Serendipity, Generosity, and Inspiration

Serendipity, Generosity, and Inspiration

Methodological Individualism and Generosity

Today a convergence between the fields of anthropology and economics has re-emerged after decades during which the dictates of methodological individualism, as strikingly elucidated by Kenneth Arrow, had seriously limited and hampered effective scholarship in studies of economic and social development in developing countries. A new generation of development economists represented by Spolaori an...

Genericity, Generosity, and Tori

Bruno Poizat is associated, among other things, with broadening the scope of the theory of groups of finite Morley rank to the level of stable groups [P87], in keeping with the general trend of the development of model theory from Morley to Shelah. But this has not prevented him from taking an active interest in such aspects of the theory as are associated more particularly with the case of fin...

Science and serendipity.

Good science demands independent replication of new ideas and results and abandonment of accepted theories in light of more reliable evidence. Failure to comply leads to damaging bad science, as with the falsely claimed association between measles, mumps and rubella vaccination and autism. Progress of good science also often requires serendipity, 'making discoveries by accident and sagacity of ...

Serendipity and purpose.

As a medical oncologist-researcher, I am often asked ‘How (or why) did you go into cancer?’ and ‘Isn’t it a depressing field?’ The answer to the second question is a resounding ‘no’, and this brief profile charts my path to answer the first question. Born and raised in Denver, Colorado, I am the daughter of two geologists, so ours was a scientific family. From an early age, my brother, sister a...