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…d are measured in pure numbers over time such as 5% per year. Now for the fundamental theorems. Take the present value rule first. It starts from the axiom that we satisfy convergent tastes in the light of convergent predictions. In a simple case, we foresee that an asset (stock...

… The more important question is: In the global marketplace of ideas, how dominant will American ideas about freedom and rule of law and democracy and our economic model be? Our ideas will obviously be challenged; and it’s important for the U.S. to put its own house in order, both...

…amily order that still underpins the structure of power in many Arab societies. In the past, as Hourani pointed out, a ruler with ‘asabiyya was well placed to found a dynasty, since the merchant classes of the cities, untrained in the military arts and without powerful corporate...

…the First World War, my mother’s parents made their way from Smolensk in Russia to Warsaw, which was also under czarist rule. When the war was over, the Bolshevik Revolution had toppled the czars. Poland became independent, under the nationalist general Josef Pilsuldski. The Godi...

…tory of other creatures, who repeat norms from generation to generation once evolved. That’s why the math of Hamilton’s rule doesn’t work. And we care about it because there are emotional and moral and belly issues attached. I gave an idea of its dangers in the foreword. The past...

… Spouse Claims. A surviving spouse computes tax using the same rate brackets as married couples filing joint re- turns. Rules for surviving spouse status for same-sex married couples now presumably follow the same rules as for opposite-sex couples. If a taxpayer is a surviving sp...

…ids on kibbutzim, “liberating” crates of every kind of fruit imaginable, and chicken and lamb if we got lucky. The only rule was that none of us would steal from our own kibbutzim. Among the guests at the Feast of the Fruit was an unsuspecting selection of senior officers whom Av...

…d can’t be filibustered, which requires 60 votes to overcome. Needless to say, Senate Republicans are unhappy with this rule change, and warn that Democrats will be even unhappier with it when they (the Democrats) are again in the minority, as will inevitably happen at some point...

…cepted the principle of a two-state peace agreement with Israel. Still, there remained a yawning gap between the “self- rule” envisaged in the Camp David accords of 1978 and the Madrid conference, and the independent state the Palestinians wanted. Negotiations to bridge it were l...

…ath in endogenizing human capital as something produced within the economy. It was in that spirit that I derived the Y rule in Chapters 2 and 5 by putting human capital inside. I reached output = investment + human capital growth + cash flow. Here “ex post net” is understood b...

…uly intractable issues postponed to a later phase. It needs solid security arrangements, understandings regarding Hamas rule in Gaza, and a viable incentive from an Arab world that has long offered to reward it for moving forward with the Palestinians. Here are the components of...

…e appendix, we formalize this intuition by showing that this equilibrium is subgame perfect, a solution concept used to rule out these kinds of concerns in settings where there is a high degree of rationality [15]. We might wonder whether CWOL will emerge in a population of playe...

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…tions, and Indictments Charges against individuals and companies are brought in three different ways under the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure: criminal complaints, criminal infor- mations, and indictments. DOJ may agree to resolve criminal FCPA mat- ters against companies...

…horizon and its reciprocal, the pure consumption rate, both hold the same at any age. Cash Flow and Risk The maximand rule notes that time preference and return vary with risk. Return is growth rate plus cash flow rate. Is variance with risk captured more in one of these two c...