Adeus, Montesquieu

Montesquieu on Commerce, Conquest, War, and Peace

n the history of liberalism, Montesquieu, who died two hundred and fifty years ago, is an iconic figure. Montesquieu is cited as the source of the idea of checks and balances, or separation of powers, and thus as an intellectual inspiration of the American founding. Among liberal internationalists, Montesquieu is known above all for the notion that international trade leads to peace among natio...

Seeing the People’s Republic of China through the Eyes of Montesquieu: Why Sino-European Collaboration on Eco City Development Suffers from European Misinterpretations of “Good Governance”

China faces a number of impressive challenges in dealing with climate change: rising energy use, growing emission levels of greenhouse gases, dangerous levels of air pollution over cities and low resilience against flood and drought. Sustainable urbanization has been adopted as a keyword in handling these challenges. The Chinese central government has undertaken a variety of measures, including...

humanistic education in the novel "persian letters" montesquieu - century masterpiece (18)

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Blackwell Optimality in Markov Decision Processes with Partial Observation

We prove the existence of Blackwell ε-optimal strategies in finite Markov Decision Processes with partial observation. ∗Laboratoire d’Analyse Geometrie et Applications Institut Galilée, Université Paris Nord, avenue Jean Baptiste Clément, 93430 Villetaneuse, France. e-mail: [email protected] †Department of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences, Kellogg School of Management, Northw...