... these
arguments have prevailed in all recent attempts to scrap the
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system—but no one is heard ... them and their wives among our friends.
Sandy Maisel
Rome, Maine
November 2006
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Chapter 1
The context of...
... due
care has been taken by insurees against bad outcomes (protection
against moral hazard). By being able to take advantage of the Law
of Large Numbers, markets and the government, taken together,
are ... equal. There is evidence that this is so, both in the
Indian sub-continent and in sub-Saharan Africa.
The ratio of females to males in sub-Saharan Africa is 102 to 100,
which means the f...
... Von
Neumann’s toy model abstracts all such complications away.
Alice and Bob are each dealt a number between 0 and 1. Both aim
to maximize their average dollar earnings on the assumption that
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all ... which
each player chooses slow and speed half the time. So Pandora’s
intervention increases the probability of an accident to 1/4 and
reduces Alice’s and Bob’s average...
... the planet, sending up a
gigantic plume of gas and debris and blasting outwards a rapidly
expanding shock wave. As fragment after fragment hammered into
the planet, spectacular images were gathered ... waves, earthquakes, tsunamis, and
wildfires. Many urban centres in Europe, Africa, and Asia appear to
have collapsed almost simultaneously around 2350 bc, and records
abound of floo...