In the discussion of his first three topics, Gore presents a mostly grim picture of environmental degradation as a result of human population growth and rising consumption.
2. On the first three topics see Fortescue 2001, Brown 2005, and Herstein 2005, respectively, on the fourth see note 5 below.
The two first topic guides included three patients' cases (see online supplementary files) to prompt the discussion on the first three topics.
(Note that the first three topics have been reviewed extensively elsewhere for readers interested in more detail than we have presented here).
Because the first five topic areas took up more than 15 minutes each, the candidates only had three minutes to talk about the sixth topic, cures for partisan gridlock in Washington.
This paper addresses the first two topics.
These were the first six topics: marijuana, raw milk, hemp, gold, gold, gold.
But by the time discussion of the first two topics – should human eggs be for sale and does the devil exist – had ended I was tiring and the key points I had been advised to prepare were like a bunch of unruly kids sparring in my brain.
Our discussion of the first two topics focuses on Part I of ASU, entitled "State-of-Nature Theory or How to Back into a State without Really Trying".
It is not surprising that the first two topics can be treated constructively---although the constructive treatments shed a surprising amount of light on them---but the last topic, involving integrals and differentials as it does, might seem to call for infinite processes.
The first two topics have been merely investigated by industrial and financial economists who analysed how stakeholders manage to mitigate information asymmetries either by disclosing information (signalling strategies) or negotiating efficient contracts for allocating property rights or transferring knowledge and technology.
