Post-Modern Perspectives on Orthodox Positivism

9. Post-orthodox econometrics

Presenting a paper to any conference with the name ‘Keynes’ in the title, particularly to one sponsored by the Post Keynesian Study Group, is fraught with danger. For the exegitical debate about ‘what Keynes really meant’ is often carried out with as much fervour as the arguments between the Fathers of the early Church. Indeed, some of the latter material has a familiar sound. Origen, for examp...

On Post-Modern Cryptography

This essay relates to a recent article of Koblitz&Menezes that “criticizes several typical ‘provable security’ results” and argues that the “theorem-proof paradigm of theoretical mathematics is often of limited relevance” to cryptography. Although it should be obvious that these claims are utterly wrong, we undertake articulating this triviality. In particular, we point out some of the fundamen...

Typological Perspectives on Modern Greek

Greek is one of the more intensely-studied languages in the world, with regard to its history, structure, and social setting, but despite this special place that Greek holds in the pantheon of human languages, the modern form of the language has played a relatively minor role in linguistic studies aimed at developing a general typology of natural language, i.e. the development of a taxonomy of ...

The Great Quantitative/Qualitative Debate: The Past, Present, and Future of Positivism and Post-Positivism in Information Systems

Over the past 20 years there has been significant progress in quantitative and qualitative research in information systems (Lee et al. 1997; Myers 1997; Myers and Avison 2002). There has also been much progress in our understanding of the contributions that can be made by both positivist and post-positivist (i.e., interpretive and critical) perspectives. The purpose of this panel is to review t...

Uncommon misery: modern psychoanalytic perspectives on infertility.