English books and papers
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1. Political Economy
Presenting a new macro-economic synthesis that integrates existing neoclassical
economics with institutional economics, information theory and Public Choice
theory, to arrive at a better explanation of poverty, unemployment, inflation
and social welfare. This analysis includes novel results in dynamics, taxation
and social choice theory.
1.1. Books
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Definition and Reality in the General
Theory of Political Economy, (DRGTPE) Second Edition, January 2005
Dutch University Press. See also the summary
solution to the current mass unemployment. (First Edition, March &
June 2000, ISBN 90-802263-2-7, Samuel van Houten Genootschap)
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Voting Theory for Democracy,
(VTFD) 2nd Edition, January 2007, ISBN 978-90-804774-5-2 (First Edition,
January 2001) Thomas Cool Consultancy & Econometrics. See the Cover
Text
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The Political Economy of the
Netherlands Antilles and the Future of the Caribbean, (DRGTPE supplement
on a Caribbean islands economy), Samuel van Houten Genootschap ISBN ISBN-10:
90-802263-3-5 and ISBN-13: 978-90-802263-3-3
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PM 1. See this communication,
February 26 2007
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PM 2. In 1990 I developed an analysis on unemployment that also used a
social welfare function. This first part of the analysis led to CPB
90-III-38 and eventually DRGTPE. The second part led to CPB 90-III-37
and eventually VTFD. In 2000, after some 10 years, the (first editions
of the) books were finally available. This means that the arguments in
various older papers below have been refined, and have been combined and
put into perspective. Not all points have been included in the book though,
so I keep the papers still listed. Also, the analysis will require model
calculations for a real national economy before it can be truly implemented.
1.2. Papers
1.2.1. On the decision problem
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After
20 years of mass unemployment: Why we might wish for a parliamentary inquiry,
own & CPB internal note 90-III-38
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On
the political economy of employment in the welfare state, ewp-mac/9509001
- or the local html file
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An
institutional explanation of stuctural unemployment of low income labour,
Presentation for the 7th Research Day of the Social Sciences, Amsterdam,
April 11 & 12 1996, ewp-oth/9605001- or the local
html file
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Unemployment
Solved: An answer to Krugman, Phelps, Ormerod and Heilbroner, ewp-get/9704002
- or the local html file
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After
35 years of mass unemployment: An advice to boycott Holland, ewp-get/0405001
- or the local
html file
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See this communication,
February 26 2007
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A note on competing
economic theories on the 2007-2008+ financial crisis: The case for (hidden)
stagflation, September 30 2008, MPRA 10831
1.2.2. On taxes, minimum wage and unemployment
1.2.3. On social welfare
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Why a social welfare (meta) function does exist: The Arrow Impossibility
Theorem for Social Choice resolved, a better analysis suggested, own
& CPB internal note 90-III-37 (Largely included in VTFD)
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The
solution to Arrow's difficulty in social welfare, ewp-get/9707001-
or the local html file
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Objections to Saari’s suggestion
for solving Arrow’s problem in social choice, March 7 2000
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Without
time, no morality, ewp-get/0202003 February 12 2002, or the local
html file
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On the value of life,
ewp-pe/0310003 October 3 2003
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"Approval
Voting" lacks a sound moral base for the individual voter's choice of approval
versus non-approval, especially when the Status Quo is neglected,
ewp-get/0503014, March 26 2005, or the local pdf
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Application
of the Borda Fixed Point voting rule to the Dutch Parliamentary elections
2006, November 23 2006 (local pdf)
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Application of the Borda Fixed Point voting rule to the upcoming Dutch Parliamentary elections 2010
, March 11 2010 (local pdf)
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In a democracy, Bayrou
would have won. Application of the Borda Fixed Point method to the 2007
French presidential elections”, June 27 2007, MPRA 3726
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Why one would accept
Voting Theory for Democracy and reject the Penrose Square Root Weights,
July 6 2007, MPRA 3885
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Review of Howard DeLong
(1991), "A refutation of Arrow’s theorem", with a reaction, also on its
relevance in 2008 for the European Union
,July 22 2008, MPRA 9661
- Single vote multiple seats elections. Didactics of district versus proportional representation, using the examples of the United Kingdom and The Netherlands, May 19 2010, MPRA 22782
- Single vote multiple seats elections. Supplement for the Dutch elections of June 9 2010, June 23 2010
1.2.4. On other angles
1.3. For the general public
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Unemployment
Solved ! A breakthrough in economics, ewp-get/9604002 - or the
local
html file
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A
constitutional amendment for an Economic Supreme Court, ewp-get/9604003
- or the local html file
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Enable
Russia to help itself, ewp-get/9604004 - or the local
html file
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Collaborated with the journalists Hans and Auke Hulst in "Werkloosheid
en armoede, de oplossing die werkt", Thesis Publishers 1998 ("Unemployment
and poverty, the solution that works", see the English
summary)
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Will
the West repeat Versailles ?, ewp-get/9808002 - or the local
html file
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The moral imperative
for the West, October 2000
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Collaborated with the journalist Hans Hulst in "De
ontketende kiezer", Rozenberg publishers 2003 ("The voter unchained")
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On
the political economy of world government: a short discussion of the role
of the World Economic Forum and the World Social Forum and indicating the
possibility of a World Parliament, January 16 2005, ewp-get/0501002
- or the local html file
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What
might the Soviet Union learn from the OECD countries in economics and politics
? An article from 1991 with some comments from 2005, the 1991 part
together with Jan Tinbergen, my own comments June 4 2005, ewp-get/0506003
- or the local pdf
2. Other Economics
2.1. Concepts
2.2. Software
2.3. Transport and logistics
2.4. Environment
2.5. Public Health
3. Other areas related to econometrics
3.1. Mathematical logic
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A logic of exceptions, First
Edition, January/February 2007, ISBN 978-90-804774-4-5
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See this communication,
February 26 2007, "Communication on my books “A logic of exceptions” and
the 2nd edition of “Voting theory for democracy” – with some additional
notes on causality, graphical models, artificial intelligence and bureaucracy"
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Improving
the logical base of calculus on the issue of “division by zero” ,
July 2007
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Refutation of
“the” proof for Cantor’s Theorem and restoration of the “set of all sets”,
July 2007
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A difficulty
in proof theory. Reasonable assumptions cause the Gödeliar to collapse
to the Liar, August 2007
3.2. Causality
3.3. Statistics
3.4. Mathematics proper
See The Economics Pack.
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