Why can’t we Google™ for the people we want to hire?

Why capital suppliers (usually) hire workers: what we know and what we need to know

A fundamental question for economics is why large firms in market economies usually assign control rights to capital suppliers rather than labor suppliers. A diverse collection of answers can be found in the literature. But unfortunately little theoretical consensus has emerged, and few attempts have been made to resolve this issue through systematic empirical investigation. This paper reviews ...

— Why Do We Want a Linear Collider? –

As everybody in this audience knows, there are (at least) two important and exciting progress in particle physics in recent years. The first one is of course ∗Invited plenary talk given at 3rd International Workshop on Physics and Experiments with e+e− Linear Colliders, 8-12 Sep 1995 , Iwate, Japan †This work was supported in part by the Director, Office of Energy Research, Office of High Energ...

Why We Want Everyone to Be Like Us

We Americans believe that there is basically one rational way to live: ours. There is one legitimate path of development, which leads toward democracy, transparency, and a competitive market system. Our dealings with the rest of the world are based on this assumption. We reinforce the point by dispatching economists, foreign aid workers, and religious missionaries to teach the world how to live...

Why Don’t They Do What We Want Them to Do?

This paper describes an investigation into the factors affecting a student’s decision whether to construct a state transition diagram in order to verify the correctness of a concurrent program, or whether to verbally verify the program. We conjectured that the advantages of the visual formal tool would cause it to be adopted as a routine part of the students’ practice, but in fact the verbal de...

Why we want to remain a nonprofit health care organization.