Economic Aspects of Omnipotence

Understanding Omnipotence

An omnipotent being would be a being whose power was unlimited. The power of human beings is limited in two distinct ways: we are limited with respect to our freedom of will, and we are limited in our ability to execute what we have willed. These two distinct sources of limitation suggest a simple definition of omnipotence: an omnipotent being is one that has both perfect freedom of will and pe...

Is It Possible to Develop a Mathematical Theory of Economic Dynamics without Informational Omnipotence?

Economic Asp 6 . Economic Aspects of Automation

The increasing diffusion of automation in all sectors of the industrial world gives rise to a deep modification of labor organization and requires a new approach to evaluate industrial systems efficiency, effectiveness, and economic convenience. Until now, the evaluation tools and methods at disposal of industrial managers are rare and even complex. Easy-to-use criteria, possibly based on robus...

Epidemiology and economic aspects

Descriptive epidemiology The measures employed are incidence and prevalence. A first step in descriptive epidemiology is to obtain a valid definition of what constitutes a “case.” Quite surprisingly, up to now, no widely employed diagnostic criteria have been developed for clinical and population based studies of psoriasis. The first diagnosis made by a physician and the first appearance of ski...

Economic Aspects of Personal Privacy