Roscoe C. Martin

Pound , Roscoe ( 1870 - 1964 )

PAUL ROSCOE Exchange across Difference

In Sex and Temperament, Margaret Mead depicted the Mountain Arapesh of New Guinea as a gentle, nurturant people among whom warfare was "practically unknown." A few years later, however, Reo Fortune, her husband and cofieldworker, was to claim that warfare was "good Arapesh custom." This article reexamines this disagreement, addressing two issues: Did the Arapesh have a tradition of warfare?, an...

Review of C . B . Martin ’ s The Mind in Nature ∗

C. B. Martin’s The Mind in Nature is a manifesto in favor of a comprehensive powersbased ontology, aiming to treat the actual and the modal, the causal and the constitutive, the scientific and the mathematical, and the physical and the mental, all by primary appeal to the notion of an irreducible qualitatively informed disposition (with some substratum thrown in for good measure). Like many man...

Part C project : Stable matchings Supervisor : James Martin Stable marriage

The “stable marriage” problem is often described as follows. There are n men and n women; each of the men has an order of preference on the women, and each of the women has an order of preference on the men. A “matching” of the people into n man-woman pairs is said to be unstable if there exist some man and some woman who both prefer each other to their partner in the matching. If there is no s...

Martin Rama

Tunisia’s unemployment rate has been among the highest in the world for almost two decades. This article claims that such a high rate reflects measurement problems rather than labor market inefficiency. After discussing the reasons why unemployment rates may not be comparable across countries and reviewing the tools that are available to analyze unemployment in a specific country, the article p...