Both in US antitrust and EU competition policy a development to a broader application of rule of reason instead of per se rules can be observed. In the European discussion the attempt to base competition policy on a "more economic approach" is mainly viewed as improving the economic analysis in the assessment of specific cases. In this paper it is shown from a general law and economics perspect...

Modern legal scholars frequently and increasingly base their analyses on the assumption, grounded largely in the extensive experimental literature, that individuals are subject to a number of systematic behavioral biases. Within the legal literature, behavioral economic analysis has been relied upon to generate a significant number of proposals for paternalistic regulation. These proposals are ...

What has ‘America’ meant in everyday terms for the people of East Asia since the end of the Second World War? What indeed does it continue to mean for us in the present day? Would it not be possible to review the relationship with America, built up especially during the period of the Cold War from a comprehensive regional perspective, taking into account the level of people’s everyday conscious...

The renewed interest in home dialysis therapies makes it pertinent to address the essentials of establishing and running a successful home dialysis program. The success of a home program depends on a clear understanding of the structure of the home program team, the physical plant, educational tool requirements, reimbursement sources and a business plan. A good command of the technical and econ...

Modern legal scholars frequently and increasingly base their analyses on the assumption, grounded largely in the extensive experimental literature, that individuals are subject to a number of systematic behavioral biases. Within the legal literature, behavioral economic analysis has been relied upon to generate a significant number of proposals for paternalistic regulation. These proposals are ...

Systems that could learn by reading would radically change the economics of building large knowledge bases. This paper describes Learning Reader, a prototype system that extends its knowledge base by reading. Learning Reader consists of three components. The Reader, which converts text into formally represented cases, uses a Direct Memory Access Parser operating over a large knowledge base, der...

The Personal Social Services Research Unit (PSSRU) at the London School of Economics and Political Science was established in 1996, as PSSRU expanded from its original base (since 1974) at the University of Kent. Another branch was also established at the University of Manchester. At the LSE we are part of LSE Health and Social Care in the Social Policy Department. For further information about...

This paper examines critically the contributions of Cournot, Jevons and Walras as the founders of classical mathematical economics from a methodological standpoint. Advances in different economic schools and doctrines in the 19th century produced an environment of multi-dimensionality in economic analysis which was regarded by the pioneers of classical mathematical economists as a chaotic state...

Since its inception, Marxism has showcased the scientific superiority of political economy over economics. This article argues that Mao Zedong played an important role in demonstrating this superiority. In his A Critique Soviet Economics , criticised for economic focus, which underestimated importance politics and ideology. It was essential, argued, to explore how ideological superstructure aff...

In order to use all the stored information on animal diseases in an optimal manner it is crucial that the purpose, circumstances and constrains for the data are known for the user. The objective with the NKVet symposium and ensuing special issue of Acta Vet Scand is to provide an overview of the most important databases on animal diseases in the Nordic countries. The possibility of using the da...