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Cyclopedia of issues in economics analyzed through the prism of the economies of countries in transition, emerging markets, and developing countries.

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... Cyclopedia Of Philosophy 4th EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lidija Rangelovska A Na... ... – write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to samvaknin@gmail.com Philosophical Essays and Musings: http://philosophos.tripod.com The Silver Lining ... ...erring an uncertain good to a certain evil is morally wrong. But surely this is a quantitative matter – not a qualitative one. Certain, limited as... ... critical process. To refute this intuitive assignment is easy: criticism is always quantitative. At the least, it can always be translated into qu... ...n of the "Principal-Agent Problem". It is defined thus by the Oxford Dictionary of Economics: "The problem of how a person A can motivate person B ... ...xample of which is the spreadsheet). Data items were related to each other through mathematical formulas. This is the equivalent of the increasing ... ...titive mergers, price discrimination, exclusive dealing, unfair acts, practices and methods. Both consumers and producers who felt offended were gi... ...and development, using intellectual property right to block new entrants and other methods too numerous to recount. An effective law should block a... ... or end and what, precisely, does it include? A fractal curve (boundary) is an apt mathematical treatment of this question. Indeterminacy can be de...

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Moral deliberations and philosophical dimensions in thirteen modern films.

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...ons in Modern Cinema 3 rd EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lidija Rangelovska A Na... ...n from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Philosophical Musings and Essays http://samvak.tripod.com/culture.html Malignant ... ... nature. A technical analysis program is useless without a stock exchange or if its mathematically erroneous. Yet, the two concepts are often conf... ...appears to be unaware of the work of an important, though eccentric, Czech-Austrian mathematical logician, Kurt Gödel (1906-1978). A passing acquain... ...themselves to dealing with computations which involved "effective" or "mechanical" methods for finding results (which could also be expressed as so... ...g results (which could also be expressed as solutions (values) to formulae). These methods were so called because they could, in principle, be perf... ...e? Businessmen always say, ‘what matters gets measured'. Social scientists started quantitative measurement 30 years ago, and even political scienc... ...gence buff would confirm, automata can become intelligent, having crossed a certain quantitative or qualitative level of complexity. The weaker form... ...n Open Directory Cool Site for 8 years. – Philosophy ("Philosophical Musings"), – Economics and Geopolitics ("World in Conflict and Transition"). ...

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Critical analysis of the foundations and tenets of capitalism and of the dismal science - economics.

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...Capitalistic Musings 1 st EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lidija Rangelovska A Na... ...ve – Click HERE! ISBN: 9989-929-37-8 http://samvak.tripod.com/guide.html http://economics.cjb.net http://samvak.tripod.com/after.html Create... ...end V. The Merits of Inflation VI. The Benefits of Oligopolies VII. Moral Hazard and the Survival Value of Risk VIII. The Business of Risk IX.... ...verwhelming empirical evidence to the contrary - simply because it is aesthetic and mathematically convenient. So, what are economic "theories" goo... ...thal falsified all apocalyptic Malthusian scenarios hitherto. Operations research, mathematical modeling, transparent decision making, free trade, ... ...ng. Computerized VAR models will, in all likelihood, become an official part of the quantitative pillar of Basle 2 within 5-10 years. Moreover, Ba... ...h and every manufactured unit is identical - and vanishingly low. Beyond a certain quantitative threshold returns skyrocket and revenues contribute... ...over, the very nature of "intellectual property" is in flux. Business processes and methods, plants, genetic material, strains of animals, minor cha... ...hat they leave behind them is their names and their heirs. We can use Game Theory methods to analyse both these situations. Wherever we have ec...

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...As an alternative to the existing logics we propose the Neutrosophic Logic to represent a mathematical model of uncertainty, vagueness, ambiguity, imprecision, undefined, unknown, incompleteness, inconsistency, redundancy, contradiction. It is a non-classical logic. Eksioglu (1999) explains some of them: “Imprecis...

