less chance to hear of some job opportunity. They also conclude that that different initial wage and employment can cause different drop-outs rates from t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46897892 |
Networks in labor economics Referral based job network can function even if there is no direct link between the referee and the potential worker. In the model of Finneran and Kelly, there is a hierarchical network in which workers has the opportunity to refer their acquaintances if their employer hires. Workers are ref... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46897892 |
Jane Mansbridge bibliography The includes books, book chapters and journal articles by Jane Mansbridge, the Charles F. Adams Professor of Political Leadership and Democratic Values, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46929845 |
Groupement Européen de Banques The is an organization of European private banks. It was founded in 1981. The current members are the Bank of Åland, Banca March, Banca Sella, Bank J.Van Breda & C°, Bankhaus Lampe, Banque Martin Maurel, and C. Hoare & Co. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46971259 |
The Engineers and the Price System The Engineers and the Price System, by Thorstein Veblen, is a compilation of a series of papers originally published in "The Dial" in 1919, each of which mainly analyzes and criticizes the price system, planned obsolescence, and artificial scarcity. The final chapter outlined a plan f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46978580 |
Autographic Register An is a business machine invented in 1883 by James C. Shoup. The device consisted two separate rolls of paper interleaved with carbon paper. Usually one or both of the rolls would be preprinted with form information. To operate the machine the user would write, for example, a sales receipt and the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46991115 |
US-China University Presidents Roundtable The () is a biennial international conference gathering of the presidents and chancellors from leading U.S. and Chinese universities. It is also a major event of the China-US Strategic Economic Dialogue. The purpose of the conference is to discuss global education, research col... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47076382 |
Annuity An annuity is a series of payments made at equal intervals. Examples of annuities are regular deposits to a savings account, monthly home mortgage payments, monthly insurance payments and pension payments. Annuities can be classified by the frequency of payment dates. The payments (deposits) may be made weekly,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47078873 |
Annuity The valuation of an annuity entails concepts such as time value of money, interest rate, and future value. If the number of payments is known in advance, the annuity is an "annuity certain" or "guaranteed annuity". Valuation of annuities certain may be calculated using formulas depending on the timing of paymen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47078873 |
Annuity The future value is given by: Where formula_2 is the number of terms and formula_3 is the per period interest rate. Future value is linear in the amount of payments, therefore the future value for payments, or "rent" formula_4 is: Example: The present value of a 5-year annuity with a nominal annual interest rat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47078873 |
Annuity Thus, the present and future values of an annuity-due can be calculated. where formula_2 is the number of terms, formula_3 is the per term interest rate, and formula_23 is the effective rate of discount given by formula_24. The future and present values for annuities due are related since: Example: The final va... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47078873 |
Annuity If an annuity is for repaying a debt "P" with interest, the amount owed after "n" payments is Because the scheme is equivalent with borrowing the amount formula_35 to create a perpetuity with coupon formula_4, and putting formula_37 of that borrowed amount in the bank to grow with interest formula_3. Also, this... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47078873 |
Spoonflower is an on-demand, digital printing company that prints custom fabric, wallpaper, and gift wrap. It was founded in May 2008 by Stephen Fraser and Gart Davis, both formerly from Lulu.com. In 2013, Allison Polish joined Spoonflower's management team. It was headquartered in Mebane, North Carolina, USA until 201... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47086275 |
The Pearl Source is an online shop for cultured pearl jewelry. was established in 1991. It is located in the Jewelry District of Los Angeles. Also known as Laguna Pearl. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47105394 |
Payments UK was a trade association for financial institutions, technology firms and payment processing companies in the United Kingdom. It merged with a number of other British financial organisations in July 2017 to form UK Finance. On 29 June 2015, was launched as the successor to the Payments Council. The regulator... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47146993 |
Uttara Export Processing Zone (UEPZ) (), also known as Uttara EPZ or Nilphamari EPZ, is the seventh of the eight export processing zone in Bangladesh located at Nilphamari. It's the only export processing zone of Rangpur division/ north Bengal. It was established in September 2001on about 213,66 acres of lands in Sangl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47185788 |
Mathiness is a term coined by Paul Romer to label a specific misuse of mathematics in economic analyses. An author committed to the norms of science should use mathematical reasoning to clarify his analyses. By contrast, "mathiness" is not intended to clarify, but instead to mislead. According to Romer, some researcher... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47197272 |
