IRVING FISHER, RAGNAR FRISCH, AND THE ELUSIVE QUEST FOR MEASURABLE UTILITY

Did Ragnar Frisch discover input - output economics ?

Ragnar Frisch on various occasions claimed that he had invented input-output analysis in a 1934 paper titled “Circulation planning”. Although prominently published in Econometrica, Frisch’s contribution has hardly been discussed in the input-output literature. Frisch’s paper was an attempt to explain the incapsulating phenomena of economic depressions and thus arose from a different motivation ...

shari‘ati and the (elusive) quest for a just order

ali shariati was undoubtedly among the most important of the prerevolutionary islamist thinker particularly insofar as he made islam a politically respectable force for many young men and women in iran's traditional middle classes. shariati was novel for the time in terms of his education and intellectual influences. the clear attraction of ideology for shariati is that he believes by means of ...

Measurable Utility and the Measurable Choice Theorem

The elusive quest for RNA knots.

Physical entanglement, and particularly knots arise spontaneously in equilibrated polymers that are sufficiently long and densely packed. Biopolymers are no exceptions: knots have long been known to occur in proteins as well as in encapsidated viral DNA. The rapidly growing number of RNA structures has recently made it possible to investigate the incidence of physical knots in this type of biom...

The Elusive Quest for Adaptable Interoperability

Globalisation forces cultural amalgam that depends on efficacy of change management to reap the benefits. Fueled by resistance and paranoia, changes to embrace or accommodate globalization are few and far between. Drivers of change management are amorphous and differences in policy, standards, trust and financial inequalities create further hindrance. Governments, organizations and businesses a...