Commercialization and Public Good: Conflict, Complement, or Critical Component?

‘Free Markets’: Public Good or Private Greed?

The fundamental question addressed in this paper is this: does the rise of free market orthodoxy indicate the triumph of ‘efficiency’ at the expense of ‘equity’? Or does it also, and possibly even primarily, reflect an attempt to capitalise on the distributive opportunities that have been created by the deteriorating macroeconomic environment and the conservative political climate of the late ‘...

Safety - Critical Systems : Prescient , Presignifying , Public - Good Systems

The emergence of safety-critical systems and their much desired institutionalisation involves domainand applications-independent issues that, in some sense, can be related to the interdependent issues of knowledge, language, and ethics. The design, maintenance, upgrading and decommissioning of existing networks for carrying, for example, water, gas or oil, are good examples where the triumvirat...

Bactericidal screening test for late complement component deficiencies or defects.

Congenital complement deficiency has been described in disseminated Neisseria infections. Its occurrences in humans with other kinds of infections have not been described. In the past, CH50 determinations have been used to detect these deficiencies, but this procedure is time consuming and cumbersome. A method of determining the presence of late component deficiencies or defects is described wh...

The "Third Component" or Heat-Stable Factor of Complement.

Public-Good Productivity Differentials and Non-Cooperative Public-Good Provision

We explore the generality of Konrad and Lommerud (1995)’s Rotten Spouse Theorem. While the result holds for an arbitrary number of agents, it fails to hold for general technologies. We discuss some of the implications for CO2-emissions models.