My father - a giant of a man and always my inspiration. For the moment you can find some information about him here. Slideshow from the memorial. ]]> generalGeneral Interest Economic and Game Theory News 2010-12-07T07:15:37-08:00 http://www.dklevine.com/workshops/oldnew.php?perm=258625000000000037 Fixes dialog boxes to size themselves better when the "look and feel" uses large fonts (useful for a small touchscreen netbook). Fixes some other small glitches. Adds two user defined overlays called "circle" and "square". Get them from the insert menu. No buttons yet. 258625000000000037board4@http://www.dklevine.com/ Jarnal Change Log 2010-11-15T09:11:57-08:00 http://www.dklevine.com/workshops/oldnew.php?perm=258625000000000036 F11 now toggles full screen; added the "-multitouch" command line switch. If you click (leaving a dot) and then either escape or use the up or down key the dot will be erased. This works around a bug with the Ubuntu uTouch ginn program which sends a mouse click before every multitouch gesture. 258625000000000036board4@http://www.dklevine.com/ Jarnal Change Log 2010-11-05T04:36:10-08:00 http://www.dklevine.com/workshops/oldnew.php?perm=258625000000000035 258625000000000035board4@http://www.dklevine.com/ Jarnal Change Log 2010-11-05T04:31:29-08:00 http://www.dklevine.com/workshops/oldnew.php?perm=258625000000000034 Fixes the web-based upgrade procedure. 258625000000000034board4@http://www.dklevine.com/ Jarnal Change Log 2010-11-04T10:55:42-08:00 http://www.dklevine.com/workshops/oldnew.php?perm=258625000000000033 258625000000000033board4@http://www.dklevine.com/ Jarnal Change Log 2010-11-04T10:55:12-08:00 http://www.dklevine.com/workshops/oldnew.php?perm=258625000000000032 Adds the Japanese language file from Yuko Suziki and adds a new command line option -large that enlarges the icons by 50% for use with touchscreens. They don't look very good, I just upsized them with imagemagick, so if someone wants to contribute better icons please do: they go in the images directory of the jar file, and are the ones that end with "-l.png". The move to the wiki broke the upgrade procedure, this will be fixed in the next release. 258625000000000032board4@http://www.dklevine.com/ Jarnal Change Log 2010-11-02T01:55:13-08:00 http://www.dklevine.com/workshops/oldnew.php?perm=258625000000000024 %26lt;img src="/images/earl.jpg" width = 65%26gt; Earl Thompson, economist: born October 15, 1938; Assistant Professor, Stanford University 1962-1965, Assistant Professor UCLA 1965-1969, Associate Professor, UCLA 1969-1973; Professor, Department of Economics, UCLA 1973; married 1961 Velma Montoya (one son); died Los Angeles 29 July 2010. Thompson was an idiosyncratic but brilliant thinker, and his death marks the end of an era for UCLA: Thompson is the last of the economists brought to UCLA by Armen Alchian in the 1960s to create the famed UCLA school of economics. Thompson's interests in economics were broad ranging. In recent years his goal was to provide an integrated theory of the vital institutions of society - a theory that tied together historical events with economic theory and politics. The basic elements of the theory were outlined in his 2001 book with Charles Hickson. The entire theory was to appear in the three volumes entitled A Reconstruction of Economics. Thompson did not set out to be an economist. His ambition until his early twenties was to be a professional baseball player. Fortunately for us he fell to injury, so instead became an academic. He attended UCLA as an undergraduate where he studied under Armen Alchian who turned him towards economics, and while in his younger years he had been an indifferent student, he graduated with Honors in 1958. He attended the London School of Economics, then returned to Harvard for his Ph.D. under the supervision of John R. Meyer, becoming Harvard's youngest Ph.D. in Economics in 1961. His first longterm position was as an assistant professor at Stanford University. In 1965 he moved back to Los Angeles to UCLA, where he spent the bulk of his career. Over that career Thompson published more than 40 articles, many in the top academic journals. He wrote on topics ranging from monetary theory to welfare economics. Always his focus was on the winners and losers from economic policy. In monetary theory he was profoundly skeptical of the influence of bankers on monetary policy - as we have recently been reminded, bankers look out for bankers' interests, not the interests of the rest of us. As recently as March Thompson was writing in the AmericanThinker.com explaining why the banker driven bailout and stimulus policies might benefit bankers, but would be of little use to the rest of us. Thompson was also cognizant of the universal desire for monopoly. He was one of the first to point to collusion between unions and firms - unions are not subject to anti-trust laws. He gathered substantial evidence that in the coal industry strikes served to raise prices and increase profits by restricting output. One of Thompson's most significant theoretical contributions was in the area of public finance. Conventional wisdom among economists is that taxing capital is a poor idea. Thompson pointed out that the national defense is one of the primary functions of government - and the beneficiaries are largely the owners of capital. Far from an inefficient drag on the economy, he argued, capital taxes are effectively a user fee, charging those that benefit the most from defense for its cost. That democratic institutions seemed to have found the right solution where economists had not made a profound impression on him. Thompson made major theoretical contributions to the study of commitment in games - arguing that it has an empirical significance that is underplayed by economists and game theorists. In doing so, he demonstrated a formal mathematical version of what is sometimes known as the Coase Theorem: that without frictions an economy attains desirable outcomes even in the absence of competition. Where other economists focused on markets Thompson focused on the evolution of democratic political institutions, arguing that the democratic process tended to bring forth efficient policy compromises. Thompson loved to work with students, although occasionally his classes met at odd times, such as Sunday afternoons. Many of his students became coauthors and lifelong friends. In the early 1980s, while his wife Velma Montoya served in the Reagan White House, Thompson spent a year at the Federal Trade Commission in Washington. This gave him an opportunity to comment on and influence public policy: although a theorist Thompson had an enormously practical side and cared deeply about people and policy. Thompson received numerous grants and awards to support his research, including from the UCLA Institute for Government and Public Affairs; the Ford Foundation; the Eli Lilly Foundation; the American Petroleum Institute; the Koch Foundation; the Foundation for Research in Economics and Education; and the National Science Foundation. Earl Thompson was an eccentric in an age of conformity. He kept odd hours: he was alone in his office in Bunche Hall at 4:31 AM on January 17, 1994 when the Northridge earthquake hit, where he found himself unharmed but covered with fallen books. He loved muscle cars, dressed as if the 1950s were just yesterday, and always had a sneaky grin on his face. He will be missed by his colleagues, his students, his friends and his family. 258625000000000024board4@http://www.dklevine.com/

