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Alan Wolfe summarises this viewpoint, which reject ( s ) any such distinction and argue ( s ) instead for the existence of a continuous liberal understanding that includes both Adam Smith and John Maynard Keynes ...
When instead we discuss human purpose and the meaning of life, Adam Smith and John Maynard Keynes are on the same side.
Evolutionarily stable strategies were defined and introduced by John Maynard Smith and George R. Price in a 1973 Nature paper.
Such was the time taken in peer-reviewing the paper for Nature that this was preceded by a 1972 essay by Maynard Smith in a book of essays titled On Evolution.
Papers in Nature are usually short ; in 1974, Maynard Smith published a longer paper in the Journal of Theoretical Biology.
Maynard Smith explains further in his 1982 book Evolution and the Theory of Games.
Maynard Smith mathematically formalised a verbal argument made by Price, which he read while peer-reviewing Price's paper.
When Maynard Smith realized that the somewhat disorganised Price was not ready to revise his article for publication, he offered to add Price as co-author.
Maynard Smith was jointly awarded the 1999 Crafoord Prize for his development of the concept of evolutionarily stable strategies and the application of game theory to the evolution of behaviour.
Eight game-theorists have won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, and John Maynard Smith was awarded the Crafoord Prize for his application of game theory to biology.
* 1920 – John Maynard Smith, English biologist ( d. 2004 )
John Maynard Smith, F. R. S.
Maynard Smith was instrumental in the application of game theory to evolution and theorized on other problems such as the evolution of sex and signalling theory.
John Maynard Smith was born in London, the son of the surgeon Sidney Maynard Smith, but following his father's death in 1928 the family moved to Exmoor, where he became interested in natural history.
Quite unhappy with the lack of formal science education at Eton College, Maynard Smith took it upon himself to develop an interest in Darwinian evolutionary theory and mathematics, after having read the work of old Etonian J. B. S.
On leaving school, Maynard Smith joined the Communist Party of Great Britain and started studying engineering at Trinity College Cambridge.
Prior to his death the building housing much of Life Sciences at Sussex was renamed the John Maynard Smith Building, in his honour.
In 1973 Maynard Smith formalised a central concept in evolutionary game theory called the evolutionarily stable strategy ( ESS ), based on a verbal argument by George R. Price.
Maynard Smith published a book entitled The Evolution of Sex which explored in mathematical terms, the notion of the " two-fold cost of sex ".
In his honour, the European Society for Evolutionary Biology has an award for extraordinary young evolutionary biology researchers named The John Maynard Smith Prize.
This is bestowed every 50 years by the Linnean Society of London ; Maynard Smith was one of thirteen co-recipients.

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In the same year, he took a year-long fellowship at the University of Cambridge, England, where he was influenced by John Maynard Keynes, then traveled in Europe for several months in 1938, attending an international economic conference and developing his ideas.
Czyz went on to stop then-undefeated Andrew Maynard in seven rounds ( the second undefeated Gold medallist he KO'd ) in June 1990, then jumped up to cruiserweight.
Maynard knocked himself temporarily unconscious during a takedown of Emerson, who then submitted due to an aggravated injury of the ribs, both being unaware that the other fighter could not continue.
Footage from a different angle was then aired showing Maynard needing assistance from the referee to stand from the floor only to fall down again.
Doc Maynard introduced Stevens, who then briefly explained his mission, which was already well understood by all present.
William had less to do with the family business-he lived in Boston a while, then Maynard again, then off to Pasadena, California in 1885 for reasons of ill health ( possibly tuberculosis ).
Since then, many of Britain ’ s most distinguished scholars in the humanities and social sciences have been involved in the life of the Academy, including John Maynard Keynes, Isaiah Berlin, C. S. Lewis and Henry Moore.
You could often find club event reports in Autosport with glowing tributes to a Gerry Marshall and then notice at the end of the report that it was written by a certain GDRM, G. Marshall or G. Maynard ( his first wife's maiden name !!
In 1857, Doc Maynard traded his " downtown " acreage for Charles C. Terry's farm in West Seattle, but this new enterprise did not prosper ; he and Catherine then opened a two-room hospital in what is now Pioneer Square.
Anderson then began a relationship with a married woman, Gertrude Higger ( married name, Mab Maynard, stage name Mab Anthony ) starting circa 1930.
Born Linda Wade Jarvie and educated privately at the Maynard School in Exeter, Devon and then Stirling High School, before attending the University of Edinburgh where she was awarded a master's degree in history in 1971.
In April 2012, Scott Weiland remarked that he would like to reunite permanently with Velvet Revolver, saying that " if Maynard James Keenan can do it with A Perfect Circle and Tool, then there ’ s no reason why I shouldn ’ t go and do it with both bands ".
While still in high school in 1950, Chase attended his first Stan Kenton concert, featuring Maynard Ferguson on high note solos, and Bill was hooked from then on.
Later in the year, a schedule shuffle ended Carl DeSuze's run on the morning show ( which was taken over by Dave Maynard ), and he was moved to middays ; the overnight show was then taken over by Bob Raleigh, who had been WBZ's midday host since June 1976.
He also conducted a Spiritual life Jubilee in Atlanta, GA and then Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson presented a proclamation to then Chief Minister Wallace D. Muhammad proclaiming the week of August 22 to 28 1976 to be dedicated to the Southern Spiritual Life jubilee.
Many of the ideas of the Chicago School are thought to have come out of the reorganization of undergraduate education at the University of Chicago by Robert Maynard Hutchins, then President there.
Boyd was married five times, first to Laura Maynard and then to actresses Ruth Miller, Elinor Fair, Dorothy Sebastian and Grace Bradley.
He has been remembered for having even anticipated and certainly then having supported the theories of John Maynard Keynes relative to " inadequate aggregate spending " in the economy which appeared during his tenure.
He played with the Buddy Johnson's R & B band from 1955 – 1956, then became a member of the Maynard Ferguson's band ( 1957 – 1959 ), where he played and arranged, providing excitement on such popular tunes as " The Fugue ," " Three Little Foxes " and " Slides Derangement.
Aaron Lake, a strongly pro-defense expenditure candidate has been identified and Maynard is determined to control him-and then get him elected.
George R. Price generalised the verbal argument, which was then formalised mathematically by John Maynard Smith, into the evolutionarily stable strategy ( ESS ).
The two run into Herman's Military Antique shop, where Herman beats, ties up and gags the two, then waits for " Zed " to arrive, exactly as Maynard does in Pulp Fiction.

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