An Immodest Proposal for Biblical Studies

Perinatal health services: an immodest proposal.

During the past five years the health and social services available to childbearing women and their families (the perinatal health services) have been under almost constant attack. Why is it that childbirth, "that most creative and joyous of events, should have become in the last few years a battleground, to be fought over by opposing factions whose only common characteristic, seemingly, and ye...

Scoring imprecise credences: A mildly immodest proposal

Jim Joyce argues for two amendments to probabilism. The first is the doctrine that credences are rational, or not, in virtue of their accuracy or “closeness to the truth” (1998). The second is a shift from a numerically precise model of belief to an imprecise model represented by a set of probability functions (2010). We argue that both amendments cannot be satisfied simultaneously. To do so, w...

Using Loan Rates to Measure and Regulate Bank Risk: Findings and an Immodest Proposal

There is strong evidence that the interest rates charged by banks on the flow of newly extended Commercial & Industrial (C&I) loans predict future loan performance and CAMEL rating downgrades by bank supervisors. While internal risk ratings have little explanatory power for future loan performance, they do help predict future CAMEL downgrades. These findings suggest that supervisors might consi...

Biblical Studies in a New Setting

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Biblical Principles for Compensation