Earl Thompson, economist: born October 15, 1938; Assistant Professor, Stanford University 1962-1965, Assistant Professor UCLA 1965-1969, Associate Professor, UCLA 1969-1973; Professor, Department of Economics, UCLA 1973; married 1961 Velma Montoya (one son); died Los Angeles 29 July 2010.

Thompson was an idiosyncratic but brilliant thinker, and his death marks the end of an era for UCLA: Thompson is the last of the economists brought to UCLA by Armen Alchian in the 1960s to create the famed UCLA school of economics.

Thompson's interests in economics were broad ranging. In recent years his goal was to provide an integrated theory of the vital institutions of society - a theory that tied together historical events with economic theory and politics. The basic elements of the theory were outlined in his 2001 book with Charles Hickson. The entire theory was to appear in the three volumes entitled A Reconstruction of Economics.

Thompson did not set out to be an economist. His ambition until his early twenties was to be a professional baseball player. Fortunately for us he fell to injury, so instead became an academic. He attended UCLA as an undergraduate where he studied under Armen Alchian who turned him towards economics, and while in his younger years he had been an indifferent student, he graduated with Honors in 1958. He attended the London School of Economics, then returned to Harvard for his Ph.D. under the supervision of John R. Meyer, becoming Harvard's youngest Ph.D. in Economics in 1961. His first longterm position was as an assistant professor at Stanford University. In 1965 he moved back to Los Angeles to UCLA, where he spent the bulk of his career.

Over that career Thompson published more than 40 articles, many in the top academic journals. He wrote on topics ranging from monetary theory to welfare economics. Always his focus was on the winners and losers from economic policy. In monetary theory he was profoundly skeptical of the influence of bankers on monetary policy - as we have recently been reminded, bankers look out for bankers' interests, not the interests of the rest of us. As recently as March Thompson was writing in the AmericanThinker.com explaining why the banker driven bailout and stimulus policies might benefit bankers, but would be of little use to the rest of us.

Thompson was also cognizant of the universal desire for monopoly. He was one of the first to point to collusion between unions and firms - unions are not subject to anti-trust laws. He gathered substantial evidence that in the coal industry strikes served to raise prices and increase profits by restricting output.

One of Thompson's most significant theoretical contributions was in the area of public finance. Conventional wisdom among economists is that taxing capital is a poor idea. Thompson pointed out that the national defense is one of the primary functions of government - and the beneficiaries are largely the owners of capital. Far from an inefficient drag on the economy, he argued, capital taxes are effectively a user fee, charging those that benefit the most from defense for its cost. That democratic institutions seemed to have found the right solution where economists had not made a profound impression on him.

Thompson made major theoretical contributions to the study of commitment in games - arguing that it has an empirical significance that is underplayed by economists and game theorists. In doing so, he demonstrated a formal mathematical version of what is sometimes known as the Coase Theorem: that without frictions an economy attains desirable outcomes even in the absence of competition. Where other economists focused on markets Thompson focused on the evolution of democratic political institutions, arguing that the democratic process tended to bring forth efficient policy compromises.

Thompson loved to work with students, although occasionally his classes met at odd times, such as Sunday afternoons. Many of his students became coauthors and lifelong friends.

In the early 1980s, while his wife Velma Montoya served in the Reagan White House, Thompson spent a year at the Federal Trade Commission in Washington. This gave him an opportunity to comment on and influence public policy: although a theorist Thompson had an enormously practical side and cared deeply about people and policy.

Thompson received numerous grants and awards to support his research, including from the UCLA Institute for Government and Public Affairs; the Ford Foundation; the Eli Lilly Foundation; the American Petroleum Institute; the Koch Foundation; the Foundation for Research in Economics and Education; and the National Science Foundation.

