How Much Redistribution Should There Be?

How Much Redistribution Should There Be?

How much should nurse consultants be paid?

There was no consensus on the issue of how much nurse consultants should be paid among the practitioners we spoke to at last week's UKCC roadshow. Some suggested starting salaries of around £25,000, and others said 'the sky's the limit'.

How Much Should Highway Fuels Be Taxed?

This paper provides an updated assessment of economically efficient taxes on gasoline (used by light-duty vehicles) and diesel (used by heavy-duty trucks) to address various highway externalities in the United States. The (second-best) corrective fuel taxes are estimated, and we discuss the implications of fuel economy regulations and prospective (nationwide) controls on carbon emissions. We al...

How Much Domain Data Should Be in Provenance Databases?

Provenance databases are an important asset in data analytics of large-scale scientific data. The data derivation path allows for identifying parameters, files and domain data values of interest. In scientific workflows, provenance data is automatically captured by workflow systems. However, the power of provenance data analyses depends on the expressiveness of domain-specific data along the pr...

How Much Information Can There Be in a Real Number?

This note gives some information about the magical number Ω and why it is of interest. Our purpose is to explain the significance of recent work by Calude and Dinneen attempting to compute Ω. Furthermore, we propose measuring human intellectual progress (not scientific progress) via the number of bits of Ω that can be determined at any given moment in time using the current mathematical theories.