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Government spending and income inequality in developing countries

Government spending and income inequality in developing countries

Economics

By José Luis Ferreira

The two biggest questions in Economics are, no doubt, efficiency and equality. The first means no dilapidation of resources, the second means…, well, it may mean many things: equality of opportunities, resources, access to basic goods, or equality of results, among many others. Whatever we understand by equality, there are two major problems with its […]

MI weekly selection #202

MI weekly selection #202

Humanities & Social SciencesScienceTechnologyWeekly Selection

By César Tomé

Single-celled amoeba uses molecular mechanisms similar to complex life The single-celled amoeba Capsaspora owczarzaki has the same molecular tools as more complex organisms to help it move through various life stages. The findings suggest multi-celled mechanisms may have been in place long before animals evolved. Science News New questions raised about Lyme disease following discovery […]

Robotic playmates

Robotic playmates

HealthRobotics

By José Ramón Alonso

Autism spectrum disorders are a group of developmental disorders that cause lifelong disabilities. They affect people’s ability to communicate, to interact with others and to understand social cues. Affected persons have difficulties recognizing body language, making eye contact, and understand other people’s emotions, symptoms that hurt the individual’s ability to function socially, at school or […]

The rise and fall of the representational theory of measurement (2)

The rise and fall of the representational theory of measurement (2)

Philosophy of science

By Jesús Zamora Bonilla

In the previous entry we saw how the so called ‘Representational Theory of Measurement’ appeared to solve one of the deepest problems in the empiricist account of scientific knowledge: how to justify the use of numbers in science (and the calculations that used them), taking into account that all knowledge was supposed to be grounded […]