Earl Thompson was an eccentric in an age of conformity. He kept odd hours: he was alone in his office in Bunche Hall at 4:31 AM on January 17, 1994 when the Northridge earthquake hit, where he found himself unharmed but covered with fallen books. He loved muscle cars, dressed as if the 1950s were just yesterday, and always had a sneaky grin on his face. He will be missed by his colleagues, his students, his friends and his family. ]]> generalGeneral Interest Economic and Game Theory News 2010-07-30T10:24:28-08:00 http://www.dklevine.com/workshops/oldnew.php?perm=258625000000000022 %26lt;a href="http://www.dklevine.com/images/pictures/furxlvposter.jpg"%26gt;%26lt;img src="http://www.dklevine.com/images/pictures/furxlvposter.thb.jpg" alt="Furry"%26gt;%26lt;/a%26gt; 258625000000000022board4@http://www.dklevine.com/ ]]> generalGeneral Interest Economic and Game Theory News 2010-06-17T06:12:51-08:00 http://www.dklevine.com/workshops/oldnew.php?perm=258625000000000021 %26lt;a href="http://www.festivaleconomia.tv/node/2091"%26gt;%26lt;img src="http://www.festivaleconomia.tv/sites/default/files/imagecache/video-cover/uploads/video_covers/n2091-f1465.png" alt="Squirrels"%26gt;%26lt;/a%26gt; 258625000000000021board4@http://www.dklevine.com/ ]]> intellectualIntellectual Property News 2010-06-08T06:13:30-08:00 http://www.dklevine.com/workshops/oldnew.php?perm=43527000000000002 Source code update eliminating dependence of main classes on awt to ease porting to other platforms such as android. 43527000000000002board4@http://www.dklevine.com/ Economic and Game Theory News 2010-05-16T04:42:03-08:00 http://www.dklevine.com/workshops/oldnew.php?perm=43527000000000001 Tested with Openoffice 3.1. Added support for equations generated from Google documents. Modified the behavior of fences and embellishments to prevent the entering of invalid constructs. Added instructions for displaying fonts correctly in Ubuntu. 43527000000000001board4@http://www.dklevine.com/ Economic and Game Theory News 2010-05-14T22:44:34-08:00 http://www.dklevine.com/workshops/oldnew.php?perm=595346000000000092 Wonderful new icon from Davidson Girard. 595346000000000092board4@http://www.dklevine.com/ Jarnal Change Log 2009-11-29T08:34:49-08:00 http://www.dklevine.com/workshops/oldnew.php?perm=595346000000000091 Adds language files for Basque, Spanish and French. Thanks to Aaron Busca and Pierre Couillard. 595346000000000091board4@http://www.dklevine.com/ Jarnal Change Log 2009-11-10T09:40:23-08:00 http://www.dklevine.com/workshops/oldnew.php?perm=595346000000000085 For a guy who thinks that methodological disputes are boring and that the proof of the pudding is in the eating, I seem to be getting in to a lot of them lately. First we had to listen to Paul Krugman spouting about how bad economics was when he was a graduate student. You can find a brief effort to bring him up to date on developments in the last three decades %26lt;a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-k-levine/an-open-letter-to-paul-kr_b_289768.html"%26gt;here%26lt;/a%26gt;. This led to a debate with philosopher of science Alex Rosenberg %26lt;a href="http://bloggingheads.tv/diavlogs/22902"%26gt; on bloggingheads tv%26lt;/a%26gt;. It's mostly an elaboration on my "Is Behavioral Economics Doomed" - although I'd have thought that the fact that the Keynesian theory that Paul likes was extensively examined for two decades and ultimately rejected because it was falsified would be evidence that economics is a science. I guess it isn't for Paul: for him Keynesian is an article of faith despite the fact it has been falsified. 595346000000000085board4@http://www.dklevine.com/ here. This led to a debate with philosopher of science Alex Rosenberg on bloggingheads tv. It's mostly an elaboration on my "Is Behavioral Economics Doomed" - although I'd have thought that the fact that the Keynesian theory that Paul likes was extensively examined for two decades and ultimately rejected because it was falsified would be evidence that economics is a science. I guess it isn't for Paul: for him Keynesian is an article of faith despite the fact it has been falsified. ]]> generalGeneral Interest Economic and Game Theory News 2009-10-05T11:44:39-08:00 http://www.dklevine.com/workshops/oldnew.php?perm=595346000000000083 Incorporates Gerhard Hagerer's fix for problems minimizing Jarnal for screenshots. 595346000000000083board4@http://www.dklevine.com/ Jarnal Change Log 2009-09-28T13:00:01-08:00 http://www.dklevine.com/workshops/oldnew.php?perm=595346000000000076 Fixes a crash on older virtual machines when reading the language translation files. 595346000000000076board4@http://www.dklevine.com/ Jarnal Change Log 2009-09-16T04:33:28-08:00 http://www.dklevine.com/workshops/oldnew.php?perm=595346000000000075 Using the native look and feel fails on some systems. Added the command line switch -javagui to override the native look and feel. 595346000000000075board4@http://www.dklevine.com/ Jarnal Change Log 2009-09-08T07:01:31-08:00 http://www.dklevine.com/workshops/oldnew.php?perm=595346000000000074 Updates the German language file, and corrects the name of the Dutch languge file from da (Danish) to nl (Dutch). You should update the script files used to start jarnal (i.e. jarnal.cmd, jarnal.sh, etc.) to the latest versions which can can find %26lt;a href="http://www.dklevine.com/general/software/tc1000/jarnal-startup.zip"%26gt;here%26lt;/a%26gt;. Gerhard provides the following instructions for language files: all language files should be encoded with UTF-8 for correct special character representation, otherwise an english interface will be displayed instead of the correct language. (All current language files are up-to-date in the respect). 