FALSE PROPHET OR SECOND BECOMING? Richard Rorty, Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1989)

Richard Hartley and Andrew Zisserman CAMBRIDGE

Frank Kelly and Dr Richard Steinberg , University of Cambridge

In Public Notice DA 00-1075, the Federal Communications Commission seeks further comment on modifying the simultaneous multiple round auction design to allow combinatorial (package) bidding. In particular, under II.A (Auction Design and Procedures; Simultaneously Multiple Round with Package Bidding), the question is asked as to whether the Commission should allow all possible packages composed ...

the cambridge dictionary of SCIENTISTS second edition

François Recanati , Literal Meaning , Cambridge : Cambridge University

Contrary to a certain traditional conception dating back at least to Locke, everyday linguistic communication is not a simple matter of putting one's thoughts into words for one's audience to put back into thoughts. This naive " code model " misses the fact that what a speaker means in uttering a sentence can be distinct in various ways from what the sentence means. She might not mean what she ...

OF CAMBRIDGE Cambridge Working Papers in Economics

I study strategy-proof assignment mechanisms where the agents reveal their preference rankings over the available objects. A stochastic mechanism returns lotteries over deterministic assignments, and mechanisms are compared according to first-order stochastic dominance. I show that non-wasteful strategy-proof mechanisms are not dominated by strategy-proof mechanisms, however nonwastefulness is ...