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New Institutional Economics
(Edward Elgar, 2000)
This chapter surveys the new institutional economics, a rapidly growing literature combining economics, law, organization theory, political science, sociology and anthropology to understand social, political and commercial ...
The theory of the firm and its critics: a stocktaking and assessment
(Cambridge University Press, 2005)
Since its emergence in the 1970s the modern economic or Coasian theory of the firm has been discussed and challenged by sociologists, heterodox economists, management scholars, and other critics. This chapter reviews and ...
Advances in Cooperative Theory since 1990: A Review of Agricultural Economics Literature
(Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam School of Management, 2004)
This article reviews the advances in neoclassical, coalition-game theoretic, and new institutional-nexus of contracts applications of economic theory to agricultural cooperative literature published in English language ...
Organizational Governance
(Russell Sage Foundation, 2008)
This chapter reviews and discusses rational-choice approaches to organizational governance. These approaches are found primarily in organizational economics (virtually no rational-choice organizational sociology exists), ...
The Make-or-Buy Decision: Lessons from Empirical Studies
(Springer, 2005)
The ��transaction cost �� theory of the firm introduced by Coase (1937) has become a standard framework for the study of institutional arrangements. The Coasian framework helps explain not only the existence of the firm, ...
Person-Affecting Paretian Egalitarianism with Variable Population Size
(Palgrave-Macmillan, 2007)
Where there is a fixed population (i.e., who exists does not depend on what choice an agent makes), the deontic version of anonymous Paretian egalitarianism holds that an option is just if and only if (1) it is anonymously ...
Consequentialism
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2006)
The three main general approaches to moral theory are consequentialism, deontology, and virtue theory. I shall describe and assess consequentialism. First, however, I shall make a few background remarks on morality.
Desert and Entitlement: An Introduction
(Routledge, 2003)
This is the sixth volume of Equality and Justice, a six-volume collection of the most important articles of the twentieth century on the topic of justice and equality. This volume addresses two issues: (1) desert-based ...
Introduction to Equality and Justice: The Demands of Equality
(Routledge, 2003)
This is the second volume of Equality and Justice, a six-volume collection of the most important articles of the twentieth century on the topic of justice and equality. This volume addresses the question of whether justice ...
Care and Managed Care: Psychological Factors Relevant to Healthcare and its Delivery
(2002)
What is the essence of clinical caring, how can its value be determined, and what are its origins? Caring for a patient is a bit like loving someone. In both cases, the wellbeing of the person who is loved or the patient ...
An extremely small and efficient identification scheme
(2000)
We present a new identification scheme which is based on Legendre symbols modulo a certain hidden prime and which is naturally suited for low power, low memory applications.
Nonlinear complexity of the Naor-Reingold pseudo-random function
(2000)
We obtain an exponential lower bound on the non-linear complexity of the new pseudo-random function, introduced recently by M. Naor and O. Reingold. This bound is an extension of the lower bound on the linear complexity ...
On the dimension of the Jacquet module of a certain induced representation
(2001)
The Fourier coefficients of certain metaplectic Eisenstein series contain L-series of arithmetic interest. This fact has been repeatedly exploited by various authors in order to obtain analytic information about these ...
A Variant of NTRU with Non-Invertible Polynomials
(2002)
We introduce a generalization of the NTRU cryptosystem and describe its advantages and disadvantages as compared with the original NTRU protocol. This extension helps to avoid the potential problem of finding “enough” ...
Pragmatic Encroachment
(2009)
In his classic (1953) article, Richard Rudner claims that "in accepting a hypothesis the scientist must make the decision that the evidence is sufficiently strong or that the probability is sufficiently high to warrant the ...
Left-Libertarianism and Global Justice
(Ashgate, 2001)
We defend a version of left-libertarianism, and discuss some of its implications for global justice (and economic justice among nations in particular). Like the better known right-libertarianism, left-libertarianism holds ...
An identification scheme based on sparse polynomials
(2000)
This paper gives a new example of exploiting the idea of using polynomials with restricted coefficients over finite fields and rings to construct reliable cryptosystems and identification schemes.
Spiritual Songs in the Seventeenth Century: Russia's Legacy in Manuscripts
(Verlag Otto Sagner, 2009)
Left-libertarianism: A primer
(Palgrave-Macmillan, 2000)
Left-libertarian theories of justice hold that agents are full self-owners and that natural resources are owned in some egalitarian manner. Unlike most versions of egalitarianism, left-libertarianism endorses full ...
Cryptographic applications of sparse polynomials over finite rings
(2001)
This paper gives new examples that exploit the idea of using sparse polynomials with restricted coefficients over a finite ring for designing fast, reliable cryptosystems and identification schemes.