595346000000000074board4@http://www.dklevine.com/ here. Gerhard provides the following instructions for language files: all language files should be encoded with UTF-8 for correct special character representation, otherwise an english interface will be displayed instead of the correct language. (All current language files are up-to-date in the respect). ]]> Jarnal Change Log 2009-09-02T07:11:32-08:00 http://www.dklevine.com/workshops/oldnew.php?perm=595346000000000073 Urgent bugfix release. Many of the format dialogs stopped working. The rectangle select would draw spurious strokes when drawing outside the rectangle. All fixed. 595346000000000073board4@http://www.dklevine.com/ Jarnal Change Log 2009-08-31T13:15:24-08:00 http://www.dklevine.com/workshops/oldnew.php?perm=595346000000000072 More work on localization by Gerhard Hagerer. Jarnal now detects the language in use and uses the correct language file if it exists, and defaults to English otherwise. Language files are now in the languages directory of the jar file not the images directory, and should have names that correspond to standard usage: da.txt for dutch, de.txt for german, it.txt for italian (the existing languages for which we have translations). If you need to override, the command line is java -Duser.language=da -jar jarnal.jar (for dutch, for example). 595346000000000072board4@http://www.dklevine.com/ Jarnal Change Log 2009-08-30T14:32:07-08:00 http://www.dklevine.com/workshops/oldnew.php?perm=595346000000000071 Update of German language translation from Gerhard fixing the umlauts. 595346000000000071board4@http://www.dklevine.com/ Jarnal Change Log 2009-08-29T14:22:14-08:00 http://www.dklevine.com/workshops/oldnew.php?perm=595346000000000070 When the rectangle is selected and you depress the mouse outside the rectangle it is now deselected. 595346000000000070board4@http://www.dklevine.com/ Jarnal Change Log 2009-08-29T08:06:09-08:00 http://www.dklevine.com/workshops/oldnew.php?perm=595346000000000069 Bug fixes for assigning actions to the right mouse button from Gerhard Hagerer. 595346000000000069board4@http://www.dklevine.com/ Jarnal Change Log 2009-08-29T05:39:49-08:00 http://www.dklevine.com/workshops/oldnew.php?perm=595346000000000068 Fixes a batch of bugs having to do with the use of the buttons - all the button assignments should work again, and the choose pen dialog once again works. 595346000000000068board4@http://www.dklevine.com/ Jarnal Change Log 2009-08-27T07:12:49-08:00 http://www.dklevine.com/workshops/oldnew.php?perm=595346000000000067 Incorporates an improved interface and better ability to assign tasks to the middle and right mouse buttons. Thanks to Gerhard Hagerer for the code. 595346000000000067board4@http://www.dklevine.com/ Jarnal Change Log 2009-08-27T06:33:57-08:00 http://www.dklevine.com/workshops/oldnew.php?perm=595346000000000066 Same as current 9.48. 595346000000000066board4@http://www.dklevine.com/ Jarnal Change Log 2009-08-27T06:29:45-08:00 http://www.dklevine.com/workshops/oldnew.php?perm=595346000000000064 Adds German language support. Thanks to Gerhard Hagerer. 595346000000000064board4@http://www.dklevine.com/ Jarnal Change Log 2009-08-24T11:53:59-08:00 http://www.dklevine.com/workshops/oldnew.php?perm=595346000000000061 Updates the Dutch language translation. Fixes a bug under Windows where MS Word text data was pasted as an image rather than as text. 595346000000000061board4@http://www.dklevine.com/ Jarnal Change Log 2009-08-01T06:24:41-08:00 http://www.dklevine.com/workshops/oldnew.php?perm=595346000000000060 Italian language support courtesy of Marco Poletti. Use -lang langitalian 595346000000000060board4@http://www.dklevine.com/ Jarnal Change Log 2009-07-29T08:01:03-08:00 http://www.dklevine.com/workshops/oldnew.php?perm=595346000000000059 %26lt;table%26gt;%26lt;tr%26gt;%26lt;td valign="top"%26gt; %26lt;img src="/images/max_weber.jpg" align=top%26gt;%26lt;/td%26gt;%26lt;td%26gt; I recently presented a lecture %26lt;a href="/papers/behavioral-doomed.pdf"%26gt;"Is Behavioral Economics Doomed" %26lt;/a%26gt; at the European University Institute in Florence. It was part of a series of lectures in honor of Max Weber. Since a key issue in behavioral economics is the role of psychological phenomenon such as emotion in decision making, I was curious as to what Max Weber thought of this - Weber being a pioneer of what is now called rational choice theory. Kenneth Allan provides a nice summary of Max Weber's thinking on the topic. %26gt; %26lt;blockquote%26gt; Value-rational behavior is distinguished from affective action because Weber sees some semblance of self-aware decision-making processes in value-rationality. Values are emotional, but when we consciously decided to act because of the logic of our values, it is rational behavior. Emotion, on the other hand,is irrational and proceeds simply from the feelings that an actor may have in a given situation. [Chapter 5: %26lt;i%26gt;Explorations in Classical Sociological Theory%26lt;/i%26gt;, Chapter 5, Pine Forges Press, 2005] %26gt;%26lt;/blockquote%26gt; This is similar to the distinction, for example, that Drew Fudenberg and I draw in our work on the %26lt;a href="/papers/allais.pdf"%26gt;dual self model %26lt;/a%26gt;. Indeed Max Weber's own words about the essential irrationality of that deepest of all emotions - love - is instructive %26gt; %26lt;blockquote%26gt; Under these conditions, the erotic relation seems to offer the unsurpassable peak of the fulfillment of the request for love in the direct fusion of the souls of one to the other. The boundless giving of oneself is as radical as possible in its opposition to all functionality, rationality, and generality. . . It is so overpowering that it is treated "symbolically": as a sacrament. The lover realizes himself to be rooted in the kernel of the truly living, which is eternally inaccessible to any rational endeavor. He knows himself to be freed from the cold skeleton hands of rational orders, just as completely as from the banality of everyday routine. [Max Weber, %26lt;i%26gt;Zwischenbetrachtung%26lt;/i%26gt;, 1958] %26gt;%26lt;/blockquote%26gt;%26lt;/td%26gt;%26lt;/tr%26gt;%26lt;/table%26gt; 595346000000000059board4@http://www.dklevine.com/

