Overcoming Greed: Buddhists and Christians in Consumerist Society

analysis of power in the network society

اندیشمندان و صاحب نظران علوم اجتماعی بر این باورند که مرحله تازه ای در تاریخ جوامع بشری اغاز شده است. ویژگیهای این جامعه نو را می توان پدیده هایی از جمله اقتصاد اطلاعاتی جهانی ، هندسه متغیر شبکه ای، فرهنگ مجاز واقعی ، توسعه حیرت انگیز فناوری های دیجیتال، خدمات پیوسته و نیز فشردگی زمان و مکان برشمرد. از سوی دیگر قدرت به عنوان موضوع اصلی علم سیاست جایگاه مهمی در روابط انسانی دارد، قدرت و بازتولید...

Adam Smith and Greed

Greed, Fear, and Rushes∗

We develop a continuum player unified timing game that also rationalizes sudden mass movements. Payoffs in the game are a logsubmodular function of time and the stopping quantile. Time captures the payoff-relevant fundamental — payoffs “ripen”, peak at a “harvest time”, and then “rot”. Capturing the strategic interaction, payoffs are single-peaked in the quantile. We distinguish between greed a...

Virtue Ethics for Christians

If one would tackle any major problem in life it is helpful to observe the comprehensive nature of the thing from an external vantage point before diving into the gritty details. This is also described as grasping the “big picture” or getting a birds-eye-view on the problem. I think that this holistic approach is helpful when dealing with ethical issues as well. In this paper I will first defin...

Greed and Majorization

We present a straightforward linear algebraic model of greed, based only on extensions of classical majorization and convexity theory. This gives an alternative to other models of greedy-solvable problems such as matroids, greedoids, submodular functions, etc., and it is able to express established examples of greedy-solvable optimization problems that they cannot. The linear algebraic approach...