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RATIONAL EXPECTATIONS AND INFORMATION THEORY
Title
RATIONAL EXPECTATIONS AND INFORMATION THEORY.
Creator
Atallo, Robert Alan, Florida Atlantic University, Hanage, Neela, College of Business, Department of Economics
Abstract/Description
This thesis examines the relationship between the rational expectations flexible-price macroeconomic model and the pure theory of information originally developed within the electronic communications disciplines. The thesis first develops the rational expectations macromodel, including discussions of the model's assumptions, robustness, econometric issues, and important empirical results. The pure theory of information is then developed, and the "polar cases" of full information and complete...
Show moreThis thesis examines the relationship between the rational expectations flexible-price macroeconomic model and the pure theory of information originally developed within the electronic communications disciplines. The thesis first develops the rational expectations macromodel, including discussions of the model's assumptions, robustness, econometric issues, and important empirical results. The pure theory of information is then developed, and the "polar cases" of full information and complete information deprivation are examined. Finally, a generalized model of information acquisition and "transmission noise" are developed within the rational expectations framework.
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Date Issued
1987
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14405
Subject Headings
Rational expectations (Economic theory), Information theory
Format
Document (PDF)
philosophy of magic
Title
A philosophy of magic.
Creator
Gobeo, Mark J., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description
Throughout history magic has been an art that has instilled awe and wonder in its spectators. The magician used to be held in high esteem, as teacher, as scientist, as priest and even as philosopher. This being the case, throughout the history of philosophy, philosophers have deemed magic to be deception, to be a mode of misleading people into believing what is not true. Through the modern philosophical era, philosophers have been seeking a purely scientific method for questioning reality. It...
Show moreThroughout history magic has been an art that has instilled awe and wonder in its spectators. The magician used to be held in high esteem, as teacher, as scientist, as priest and even as philosopher. This being the case, throughout the history of philosophy, philosophers have deemed magic to be deception, to be a mode of misleading people into believing what is not true. Through the modern philosophical era, philosophers have been seeking a purely scientific method for questioning reality. It seems that, today, even the magician views his or her art as mere entertainment. The purpose of my thesis is to dispel the belief that magic is purely a hobby with no artistic value and that, like other artworks, magic too can cause one to question existence.
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Date Issued
2008
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/108068
Subject Headings
Rationalism, Philosophy and aesthetics, Popular culture, Magic in literature
Format
Document (PDF)
Interview with Bernice Butler Chavez and Manuel J. Chavez Jr.
Title
Interview with Bernice Butler Chavez and Manuel J. Chavez Jr.
Creator
Chavez, Bernice Butler (Interviewee), Chavez, Manuel J. Jr. (Interviewee), Kintop, Aubrey (Interviewer)
Date Issued
2010-09-28
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FADT3358431
Subject Headings
Oral histories --Florida, World War II, Rationing, Boca Raton Army Air Field (Fla.), Oral history
Format
Set of related objects
Morbid jealousy from an evolutionary psychological perspective
Title
Morbid jealousy from an evolutionary psychological perspective.
Creator
Easton, Judith A., Florida Atlantic University, Shackelford, Todd K.
Abstract/Description
Individuals diagnosed with morbid jealousy have hypersensitive jealousy mechanisms that cause them to have irrational thoughts about their partners and to exhibit extreme behaviors. Because morbid jealousy is defined as a malfunction of evolved jealousy mechanisms such that they produce increased chances of perceiving partner infidelity, research guided by an evolutionary psychological perspective can add insight to the understanding of the disorder. The present research tested eleven...
Show moreIndividuals diagnosed with morbid jealousy have hypersensitive jealousy mechanisms that cause them to have irrational thoughts about their partners and to exhibit extreme behaviors. Because morbid jealousy is defined as a malfunction of evolved jealousy mechanisms such that they produce increased chances of perceiving partner infidelity, research guided by an evolutionary psychological perspective can add insight to the understanding of the disorder. The present research tested eleven evolutionarily relevant hypotheses about jealousy, in an attempt to improve the understanding of the etiology of morbid jealousy. To investigate a large enough sample, I created a database of all the morbid jealousy case histories published in English. Chi-square analyses were used to test all eleven hypotheses. Results for seven hypotheses were significant. By illustrating that there may be an adaptive purpose for some of the associated behaviors and for jealousy, the results of this study can aid clinicians in treating morbid jealousy.
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Date Issued
2006
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13376
Subject Headings
Jealousy--Case studies, Psychology, Pathological, Rational emotive behavior therapy--Case studies
Format
Document (PDF)
Imprinting Effects of Founding Conditions, Structure, and Capabilities on Social and Financial Organizational Outcome Satisfaction
Title
Imprinting Effects of Founding Conditions, Structure, and Capabilities on Social and Financial Organizational Outcome Satisfaction.
Creator
Lortie, Jason, Castrogiovanni, Gary J., Florida Atlantic University, College of Business, Department of Management
Abstract/Description
My work investigates the effects of founding conditions for organizational founders on the eventual satisfaction founders have with the financial and social outcomes of their organization. First, I introduce two new constructs, social salience and economic salience, which represent the intended social or economic goals of the founder for their organization when they found the new organization. I then utilize organizational imprinting theory to argue that the social and economic salience,...
