A Reply to Goldman

The Far Eastern pattern of mortality is not a unique regional mortality model: a reply to Noreen Goldman.

In a paper published in this journal last year, I questioned the validity of the so-called Far Eastern pattern of mortality as a unique regional mortality model (Zhao 2003). In her response, Noreen Goldman makes three major points. First, the Far Eastern mortality pattern as originally formulated by her differs from that defined by the United Nations Population Division. Second, the method used...

Patricia Goldman-Rakic A Remembrance

In the 1960s, scientists were conquering improbable frontiers: the moon was about to be walked upon; the brain cracked open. Neuroscientists were discovering that the secrets of the visual cortex could be broken with single-cell recordings and new anatomical tracing techniques, revealing an extraordinary organization: columns of cells responsive to only one eye; single cells tuned to a specific...

Jonathan Goldman Understanding Pierre

A Problem in Avicennas View on the Origination of the Soul and a Reply to It

Why trade with Goldman?

Using a model of repeated trade between a long-lived, informed, price-discriminating market maker and risk averse traders with endogenous hedging demands, I first show that traders are weakly better off trading with an informed dealer, as they may learn something about an asset’s value in the process of transacting. Second, while longterm incentives can induce an informed market maker to honest...