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...n Neutrosophy, Neutrosophic Logic, Neutrosophic Set, Neutrosophic Probability and Statistics University of New ... ...NEUTROSOPHY, NEUTROSOPHIC LOGIC, NEUTROSOPHIC SET, NEUTROSOPHIC PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS Xiqua... ...veloped the non-standard analysis, a formalization of analysis and a branch of mathematical logic, that rigorously defines the infinitesimals. Infor... ... this mode of thinking: - proposes new philosophical theses, principles, laws, methods, formulas, movements; - reveals that world is full of indeter... ...native to the existing logics we propose the Neutrosophic Logic to represent a mathematical model of uncertainty, vagueness, ambiguity, imprecision, ... ...mplexity) or the acquisition errors (intrinsically imperfect observations, the quantitative errors in measures).” “Probability (called sometimes... ...nic reasoning means to make assumptions about things we don’t know. Heuristic methods may be involved in order to find successive approximations. ... ...ic reasoning could help the forensic accountant in getting a better fix on the quantitative possibility of actually dealing with misrepresented finan... ...trosophy Feng Liu Department of Management Science and Engineering Shaanxi Economics and Trade Institute (South Campus) South Cuihua Road, Xi'a...

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...Cyclopedia of issues in modern philosophy: The philosophy of science and religion, the cognitive sciences, cultural studies, aesthetics, art and literature, the philosophy of economics, the philosophy of psychology, and ethics....

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... Cyclopedia Of Philosophy 4th EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lidija Rangelovska A Na... ... – write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to samvaknin@gmail.com Philosophical Essays and Musings: http://philosophos.tripod.com The Silver Lining ... ...erring an uncertain good to a certain evil is morally wrong. But surely this is a quantitative matter – not a qualitative one. Certain, limited as... ... critical process. To refute this intuitive assignment is easy: criticism is always quantitative. At the least, it can always be translated into qu... ...n of the "Principal-Agent Problem". It is defined thus by the Oxford Dictionary of Economics: "The problem of how a person A can motivate person B ... ...xample of which is the spreadsheet). Data items were related to each other through mathematical formulas. This is the equivalent of the increasing ... ...titive mergers, price discrimination, exclusive dealing, unfair acts, practices and methods. Both consumers and producers who felt offended were gi... ...and development, using intellectual property right to block new entrants and other methods too numerous to recount. An effective law should block a... ... or end and what, precisely, does it include? A fractal curve (boundary) is an apt mathematical treatment of this question. Indeterminacy can be de...

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...In a world of chaotic alignments, traditional logic with its strict boundaries of truth and falsity has not imbued itself with the capability of reflecting the reality. Despite various attempts to reorient logic, there has remained an essential need for an alternative system that could infuse into itself a repre...

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...W. B. VASANTHA KANDASAMY FLORENTIN SMARANDACHE FUZZY COGNITIVE MAPS AND NEUTROSOPHIC COGNITIVE MAPS XIQUAN Phoenix 2003 ... ...SFUL LARGE SCALE OPERATION SOCIAL SERVICE 1 Fuzzy Cognitive Maps and Neutrosophic Cognitive Maps W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy Department ... ...king are [90-94]: It proposes new philosophical theses, principles, laws, methods, formulas and movements; it reveals that the world is full of inde... ...c logic grew as an alternative to the existing logics and it represents a mathematical model of uncertainty, vagueness, ambiguity, imprecision, undef... ...eural networks, and they have powerful and far-reaching consequences as a mathematical tool for modeling complex systems. Prof. Bart Kosko, the guru... ... 2 → … → A i → A 1 then this equilibrium is called a limit cycle. Methods of finding the hidden pattern are discussed in the following Sectio... ...re the properties of other fuzzy systems and the causal maps end up being quantitative matrixes without any qualitative knowledge [21]. To avoid the... ... essential in the study of System Dynamics (SD). When we are dealing with quantitative SD timing issues are naturally solved, since Time is explicit... ...cted Essays on Decision Science (Dept. of Decision Science and Managerial Economics), The Chinese University of Hong Kong, (1993), 129-142. 65. L...

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... mosaic of related concepts in utility theory as applied to financial decision-making. It reviews some of the classical notions of Benthamite utility and the normative utility paradigm offered by the von Neumann-Morgenstern expected utility theory; exploring its major pitfalls before moving into what is postulated as an entropic notion of utility. Extrinsic utility is prop...

