and Luhmann primarily address the mirror-inverted problems and dangers of a lifeworld colonialization of the system. …

Ethics leads to the thesis of the banality of bad system results and the banality of good system results. The third step …

chooses to remain silent. Minimum-evidence standards may counteract this effect. Under a marker system only one firm reports …, our firms have imperfect cumulative evidence of the collusion. That is, cartel conviction is not automatic if one firm … reports: reporting makes conviction only more likely, the more so, the more firms report. Furthermore, the evidence is …

In this paper, I discuss the difference between accommodated evidence (i.e. when evidence is known first and a … hypothesis is the proposed to explain and fit the observations) and predicted evidence (i.e., when evidence verifies the … prediction of a hypothesis formulated before observing the evidence) from a behavioral as well as a statistical perspective …

A speaker attempts to persuade a listener to accept a request by presenting evidence. A persuasion rule specifies what … evidence is persuasive. This paper compares static and dynamic rules. We present a single linear program (i) whose solution …

We study a seller's optimal mechanism for maximizing revenue when a buyer may present evidence relevant to her value … mechanism to be deterministic--hence akin to classic third degree price discrimination--independently of non-evidence … characteristics. We also find another sufficient condition depending on both evidence and valuations, whose content is that evidence …

how diverse types of evidence combine with causal hypotheses to generate empirically based causal theories-a cumulative … for research in economics, providing a methodology that ensures good correspondence with the target system-especially as … explain the basic evidence on its temporal and spatial distribution. Economics could beneficially learn from the natural …