Mathiness Similarly the role of mathiness would be to hide unrealistic assumptions or pure hypothesis behind decorative math and therefore it is rather a case of politics than science. Justin Fox notes that, in his book "Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics", Richard Thaler documented how economists ignored ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47197272 |
Glow switch starter A glow switch starter is a type of preheat starter used with fluorescent lamp. It is commonly filled with neon gas or argon gas and contains a bimetallic strip and a stationary electrode. The operating principle is simple, when current is applied, the gas inside ionizes and heats a bimetallic strip ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47201853 |
Glow switch starter The current through the filaments and the inductive ballast is abruptly interrupted, leaving the full line voltage applied between the filaments at the ends of the tube and generating an inductive kick which provides the high voltage needed to start the lamp. The lamp will fail to strike if the fila... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47201853 |
Glow switch starter The switch contacts in glow starters are subject to wear and inevitably fail eventually, so the starter is manufactured as a plug-in replaceable unit. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47201853 |
Considered purchase A considered purchase is a complex buying decision with a high degree of financial and/or emotional risk and reward. This process requires meaningful investigation and comparison by key decision makers and influencers prior to a transaction. All purchase decisions fall along a spectrum of complexity... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47204279 |
McKelvey–Schofield chaos theorem The is a result in social choice theory. It states that if preferences are defined over a multidimensional policy space, then majority rule is in general unstable: there is no Condorcet winner. Furthermore, any point in the space can be reached from any other point by a sequence of majo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47257650 |
T-commerce T-Commerce is a term describing trade via a (smart) digital TV-set which - besides its main functionality - acts as a marketing channel enabling bidirectional communication enabling interactive advertising and addressable advertising. It is part of Electronic Business and e-Commerce which themselves are the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47260426 |
Centro de Tecnologia Canavieira (English:"Sugarcane Research Center") or CTC is the largest sugarcane technology center in the world. Its headquarters is located in Piracicaba, São Paulo in one of the most prosperous agribusiness regions in Brazil. CTC was founded in 1969 to attend the technological needs of Copersucar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47262827 |
Review of World Economics is a peer-reviewed quarterly journal of international economics. It is published by Springer on behalf of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. Under the name "Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv", it was founded in 1913 as the world's first journal with a focus on international economics. In 2003... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47263732 |
Ninety Percent of Everything Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, And Food on Your Plate is a book by Rose George about the international shipping industry. In 2013 the 287 page book was published in New York City by Metropolitan Books, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47267041 |
Delhi and London Bank The was a bank that operated in British India. It was originally incorporated as the Delhi Banking Corporation in India in 1844 and under this better known name in London in 1865. The bank separated in 1916 with many of the Indian branches merging into the Alliance Bank of Simla (established in 18... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47286891 |
Service 4.0 is a collective term for technologies and concepts of service and support function organizations, based on new disruptive technological concepts (big data, mobility), the Internet of Things and the Internet of Services. It is a similar concept to industry 4.0, applied to value chain. The proponents of claim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47428244 |
Valuation: Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies is a textbook on valuation,corporate finance, and investment management by McKinsey & Company. The book was initially published in 1990 and is now available in its sixth edition. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47436321 |
Economies of density In microeconomics, economies of density are cost savings resulting from spatial proximity of suppliers or providers. Typically higher population densities allow synergies in service provision leading to lower unit costs. If large economies of density exist there is an incentive for firms to concent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47446083 |
Commensurability (economics) Commensurability in economics arises whenever there is a common measure through which the value of two entities can be compared. Commensurability has two versions: While weak commensurability is a form of strong comparability, it is distinct from weak comparability, where the fact that a co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47470839 |
Theory of fructification In economics, the theory of fructification is a theory of the interest rate which was proposed by French economist and finance minister Anne Robert Jacques Turgot. The term "theory of fructification" is due to Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk who considered Turgot as the first economist who tried to devel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47476755 |
