THE POSSIBILITY OF CONTINUOUS GROWTH WITH EXHAUSTIBLE RESOURCES: UNKNOWINGLY AN AGREEMENT HAS BEEN REACHED, BUT IT MAY NOT BE CORRECT

Optimal Growth Paths with Exhaustible Resources: an Information-based Model

They think it's all over, but it may not be!

I t is evident that anyone required to perform at a high level in sport or other physically demanding occupation has a limited number of years before demands made on the body begin to take their toll, sometimes accompanied by difficulties of a psychological nature. Although there may be a good deal of informal support from family, friends, and perhaps even other athletes who have retired, in so...

Games with Exhaustible Resources

We study N -player continuous-time Cournot games in an oligopoly where firms choose production quantities. These are nonzero-sum differential games, whose value functions may be characterized by systems of nonlinear Hamilton-Jacobi partial differential equations. When resources are in finite supply, such as oil, exhaustibility enters as boundary conditions for the PDEs. We analyze the problem w...

Asthma and atopy: has peak prevalence been reached?

Numerous studies have been published concerning the changing epidemiology of asthma and atopy, and studies from "western countries" have consistently shown a dramatic increase in prevalence over the last two to three decades. However, in this issue of the European Respiratory Journal, BRAUN-FAHRLÄNDER et al. [1] report interesting new evidence concerning the prevalence rates of asthma and atopy...

There Is an ‘Unconscious,’ but It May Well Be Conscious

Depth psychology finds empirical validation today in a variety of observations that suggest the presence of causally effective mental processes outside conscious experience. I submit that this is due to misinterpretation of the observations: the subset of consciousness called "meta-consciousness" in the literature is often mistaken for consciousness proper, thereby artificially creating space f...