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...SUKANTO BHATTACHARYA Utility, Rationality and Beyond – From Behavioral Finance to Informational Finance 0 0 0 ... ...tration Alaska Pacific University, U.S.A. Utility, Rationality and Beyond – From Behavioral Finance to Informational Finance ... ...ers: 1) Liu Feng, School of Information, Xi'an University of Finance and Economics, (Xi'an caijing xueyuan), No.44 Cuihua Nan Road, (cuihua nanlu 4... ...e of such decision. This brings up the problem of establishing a reliable quantitative model for the Benthamite notion of intrinsic utility i.e. tha... ...e probability of complete financial ruin for the trader but no meaningful mathematical expression can model this case under the assumption of logari... ...so been theoretical advances in the esoteric area of econophysics whereby mathematical analogs have been proposed and substantiated between utility ... ...n over and above the intrinsic utility which may be measured by the known methods of von Neumann-Morgenstern expected utility; to completely account... ...tor’s extrinsic utilities. Our model allows for a seamless integration of quantitative behavioral finance theory with the binary structure of informa... ...e 22 nd International Workshop on Bayesian Inference and Maximum Entropy Methods in Science and Engineering, Idaho, U.S.A., 3-7 August, 2002: 328-3...

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...It was known to me his setting up in 1980’s of a new literary and artistic avant-garde movement that he called “paradoxism”, because I received some books and papers dealing with it in order to review them for the German journal “Zentralblatt fár Mathematik”. It was an inspired connecti...

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... in sets: 112 4. Neutrosophic Probability - a generalization of classical and imprecise probabilities - and Neutrosophic Statistics: 116 5. Addenda... ...: Definitions derived from Neutrosophics: 120 2 Preface to Neutrosophy and Neutrosophic Logic by Charles T. Le 1 Introduction. It was a surpris... ...ew literary, artistic, philosophical or scientific terms, new procedures, methods or even algorithms of creation. In one of my manifestos I proposed... ...s do not focus on them. 2.5. Directions for Paradoxism: - to use science methods (especially algorithms) for generating (and studying also) contrad... ...ed the non-standard analysis, a formalization of analysis and a branch of mathematical logic, which rigorously defines the infinitesimals. Informall... ...nship, one searches Mathematics in connection with Psychology, Sociology, Economics, and Literature. 13 This is a foundation study of the NEU... ...n's Paradox: Let M be a mathematician who may not be characterized by his mathematical work. a) To be a mathematician, M should have some mathematic... ...ity) or the acquisition errors (intrinsically imperfect observations, the quantitative errors in measures).” “Probability (called sometimes the obje... ...erfect example of complete indeterminacy. An ass, equidistantly from two quantitatively and qualitatively heaps of grain, starves to death because ...

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The securities industry, its markets, instruments (equity, debt, derivatives), trading strategies, underlying economic models, and future.

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...The Securities Industry 1 st EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lidija Rangelovska A Na... ...s United Press International (UPI) Article Archive – Click HERE! World in Conflict and Transition http://samvak.tripod.com/guide.html Created... ...rivatizing with Golden Shares XI. The Future of the Accounting Profession XII. The Economics of Expectations XIII. Anarchy as an Organizing Princip... ...ns and the assumptions underlying them. Controls • Accounting systems used; • Methods to price products and services; • Payment terms, collec... ...ssment 1. To construct and implement credit risk assessment tools, questionnaires, quantitative methods, data gathering methods and venues in order... ... construct and implement credit risk assessment tools, questionnaires, quantitative methods, data gathering methods and venues in order to properly ... ...ir value of a security or a market can be derived from available information using mathematical models - but is rarely reflected in prices. This is... ...ected in prices. This is the weak version of the market efficiency hypothesis. The mathematically convenient idealization of the efficient market, ... ...nefits from an influx of funds withdrawn in panic from the shriveling alternative. Quantitatively, a considerably larger share of the nation's weal...

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Essays and articles about modern physics, speculations in science, pseudo-science and the alleged incompatibility between God and modern science.

