Crisis and Methodology: Some Heterodox Misunderstandings

Heterodox macro after the crisis

Macroeconomics is in crisis and this creates openings for alternative perspectives. The dominant heterodox traditions, however, have shortcomings that need to be addressed, both to improve our understanding of the real world and to take advantage of the opportunities offered by the irrelevance of most mainstream macro. This paper discusses three examples of areas that need attention: (i) invest...

UNL, Challenges and Misunderstandings. Some answers

The UNL, either as language or as a system, is not well known due to several reasons. At this moment, UNL is not only the name of a language for computers aiming at supporting multililingual services in Internet. It is also a system, with a defined architecture and a wide panorama of applications and possibilities to support business, institutional and educational applications, all of them goin...

Zmp: a Review of Some Basic Misunderstandings

Modern finance, methodology and the global crisis

The conceptually unified theoretical core of modern finance, which includes the efficient market hypothesis, the CAPM, the Modigliani-Miller theorem and the Black-Scholes-Merton approach to option pricing, has been instrumental in the growth of the financial services industry, financial innovation, globalisation, and deregulation. The elevation of finance to the stature of a scientific discipli...

Applicability of Weyuker's properties on OO metrics: Some misunderstandings

Weyuker’s properties have been suggested as a guiding tool in identification of a good and comprehensive complexity measure by several researchers. Weyuker proposed nine properties to evaluate complexity measure for traditional programming. However, they are extensively used for evaluating object-oriented (OO) metrics, although the object-oriented features are entirely different in nature. In t...