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Agonism, decision, power: The art of working unfinished

Pløger, John - In: Raumforschung und Raumordnung / Spatial Research and … 81 (2023) 5, pp. 449-460

with a finite decision. This paper suggests that this agonistic approach needs de-cisions or simply put, temporary … decisions drawn from seeing a decision as a solution for now. A de-cision is not a no-decision, but a decision recognised as … planning process from being a matter of reaching a finite decision to a strife about how to understand the present and which …

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Polarization measurement and inference in many dimensions when subgroups can not be identified

Anderson, Gordon - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 5 (2011) 2011-11, pp. 1-19

The most popular general univariate polarization indexes for discrete and continuous variables are extended and combined to describe the extent of polarization between agents in a distribution defined over a collection of many discrete and continuous agent characteristics. A formula for the...

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Medium-sized cities in decline in France: Between urban shrinkage and city centre devitalisation

Chouraqui, Julie - In: Raumforschung und Raumordnung / Spatial Research and … 79 (2021) 1, pp. 3-20

Since the end of the 2000s, the question of the decline of French medium-sized towns has become central within the scientific and public debate. More specifically, two processes are underlined: the devitalisation of city centres on the one hand, and urban shrinkage on the other hand. The...

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Embedded flexibility strategies and diversity within national institutional frameworks: How many flexibility profiles are in the German model?

Kirchner, Stefan - In: Management Revue 24 (2013) 1, pp. 12-29

The varieties of capitalism approach (VoC) and the related research assume that German firms adopt an internal flexibility profile that corresponds with the national institutional framework. Recent empirical studies, however, have found substantial diversity in realized firm-level strategies....

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A Simple Note on Informational Cascades

Fiore, Annamaria; Morone, Andrea - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 2 (2008) 2008-1, pp. 1-21

Seminal models of herd behaviour and informational cascades point out existence of negative information externalities, and propose to ?destroy? information in order to achieve social improvements. Although in the last years many features of herd behaviour and informational cascades have been...

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Strategie zur Maximierung des Endvermögens bei Meidung des Ruins - Ein geeigneter Ansatz bei Anlagen zur Alterssicherung?

Scholtz, Hellmut D. - In: Die Rentenversicherung 44 (2003) 5, pp. 81-88

decisions are defined as elements of a decision process, the final capital can only be maximized if the ratio of possibke gains …

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Gewinnmaximierung durch Optimierung des Risikos

Scholtz, Hellmut D. - In: Kostenrechnungspraxis - Zeitschrift für … (1968) 5, pp. 203-213

Die Abhandlung zeigt für wiederholbare Prozesse eine universell anwendbare Ableitung eines Rechenalgorhithmus auf, mit dem unter Annahme einer Wahrscheinlichkeitsverteilung mögliche Plan-Istabweichungen und Aufallkosten zu einem Gleichgewicht und damit zu einem Ergebnisoptimunm führen....

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Nested identification of subjective probabilities

Dreze, Jacques H. - In: SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 3 (2012) 1/2, pp. 259-271

subjective probabilities. Cases 3 and 4 define the extent to which probabilities must be specified to solve a decision problem. …

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An axiomatic analysis of ranking sets under simple categorization

Alcantud, José C. R.; Arlegi, Ritxar - In: SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 3 (2012) 1/2, pp. 227-245

This paper contributes to the axiomatization of additive rules for ranking sets of objects under the psychological principle of categorization. Firstly we proceed with the case where the elements in the sets are categorized into at most three groups, namely good (with value 1), neutral (with...

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On Insurance for Long-term Care in France

Courbage, Christophe; Roudaut, Nolwenn - In: CESifo DICE Report 08 (2010) 2, pp. 24-28

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