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The importance of his pioneering work in the field of power indices has only recently been confirmed again in publications by others. And after these lines had been written, in June 2022 he received the great honour of getting elected into the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
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It deserves to be noted that in French the word for tyrant is feminine: la brute. As we know, language reflects peoples’ experiences across centuries.
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In the late 1980s, the editors of The New Palgrave were amazed at the huge sales of the expensive four volumes in Japan. Their attempt to trace the reasons for this revealed that Japanese managers had purchased the volumes for their secretariats in bulk. They had apparently interpreted the subtitle “A Dictionary of Economics” as indicating a handbook useful to their language secretaries in their correspondence with English-speaking countries.
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Kurz, H.D. (2023). Manfred on His 75th Birthday. In: Leroch, M.A., Rupp, F. (eds) Power and Responsibility. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23015-8_1
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