Ray Marshall 6th Annual Konopka Lecture May, 1983 INTRODUCTION Dr. Marshall’s insights and perspectives on youth employment have emerged from his work in governmental, private , and academic settings. He served as Secretary of Labor during the Carter Administration (1977-1980) and is presently the Bernard Rapoport Centennial Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at the University of Texas. ...

Marshall was the great synthesiser of neoclassical economics. Yet with his qualified assumption of self-interest, his emphasis on variation in economic evolution, and his cautious attitude to the use of mathematics, Marshall differs fundamentally from other leading neoclassical contemporaries. Metaphors inspire more specific analogies and ontological assumptions, and Marshall used the guiding m...

Finding alternative to most well known classical family of distributions has become a topic of high importance in academic research due to their striking properties. An increasing interest can be observed for the art of adding parameter to some existing distributions as one parameter family of distributions is not sufficient to handle various real contexts. There is a vast amount of literature ...

Finding alternative to most well known classical family of distributions has become a topic of high importance in academic research due to their striking properties. An increasing interest can be observed for the art of adding parameter to some existing distributions as one parameter family of distributions is not sufficient to handle various real contexts. There is a vast amount of literature ...