Donald Friedman, The Writer’s Brush

Implementing the Friedman Rule

In cash-in-advance models, necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of an equilibrium with zero nominal interest rates and Pareto optimal allocations place restrictions only on the very long-run, or asymptotic, behavior of the money supply. When these asymptotic conditions are satisfied, they leave the central bank with a great deal of flexibility to manage the money supply over an...

The Friedman Embedding Theorem

In this paper, we will present an explicit construction of Harvey Friedman which to every finitely generated group G associates a 2-generator subgroup KG 6 Sym(N) such that G embeds into KG and such that if G ∼= H, then KG = KH .

Sara Friedman

Donald Campbell: the Accidental Evaluator

The metamorphosis of malware writers

The reasons for writing malware are changing – and so is the malware itself. Danny Bradbury reports on the development of a seedy commercial market. a 2006 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Bill Gates’ time is up. At the end of January 2004, at the Davos forum, he said that within two years, spam would be a thing of the past. In reality, the problem is as rampant as ever. On its own, that would be mer...