The syndrome of accident proneness (Unfallneigung): why psychiatrists did not adopt and medicalize it

A Critical Analysis of the Origin and Nature of Classical Mathematical Economics: Why Classical Economists Did Not Use Mathematics?

The role of mathematics in economic analysis is not yet a settled question. Smith, Ricardo, Mill and other eminent classical economists did not use mathematics in their economic theorizations. We have defined classical mathematical economics as the whole body of literature in mathematical treatment of economics originating mainly from the contributions of Cournot,  Jevons and Walras. There are ...

Why the Market Did Not Encourage It and How It Might Be Made to Do So

PREFACE The purpose of this report is to explore the economics of vehicle safety, an area heretofore apparently neglected by economists. In addition, the report suggests fruitful research areas for the NHSB that could contribute to providing greater economic incentives for vehicle safety. Wolf for their helpful comments and criticisms.-ii-SUMMARY This report examines four topics: the relative m...

Why Did Sugarcane Growers Suddenly Adopt Existing Technology?

I investigate the role of regulation and factor prices in the rapid, widespread adoption of mechanical harvesting technology by Brazilian sugarcane growers. I use workerand establishment-level data to test the effect of regulation using complementary regression discontinuity and difference-in-differences approaches. I find that regulation is, at best, a partial explanation, accounting for no mo...

Why did the accident happen? A norm-based reasoning approach

To understand well a text written in natural language (NL), we need our knowledge about the norms of its domain. By the word “norm”, we mean here the normal and expected course of events in the absence of exceptions [6]. This type of knowledge enables us to infer richer conclusions than those given by means of truthpreserving entailments, for example, from the text: “Mon véhicule se trouvait ar...

[Why not use the word accident].