Why Is Consumption More Log Normal than Income? Gibrat’s Law Revisited

Why Is Consumption Less Volatile Than Income?

Why Is Ethnocentrism More Common Than Humanitarianism?

A compelling agent-based computer simulation suggests that ethnocentrism, often thought to rely on complex social cognition and learning, may have arisen through biological evolution (Hammond & Axelrod, 2006). From a neutral start, ethnocentric strategies evolve to dominate other possible strategies (selfish, traitorous, and humanitarian) that differentiate patterns of cooperation with in-group...

Why ONE Is More Than 5

PLoS ONE is five years old this month. Though still young in age, the journal has grown up remarkably rapidly, to the extent that it is now the largest peerreviewed journal in the world. In the past five years, it has both garnered huge respect and support from authors, readers, and editors, and drawn the criticism and ire of many commercial publishers and establishment figures still fighting t...

Why Good Quality Care Needs Philosophy More Than Compassion; Comment on “Why and How Is Compassion Necessary to Provide Good Quality Healthcare?”

Although Marianna Fotaki’s Editorial is helpful and challenging by looking at both the professional and institutional requirements for reinstalling compassion in order to aim for good quality healthcare, the causes that hinder this development remain unexamined. In this commentary, 3 causes are discussed; the boundary between the moral and the political; Neoliberalism; and the underdevelopment ...

Why Dependence of Productivity on Group Size Is Log-Normal

Empirical analysis shows that, on average, the productivity of a group log-normally depends on its size. The current explanations for this empirical fact are based on reasonably complex assumptions about the human behavior. In this paper, we show that the same conclusion can be made in effect, from first principles, without making these complex assumptions. 1 Formulation of the Problem How prod...