“IS THERE A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN KNOWLEDGE AND information?” is the question that participants in this symposium were asked to address. I come to the question as an historian of economic thought who has studied the Austrian tradition, and in particular the contributions of F.A. Hayek, who is remembered among information theorists for his early writings on “the knowledge problem.” An analysis of h...

Arctiinae are a species-rich subfamily of moth, with approximately 1,400 species in Brazil and 723 recorded in the Cerrado biome. A list of species of these moths was compiled during three years of sampling in four vegetation types within the Emas National Park. A total of 5,644 individuals belonging to 149 species were collected. About 67% of these species are new records for the Emas National...

An earlier draft of this paper was presented at the 2003 History of Economics Society Conference at Duke University, Durham, N.C. The author thanks Bruce Caldwell, Ronald Hamowy, Philip Mirowski, and an anonymous referee for their comments. The usual caveats apply. 1The key histories of spontaneous order are Barry (1982) and Hamowy (1987). Hamowy and Ross (1987) give Hayek credit for coining th...

In consumer photography, image appeal may be defined by the interest that a picture generates when viewed by third-party observers. In this paper, the results of a ground truth experiment on human estimation of image appeal are reported, where 11 participants were asked to rank pictures in 30 groups based on their relative appeal within their group and comment on the factors that influenced the...

Caldwell hypothesized that: 1) Indian daughters-in-law have less autonomy if they live with their mothers-in-law; but 2) even then, they can gain situational advantage over her if they are educationally superior to her. We tested these two hypotheses with data from the National Family Health Survey II (1998–1999) in the Republic of India. We measured women’s autonomy along three dimensions: a w...

In the following year’s authors as Caldwell [5], West [6] and Mosher [7] proposed the intranasal access to the lacrimal sac. However it was just in the last two decades of the past century that the endoscopic approach gained progressive interest, thanks to the exponential affirmation of the modern endoscopic technique. Nowadays the success rate of the two procedures, ex-DCR and endoscopic DCR (...