Why Indirect Harms do not Support Social Robot Rights

Why Workers’ Rights Are Not Women’s Rights

“Why workers’ rights are not women’s rights” is an argument whose purpose is to make clear why workers’ rights rest on a masculine embodiment of the labor subject and it is this masculine embodiment which is at the center of employment contracts and employment relations systems. By excavating the gender subjects implicit to and explicit in regulations of labor, the paper reveals the opposition ...

Why UML will not do ?

Why Do Governments Support Business R&d?

Governments can choose among various tools to leverage business research and development (R&D). They can offer direct support via grants or procurement or they can use fiscal incentives, such as R&D tax incentives. More countries are now using tax incentives than a decade ago and the schemes are more generous than ever. As of today more than 20 OECD governments provide fiscal incentives to sust...

Why Do People Care About Social Status?

This paper shows that complementary interaction induces people to care about social status because it serves as a signal of non-observable abilities. There is a unique equilibrium in which everyone cares about social status. In this equilibrium a person’s social status perfectly reveals his abilities, and everyone matches with a person of like ability. By interpreting social status as a signal ...

Why investments do not prevent blackouts

Power had not yet been fully restored following the recent blackout that some were already clamoring that increasing transmission capacity is the best way to avoid a repetition of these events. Others were laying the blame squarely on the deregulation of the electricity supply industry. Should the United States embark on a massive investment program? Should deregulation be abandoned on the grou...