In this paper an automorphism of a unital C-algebra is said to be locally inner if on any element it agrees with some inner automorphism. We make a fairly complete study of local innerness in von Neumann algebras, incorporating comparison with the pointwise innerness of Haagerup-Størmer. On some von Neumann algebras, including all with separable predual, a locally inner automorphism must be inn...

She rang under my feet like an empty Huntley & Palmer biscuit-tin kicked along a gutter; she was nothing so solid in make, and rather less pretty in shape, but I had expended enough hard work on her to make me love her. No influential friend would have served me better. She had given me a chance to come out a bit--to find out what I could do. No, I don't like work. I had rather laze about and t...

This paper analyses the decision to invest to reduce the emissions of a stock pollutant under environmental uncertainty. It shows that this decision depends on the type and level of uncertainty. When uncertainty is small, there is no simple irreversibility effect because of the tension between environmental irreversibility (the stock of pollutant causes costly long-term social damages), and inv...

We consider implementation problems under incomplete information without incentive compatibility. If the social choice functions do not satisfy incentive compatibility, full implementation is unattainable via the existing approaches. By focusing on the actual problems from Typhoon by Joseph Conrad and The Traveler’s Dilemma by Kaushik Basu (1994, 2007), we provide a new approach to such impleme...

Nicholas Rhind, Zehua Chen, Moran Yassour, Dawn A. Thompson, Brian J. Haas, Naomi Habib, Ilan Wapinski, Sushmita Roy, Michael F. Lin, David I Heiman, Sarah K. Young, Kanji Furuya, Yabin Guo, Alison Pidoux, Huei Mei Chen, Barbara Robbertse, Jonathan M. Goldberg, Keita Aoki, Elizabeth H. Bayne, Aaron M. Berlin, Christopher A. Desjardins, Edward Dobbs, Livio Dukaj, Lin Fan, Michael G. FitzGerald, ...

With the publication of The Psychology of Genocide, Massacres, and Extreme Violence: Why “Normal” People Come to Commit Atrocities, Donald Dutton, a distinguished professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia, joins Joseph Conrad, Francis Ford Coppola, and a host of professional peers as a commentator on the nature and origins of human evil. Dutton's volume, however, is neither ...

Radoje Drmanac,* Andrew B. Sparks, Matthew J. Callow, Aaron L. Halpern, Norman L. Burns, Bahram G. Kermani, Paolo Carnevali, Igor Nazarenko, Geoffrey B. Nilsen, George Yeung, Fredrik Dahl, Andres Fernandez, Bryan Staker, Krishna P. Pant, Jonathan Baccash, Adam P. Borcherding, Anushka Brownley, Ryan Cedeno, Linsu Chen, Dan Chernikoff, Alex Cheung, Razvan Chirita, Benjamin Curson, Jessica C. Eber...