In recent attempts at deriving morality from rationality expected utility theory has played a major role. In the most prominent such attempt, Gauthier's Morals by Agreement, a mode of maximizing ...

We consider a utility-maximization problem in a general semimartingale financial model, subject to constraints on the number of shares held in each risky asset. These constraints are modeled by ...

Lundy, Taylor, Alexander Wei, Hu Fu, Scott Duke Kominers, and Kevin Leyton-Brown. "Allocation for Social Good: Auditing Mechanisms for Utility Maximization." Proceedings of the ACM Conference on ...

Several weeks ago, an article ran in Inside Higher Ed about the interest of many graduate students in jobs that don’t include a lot of pressure to publish. Instead many were interested in jobs that ...