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When Slide Rules Ruled

Scientific American, 2006
The article discusses the slide rule, a computational tool used by engineers before electronic calculators. Topics discussed include the invention of the slide rule by English Anglican minister William Oughtred, how to properly use a slide rule, how long it took for the slide rule to become popular, and the phasing out of the slide rule.
Norton Starr, Cliff Stoll
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Who Rules America?

, 2021
Introduction 1. Class and Power in America 2. The Corporate Community 3. The Corporate Community and the Upper Class 4. The Policy-Planning Network 5. The Role of Public Opinion 6. Parties and Elections 7. How the Power Elite Dominates Government 8.
G. William Domhoff
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Rules Rather than Discretion: The Inconsistency of Optimal Plans

Journal of Political Economy, 1977
Even if there is an agreed-upon, fixed social objective function and policymakers know the timing and magnitude of the effects of their actions, discretionary policy, namely, the selection of that decision which is best, given the current situation and a
F. Kydland, E. Prescott
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Rule by Rules

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2019
From at least Leibniz, the dream of removing human beings from the loop of legal reasoning has captured the imaginations of philosophers, lawyers, and (more recently) computer scientists. This project of law-as-computation (sometimes referred to as “computational law”) seeks to reduce the law to a set of algorithms that could be automatically executed ...
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Rules is Rules

The American Journal of Bioethics, 2006
When I am asked to provide an ethics assessment of a research proposal, one of the self-imposed “rules” I apply is to ask myself after reading the proposal is if I would give consent to be enrolled...
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Rules, Rules, Rules, Rules: Multilevel Regulatory Governance

Canadian Journal of Political Science, 2007
Rules, Rules, Rules, Rules: Multilevel Regulatory Governance, G. Bruce Doern and Robert Johnson, eds., Studies in Comparative Political Economy and Public Policy; Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006, xi, 372.The first stated purpose of this edited collection is to “clarify conceptually the nature, causes, and dynamics of regulatory ...
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Taylor’s Rule versus Taylor Rules

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011
AbstractDoes the Taylor rule prescribe negative interest rates for 2009–11? This question is important because negative prescribed interest rates provide a justification for quantitative easing once actual policy rates hit the zero lower bound. We answer the question by analyzing Fed policy following the recessions of the early‐to‐mid‐1970s, the early ...
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