Common prosperity" is entirely based in Marxism yet is an outstandingly original solution to the problem of inequality in an economy in which there is a socialist state, and in which the state sector of the economy is dominant, but there is also the private sector. This is crucial as it was the...

The stochastic properties of the sojourn times attached to a Markov process in continuous time and with a finite number of states are described by using a statistical ensemble approach. This approach is applied for investigating the large time behavior of independent rate processes with...

On 5 May 2000, Ken Livingstone became Mayor of London and Britain's first directly elected executive head of an administration. Returned as an independent, he had no backing from a party machine and inherited a weak administrative apparatus. Nevertheless, key strategies on transport, economic...

We present a response theory for random channel kinetics, based on the method of characteristic functionals. We assume that the fluctuations of the rate coefficients are generated by the contributions of a large number of reaction channels, and can be described in terms of a set of grand...