Show moreMy work investigates the effects of founding conditions for organizational founders on the eventual satisfaction founders have with the financial and social outcomes of their organization. First, I introduce two new constructs, social salience and economic salience, which represent the intended social or economic goals of the founder for their organization when they found the new organization. I then utilize organizational imprinting theory to argue that the social and economic salience, along with founders’ previous work experience, influence the structure of the new organization via the legal form. I then argue that the legal form influences the specific capabilities that the organization will acquire or create early in the organization’s life. Finally, I argue that the capabilities established at founding will influence the eventual satisfaction founders currently have with their organizations’ social and financial outcomes as the capabilities endure over time. Based on a sample of 150 organizational founders that are still actively managing their organizations, my results support the idea that founding conditions for individual founders influence the capabilities that their organizations create or acquire. Further, founders’ current level of satisfaction with the financial and social performance of their organizations is significantly related to these capabilities. These results largely support the process based model of imprinting effects on organizational outcomes, and suggest that founders play a critical role in setting the original imprint of an organization that will endure via organizational inertia, perhaps long after the imprint’s originally designed purpose.
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Date Issued
2016
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004655, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004655
Subject Headings
Corporate governance, Organizational change -- Management, Performance -- Management, Performance -- Measurement, Rational expectations (Economic theory), Social entrepreneurship, Strategic planning
Format
Document (PDF)
How do home and community based services change long-term care?
Title
How do home and community based services change long-term care?.
Creator
Perez, Enrique M., College for Design and Social Inquiry, School of Public Administration
Abstract/Description
The relationship between Public Administration and the people is one that requires legitimacy and compromise in order to solve complex problems. Individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) and their families during the last fifty years have put forth an agenda that calls for the advancement of rights for the disabled and more integration into the larger society. In this arena, government, with post civil rights legislation like the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act ...
Show moreThe relationship between Public Administration and the people is one that requires legitimacy and compromise in order to solve complex problems. Individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) and their families during the last fifty years have put forth an agenda that calls for the advancement of rights for the disabled and more integration into the larger society. In this arena, government, with post civil rights legislation like the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), plays a huge role in promoting social awareness and bringing down barriers of stigmatization, understanding, and access. This struggle is fought on many fronts. A significant part of the effort focuses on moving the locus of long-term care of the disabled, including the IDD population, from an institutional setting to the least restrictive setting that will foster social ties and integration. Since the early 1980s as part of this effort to deinstitutionalize the disabled, legislation at both the federal and state level has supported and incentivized the creation of Home and Community Based Service (HCBS) programs. HCBS waivers, as they are typically called, are also promoted as a means of containing government expenditures for long-term care. However, the effectiveness of these waivers is poorly understood. The critical questions being - Do HCBS waivers promote and create an environment that increases awareness of the needs of IDD individuals? Do the programs help reduce stigmatization, promote understanding, and increase access to services and activities that foster social interaction? Or, do HCBS waivers create a new "iron cage" where the intellectually or developmentally disabled are once again relegated to existing as second class citizens? In this research, programs are mapped and then evaluated to paint a better picture of how HCBS waivers change long-term care., This research combines qualitative and quantitative approaches to triangulate on these phenoamea as a means to investigate when and how HCBS waiver programs facilitate, promote, or stifle the social integration of those with IDD. How does social integration manifest itself in the quality long-term care of those who often cannot take care of themselves?
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Date Issued
2011
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3318667
Subject Headings
Long-term care of the sick, Medical care, Quality control, Sociology of disabiltiy, Heath care rationing, Outcome assessment (Medical care), Community health services
Format
Document (PDF)
philosophical analysis of America's transformation to universal health care
Title
A philosophical analysis of America's transformation to universal health care: implications for responsibility and justice.
Creator
Mantoni, Jennifer Lynn., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Philosophy
Abstract/Description
Human beings have two apparently conflicting fundamental rights. On the one hand, individuals have a right to health care as the United Nations declared in 1948. On the other hand, individuals have a right to liberty; that is, the freedom to make one's own health related choices, even poor ones. One goal of this essay is to show how to reconcile these two apparently conflicting core American values. This reconciliation is important, because a universal health care system that is fair and just...
Show moreHuman beings have two apparently conflicting fundamental rights. On the one hand, individuals have a right to health care as the United Nations declared in 1948. On the other hand, individuals have a right to liberty; that is, the freedom to make one's own health related choices, even poor ones. One goal of this essay is to show how to reconcile these two apparently conflicting core American values. This reconciliation is important, because a universal health care system that is fair and just must account for individual rights in tandem with attempts to address matters of social justice. In order for this reconciliation to occur, matters of individual responsibility, social responsibility, and social justice must be central to health care reform.
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Date Issued
2011
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3171680
Subject Headings
Health care reform, Health services accessibility, Insurance, Health, Government policy, Political science, Philosophy, Health care rationing, Moral and ethical aspects, Social justice, Responsibility
Format
Document (PDF)