Contentious Connections

Contentious Contracts ¤ Ulrich Hege

This paper o¤ers an explanation of rationally incomplete contracts where incompleteness refers to unforeseen contingencies. Agents enter a relationship with two-sided moral hazard in which a commitment to discard parts of the joint resources may be ex ante e¢cient. This happens through costly legal dispute which arises when contract terms are missing for the undesirable outcomes. We show that a...

The State and Contentious Politics:

“I was invited by Isa to his house to have lunch with his mother and siblings. ‘My sisters will love you. You are a good role model for them. I want them to study, like you,” he said to me to convince me to go to the lunch. His father was disappeared by the security forces in 1992 when Isa was 14 years old and his youngest brother was just couple of months old, and his family was forced by the ...

Contentious genes : a commentary on

In the preface to The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins tells us that 'three imaginary readers looked over my shoulder while I was writing': the layman, the student, and the expert. I recently asked Dawkins how he had fared with each of his target readers. Lay readers, he believes, 'have been moderately enthusiastic, but have quite often misunderstood' the book. Students have received it very favou...

Disability protests: contentious politics, 1970-1999

The Contentious History of Sirtuin Debates

The sirtuins are highly conserved enzyme homologues of the yeast Sir2, with activities of NAD+ dependent deacetylase and/or mono ADP ribosyltransferase. A long line of evidence has implicated sirtuins in regulating the aging process of yeast, worms, flies, and rodents. Moreover, much work has been published on the important role of sirtuins in several age-related diseases such as diabetes type ...