A joint concern with multidimensionality and dynamics is a defining feature of the pervasive use of the terminology of social exclusion in the European Union. The notion of social exclusion focuses attention on economic vulnerability in the sense of exposure to risk and uncertainty. Sociological concern with these issues has been associated with the thesis that risk and uncertainty have become ...

In this work, we focus on a class of nonlinear systems and design an estimator-based economic model predictive control (MPC) system which is capable of optimizing closed-loop performance with respect to general economic considerations taken into account in the construction of the cost function.Workingwith the class of full-state feedback linearizable nonlinear systems, we use a high-gain observ...

This paper studies the characteristics and union membership of North American anarchists. Traditionally, anarchism has been a working-class based movement that rejects authority and domination. New social movement (NSM) theory suggests that movements have changed in recent decades to focus less on the working class and economic issues, and more upon social and political concerns. A survey by a ...

Non-whites in West Europe face diverse economic outcomes that are insufficiently explained by current literature. The paradoxes of these economic outcomes are especially glaring when one considers change over time, and the downward mobility of Caribbeans in Britain and France. Common explanations of race and class do not work because in both countries non-Caribbean groups are the most discrimin...

We provide another characterization of the Banzhaf value for TU games without the additivity axiom, which also works within the class of simple games and within the class of superadditive games. Journal of Economic Literature Classification Number: C71.