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Synthese
July 2024
Department of Philosophy, Macquarie University, Levels 6 and 7, 25B Wally's Walk, Sydney, NSW 2109 Australia.
Bernard Mandeville argued that traits that have traditionally been seen as detrimental or reprehensible, such as greed, ambition, vanity, and the willingness to deceive, can produce significant social goods. He went so far as to suggest that a society composed of individuals who embody these vices would, under certain constraints, be better off than one composed only of those who embody the virtues of self-restraint. In the twentieth century, Mandeville's insights were taken up in economics by John Maynard Keynes, among others.
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June 2023
College of Information Technology, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai 201306, China.
The min-max clustered traveling salesmen problem (MMCTSP) is a generalized variant of the classical traveling salesman problem (TSP). In this problem, the vertices of the graph are partitioned into a given number of clusters and we are asked to find a collection of tours to visit all the vertices with the constraint that the vertices of each cluster are visited consecutively. The objective of the problem is to minimize the weight of the maximum weight tour.
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November 2024
Psychology Deparment, Universidad Loyola Andalucía, Cordoba, Spain.
Context: The ballet institution is known for its aesthetic and performative standards. In professional dancers' everyday lives, self-improvement and body awareness entwine with striving for artistic excellence. In this context, 'health' has primarily been explored in relation to eating disorders, pain, and injuries.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWhat is greed good for? Greed is ubiquitous, suggesting that it must have some benefits, but it is also often condemned. In a representative sample of the Dutch population ( = 2,367, 51.3% female, = 54.
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