Bento Prado Jr. entre Bergson e Wittgenstein

Daniel E. Koshland, Jr. 1920–2007

The world has lost one of its great scientists and the University of California its most influential educator with the death of Daniel E. Koshland, Jr. on Monday, July 23, 2007. Dan’s career spanned 60 years of creative biochemical research, and he was actively planning his next experiments on the Friday before his sudden death. Those of us fortunate enough to have experienced Dan’s extraordina...

The Socratic Bergson

Integração entre SIG e Modelos Inferenciais Bayesianos

GIS are an important tool to deal with spatial data as well the Bayesian method is a powerful technique to statistical data analysis. This paper describes the state of the art on GIS and Bayesian Inferential Models softwares integration and shows alternatives to improve it. Resumo. O objetivo deste artigo é descrever o estado da arte da integração entre SIG e Modelos Inferenciais Bayesianos, co...

Nobel Laureate Robert E. Lucas, Jr.: Architect of Modern Macroeconomics

In 1995, Robert E. Lucas, Jr., was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. This review places Lucas’ work in a historical context and evaluates the effect of this work on the economics profession. Lucas’ central contribution is that he developed and applied economic theory to answer substantive questions in macroeconomics. Economists today routinely analyze systems in which agents operate...

Robert E . Lucas , Jr . ’ s Collected Papers on Monetary Theory ∗

This paper is a critical review of and a reader’s guide to a collection of papers by Robert E. Lucas, Jr. about fruitful ways of using general equilibrium theories to understand measured economic aggregates. These beautifully written and wisely argued papers integrated macroeconomics, microeconomics, finance, and econometrics in ways that restructured big parts of macroeconomic research. 1 Arro...