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 …

formalize this cognitive bias in a simple model of distorted Bayesian updating. We then examine strategy changes made by … professional football coaches. We find they are more likely to revise their strategy after a loss than a win -- even for narrow … expected, and the offensive strategy is revised even when failure is attributable to the defense. These results are consistent …

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 …