We settled on the title ‘‘The Age of Uncertainty’’ for the series. It sounded well; it did not confine thought; and it suggested the basic theme: we would contrast the great certainties in economic thought in the last century with the great uncertainty with which problems are faced in our time. In the last century capitalists were certain of the success of capitalism, socialists of socialism, i...

The experimental results reported at this conference, the themes that emerged and the implications for future work are examined. Some example highlights, chosen from a personal perspective are discussed.

My research on bubbles started with my book “Asymmetric Information: Bubbles, Crashes, Technical Analysis and Herding” (Oxford University Press, 2001). The book surveys and critiques the literature on bubbles and herding in settings in which different investors hold different information. One conclusion of the book is that it is difficult to obtain bubbles in models in which all market particip...

Farmland values are often viewed as the bellwether for the U.S. farm sector. Historically, booming farm incomes have been quickly capitalized into farmland values. Over the past year, cropland values in the Corn Belt have jumped more than 25% above year ago levels according to various university and Federal Reserve surveys. Moreover, ranchland values are posting strong double-digit gains in som...

In this thesis we introduce and evolve the paradigm of theme-based literate programming (TBLP). TBLP enhances on the literate programming (LP) model, as invented by Donald Knuth in the early 1980s. TBLP provides a generic model that copes with current and future software development methodologies and practices. We show that through this extended chunk and processing model, XML-based support, an...

ERCIM News No. 53 April 2003 33 Thanks to recent technological advances, there are now many potential applications for robotics including multi-agent systems. The aim of the RoboCare project is to study issues and challenges involved in the design of systems for the care of the elderly that adopt both fixed and mobile heterogeneous agents. These agents can be robots, intelligent sensors or poss...

D Pereboom’s Living Without Free Will (2001) is an outstanding book that rightly changed the debate over an ancient problem. I am certain that Free Will Skepticism, Agency, and Meaning in Life will join the first book as a must-read for anyone in the world interested in these foundational issues. The main pillars of the account remain, including incompatibilism between free will and determinism...