e highest good is the culmination of Kant’s ethical theory. It systematically combines all objects of practical reason, integrating everything that is good into an unconditioned totality. By doing so, it bridges the dualisms between moral and pathological value, between duty and prudence, as well as between virtue and happiness. It thereby gives rise to a unified necessary system of ends. is ...

We analyze the comparative static effects of beneficial changes in the dependence structure between risks. In a quasi-linear decision model with an endogenous risk and a dependent background risk, a mean-variance decision maker will choose a lower level of risky activities upon an increase in the coefficient of correlation of the risks if, and only if, the elasticity of risk aversion is larger ...

This paper was stimulated by the Editorial of Dr Vince FitzGerald in the last issue of AHR on health aspects of a comprehensive retirement policy (FitzGerald 2000). His main arguments were that increased retirement savings are desirable, that there should be savings specifically for health care, and that the health savings should be a mix of pooled and individual savings. He justified savings m...

There is no clear justification for the choice of the 6 box-regions and their size (6x6 14 grid points). Why they are representative of the PRUDENCE regions? Some min15 imal study about the spatial robustness of the Markov diagnostics should be pre16 sented. For example, does the results keep similar or change substantially when 17 contiguous boxes are considered? The ideal should be to present...

Borrelia burgdorferi, the etiologic agent of Lyme disease, and Babesia microti, the causative agent of human babesiosis, were isolated from 71 and 57%, respectively, of 14 specimens of Peromyscus leucopus and Microtus pennsylvanicus collected from Prudence and Patience Islands, R.I. Both pathogens were isolated from five individual rodents. The presence of these two infectious organisms in the ...

In recent years, the Pirate Party of Sweden, the Wikimedia Foundation, the Debian project, the Gentoo project, and many other private organizations adopted a new single-winner election method for internal elections and referendums. In this paper, we will introduce this method, demonstrate that it satisfies e.g. resolvability, Condorcet, Schwartz, Smith-IIA, Pareto, reversal symmetry, monotonici...

The fiscal condition of most OECD countries has deteriorated markedly in the last 30 years. But beyond this general weakening, there has been considerable variation in the fiscal performance of these countries. For example, Italy, Belgium, Japan and Ireland accumulated significant amounts of public debt whereas Finland, Norway, the UK and, until recently, Germany, implemented relatively conserv...

Instructions text file for graphical user interface. Doesn't include text markup symbols, page breaks, or graphics. INSTRUCTIONS This is an experiment in the economics of strategic decision making. Various agencies have provided funds for this research. If you follow the instructions and make appropriate decisions, you can earn an appreciable amount of money. At the end of today's session, you ...