Chemistry's Debt to Radioactivity

An Introduction to Radioactivity

Zen’s Debt to Confucianism

Cajal's debt to Golgi.

We are accustomed to thinking of Camillo Golgi and Santiago Ramón y Cajal as contemporary scientists at war over the neuron doctrine. This is certainly how Cajal in his biography and later writings portrayed their relationship and Golgi did not help matters by his most unfortunate Nobel acceptance speech of 1906 (Golgi 1907) in which he emphasized in a contentious way his continuing belief in a...

Macroeconomic Effects of Government Debt to Banks in Iran

In the Iranian economy, part of the governmentchr('39')s fiscal policies and liabilities is always financed by banks. As government debt to banks increases, the private sectorchr('39')s access to loans and facilities is limited. It can cause undesirable macroeconomic outcomes. This study investigates the macroeconomic effects of government debt on banks in Iran over 1972–2016 by using an SVAR m...

Critical debt and debt dynamics

We study the debt dynamics and sustainable debt for an open economy which borrows from abroad in order to "nance consumption. To service the debt the country may exploit a renewable resource. We show that there is for every resource stock R a critical level BH(R) of debt above which debt tends to in"nity but below which it may be steered to zero. We demonstrate how to compute BH(R) using an ODE...