This article explores a sub-group of elites at the border to non-elites that I shall call fringe nobles. It develops theoretical interest in this group, understood as structural ideal-type. then fleshes out characteristics it with help historical examples relational studies nobles before complementing case-study on study motivation German noble economics students. The habitus group is character...

In The Myth of Ownership-Taxes and Justice, Liam Mur-phy and Thomas Nagel (2002) launch an attack against a straw man, the economist who believes that taxation should minimally interfere with property rights and should seek to preserve the market distribution of wealth and income. Instead they propose an approach that focuses on the consequences of any form of public intervention for the distri...

Professor William Mitchell holds the Chair in Economics at Charles Darwin University and is the Director for the Centre of Full Employment and Equity (CofFEE) at CDU. He holds conjoint professorial positions at the University of Newcastle and Monash University (attached to the European Centre). He also is a Visiting Professor at Maastricht University, The Netherlands, and is on the management b...

The Information Retrieval and Advertising Workshop (IRA 2009) was held on July 23, 2009 in Boston, Massachusetts, in conjunction with the 32nd Annual ACM SIGIR Conference. The workshop covered theoretical and empirical issues in several research areas that span the intersection of computational advertising, information retrieval, and economics. The workshop consisted of 3 invited talks, 6 refer...

Introduction The National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) is a trade association through which the electro-industry develops and promotes positions on standards and government regulations, and members acquire information on industry and market economics. In supporting the NEMA mission as it relates to Cyber Security, our objective in this position statement is to promote the competi...

Gatton Professor of International Banking and Financial Economics, University of Kentucky; and Vice President and Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Valuable research assistance was provided by Zarmeen Katchi, Steven Fay, Carmen Corral-Solines, and Raquel Chmielewski. The views expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect official positions of the Federal Reserve Ba...

This thesis attempts to justify a normative role for methodology by sketching a pragmatic way out of the dichotomy between two major strands in economic methodology: empiricism and postmodernism. It is important to understand that my thesis is about methodology and this means that I do not add another recipe with prescriptions as to how economics needs to change in order to become a " better " ...

The Information Retrieval and Advertising Workshop (IRA 2009) was held on July 23, 2009 in Boston, Massachusetts, in conjunction with the 32nd Annual ACM SIGIR Conference. The workshop covered theoretical and empirical issues in several research areas that span the intersection of computational advertising, information retrieval, and economics. The workshop consisted of 3 invited talks, 6 refer...

neuroeconomics that has merged from the interaction of neuroscience, economics and psychology, is. promising new approach to understanding human behavior in economic analysis, especially as an selector (that is the fundamental issue is economics). this article illustrate the advantages of neuroeconomics and with focus on methodology of economics and ability of this branch of economic for theori...

We explore the possibility to compare positions in different directed and undirected graphs. assume an agent have a preference relation over weighted (directed undirected) graphs, stating pairwise comparisons between these positions. Ideally, such can be expressed by utility function, where are evaluated their assigned ‘utility’. Extending relations mixture set containing all lotteries graph po...