Politics without Romance: Implications of Public Choice Theory for Statutory Interpretation

Not for citation without authors permission REVISIONIST PUBLIC CHOICE THEORY*

Introduction In a recent essay Christiano (2004) coined a distinction between 'mainstream' and 'revisionist' rational choice political theory, and cast us in the role of revisionist theorists 1. While we disagree with some aspects of Christiano's argument 2 , we broadly accept our designated role as revisionist public choice theorists. The major purposes of this brief paper are to provide a sum...

Future-oriented implications of the resilience theory for Iran public libraries

Target: In order to play their role in social developments, public libraries face technological changes and unknown issues that can affect their identity and mission .In reference to the application of novel approaches to reconceptualize the mission of public libraries, this study tries to employ resilience theory to craft a vision for the future of Iran public libraries. Method: This study u...

The ethical implications of screening for HIV: whose choice reigns?

Model theory without choice? Categoricity

We prove Los conjecture = Morley theorem in ZF, with the same characterization (of first order countable theories categorical in אα for some (equivalently for every ordinal α > 0). Another central result here is, in this context: the number of models of a countable first order T of cardinality אα is either ≥ |α| for every אα or it has a small upper bound (close to i2). The author would like to ...

Statutory Interpretation in the Era of OIRA

The Article is a case study regarding a rule governing cooling water towers for power plants promulgated pursuant to the Clean Water Act (”CWA”). It analyzes the history of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (”OIRA”) within the Office of Management and Budget (”OMB”), and its influence in compelling the Environmental Protection Agency (”EPA”) to conduct cost-benefit analysis of al...