Mainstream economics is obsessed with “maximizing” so-called utility functions and discovering the ubiquitous “social utility ...

Spurred by the expanding potential of data analytics and AI/ML, public sector agencies across federal and state and local governments recently released data strategies to help their leaders and ...

Federal tax credits and state renewable portfolio standards have driven the utility market for solar photovoltaic (PV) projects during the past year. However, utilities are now beginning to appreciate ...

Mathematics of Operations Research, Vol. 41, No. 1 (February 2016), pp. 146-173 (28 pages) This paper investigates the problem of maximizing expected terminal utility in a (generically incomplete) ...

Year two of the coronavirus pandemic brought with it a massive re-examination of personal priorities. The Great Resignation, more people moving from cities to suburbs and smaller towns, and the ...