Scientists complain government cash is no rise in real terms

Rebels? No, Simply Scientists

The problem of creativity is common to the arts and sciences. What distinguishes geniuses from ordinary mortals? In the arts, from Mozart to van Gogh, creativity has frequently been associated with the artist’s opposition to the society of their time. A good artist is a rebel. Paradoxically, whereas science might appear as a progressive rational construction of new knowledge, the same relation ...

No Rise in Income Inequality ?

We analyze the distribution and concentration of market incomes in Germany in the period 1992 to 2001 on the basis of an integrated data set of individual tax returns and the German Socio-Economic Panel. The unique feature of this integrated data set is that it encompasses the whole spectrum of the population, from the very poor to the very rich. We find a modest increase in overall inequality ...

Looking Forward: The Role for Government in Regulating Electronic Cash

In his 19th century novel, Looking Backward, Edward Bellamy described a man who falls asleep in Boston in 1887 and awakens in the year 2000 to find that the United States has evolved into a utopian society. No longer are paper or metallic currency in circulation. Instead people pay for everything with paperboard cards that carry a certain value in dollars. To make a purchase, a person need only...

Science and scientists in government, 1878-1896 -- Part II.

Real Electronic Cash Versus Academic Electronic Cash Versus Paper Cash (Panel Report)