The General Impossibility of the New Institutional Economics: Or Does Bertrand Russell Deserve a Nobel Prize
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In 1950, Bertrand Russell was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He might more appropriately have been honoured with the Prize for Peace, given his ardent commitment to the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Yet, intellectually, his greatest contribution has been in philosophy for which there is no Nobel Prize. In particular, he is remembered for his paradoxes and their implications for the logical foundations of mathematics.
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تاریخ انتشار 2007