Trump: Reckless Free Trader or Genuine Protectionist?

Free Trade Taxation and Protectionist Taxation

The goal of this paper is to seek new insight regarding international tax policy by recasting it in paraUel with the theory of international trade. This is accomplished by defining a free trade taxation regime as one that is consistent with an efficient worldwide allocation of capital, and evaluating within this perspective various aspects of tax policy, such as value-added taxes, integration, ...

Free Will, Genuine Alternatives and Predictability

Tout as a genuine free choice item

Sparse cliques trump scale-free networks in coordination and competition

Cooperative behavior, a natural, pervasive and yet puzzling phenomenon, can be significantly enhanced by networks. Many studies have shown how global network characteristics affect cooperation; however, it is difficult to understand how this occurs based on global factors alone, low-level network building blocks, or motifs are necessary. In this work, we systematically alter the structure of sc...

The Young and the Reckless: Adolescent Reckless Behavior

In Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, they "surf" on the tops of trains, standing with arms outstretched as the trains rush along. The surfers—adolescents, girls as well as boys—are undeterred by the death of 150 fellow surfers per year and the injury of 400 more, from falling off trains or from hitting the 3,000-volt electric cable that runs above. On Truk Island in the South Pacific, drunkenness, figh...