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Item A Post Keynesian Analysis of the Black-Scholes Option Pricing Model(Rice University, 1999) Thompson, J.R.; Williams, E.E.Item AIDS: The mismanagement of an epidemic(Maxwell Pergamon Macmillan, 1989) Thompson, J.R.An argument is made that, so far from being a disease which is unstoppable in its epidemic consequences, AIDS has produced an epidemic, which owes its present virulence to sociological configurations of rather recent existence. Instead of a vigorous attack on the transmission chain of the epidemic, the emphasis of public health policy has been on finding a vaccine and/or a cure of the disease which produces the epidemic. By means of a simple model, it is argued that by simply closing businesses catering to high contact rate anal sex, e.g. sexually oriented bathhouses, the American public health establishment might have avoided most of the tragic consequences of the present epidemic.Item Empirical Portfolio Building(Rice University, 2014) Thompson, J.R.Item Ethics and the Market(Rice University, 2017) Thompson, J.R.Item James R. Thompson Publications(2017) Thompson, J.R.Item PLANT-Dx: A Molecular Diagnostic for Point-of-Use Detection of Plant Pathogens(American Chemical Society, 2019) Verosloff, M.; Chappell, J.; Perry, K.L.; Thompson, J.R.; Lucks, J.B.; BiosciencesSynthetic biology based diagnostic technologies have improved upon gold standard diagnostic methodologies by decreasing cost, increasing accuracy, and enhancing portability. However, there has been little effort in adapting these technologies toward applications related to point-of-use monitoring of plant and crop health. Here, we take a step toward this vision by developing an approach that couples isothermal amplification of specific plant pathogen genomic sequences with customizable synthetic RNA regulators that are designed to trigger the production of a colorimetric output in cell-free gene expression reactions. We demonstrate our system can sense viral derived sequences with high sensitivity and specificity, and can be utilized to directly detect viruses from infected plant material. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the entire system can operate using only body heat and naked-eye visual analysis of outputs. We anticipate these strategies to be important components of user-friendly and deployable diagnostic systems that can be configured to detect a range of important plant pathogens.Item Putting Speed Bumps on the Road to Serfdom(Rice University, 2017) Thompson, J.R.Item Some Things Economists Know That Just Aren't So(Rice University, 2013) Thompson, J.R.; Baggett, L.S.; Wojciechowski, W.C.Item Trading Models Based On Data Rather Than Ideology(Rice University, 2016) Thompson, J.R.Item Why We All Held Our Breath When the Market Reopened(Rice University, 2003) Findlay, M.C.; Williams, E.E.; Thompson, J.R.