Ensuring user entitlements in computing systems with scarce and commonly preferred resources requires time sharing. We allocate resources using a novel token mechanism that supports gametheoretic desiderata such as sharing incentives and strategy-proofness. Œe mechanism frames the allocation problem as a repeated game. In each round of the game, users report their demands for resources and spen...

This article develops a framework for environmental policy analysis based on an encompassing assessment of transaction costs. This approach emphasizes the ex ante costs of establishing environmental entitlements, and the ex post costs of administrating, monitoring, and enforcing them. The framework is used to organize a literature review which addresses policy design and instrument choice, as w...

Observers of post-independence cultural landscapes in Timor-Leste have highlighted the resurgence of customary practices and ceremonies, especially in settlements more distant from the moneyed resources of the capital, Dili.1 The revival of customary practices often accompanies a considered return among displaced communities to their ancestral lands and settlements (knua tuan). There they work ...

Before we address the mainstreaming of disability from sort to self-determination as well as the salience, success and failure of modern disability welfare policies, some thoughts about what disability actually means are at place: How can this most complex phenomenon be defined and measured – and how can people, their needs, hardships and behaviour, their restricted employment opportunities, li...

In last year’s Anika Foundation address, I talked about the fiscal difficulties being faced by governments of some of the world’s largest countries in the wake of the financial crisis. A theme of that talk was that a number of major advanced economies had been facing for a while the need to address long-term structural issues in their fiscal accounts. In large part these stemmed from the inevit...

This article is amedicalethics opinion piece regarding the historical and questionable exercise of medical assisted suicide. As this a practice involving significant debate over many years, opinions those who follow divine-led path should be voiced with cognition. Thoughts are expressed specifiedconcerning ethicality morality humanly facilitating Gods plans life expectancy for individuals. It n...