Faith and Forgetfulness: Homo Religiosus, Jean-Louis Chrétien, and Heidegger

A Principal Exposition of Jean-Louis Le Moigne’s Systemic Theory

The aim of this article is to present to the reader the theoretical construction of Jean-Louis Le Moigne. It starts with a discussion of the background that is relevant for this construction, which is: a few words about Le Moigne himself, some influences on his thinking and an overview of the theoretical framework together with some domains of application. The following exposition of Le Moigne’...

Faith, Hope and Doubt

Baron Jean-Louis Alibert (1768-1837) and the first description of mycosis fungoides.

The term mycosis fungoides was first used by the French dermatologist Baron Jean-Louis Alibert (1768-1837). He suggested that name because the skin lesions had mushroom-like appearance. Working ceaseless with both patients and collaborators, Alibert brought fame to the Parisian Saint-Louis Hospital as a worldwide training center of dermatology, founding thus the French School of Dermatology.

Algebraic Families of Nonzero Elements of Shafarevich-tate Groups Jean-louis Colliot-thélène and Bjorn Poonen

The purpose of this note is to show that there exist non-trivial families of algebraic varieties for which all the fibers above rational points (or even above points of odd degree) are torsors of abelian varieties representing nonzero elements of their Shafarevich-Tate groups. More precisely, we will prove the following theorem. (Throughout this paper, P unadorned denotes PQ.) Theorem 1. There ...

Moral hazard, renegotiation, and forgetfulness

When a principal and an agent operate with simple contracts, in equilibrium, renegotiation will occur after the agent takes her action. Since renegotiation makes incentive contracts non-credible, the principal may prefer non-renegotiable monitoring options. The current literature does not fully reconcile these predictions with the observation of simple, non-renegotiated incentive contracts. We ...