Theory of fructification " Much later, economists demonstrated that the theory of fructification can be stated rigorously in a general equilibrium model. They also generalized Turgot's proposition in two respects. First, land which is useful for residential or industrial purposes can be substituted for agricultural lan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47476755 |
Maria da Conceição Tavares Maria da Conceição de Almeida Tavares (Anadia, April 24, 1930) is a Portuguese naturalized Brazilian economist. She is also a titular professor at the State University of Campinas (Unicamp) and professor emerita of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Maria da Conceição is affilia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47517678 |
Journal of Accounting and Public Policy The is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal covering the interaction between accounting and public policy. It is published by Elsevier and was established in 1982. The editor-in-chief is Marco Trombetta (IE Business School). The journal regularly publishes special issues on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47520654 |
Hard Work: Life in Low-pay Britain is a 2003 book by the British journalist Polly Toynbee. The book is an account of life on the minimum wage. Toynbee moved into a council housing estate in Clapham Park and took on various jobs such as a hospital porter, cake packer and telemarketer. Toynbee is critical of the moral fa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47521901 |
Production order A production order is an order issued within a company to produce a specific quantity of material within a certain timeframe. A production order may be issued pursuant to a sales order, and its issuance triggers a number of events. If components in the bill of materials are in stock, reservations are g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47525563 |
Landesque capital is a widespread concept used to understand anthropogenic landscapes that serve important economic, social, and ritual purposes. The concept of landesque capital was first used in academic texts by economist Amartya Sen. It occurred in his 1959 thesis on the choice of techniques of agriculture for “und... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47531464 |
Shabashka Within the second economy of the Soviet Union, shabashka () was semi-official seasonal work. The word ultimately derives from "shabbat" and literally means "work in free time".. A person engaged in "shabashka" is called a shabashnik (). In the Soviet era it was commonly work off the books, and the tradition c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47545688 |
Shabashka The style of payment for the job was so-called "аккордно-премиальная" (piecework/bonus): total payment for the whole job done plus bonus for beating the schedule. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47545688 |
Meltdown: The End of the Age of Greed is a 2009 book by British journalist and writer Paul Mason. An updated edition was released in 2010. The book is an account of the Great Recession, that, according to Mason "destroyed the West’s investment banks, brought the global economy to its knees, and undermined three decades... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47561250 |
Perspektyva Stock Exchange Perspektiva Stock Exchange (Stock Exchange “Perspektiva” PJSC) — one and only high-tech Ukrainian stock exchange, which has Ukrainian beneficiaries (1), domestically developed software (2), and the active use of electronic documents management (ED) and digital signature (DS), developed in ful... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47570453 |
Labor-time calculation is a method of economic calculation that uses labor time as the basic unit of accounting and valuation. This method of calculation was advocated by the economists Otto Bauer, Helene Bauer and as an alternative to calculation in kind for a socialist economy. Otto Leichter criticized in-kind calcul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47573522 |
How Music Got Free How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy (Also published as How Music Got Free: What Happens When an Entire Generation Commits the Same Crime?, How Music Got Free: The Inventor, The Mogul and the Thief, and How Music Got Free: A Story of Obse... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47580743 |
How Music Got Free In dorm rooms everywhere incoming college freshmen found their hard drives filled to capacity with pirated mp3s". He also writes, "Music piracy became to the late ’90s what drug experimentation was to the late ’60s: a generation-wide flouting of both social norms and the existing body of law, with li... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47580743 |
How Music Got Free Witt comments that "the uniform blandness of the corporate sound wasn’t helping" and gives a mixed picture as to how Morris and other executives dealt with falling sales. "The Washington Post" published an article by writer Louis Bayard praising the book, with Bayard commenting that he found the work... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47580743 |
Collective switching Collective Switching is where customers negotiate a group deal with a utility service such as gas or electricity. This is popular in the United Kingdom, Australia, the Netherlands, and Ireland. In the UK, collective switching has always been managed by a third party which gathers the consumers toge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47587204 |
Collective switching attempts to deliver the best tariff for a collection of disparate consumers that may have different usage patterns and priorities. It should not purport to deliver the cheapest deal to all participants as there are inevitably outliers that would obtain a better deal elsewhere. As the name suggests ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47587204 |
