Accommodation Versus Control Suggested Model to Macro-Economics

Working Paper Department of Economics Macro-experiments versus Micro-experiments for Health Policy*

Eradication versus control: the economics of global infectious disease policies.

A disease is controlled if, by means of a public policy, the circulation of an infectious agent is restricted below the level that would be sustained by individuals acting independently to control the disease. A disease is eliminated if it is controlled sufficiently to prevent an epidemic from occurring in a given geographical area. Control and elimination are achieved locally, but a disease ca...

The Political and Social Economics of Information: A Suggested Framework for Heterodox Economics

In the past thirty years interest has grown again among economists and others in the application of economic analysis to topics heretofore considered beyond their borders. Some of the work has been done by neo-classical economists, but it has not always been done well. Much of it has been done by economists critical of the standard neo-classical model from one direction or another. In either ca...

Cardinality versus Ordinality: A Suggested Compromise

By taking sets of utility functions as primitive, we define an ordering over assumptions on utility functions that gauges their measurement requirements. Cardinal and ordinal assumptions constitute two levels of measurability, but other assumptions lie between these extremes. We apply the ordering to explanations of why preferences should be convex. The assumption that utility is concave qualif...

Gravity-Compensated Robust Control for Micro-Macro Space Manipulators During a Rest to Rest Maneuver

Many space applications require robotic manipulators which have large workspace and are capable of precise motion. Micro-macro manipulators are considered as the best solution to this demand. Such systems consist of a long flexible arm and a short rigid arm. Kinematic redundancy and presence of unactuated flexible degrees of freedom, makes it difficult to control micro-macro manipulators. This ...