Socialists at Work.Robert Hunter

The economic calculation debate: lessons for socialists

This paper summarises the standard account of the economic calculation debate, the modern Austrian reinterpretation of the debate based on the centrality of tacit knowledge and discovery, and a neglected third strand in the historical debate, Dobb's insistence on the uncertainty associated with atomistic decision making and the need for ex ante planning. It then draws some lessons for socialist...

The Portuguese Socialists and the Third Way

Hunter Gatherer: UdeM at 1CLICK-2

We describe our hunter-gartherer system for the NTCIR10 1CLICK-2 task. We inspire ourselves on the DeepQA framework looking to adapt it for the 1CLICK task. Several techniques can be integrated naturally in this framework. The hunter component generates candidates based on the passage retrieval for the original query, the gartherer component collects evidence for each candidate and score them b...

Socialists and Social Reformers in Late Victorian and Edwardian Britain

Hunter-gatherer social complexity at Roonka Flat, South Australia