The Dorito Effect The Dorito Effect: The Surprising New Truth about Food and Flavor, by Mark Schatzker, is a book about two detrimental trends in modern food culture. The pursuit of maximum monetary gain by means of increased yield and pest resistance has involved the neglect of flavor in the breeding process. On the o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47590706 |
Behavioral Strategy Behavioral strategy refers to the study of corporate or business strategies from a micro-foundations perspective. The area of study is emerging in the field of management and economics. It considers the role of conscious and unconscious biases of executives, managers, teams, and organizations in str... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47603597 |
Double Movement The is a concept originated by Karl Polanyi in his book "The Great Transformation". The phrase refers to the dialectical process of marketization and push for social protection against that marketization. First, laissez-faire reformers seek to "disembed" the economy in order to establish what Polanyi ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47616682 |
Double Movement He brought up some problems about Marxist class analysis which only focus on the only narrow part of conflicts between employers and workers rather than deal with the overall political background where the conflicts occurred. Rather, Polanyi suggested the state power forms a different power between empl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47616682 |
Double Movement He argued that the country's specific position within the global system of states constrains the social conflicts within a particular political state. It means that the two innovations, mentioned above, were global situation. The normal economic pattern showed that the global phenomena have been conside... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47616682 |
Double Movement On the other hand, if policies are biased to the other goal, it disturbs business environment and weakens the global status of the nation by diminishing sufficient foreign investment and resources. Therefore, Each political leaders have to consider both risky situations and make a settlement at the prop... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47616682 |
Double Movement In general, workers tended to stand by the counter movement against Laissez-faire and capitalists advocated the freedom and expansion of market. Nevertheless, there were a few workers and capitalists who were supportive vice versa at all time. Polanyi also argued that the concept of a self-regulating ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47616682 |
Stephen T. Worland (February 19, 1923 – July 29, 2017) was an American economist and professor at the University of Notre Dame. Worland's specialties included the history of economic thought, social economics, and welfare economics. Worland is the author of the book "Scholasticism and Welfare Economics", published by t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47644631 |
Stephen T. Worland In his "Scholasticism and Welfare Economics" book, Worland demonstrated that welfare economics shares the philosophical premises of scholastic economic reasoning and helps clarify the significance of economic efficiency in the scholastic doctrine of the just price. In the "Justice: Views from the Soc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47644631 |
Stephen T. Worland In 1975, in "Forum for Social Economics", he wrote that at Notre Dame, where he taught, a decision was made to restructure the Ph.D. program to focus on socioeconomic issues and social justice, and to teach and research the fundamental problems of social economy that "should be a major concern for ev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47644631 |
Healthcare Spending Account A Health Care Spending Account (HCSA), or (HSA) is a type of flexible employee benefit program in Canada that aims to provide more flexibility than a traditional health plan. As a supplemental program, it covers items that are not normally part of the traditional plan. Generally these plans ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47657624 |
Rule 48 Rule 48, also known as Exemptive Relief — Extreme Market Volatility Condition, is a mechanism used by the New York Stock Exchange to ease market opening while volatility is high. It may have the effect of pre-empting trading at disrupted prices, as the designated market makers do not have to disseminate price i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47705093 |
Economistic fallacy The economistic fallacy is a concept originated by Karl Polanyi in the 1950s, that refers to fallacious conflation of human economy in general, with its market form. Whereas the former is a necessary component of any society, being the organization through which that society meets its physical wants... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47731394 |
Economistic fallacy The economistic fallacy is used to criticize both Marxist economics and classical liberalism, focusing on their assumptions built on materialism and rationality. The economistic fallacy is also used to reject the tendency of Marxists and classical liberals alike to separate economics from other fiel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47731394 |
Fictitious commodities The concept of fictitious commodities (or false commodities) originated in Karl Polanyi's 1944 book "The Great Transformation" and refers to anything treated as market commodity that is not created for the market, specifically land, labor, and money. For Polanyi, the effort by classical and neocl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47731550 |
