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"The most critical task facing humanity today is the creation of a shared vision of a sustainable and desirable society, one that can provide permanent prosperity within the biophysical constraints of the real world in a way that is fair and equitable to all of humanity, to other species, and to...
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This paper analyzes a unit-contingent power purchase agreement between an electricity distributor and a power plant. Under such a contract the distributor pays the plant a fixed price if the plant is operational and nothing if plant outage occurs. Pricing a unit-contingent contract is...
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-up define individuals capacity to respond to changing social norms and livelihood opportunities; rapid social change, instigated …
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This study outlines the development and validation of a measure of reciprocity. The definition used to develop the measure extends traditional quid pro quo interpretations to include behavior designed to stabilize relationships in times of exchange breakdown. This includes resisting and not...
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What role do community norms play in the diffusion and persistence of new organizational practices? We explore this … under difficult economic conditions. We develop an alternative theory that explains wage arrears through their acceptance as …
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The use of reliable change (RC) statistics to determine whether an individual has significantly improved or deteriorated on retesting is growing rapidly in clinical neuropsychology. This paper demonstrates how with only basic test–retest data and a series of simple expressions, the...
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International Relations theory of constructivism.NormSim explores the metastable dynamics of norms through the interactions … ofconstructivist claims. It also extends constructivist logic to better understand whyinternational norms lead to complex conformity … patterns and long run systemic change.NormSim provides a general computational theory to explain this phenomenon. …
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New networking technologies such as wireless mobile grids and peer-to-peer middleware are examples of a growing class of open distributed systems whose strength is the absence of a central controlling instance and which function through the cooperation of autonomous entities that voluntarily...
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that all learning algorithms are subject to exploitation with the notable exception of imitation.Chapter IIIn a punishment … experiment, we separate the demand for punishment in general from a possible demand to conduct punishment personally. Subjects … experience an unfair split of their earnings from a real effort task and have to decide on the punishment of the person who …
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