I recently presented a lecture "Is Behavioral Economics Doomed" at the European University Institute in Florence. It was part of a series of lectures in honor of Max Weber. Since a key issue in behavioral economics is the role of psychological phenomenon such as emotion in decision making, I was curious as to what Max Weber thought of this - Weber being a pioneer of what is now called rational choice theory. Kenneth Allan provides a nice summary of Max Weber's thinking on the topic. Value-rational behavior is distinguished from affective action because Weber sees some semblance of self-aware decision-making processes in value-rationality. Values are emotional, but when we consciously decided to act because of the logic of our values, it is rational behavior. Emotion, on the other hand,is irrational and proceeds simply from the feelings that an actor may have in a given situation. [Chapter 5: Explorations in Classical Sociological Theory, Chapter 5, Pine Forges Press, 2005] This is similar to the distinction, for example, that Drew Fudenberg and I draw in our work on the dual self model . Indeed Max Weber's own words about the essential irrationality of that deepest of all emotions - love - is instructive Under these conditions, the erotic relation seems to offer the unsurpassable peak of the fulfillment of the request for love in the direct fusion of the souls of one to the other. The boundless giving of oneself is as radical as possible in its opposition to all functionality, rationality, and generality. . . It is so overpowering that it is treated "symbolically": as a sacrament. The lover realizes himself to be rooted in the kernel of the truly living, which is eternally inaccessible to any rational endeavor. He knows himself to be freed from the cold skeleton hands of rational orders, just as completely as from the banality of everyday routine. [Max Weber, Zwischenbetrachtung, 1958]

