Preface to The Eagle Feather 2010

Preface to the SCCC 2010 Special Issue

The conference received 100 submissions, from which the program committee selected 45 for presentation. Among the presented articles the conference chairs selected 12 papers, which were extended and revised for the CLEI Electronic Journal. Such selection was done based on the articles evaluation score and the recommendation of the conference sessions chairs. After two reviewing rounds seven art...

Generation Challenges 2010 Preface

PREFACE

Preface to the Handbook

Purpose The explosive growth in computer power over the past several decades offers new tools and opportunities for economists. Volume 1 of the Handbook of Computational Economics (Amman et al. 1996) surveyed the growing literature on computational methods for solving standard economic models such as Arrow-Debreu-McKenzie general equilibrium models and rational expectations models. This second ...

Preface to the Student

Humanbeings arrive at truth in fourways: Faith, authority, revelation, andobservation. All other animals rely only upon authority, by observing adults, and observation, by, for example, tasting fruit or experiencing the changing of the seasons. Very few species other than Man, although they, too, may experience territorialism, practice genocide or wage organized war. This is perhaps a commentar...