the face of what they consider the incoherent era of "pluralism" or "postmodernism" that began in the late twentieth …

of a pluralism without privilege, but they also had doubts about its possibility. They offered some reasons to prefer … pluralism with privilege to the absence of both. They worried that centralization, democratic or otherwise, might be the … preeminent fact of modern state consolidation, and that purely voluntary, equal, associational pluralism might not be powerful …

previous Boston mechanism, a priority matching mechanism, and the case in favor of the change to a strategy-proof mechanism … unassigned students could have been assigned to one of their stated choices with a different strategy under the current mechanism …. This interaction between sophisticated and unsophisticated players identifies a new rationale for strategy-proof mechanisms …

strategy are common across the two models: In particular, highly inertial interest rate rules that respond to nominal income or …

the abnormal performance of defensive equity (i.e., low volatility and/or low beta strategies). While defensive strategy …