gorik ooms recently made a strong case for considering the centrality of normative premises to analyzing and understanding the underappreciated importance of the nexus of politics, power and process in global health. this critical commentary raises serious questions for the practice and study of global health and global health governance. first and foremost, this commentary underlines the impor...

Functions in Lploc[0,∞) where 1 ≤ p ≤ ∞ can be considered as inputs to linear systems. However, hysteresis operators of Preisach type have only been defined on much smaller space of regulated (or Baire) functions. In this paper, we re-define Play operators so that they are well defined for real valued measurable functions. We show that this definition coincides with the older definition for con...

Rational expectations (RE) is a collection of assumptions regarding the manner in which economic agents exploit available information to form their expectations. In its stronger forms, RE operates as a coordination device that permits the construction of a " representative agent " having " representative expectations. " These introductory notes on RE start by providing several alternative RE de...