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The normality assumption in coordination games with flexible information acquisition
Journal of Economic Theory, vol. 203, 2022. Abstract Many economic models assume that random variables follow normal (Gaussian) distributions. Yet, real-world variables may be non-normally distributed.
Donatella Della Porta: Antiausterity protests in Europe and beyond: bringing capitalist back into social movement studies
Donatella Della Porta, Professor of Sociology at Scuola normale superiore, and Director of the Centre of Social Movements Studies. ABSTRACTSocial movement studies have developed a useful kit of concept
Sweden, the extreme country
The research network World Values Survey has explored people's values since the 1980s in six waves of interviews in a total of 100 countries. The latest survey was completed in 2014 and the result has
On revolutions
Palgrave Communications, volume 6, Article number: 4 (2020). doi.org/10.1057/s41599-019-0371-1 Abstract Sometimes the normal course of events is disrupted by a particularly swift and profound change. His
Usability of climate information: Toward a new scientific framework
WIREs Climate Change Abstract Climate science is expected to provide usable information to policy-makers, to support the resolution of climate change. The complex, multiply connected nature of climate c
On Revolutions
Working Paper SERIES 2018:63 THE VARIETIES OF DEMOCRACY INSTITUTE, University of Gothenburg, Dept of Political Science. Abstract Sometimes the normal course of events is disrupted by a particularly swif
David Ellerman: Reframing the Labor Question
On Marginal Productivity Theory and the Labor Theory of Property. David Ellerman, Visiting scholar at the University of California in Riverside ABSTRACT Neoclassical economics uses the perfectly competit
Deep moral disagreements and defective contexts
Synthese Abstract The key characteristic of deep disagreements is that any attempt to resolve them just reveals new points of disagreement that stem from underlying commitments. Many moral disagreementsInformal LogicSemantics and Pragmatics
The Future of Humans: Moral Bioenhancement
Main speaker: Julian Savulescu, Uehiro Professor of Practical Ethics A seminar on the use of medicine to improve moral behaviour and solve the greatest problems of the 21st century. The greatest problem
A Call for Rethinking Climate Science Methods
Climate science faces a challenge in delivering direct and immediate societal benefits. Today, there is a gap between what it produces and what users actually need. In the article "Usability of climat
