Religion, Mathematics and Nothing

The concept of "nothing" is important in both mathematics and theology. Its most obvious use in mathematics is in the number zero which arrived in Western Europe in the 12th Century. In theology it features significantly in the dogma of creaho ex nihilo, which was taught by a Council in 1215 c.e. Noting the relative proximity of these two events leads to the research task described in this essay: an exploration of the influence of mathematics on theology, with respect to the notion of nothing

Religion, Mathematics and Nothing

The concept of "nothing" is important in both mathematics and theology. Its most obvious use in mathematics is in the number zero which arrived in Western Europe in the 12th Century. In theology it features significantly in the dogma of creaho ex nihilo, which was taught by a Council in 1215 c.e. Noting the relative proximity of these two events leads to the research task described in this essay: an exploration of the influence of mathematics on theology, with respect to the notion of nothing

An Analysis of the Monetary Transmission Mechanism in East Asia

This article makes an attempt to uncover and explain the linkages between monetary policy and growth, using the cases of South Korea, the Philippines and Thailand with short-term interest rates as main indicator. It seems that, with the results from the three countries taken together, tighter monetary policy has a larger impact on fixed capital investment than on private consumption, and within the latter, the greatest effect on private durable consumption and equipment investment. However, the author also points to longer-term implications from the 1997 tightening which can be seen in a lack of resurgence in domestic private borrowing and investment in some countries.monetary policy, monetary transmission mechanism

PAST TRENDS AND PRESENT INTERRELATIONS

Institutional and Behavioral Economics,

THE NEED FOR FULL INSTITUTIONAL OPERATION

Institutional and Behavioral Economics,

FUNDAMENTAL ADJUSTMENTS NEEDED IN U.S. AGRICULTURE

Agricultural and Food Policy,

An Analysis of the Monetary Transmission Mechanism in East Asia

This article makes an attempt to uncover and explain the linkages between monetary policy and growth, using the cases of South Korea, the Philippines and Thailand with short-term interest rates as main indicator. It seems that, with the results from the three countries taken together, tighter monetary policy has a larger impact on fixed capital investment than on private consumption, and within the latter, the greatest effect on private durable consumption and equipment investment. However, the author also points to longer-term implications from the 1997 tightening which can be seen in a lack of resurgence in domestic private borrowing and investment in some countries.monetary policy, monetary transmission mechanism

Credit Crunch in East Asia: A Retrospective

In this paper, we explore the issue on credit crunch from a comparative perspective. Utilizing longer time series data, we investigate the existence of credit crunch in selected crisis-hit economies in East Asia over the period 1980-2002. We detected some episodes of credit crunch both before and after the Asian economic crisis. These episodes after the Crisis are somewhat different from those detected by previous studies on the issue. We, then, review the credit-crunch episodes in the broad macroeconomic context in order to assess our results in the longer-run perspective. We are well aware that financial liberalization has changed the financial environments of these countries more or less in due course. Even so, the mixed results we obtained on the existence of credit crunch do not suggest that the impact of the austerity programs on financial intermediation after the Asian Crisis was ambiguous. On the contrary, they implied that the impact of the programs were so severe that credit crunch or supply retrenchment was overwhelmed by a sharp fall in credit demand because of real and expected persistent overall economic depression.credit crunch, East Asia, Asian Economic Crisis, disequilibrium analysis

Fair Knapsack

We study the following multiagent variant of the knapsack problem. We are given a set of items, a set of voters, and a value of the budget; each item is endowed with a cost and each voter assigns to each item a certain value. The goal is to select a subset of items with the total cost not exceeding the budget, in a way that is consistent with the voters' preferences. Since the preferences of the voters over the items can vary significantly, we need a way of aggregating these preferences, in order to select the socially best valid knapsack. We study three approaches to aggregating voters' preferences, which are motivated by the literature on multiwinner elections and fair allocation. This way we introduce the concepts of individually best, diverse, and fair knapsack. We study the computational complexity (including parameterized complexity, and complexity under restricted domains) of the aforementioned multiagent variants of knapsack.Comment: Extended abstract will appear in Proc. of 33rd AAAI 201

A preliminary study of Lemanea in western North America

Lemanea from both Europe and America is being studied to determine whether the representatives from the two continents are distinct, and whether there are undescribed species to be recognized particularly for American forms. The two subgenera, Eulemanea and Sacheria, are round on both continents (4). Occasionally plants of both the subgenera have been collected growing close together in the same stream (5, 6), but there are no indications that hybridization takes place. Several hundred specimens of Lemanea have been studied by the writer and in no case have any plants been discovered which could be considered as intermediate between Eulemanea and Sacheria