Fictitious commodities " David Bollier wrote that, according to Polanyi, "prior to the rise of "the market" as an ordering principle for society, politics, religion and social norms were the prevailing forces of governance. Land, labor and money itself were not regarded chiefly as commodities to be bought and sold. The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47731550 |
Sex and Reason is a 1992 book about human sexuality by the economist Richard Posner, in which the author attempts to explain sexual behavior in economic terms and discusses a range of controversial subjects related to sex, proposing reforms in American laws. The book received mixed reviews. The work was described as am... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47857471 |
Sex and Reason He considers controversial topics such as the AIDS epidemic, abortion, the gay rights movement, the sexual revolution, surrogate motherhood, marital rape, date rape, sexual harassment, sexual abuse, and pornography. According to Posner, he decided to write about sex because of his "belated discovery that... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47857471 |
Sex and Reason He writes that Kinsey was "picked by the university authorities to head up the newly created Institute for Sex Research" and that "when their limitations are understood and respected" the Kinsey Reports "are a vast mine of useful information, have been repeatedly corroborated by other studies, and appear... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47857471 |
Sex and Reason He argues that while Marcuse believed that American popular culture had trivialized sexual love, sex had not had a subversive effect in societies not dominated by American popular culture. "Sex and Reason" was first published in 1992 by Harvard University Press. "Sex and Reason" received a positive revie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47857471 |
Sex and Reason She found Posner's attempts to provide judges with relevant information about sexual topics and to advance a normative theory of sexual legislation more successful than his attempt to provide a comprehensive explanatory theory of sexual behavior. She questioned his attempts to analyse homosexuality and p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47857471 |
Sex and Reason However, he criticized him for considering "coercive sex, almost exclusively, as a method of acquiring sexual gratification" despite his familiarity with feminist literature, for ignoring the "role of rape in the subjugation of women", and for neglecting the irrational side of sexual behavior. Honoré des... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47857471 |
Sex and Reason She also criticized his treatment of date rape, writing that it reflected a "peculiar view of women", and argued that he was inconsistent by ignoring moral revulsion in his discussion of rape but taking it into account as a relevant factor in his discussion of same-sex marriage. She was unpersuaded by hi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47857471 |
Sex and Reason He concluded that his arguments made "nonsense not only of sexual morality" but also of related legislation, arguing that they distorted understanding of issues such as rape. Williams described "Sex and Reason" as a "curious book", and suggested that Posner was an "intelligent man blinded by the theories... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47857471 |
Sex and Reason Other reviews included those by the legal scholar William Eskridge in the "Yale Law Journal", Nussbaum in "University of Chicago Law Review", Jeffrey S. Calkins in "Western State University Law Review", Martha Ertman in the "Stanford Law Review", Carol Sanger in "Southern California Law Review", Margaret... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47857471 |
Sex and Reason " However, she found his discussion of "the regulation of sexuality", while informative, to be "at times controversial", for example where rape was concerned. She criticized him for arguing that many rapes, and the seduction of children, are victimless crimes because of the unlikelihood that the victims ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47857471 |
Sex and Reason He believed that he made "a compelling intellectual case for a diminished government role" despite the absence of "empirical research" in his work, which he considered unsurprising. He noted that some of his views, such as that "homosexuals are likely to be more neurotic and homosexual relationships less... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47857471 |
Sex and Reason He credited him with effectively criticized some aspects of legal restrictions on sex in the United States at the time he was writing. However, he criticized him for citing Freud in his discussion of sex, and believed that his arguments were sometimes "inconsistent or incomplete", arguing that he put for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47857471 |
Sex and Reason He questioned his view that his arguments could be made independently of biological assumptions, arguing that it was partly because of those assumptions that he focused mainly on sexual choices made by men and treated women's choices as mostly incidental men's choices. He criticized him for discussing ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47857471 |
Sex and Reason He considered his "privileging of the efficiency norm" unjustified, and believed that it forced him into "the rather absurd position of pushing for the unlimited applicability of the efficiency standard." He criticized him for failing to examine the rules governing sexual behavior by simply treating them... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47857471 |
Sex and Reason " He criticized him for "using charges of political correctness" to pre-empt challenges to his views, although he considered him correct to state his views in tentative terms. He believed liberals would agree with many of his conclusions despite disagreeing with his terminology and methodology, and that ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47857471 |
