Frans Verdoorn (1906–1984) – Biohistorie

Frans B.M. de Waal

Frans de Waal, a Dutch-born ethologist, is C.H. Candler, Professor in the Psychology Department of Emory University, in Atlanta, and Director of the Living Links Center for the Study of Ape and Human Evolution. He and his team study primate social behavior and cognition, working with socially living chimpanzees and capuchin monkeys. Topics of interest are cultural transmission, empathy, and beh...

The Law of Verdoorn : Evidence from Greek Disaggregated Manufacturing Time Series Data

This paper tests the validity of Verdoorn’s law in Greek manufacturing. Through the Generalised Method of Moments (GMM) methodology, estimates of the Verdoorn law in aggregated and disaggregated manufacturing Greek data are obtained in order to explain disparities in income and growth among Greek manufacturing sectors. The results provided evidence that increasing returns to scale with certain,...

Similarity between frans Fat and Saturated Fat in the Modification of Rat Mammary Carcinogenesis1

Commercial hydrogénation of vegetable oils results in the introduction of frans fatty acids. In the present study, we have investigated the effect of feeding a fat which contained approxi mately 38% frans isomers (designated frans fat) on the induction of mammary tumors by dimethylbenz(a)anthracene in rats. The corresponding control fat (designated c/s fat), which had a similar fatty acid comp...

Frans B . M . de Waal Joint Ventures Require Joint Payoffs : Fairness among Primates

wall street is sometimes compared to a darwinian jungle. Nice guys finish last, it is said, and only the strong survive. This is an adequate enough description, but not entirely true, neither for the stock market nor for life in the jungle. When Richard Grasso, head of the New York Stock Exchange, revealed a pay package for himself of close to $200 million, there was public outcry. As it happen...

A Normative Theory of Humanistic Knowledge FRANS GREGERSEN - SIMO K 0 PPE Zusammenfassung