Elsie May Widdowson, C.H. 21 October 1906 – 14 June 2000

Heinz Otto Schild - 18 May 1906-15 June 1984.

Heinz Otto Schild, 18 May 1906 - 15 June 1984

In memoriam –Scott Federhen (October 21, 1952 - May 5, 2016)

Scott (Herbert) Federhen passed away on May 5, 2016, after a short illness. Scott was well known for heading the National Center for Biotechnology Information’s (NCBI’s) Taxonomy project, which he started in 1991. Under his leadership it became an international standard for nomenclature and classification. Born in 1952, Scott obtained a MS degree in Computer Science, focused on denotational sem...

pre - seminar on manuscripts (21-22 may, 2000)

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October 2000

Introducing a concept of real, as opposed to nominal, inequality of income or wealth suggests some historical reinterpretations, buttressed by a closer look at consumption by the rich. The purchasing powers of different income classes depend on how relative prices move. The influence of relative prices on real inequality was greater in the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries than in the twen...