This paper critically analyses the strongly subjectivist approach to exploitation theory recently proposed by Matsuo ([7]), in the context of general convex economies with heterogeneous agents. It is proved that the Fundamental Marxian Theorem is not preserved in his subjectivist approach, contrary to Matsuo’s claims, and that no meaningful subjectivist exploitation index can be constructed. It...

Management needs qualitative and comprehensive information for decision making. Managers are always searching for useful information in order to reach their firm's goals and strategies. The development in technology, globalization and focusing on costumers needs has changed the information that managers need to maintain their position in a competitive environment and take advantage of profitabl...

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Inference to the Best Explanation (IBE) and Bayesianism are our two most prominent theories of scientific inference. Are they compatible? Van Fraassen famously argued that they are not, concluding that IBE must be wrong since Bayesianism is right. Writers since then, from both the Bayesian and explanationist camps, have usually considered van Fraassen’s argument to be misguided, and have plumpe...

What makes something good for me? Most contemporary philosophers argue that something cannot count as good for me unless I am in some way attracted to it, or take delight in it. However, subjectivist theories of prudential value face difficulties, and there is no consensus about how these difficulties should be resolved. Whether one opts for a hedonist or a desire-satisfaction account of pruden...

Non-reductive objectivist accounts of color have been the focus of a certain amount of discussion recently. The present paper examines what explanations would be needed in order for an extended version of the viewpoint encompassing most of the sensory qualities to achieve conceptual consistency with the scientific account of reality. Once the explanations required have been identified, a form o...

Frequentist properties of Bayesian nonparametric procedures have been increasingly studied in the last decade, following the seminal papers of Barron et al. [1] and Ghosal et al. [8] which established general conditions on the prior and on the true distribution to obtain posterior consistency for the former and posterior concentration rates for the latter. Consistency of the posterior distribut...

This paper is a study of the self-immolation Mahayana Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc in 1963, Saigon. It highlights some reactions to this event, as well more recent academic analyses, and contrasts them with letter Nhat Hanh who disagreed that was protest or suicide. ontological discrepancy motivated new research approaches. In order show it studyable, thematizes by introducing conceptual pair ...

In this paper I argue that there are at least two ways in which people can be moral objectivists, namely implicitly and explicitly. It is possible to explicitly deny being a objectivist while committed it. (Enoch, Shafer Landau (eds), The Ethical Life: Fundamental Readings Ethics Moral Problems, 192–205, Oxford University Press, New York, 2014) presents three thought experiments convince his re...

Abstract Neopatrimonialism is a conceptual framework frequently used to analyse state politics. This paper reviews objectivist and positivist literature ascertain the relevance of neopatrimonialism in analysing African It defines following Weberian model, as coexistence legal-rational domination patrimonial over state. The through evolution since colonisation. uses Varieties Democracy (V-Dem) d...