Robert d’Escourt Atkinson

Richard C. Atkinson: President-Elect of AAAS.

W hen Washington veterans describe managerial effectiveness as practiced in their town, they use abstractions such as agencies, staffs, and access to the White House. They dwell on adversary contentions: turf fights, budget struggles, and legislative coups. What emerges is the style ofan experienced political operator overcoming opposition by any means necessary. The successful manager is usual...

THE RELIABILITY OF QUARTERLY NATIONAL ACCOUNTS IN SEVEN MAJOR COUNTRIES : A USER'S PERSPECTIVE by Robert York and Paul Atkinson ORGANISATION FOR ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT Paris

National accounts data provide the most comprehensive overview available of developments in national economies. They are of great interest to a wide range of users of economic information. These users, which include governments formulating budgetary policies, central banks making monetary policy decisions, businesses considering investment decisions and financial institutions making judgements ...

Note on a Non-oscillation Theorem of Atkinson

We present a general non-oscillation criterion for a second order two-term scalar nonlinear differential equation in the spirit of a classic result by Atkinson [1]. The presentation is simpler than most and can serve to unify many such criteria under one common theme that eliminates the need for specfic techniques in each of the classical cases (sublinear, linear, and superlinear). As is to be ...

Robert Insall

Robert Insall was born in London in 1965, into a family of architects, musicians and historians. To their great surprise, he was obviously scientifically inclined from an early age. He did a B.A. at Cambridge University, then stuck around in Cambridge for a Ph.D., where he got interested in Dictyostelium, followed by a postdoc in Johns Hopkins, where he got interested in chemotaxis and cell mov...

Robert Koch