BEN SEGAL (1912-2003)

1.2 Segal Spaces and Complete Segal Spaces.............................. 11

1.2 Segal Spaces and Complete Segal Spaces.............................. 11

Alon Harel , Uzi Segal

Since Becker (3), a common argument against asymmetric norms that promote minority rights over those of the majority is that such policies reduce total welfare. While this may be the case, we show that there are simple environments where aggregate sum of individual utilities is actually maximized under asymmetric norms that favor minorities. We thus maintain that without information regarding i...

Segal Democratically elected aristocracies

The article suggests a formalmodel of a two-tier voting procedure,which unlike traditional voting systems does not presuppose that every vote counts the same. In deciding a particular issue voters are called in the first round to assign categories of their fellow-citizens with differential voting power (or weights) according to the special position or concern individuals are perceived to have w...

Ben Scheres

that are in danger of becoming extinct or have already done so. It’s remarkable as the combined effort of hundreds of thousands of people, many of them amateurs, to compile data on the status of their favorite taxa. For amphibians, we know that there were 1437 species described by taxonomists before 1900. Of these, 18 are either extinct or presumed extinct. After 1900, taxonomists described 496...