te and business tycoon and former prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, repeatedly pronounced politically dead, rose from the grave and almost won..... Samuelson called the outcome, "a mix of absurdity and anarchy quashing any optimism." As important is the messages that it sent. . "The election wasn't just

t universities (29 out of the top 50, according to one British ranking). With all of these advantages why do so many people view America in decline? Samuelson suggests: If your neighbor's house bums down and only half of yours does, you are relatively better off than your neighbor — but you're worse off t

generations model cannot be much like Paul Samuelson’s of three centuries later, where a generation of productives leaves a nest egg for retirement. Samuelson’s productives are replenished exogenously, with children left to the imagination. Why would Petty have mentioned their ages? And retirement at age 50

von Neuman and Oskar Morgenstern (1944) to study strategic and economic decisions of humans (Fudenberg Sc Tirole 1991, Binmore 1994, Weibull 1995, Samuelson 1997, Binmore 2007). Evolutionary game theory was introduced by John Maynard Smith in order to explore the evolution of animal behavior (Maynard Sm