Let be a positive Borel measure on ℝ and (, . . . , ; , . . . , ; ) be a generalized hypergeometric series. We define a := (, . . . , ; , . . . , ), as a series of convolution powers of the measure , and we investigate probability distributions which are expressible as generalized...

Preface and acknowledgments -- Ethics and economics -- Introduction -- Eudaimonia : the ancients and the good life -- The impact of the ancients -- Conceptions of rationality: thin, thick, and ancient -- Ethics and public policy -- The problem of pathological consumption -- Economics, ethics and...