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    Daniel James Sanchez’s recent article offers a fascinating analysis of the use of probability and mathematical modeling in the financial markets. He is highly critical of the use of probability and mathematical modeling for the purpose of predicting future economic conditions or future prices in the market.     That the article should take

It is no longer fashionable in political science to refer to “self-evident principles.” Indeed, any reference to self-evident or axiomatic propositions is taken to be evidence that a scholar is leaving the realm of science and entering a mysterious netherworld consisting of tautologies, definitions, and metaphysical statements. [1] Thus, the great

The sub-discipline of international relations in the twentieth century has been dominated by the realist idea that cooperation between state actors is extremely unlikely due to the anarchic nature of the international system. According to the traditional realist logic, the international system lacks an independent enforcing agency capable of

[ Render Unto Caesar: Serving the Nation by Living Our Catholic Beliefs in Political Life , By Charles J. Chaput] As a former parishioner of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Denver who has had the pleasure of attending scores of masses presided over by Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, I can personally attest to the great moral strength,

I read Counterpunch.com on a regular basis for two reasons. First, I visit the site for its extremely good articles discussing the foreign-policy follies of Western governments. Few sites feature harder-hitting and more consistently anti-interventionist critiques of the policies pursued by Western governments. The second reason I like to visit

[An MP3 audio file of this article, read by Steven Ng, is available for download .] When future generations of scholars look back on the economic and political disaster enveloping the United States today, three questions should be at the forefront of their minds. First, they should wonder whether the many generations of politicians that

[An MP3 audio file of this article, read by Steven Ng, is available for download .] Few debates in the social sciences are ostensibly more boring and pointless than those involving the definitions of words. If one group of people chooses to define a word one way, while another group of people chooses to define that same word in a completely

Imagine for a moment that you are omniscient. Endowed with such knowledge, you would completely understand how the world “works.” You would completely understand how light works, how molecules and atoms work, how genetics work, how tectonic plates work, and how the universe came into existence. There would be nothing about the social or natural

On the Possibility of Assigning Probabilities to Singular Cases, or: Probability Is Subjective Too! Mark R. Crovelli * Introduction In the sixth chapter of the justly celebrated book Human Action (1996), Ludwig von Mises laid the theoretical groundwork for what has since evolved into the accepted Austrian theory of probability. Indeed, virtually

Introduction      In my recent article on these pages entitled “On the Possibility of Assigning Probabilities to Singular Cases: Or, Probability is Subjective Too!” (Crovelli 2009) I argued that members of the Austrian School of economics have adopted and defended a faulty definition of probability. I argued that the definition of probability