]]> generalGeneral Interest Economic and Game Theory News 2009-07-28T05:54:59-08:00 http://www.dklevine.com/workshops/oldnew.php?perm=595346000000000058 First official preliminary support for Dutch. Menus have been converted but not dialogs. Use command line switch -lang langdutch 595346000000000058board4@http://www.dklevine.com/ Jarnal Change Log 2009-07-24T07:19:06-08:00 http://www.dklevine.com/workshops/oldnew.php?perm=595346000000000056 More work on the translation. Can now recognize -lang langdutch on the command line to provide some menu items in dutch. Thanks to Dirk Schouten for collaborating on this. 595346000000000056board4@http://www.dklevine.com/ Jarnal Change Log 2009-06-22T08:58:43-08:00 http://www.dklevine.com/workshops/oldnew.php?perm=595346000000000055 Contains preliminary support for alternative languages for the GUI. Not all elements are supported yet, and no language files are yet available...coming soon in Dutch I hope. 595346000000000055board4@http://www.dklevine.com/ Jarnal Change Log 2009-06-16T08:10:56-08:00 http://www.dklevine.com/workshops/oldnew.php?perm=595346000000000054 This is a stub starting the recoding to allow translation of the GUI into languages other than English. 595346000000000054board4@http://www.dklevine.com/ Jarnal Change Log 2009-06-15T08:32:04-08:00 http://www.dklevine.com/workshops/oldnew.php?perm=595346000000000043 Fixes to prevent exit interfering with ongoing operation. The exit procedure is locked so that it should not exit during long saves or print jobs. Printing has been fixed to avoid crashes on windows when the default printer is not available. Per request green and magenta pen tools were added so you can use them on toolbars now along with blue/black/red. 595346000000000043board4@http://www.dklevine.com/ Jarnal Change Log 2009-04-25T08:28:11-08:00 http://www.dklevine.com/workshops/oldnew.php?perm=595346000000000029 If you want media attention, %26lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/01/AR2009030101743.html?sub=new"%26gt;working on sexy topics like behavioral economics apparently pays off...%26lt;/a%26gt; 595346000000000029board4@http://www.dklevine.com/ working on sexy topics like behavioral economics apparently pays off... ]]> generalGeneral Interest Economic and Game Theory News 2009-03-12T01:42:08-08:00 http://www.dklevine.com/workshops/oldnew.php?perm=595346000000000028 %26lt;a href="http://www.worldscibooks.com/economics/6880.html"%26gt;%26lt;img src="/general/images/longterm.jpg" width="200"%26gt;%26lt;/a%26gt; %26lt;i%26gt;A Long Run Collaboration on Long Run Games%26lt;/i%26gt; bringing together Drew's and my work on the subject from the early 1980s to the present. 595346000000000028board4@http://www.dklevine.com/
A Long Run Collaboration on Long Run Games bringing together Drew's and my work on the subject from the early 1980s to the present. ]]> generalGeneral Interest Economic and Game Theory News 2009-01-20T13:08:33-08:00 http://www.dklevine.com/workshops/oldnew.php?perm=512967000000000004 Openoffice 3.0 update. Fixes the mathtype converter to work properly with Openoffice 3.0; adds robustness checking so when an entire document is exported to TeX and an error is encountered the program won't stop. Fixes a problem with the mathtype converter when levels are highlighted. Updates the installation instructions to remind the user that they must enable macros before using the install program. 512967000000000004board4@http://www.dklevine.com/ Economic and Game Theory News 2008-12-30T11:06:43-08:00 http://www.dklevine.com/workshops/oldnew.php?perm=512967000000000003 Adds greater control over highlighter transparency. Adds the ability to view top parts of pages only. 512967000000000003board4@http://www.dklevine.com/ Jarnal Change Log 2008-12-27T10:36:04-08:00 http://www.dklevine.com/workshops/oldnew.php?perm=512967000000000002 Same as current 9.35. 512967000000000002board4@http://www.dklevine.com/ Jarnal Change Log 2008-12-27T08:58:47-08:00 http://www.dklevine.com/workshops/oldnew.php?perm=512967000000000001 Fixes a problem caused by changes in file naming conventions in recent version of xpdf when using pdftoppm as an external renderer. However I cannot get gs to work properly as an external viewer under Fedora 10. When executed externally the command line renders correctly, but when used by java the same command line generates zero length files. 512967000000000001board4@http://www.dklevine.com/ Jarnal Change Log 2008-12-26T22:56:58-08:00 http://www.dklevine.com/workshops/oldnew.php?perm=896216000000000001 A %26lt;a href="http://www.economics-ejournal.org/"%26gt; general purpose open-access electronic journal%26lt;/a%26gt;. 896216000000000001board4@http://www.dklevine.com/ general purpose open-access electronic journal. ]]> openaccessEconomic and Game Theory News 2008-11-15T12:56:21-08:00 http://www.dklevine.com/workshops/oldnew.php?perm=595346000000000001 Fixes a bug saving a document with an annotation with many lines and few characters per line. 595346000000000001board4@http://www.dklevine.com/ Jarnal Change Log 2008-10-27T06:27:01-08:00 http://www.dklevine.com/workshops/oldnew.php?perm=713719000000001760 %26lt;img src="/images/leo05.jpg" width = 65%26gt; From Eric Maskin %26lt;blockquote%26gt; Leo made seminal contributions to economics. In particular, he created the modern theory of mechanism design, the study of economic and political institutions for achieving society's goals. For this work he received the U.S. National Medal of Science in 1990 and shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 2007, among many other honors. He was also an institution designer in the practical sense: he bears major responsibility for turning the Economics Department at the University of Minnesota into one of the great departments of the world. %26lt;a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/jul/21/economics.usa?gusrc=rss%26fee=worldnews"%26gt;Full Obituary%26lt;/a%26gt; %26lt;/blockquote%26gt; Leo was my colleague when I taught at the University of Minesota, and his reputation as a kind and gentle man is well deserved. He was a leader in the best sense of the word: he led by example. 713719000000001760board4@http://www.dklevine.com/

