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Buchanan and the Social Contract: Coordination Failures and the Atrophy of Property Rights
Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT James Buchanan advocated that societies should be based on a social contract. He rejected anarchy, seeing it as a “Hobbesian jungle” that calls for government intervention to maintain social order. He also opposed theories of spontaneous order. These views led to debates about the compatibility of Buchanan's works with classical liberalism and
Stefano Dughera, Alain Marciano
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Transversal functional analysis [PDF]
Mathematica Moravica, 2014 This paper provides an introduction to the ideas and methods of transversal functional analysis based on the transversal sets theory. A unifying concept that lies at the heart of transversal functional analysis is that of a transversal normed linear ...
Tasković Milan R.
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Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The short essay makes a case that a post biological world will be a devolution. Sentience is a relational process linked with the awe and wonder we experience in relation to one another and our shared habitat. The voiceless need to be protected by extending solidarity on the basis of sentience—a normative plea, but also on the basis of ...
J. J. McIntyre‐Mills
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Axiom of Choice in nonstandard set theory
Journal of Logic and Analysis, 2012 Karel Hrbacek
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Geometric theories for real number algebra without sign test or dependent choice axiom [PDF]
Henri Lombardi, Assia Mahboubi
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A 5-quantifier (\in,=)-expression ZF-equivalent to the Axiom of Choice [PDF]
, 2007 Kurt Maes
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The Independence Axiom and the Bipolar Behaviorist [PDF]
Developments in the theory of risk require yet another evaluation of the behavioral validity of the independence axiom. This axiom plays a central role in most formal statements of expected utility theory, as well as popular alternative models of ...
Glenn W. Harrison, J. Todd Swarthout
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On forcing axioms and weakenings of the Axiom of Choice
We prove forcing axiom equivalents of two families of weakenings of the axiom of choice: a trichotomy principle for cardinals isolated by Lévy, ${\rm H\hskip0.05pt}_κ$, and ${\rm DC}_κ$, the principle of dependent choices generalized to cardinals $κ$, for regular cardinals $κ$.
Bomfim, Diego Lima +2 more
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Chains of Social Sustainability and the Potential of the DPSIR Framework
Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT For more than 20 years, the Driver‐Pressure‐State‐Impact‐Response (DPSIR) framework has contributed to clarifying causal chains for environmental sustainability issues. This study aims to answer the question of whether the framework can extend its usefulness to structuring social sustainability issues, to which it has not been applied so far ...
Stefan Mann
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Lexicographic Preferences in Discrete Choice Experiments: Consequences on Individual-Specific Willingness to Pay Estimates [PDF]
In discrete choice experiments respondents are generally assumed to consider all of the attributes across each of the alternatives, and to choose their most preferred.
Danny Campbell +2 more
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