Fixmystreet already enables anyone with a browser to report potholes, fly-tipping and other nuisances without needing to know which public authority is responsible for them.
In his most influential paper, "The Problem of Social Cost" (1960), he developed what later became known as the Coase theorem, arguing that when information and transaction costs are low, the market will produce an efficient solution to the problem of nuisances without regard to where the law places the liability for the nuisance.
"It is almost impossible to complain about a nuisance call without knowing the telephone number of the caller," said Conservative MP Mr Cairns.
There is a comforting progression here, but if the age of pesticides has taught us one thing, it is that you cannot eliminate a single nuisance species wholesale without possibly violating the law of unintended consequences.
In a regression problem without nuisance variables, the relationship between an observation y i and its corresponding covariates x i is generally written as y i = g (x i ) + e i, (2 where y i is the observation on the ith subject and x i is, say, a p × 1 vector of covariates measured on i; g is some function (usually unknown); and e i is the model residual.
Tells about Mrs. Askew and her party blocking the aisle, chatting with friends, and making a nuisance of themselves generally, without even realizing it.
Still, for a candidate viewed with suspicion by some in his party's base, the dissenting votes are a nuisance he could do without.
Another in the skein of palatial domiciles with Central Park vistas and/or impeccable Fifth or Park Avenue pedigrees that named their price in a resurgent 2012 luxury market and received it without the nuisance of negotiations, a full-floor co-op at 944 Fifth Avenue that sold for $50 million was the most expensive sale of the week, according to city records.
Her success is a negative triumph that appeals to a post-post-painting generation of viewers who, having rediscovered the long-derelict joys of pictorial abstraction, want to dive into them without the nuisance of boning up on art history or theory first.
