I argue against two popular claims. The first is a descriptive, empirical claim about the nature of ordinary human experience which I call the psychological Narrativity thesis (PNT). According to PNT, 'each of us constructs and lives a "narrative" … this narrative is us, our identities' (Sacks O. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. London: Duckworth; 1985, 110). The second is a normative, e...

The art of cryptography is considered to be born along with the art of writing. As civilizations evolved, human beings got organized in tribes, groups, and kingdoms. This led to the emergence of ideas such as power, battles, supremacy, and politics. These ideas further fueled the natural need of people to communicate secretly with selective recipient which in turn ensured the continuous evoluti...

The "law and finance theory" predicts that the common law system provides the best basis for financial development and economic growth, followed by Scandinavian and German origin civil law and finally French origin civil law. Referring to a number of sceptical views, this paper argues that the theory faces an identification problem, since the majority of common law countries have a market-based...

Furthermore, by using [2, p. 230, (1)] a computable representation for the G-function in (1) (and hence also for F,112(s)) may be given in terms of essentially a linear combination of four hypergeometric functions OF3[b2s2 /16] provided that no two of the parameters {1, 1 1+v-P1v-P) differ by an integer. This result for Fv-112(s) is given (correctly) in [3, p. 353, (9)] so that the proposed int...