Sex and Reason " She also wrote that economic analysis did not help to explain the "general sexual condition that we Americans are in today", arguing that "economic principles cannot explain why at this moment, when women have become so vastly much freer and more casual with their sexual favors, there should be so much... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47857471 |
Sex and Reason However, he argued that he had made insufficient efforts to "obtain demographic data on sexual minorities, and lesbians in particular". He also predicted that some of his theoretical analysis would be controversial, especially those concerning abortion and infanticide, and that some of his conclusions ab... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47857471 |
Sex and Reason She credited him with making a "penetrating critique of state intervention in the private lives of citizens", including making a clear defense of "the legal rights of gays and lesbians". She noted that "the claim that a significant portion of the population has some innate predisposition toward homosexua... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47857471 |
Sex and Reason However, he noted that his sociobiological theory of the evolution of different sex-limited "genetic propensities for sexual preferences" was largely based on the work of Symons. He also wrote that his view that masturbation, homosexuality, fetishism, and voyeurism enable males to satisfy their sexual de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47857471 |
Sex and Reason She wrote that his arguments about genetic influences on human behavior, especially those concerning "the adaptive purpose of homosexuality and other non-procreative sexual conduct", had angered critics. In her view, his economic analysis of sexual behavior, although original, resembled science fiction a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47857471 |
Sex and Reason "The Wilson Quarterly" credited Posner with providing "a grand tour of the practices of other cultures and eras", but considered his arguments less than fully persuasive, criticizing his explanation of the "rationality of women wearing high heels". The reviewer concluded that, "Ironically, Posner may fai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47857471 |
Sex and Reason She considered some of his claims unsurprising, writing that they achieved only his objective of "bringing a common language to the analysis of sexual practices", and argued that he failed to distinguish consistently between a model of sexual practices and a model of sexual morality, to offer an economic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47857471 |
Sex and Reason She argued that "public policy and personal morality should take strong notice, not only of feelings of antipathy in a society" but also of the rights of individuals, concluding that, "Persecuted minorities should not feel immoral just because the majority says so." Gagnon described the book as repetitiv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47857471 |
Sex and Reason He also criticized him for interpreting Plato's "Symposium" as being about homosexuality rather than "Eros and wisdom among men of equal social status in classical Greece", and for arguing that rape is solely motivated by sexual desire rather than the wish to subordinate women. He considered his economic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47857471 |
Sex and Reason In his 2015 reassessment of his book in "Yale Law Journal", Posner described it as "pro-homosexual" for a work of its time. However, he criticized his discussion of same-sex marriage, writing that Eskridge had made valid criticisms of his arguments. According to Posner, he took no account of his own argu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47857471 |
Sex and Reason She criticized his claim that women have weaker sexual drives than men, and as well as some of his other claims about differences between male and female sexuality, suggesting that he was biased. She questioned why he was willing to consider the possible benefits of clitoridectomy, but not those of a pot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47857471 |
Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Energy Association (FCHEA) was formed in November 2010 following the merger of two former associations representing different sectors of the industry, the U.S. Fuel Cell Council and the National Hydrogen Association. In order to continue to advance and promote the use of fuel cell and hydrogen en... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47889747 |
Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Energy Association Oxygen then enters the cell through the cathode where it combines with electrons returning from the electrical circuit and hydrogen ions that have traveled through the electrolyte (a piece of the fuel cell that carries electrically charged particles from one electrode to the ot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47889747 |
Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Energy Association A second issue is that fuel cells are expensive and building reliable, efficient, yet cheap fuel cells is a difficult task. The main problems when building fuel cells is high cost due to noble metals in the electrodes and the proton-exchange membranes assemblies. Bloom Energy h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47889747 |
Additive utility In economics, additive utility is a cardinal utility function with the sigma additivity property. Additivity (also called "linearity" or "modularity") means that "the whole is equal to the sum of its parts." That is, the utility of a set of items is the sum of the utilities of each item separately. Let... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47925891 |
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