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...ations and Physics 1 st E DI T I O N Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lidija Rangelovska A Na... ...n from: Lidija Rangelovska write to: palma@unet.com.mk Philosophical essays and Musings http://www.narcissistic-abuse.com/culture.html ... ...ring on reality. Perhaps complexity and simplicity are not related at all, either quantitatively, or qualitatively. Perhaps complexity is not simp... ... or end and what, precisely, does it include? A fractal curve (boundary) is an apt mathematical treatment of this question. Indeterminacy can be de... ... are still widely deployed in many branches of the Humanities, the encroachment of mathematical modeling and statistics notwithstanding. Yet, mathe... ...g only collapsed results? Maybe our very ability to measure, to design measurement methods and instrumentation, to conceptualize and formalize the ... ... is structurally. We measure functioning (=the increase in order) using structural methods (the alignment or arrangement of instruments). Still, t... ...re weak refutations. They apply with equal force to the social "sciences" (e.g., to economics and psychology) and even to more robust fields like bi... ...ntation with meaning and knowledge represented. That a discipline of knowledge uses quantitative methods and the symbol system of mathematics does n...

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...Modern labour theories and practice. Covers issues like employment, unemployment, migration, brain drain, entrepreneurship, workaholism, and trade unions....

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...Labour Divide 2nd EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lidija Rangelovska A Narcissus Pu... ...ress International (UPI) Article Archive – Click HERE! World in Conflict and Transition http://samvak.tripod.com/guide.html ISBN: 9989-929-27-0... ...d the level of salaries. The employers will obligate themselves to fixed quantitative targets over a number of years against the receipt of the une... ... provision has been eliminated. Analysis There are a few statistical methods used to gauge employment-related data. The easiest, most immediate... ...ousehold survey. Britain, for instance, estimates unemployment using BOTH methods. The Statistical Bureau in Macedonia defines and Employee as so... ...hard) 12. “Job security Provisions and Employment”, Quarterly Journal of Economics, August 1990. 13. Review Essay by Paul Gregg and Alan Manning in... ...and the Central Bank. The employers will obligate themselves to fixed quantitative targets of job formation over a number of years against the r... ... the assumptions and threshold conditions incorporated in the predictive mathematical models used. Even a tiny change in one of the assumptions can ... ...ith specific tax incentives or disincentives can render the most rigorous mathematical model obsolete. IV. Labour Force Participation At a labour f...

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...Essays dedicated to the new media, doing business on the web, digital content, its creation and distribution, e-publishing, e-books, digital reference, DRM technology, and other related issues....

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...TrendSiters Digital Content And Web Technologies 3rd EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. E... ... Technologies 3rd EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lidija Rangelovska A Narcissus Pu... ...sal Interface VII. Internet Advertising – What Went Wrong? VIII. The Economics of Spam IX. Don’t Blink – Interview with Jeffrey Harrow X. ... ...e now in the driver's seat, helping to spur along innovations in business methods. Revolt of the Scholars By: Sam Vaknin http://ww... ...e application of steam power, mechanical typecasting and typesetting, new methods of reproducing illustrations, cloth bindings, machine-made paper, ... ...record) in a repository. The handle is the clever numerical result of a mathematical formula whose input is the number of information bits in the ... ...on Web credibility. As part of this ongoing project we are: • Performing quantitative research on Web credibility. • Collecting all public informa... ...llions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts...A graphical representation of data abstracted from... ...e computer’s first important breakthrough. Hitherto the computer was only quantitatively different - the multimedia and the Internet have made it qua...

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...gy of Psychopathology 2nd EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lidija Rangelovska A Na... ...ers/Personality/ http://personalitydisorders.suite101.com/ Philosophical Musings and Essays http://samvak.tripod.com/culture.html Malignant Self... ...rcissistic mode of information processing. Such learning may be by trial-and-error methods, or it may be internalised by identification with parent... ...egy. Regressions are compensatory processes intended to enhance adaptation and not methods of obtaining or securing a steady flow of gratification.... ...the first three months of the pregnancy, the central nervous system "explodes" both quantitatively and qualitatively. This process is called metapla... .... To start with, the delivery disrupts continuous physiological processes not only quantitatively but also qualitatively. The neonate has to breath... ...ng from cereals to cattle - similarly use random culling to improve their stock. As mathematical models show, such repeated mass removal of DNA from... ...lf Love") – An Open Directory Cool Site, – Philosophy ("Philosophical Musings"), – Economics and Geopolitics ("World in Conflict and Transition"). ...