From Eric Maskin

Leo made seminal contributions to economics. In particular, he created the modern theory of mechanism design, the study of economic and political institutions for achieving society's goals. For this work he received the U.S. National Medal of Science in 1990 and shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 2007, among many other honors. He was also an institution designer in the practical sense: he bears major responsibility for turning the Economics Department at the University of Minnesota into one of the great departments of the world. Full Obituary

"information about individual preferences and available production technologies is usually dispersed among many actors who may use their private information to further their own interests. Mechanism design theory, initiated by Leonid Hurwicz and further developed by Eric Maskin and Roger Myerson, has greatly enhanced our understanding of the properties of optimal allocation mechanisms in such situations, accounting for individuals' incentives and private information. The theory allows us to distinguish situations in which markets work well from those in which they do not. It has helped economists identify efficient trading mechanisms, regulation schemes and voting procedures. Today, mechanism design theory plays a central role in many areas of economics and parts of political science." announcement here ]]> generalGeneral Interest Economic and Game Theory News 2007-10-15T06:06:06-08:00 http://www.dklevine.com/workshops/oldnew.php?perm=527175000000000131 Major change to memory management - should be much more stable and faster with large pdf files and high magnifications. However: these changes are beta so have not been thoroughly tested. 527175000000000131board4@http://www.dklevine.com/ Jarnal Change Log 2007-10-03T10:17:13-08:00 http://www.dklevine.com/workshops/oldnew.php?perm=527175000000000130 Same as current 9.11. 527175000000000130board4@http://www.dklevine.com/ Jarnal Change Log 2007-10-03T07:38:16-08:00 http://www.dklevine.com/workshops/oldnew.php?perm=972792000000000040 Updated Jpedal; lib version is now 4. 972792000000000040board4@http://www.dklevine.com/ Jarnal Change Log 2007-09-12T08:20:56-08:00 http://www.dklevine.com/workshops/oldnew.php?perm=972792000000000039 Fixes a bug with the printing/exporting to pdf when the background was already pdf. The background was printed/exported even if it was not supposed to (i.e. "show" was not marked). 972792000000000039board4@http://www.dklevine.com/ Jarnal Change Log 2007-08-11T13:52:08-08:00 http://www.dklevine.com/workshops/oldnew.php?perm=527175000000000129 Thanks to Jan Ciger for two patches: first, some additional hotkeys (see the help menu), and second for fixing a crash due to negative stroke-width. This rolls the patches into the main trunk. 527175000000000129board4@http://www.dklevine.com/ Jarnal Change Log 2007-05-29T08:46:18-08:00 http://www.dklevine.com/workshops/oldnew.php?perm=972792000000000020 Preliminary support for using word documents and other word processing/spreadsheet/powerpoint documents as backgrounds. You must have openoffice installed. See the %26lt;a href="/general/software/tc1000/jarnal-word.htm"%26gt;Howto%26lt;/a%26gt;. 972792000000000020board4@http://www.dklevine.com/ Howto. ]]> Jarnal Change Log 2007-04-29T17:27:05-08:00 http://www.dklevine.com/workshops/oldnew.php?perm=972792000000000019 Improves the stickyness of the sticky ruler, so that it remains after undo operations, changing pen color and so forth. Hit the ruler button again to turn it off. The "open background" command when used on a page with an existing background replaces the background, but there were bugs with the undo/collaboration operations, and the command failed to mark the old background as inactive. 972792000000000019board4@http://www.dklevine.com/ Jarnal Change Log 2007-04-14T16:13:12-08:00 http://www.dklevine.com/workshops/oldnew.php?perm=527175000000000128 Fixes a bug using jarnalannotate.sh without an argument introduced in version 9.00. 527175000000000128board4@http://www.dklevine.com/ Jarnal Change Log 2007-04-04T12:05:29-08:00 http://www.dklevine.com/workshops/oldnew.php?perm=527175000000000127 Fixes the way spaces are handled in unix (should include the mac). Files with spaces should now work including with the external renderer. You will need to use the new macros jarnal.sh and jarnalannotate.sh which add quotes around the arguments. 527175000000000127board4@http://www.dklevine.com/ Jarnal Change Log 2007-04-01T09:28:29-08:00 http://www.dklevine.com/workshops/oldnew.php?perm=527175000000000126 For all users: adds the "Export to PDF" command to the export menu. This is the same as "Print As PDF" but is a bit easier to find, and skips the print options, instead setting them in the obvious way for exporting a pdf file (Absolute Scale is true, everything else is false). For Linux users: Implements a workaround for the Java 1.6 can't print on Linux bug. Add the line "printaround=true" to your jarnalshell.conf file. This will print using the old "Print via PDF" command - the file is printed to temporary pdf (which works fine since it doesn't use Java printing at all) then the pdf file is printed using the "printpdf=" command in the jarnalshell.conf file (usually "printpdf=lpr %1" since lpr knows how to print pdf files). One other Java 1.5/6 problem: if you use Linux and the compiz (or beryl probably - haven't tried it) compositing manager Java is completely broken. The only solution is to download the test version of 1.6 that fixes the problem. It is nearly impossible to find - but it is at http://download.java.net/jdk6/6u1/ 527175000000000126board4@http://www.dklevine.com/ For Linux users: Implements a workaround for the Java 1.6 can't print on Linux bug. Add the line "printaround=true" to your jarnalshell.conf file. This will print using the old "Print via PDF" command - the file is printed to temporary pdf (which works fine since it doesn't use Java printing at all) then the pdf file is printed using the "printpdf=" command in the jarnalshell.conf file (usually "printpdf=lpr %1" since lpr knows how to print pdf files). One other Java 1.5/6 problem: if you use Linux and the compiz (or beryl probably - haven't tried it) compositing manager Java is completely broken. The only solution is to download the test version of 1.6 that fixes the problem. It is nearly impossible to find - but it is at http://download.java.net/jdk6/6u1/ ]]> Jarnal Change Log 2007-03-22T19:27:10-08:00 http://www.dklevine.com/workshops/oldnew.php?perm=972792000000000018 A new creative commons freely redistributable journal in economics - %26lt;a href="http://www.economics-ejournal.org/"%26gt;%26lt;em%26gt;e%26lt;/em%26gt;conomics%26lt;/a%26gt;. 972792000000000018board4@http://www.dklevine.com/ economics. ]]> generalintellectualopenaccessGeneral Interest Economic and Game Theory News 2007-03-14T06:14:02-08:00 http://www.dklevine.com/workshops/oldnew.php?perm=527175000000000125 Be warned: Sun's Java 6 release is very buggy. It will kill printing under Linux entirely. They also broke the way the control keys work. This release provides a fix (workaround). 