False Economy; Optimism or Pessimism; The Chemical Industry Grows and Grows

Nebraska Economy Grows Despite Recession Concerns

The Mind Grows Circuits

There is a vast supply of prior art that study models for mental processes. Some studies in psychology and philosophy approach it from an inner perspective in terms of experiences and percepts. Others such as neurobiology or connectionist-machines approach it externally by viewing the mind as complex circuit of neurons where each neuron is a primitive binary circuit. In this paper, we also mode...

Global Inequality Fades as the Global Economy Grows

In this “age of globalization,” countless studies offer confl icting conclusions about overall poverty rates and income inequality worldwide. All observers agree that the rapid integration of international economies is one of the dominant experiences of the post–Cold War world. Many critics have assailed globalization as a form of extreme capitalism that is leaving the world’s poor behind. At a...

Why Government Grows (and Grows) in a Democracy

Bioethics Grows Up

W hen I taught my first course in bioethics to first-year students at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons in the spring semester of 1981, bioethics was still in its formative years. There were scant few textbooks around and even fewer anthologies, and I could not assume that any of my students had ever read anything by a bioethicist or about bioethics. The key institutions ...