Presidential Address: Social Transmission Bias in Economics and Finance

Presidential Address: The Corporation in Finance

To produce significant net present value, an entrepreneur has to differentiate her enterprise from the ordinary. To take collaborators with her, she needs to have substantial ownership, and thus financing. But it is hard to raise finance against differentiated assets. So an entrepreneur has to commit to undertake a second transformation, standardization, that will make the human capital in the ...

Presidential Address How Does Economics Fit the Social World?

This paper considers the present state of applied economics and the difficulties of integrating its findings and insights with those of other social sciences. The philosophical basis of social science is re-considered as a route to resolving these difficulties. Without a more integrated narrative about how our social systems work, applied economics, and all applied social sciences, run the subs...

Nonlinear Dynamics in Economics, Finance and the Social Sciences - ReadingSample

Presidential Address: John Parkes

John Parkes was born in Marton, went to school in New Plymouth, and completed his BSc and MSc degrees at Massey University. He joined the Forest Research Institute at Ilam as a scientist in 1975 and transferred to Landcare Research when the Crown Research Institutes were formed in 1992. John has worked on the ecology of many mammals (hedgehogs, possums, swamp wallabies, hares, red deer, wapiti,...

Wordsworth, Presidential Address

to the Lake District and who, from the first flush of revolutionary fervour came to a dignified old age in Rydal, Westmorland as Queen Victoria's Poet Laureate, a Tory supporter, opponent of reform and adherent to the established church. There are several reasons for choosing this subject. I have heard some twenty Presidential Addresses to this Society, from Mr. Robert Cooke's 'Ship-Shape and B...