By David P. Ellerman
Dramatic alterations or revolutions in a box of technological know-how are usually made by means of outsiders or 'trespassers,' who're no longer restricted by means of the proven, 'expert' ways. every one essay during this different assortment exhibits the end result of highbrow trespassing and poaching between fields equivalent to economics, Kantian ethics, Platonic philosophy, classification idea, double-entry accounting, arbitrage, algebraic good judgment, series-parallel duality, and monetary mathematics.
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