527175000000000125board4@http://www.dklevine.com/ Economic and Game Theory News 2007-03-04T10:07:52-08:00 http://www.dklevine.com/workshops/oldnew.php?perm=527175000000000124 Be warned: Sun's Java 6 release is very buggy. It will kill printing under Linux entirely. They also broke the way the control keys work. This release provides a fix for the control keys. 527175000000000124board4@http://www.dklevine.com/ Jarnal Change Log 2007-03-04T10:07:32-08:00 http://www.dklevine.com/workshops/oldnew.php?perm=527175000000000123 Small improvements to the "Start Server" dialog. The default is now to "save background with file" - that is "send the background file to the clients." If the clients already have the background file in the right directory, you can uncheck the box. Also fixed the display of the port to get rid of the comma. 527175000000000123board4@http://www.dklevine.com/ Jarnal Change Log 2007-02-25T18:04:27-08:00 http://www.dklevine.com/workshops/oldnew.php?perm=527175000000000122 Fixed a spacing problem when reopening/copying text with hard returns and a font-size other than the default. 527175000000000122board4@http://www.dklevine.com/ Jarnal Change Log 2007-02-11T09:50:07-08:00 http://www.dklevine.com/workshops/oldnew.php?perm=527175000000000121 Adding an icon to the frame broke the applet. Fixed. 527175000000000121board4@http://www.dklevine.com/ Jarnal Change Log 2007-02-08T19:16:48-08:00 http://www.dklevine.com/workshops/oldnew.php?perm=972792000000000017 Minor cleanup of some of the artwork. 972792000000000017board4@http://www.dklevine.com/ Jarnal Change Log 2007-02-04T07:21:17-08:00 http://www.dklevine.com/workshops/oldnew.php?perm=527175000000000120 The exit dialogs have been fixed so that they give the option of saving changes if there are unsaved changes, rather than forcing you to cancel and go through the entire thing again. Jarnal will now warn you before overwriting and existing file. If you used a template file, you can now edit it directly from the File | Options menu so that you can more easily set defaults. The -sg option and corresponding "Silent External Renderer" checkbox have been added. The silent external renderer is useful if you use ghostscript and try to view documents with broken pdf; sometimes some pages crash ghostscript. Rather than popping up a dialog box and switching to the internal renderer, the silent renderer will use the internal renderer without popping up a box, and continue attempting to use the external renderer on other pages. Finally adds the -bb filename option. This is similar to -b except that if a file that begins with filename and ends with .jaj exists in the same directory, that file will be opened instead of opening filename as a background file. This is useful if you want to annotate a pdf file, then reopen your annotations by clicking on the pdf file, rather than looking for the annotation file. 527175000000000120board4@http://www.dklevine.com/ Jarnal Change Log 2007-02-03T09:17:15-08:00 http://www.dklevine.com/workshops/oldnew.php?perm=972792000000000016 Later versions of Java (1.6 for sure) broke the way combo boxes work, and this created some problems with the paper/background dialog - in particular, trying to rotate the background gets frustrating because if you don't change the current selection nothing happens. I fixed this by putting in dummy entries that don't do anything, so if you need to go clockwise twice, you can unselect by choosing "rotate" which does nothing, then choosing "clockwise" a second time. 972792000000000016board4@http://www.dklevine.com/ Jarnal Change Log 2007-02-02T12:15:10-08:00 http://www.dklevine.com/workshops/oldnew.php?perm=972792000000000015 Improves support for ghostscript as an external renderer. If instead of pdfrenderer=gs -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dFirstPage=%1 -dLastPage=%2 -sDEVICE=png16m -sOutputFile=%3 -r%4 -f %5 you use pdfrenderer=gs -dGraphicsAlphaBits=4 -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dFirstPage=%1 -dLastPage=%2 -sDEVICE=png16m -sOutputFile=%3 -r%4 -f %5 you will get better looking backgrounds that will render more slowly. 972792000000000015board4@http://www.dklevine.com/ Jarnal Change Log 2007-02-02T09:32:40-08:00 http://www.dklevine.com/workshops/oldnew.php?perm=527175000000000119 The shell scripts in the install zipfile (jarnal.cmd, jarnalannotate.cmd for windows, and jarnal.sh, jarnalannotate.sh for unix and macintosh) have been upgraded. They now operate correctly no matter what directory they are invoked from, so in particular can be used as a file association. They also work in conjunction with version 8.79 to install upgrades. Prior to running jarnal, the shell scripts now check for upgrades downloaded from Help | Check for Updates and if they exist installs them. The jarnal.cmd and jarnal.sh scripts now use a new template default.jaj. This will make it easier to set global options. 527175000000000119board4@http://www.dklevine.com/ Jarnal Change Log 2007-01-30T07:02:33-08:00 http://www.dklevine.com/workshops/oldnew.php?perm=972792000000000014 To celebrate the fact that html works on the clipboard in Java 1.5, rectangles copied (or cut) to the clipboard can now be pasted into other applications that support html cutting and pasting. In practice this means openoffice. A word of warning though: the pasted picture is a link to a temporary file. Since you probably don't want that, in openoffice, go to Edit | Links highlight the link (the file is named jarnalClip#####.jpg) and click on Break Link. That will keep the graphic in the file rather than as a link. 972792000000000014board4@http://www.dklevine.com/ Jarnal Change Log 2007-01-29T14:07:57-08:00 http://www.dklevine.com/workshops/oldnew.php?perm=972792000000000013 Same as current 8.74. 972792000000000013board4@http://www.dklevine.com/ Jarnal Change Log 2007-01-29T10:59:20-08:00 http://www.dklevine.com/workshops/oldnew.php?perm=972792000000000012 The %26lt;a href="/general/intellectual/againstnew.htm"%26gt; latest and newest version of Michele's and my book Against Intellectual Monopoly%26lt;/a%26gt; is available on line. We argue that the only solution to the problem of intellectual monopoly is to get rid of it entirely. 972792000000000012board4@http://www.dklevine.com/ latest and newest version of Michele's and my book Against Intellectual Monopoly is available on line. We argue that the only solution to the problem of intellectual monopoly is to get rid of it entirely. ]]> generalintellectualGeneral Interest Economic and Game Theory News 2007-01-23T11:10:05-08:00 http://www.dklevine.com/workshops/oldnew.php?perm=972792000000000011 Mac OS/X incorrectly reports the maximum available memory, causing the memory management routines to perform poorly. This version corrects the Mac OS/X reported memory by subtracting 101M. 972792000000000011board4@http://www.dklevine.com/ Jarnal Change Log 2007-01-20T16:19:58-08:00 http://www.dklevine.com/workshops/oldnew.php?perm=527175000000000118 Nothing to do with Jarnal itself, but with the scripts jarnalannotate.cmd and jarnalannotate.sh in the jarnal-install.zip file. To be able to actually open a pdf file with these scripts from the command line, the parameter -b needs to be inserted before the first argument in the list of arguments. The scripts have been fixed in the install file, so you can just grab the updated scripts from there. 527175000000000118board4@http://www.dklevine.com/ Jarnal Change Log 2007-01-20T09:02:38-08:00 http://www.dklevine.com/workshops/oldnew.php?perm=972792000000000010 Fixes an error printing a pdf background that is rotated counterclockwise to a pdf file. 972792000000000010board4@http://www.dklevine.com/ Jarnal Change Log 2007-01-18T12:37:28-08:00