Intellectual Trespassing as a Way of Life: Essays in Philosophy, Economics, and Mathematics

Dramatic changes or revolutions in a field of science are often made by outsiders or ‘trespassers,’ who are not limited by the established, ‘expert’ approaches. Each essay in this diverse collection shows the fruits of intellectual trespassing and poaching among fields such as economics, Kantian ethics, Platonic philosophy, category theory, double-entry accounting, arbitrage, algebraic logic, series-parallel duality, and financial arithmetic.

Economics, Accounting, and Property Theory

This is my first book. In order to develop a mathematical model of the stocks and flows of property inside a firm, I first had to give a math model of the usual double-entry accounting for the stocks and flows of the scalar value, and then generalize it to vectors of property rights.

Gian-Carlo Rota’s Introduction to Probability and Random Processes

This is a scanned copy of Gian-Carlo Rota’s and Kenneth Baclawski’s Introduction to Probability and Random Processes manuscript in its 1979 version.

Straight-line and Hoskold Capitalization in Real Estate Appraisal

Here is the paper you have been waiting for: Ellerman, David. 1994. “New Results on the Straight Line & Hoskold Methods of Capitalization.” Real Property Perspectives, no. July: 29–36, 80–81.