PhD 2016 by Errol E Goetsch
This teaching tool for students of the University of Witwatersrand Macroeconomics course (Econ101... more This teaching tool for students of the University of Witwatersrand Macroeconomics course (Econ1014) contains solutions to the 2013 2nd semester and 2014 1st semester exam, a model MCQ answer sheet and automated marking. ver 1. (refer queries to author at errol@xe4.org)
Parenting Plans have become the default legal document for divorces in Western jurisdictions. A G... more Parenting Plans have become the default legal document for divorces in Western jurisdictions. A Google search for templates showed 5 vulnerabilities in high-conflict settings that would tend in practice to hamper mediation and promote parental alienation. Our mediation centre/child protection agency has developed an alternative that (1) focuses the parents on the children's developmental needs (2) addresses the separation-based emotions that hamper agreement (3) promotes shared-parenting (4) replaces the rights-based approach with a care-based approach and (5) alerts parents to the consequences of obstruction. Based on UK templates and designed around s18 - s35 of the Children's Act, 38 of 2005 for use in South Africa, it is a generic document for mediators to prepare parents emotionally and practically before finalising parenting plans.
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The "windmill attack" is a black-market strategy where a lawyer, social worker and divorcing spouse collude to turn false accusations into abnormal profits in the divorce, using the Domestic Violence Act, false reports and sham litigation. This is the questionaire that accompanies the 1st workshop on the windmill attack to expose the practice, on 20 June 2015.
Introduction to draft PhD. The “windmill attack” is a black-market strategy that uses hostile ag... more Introduction to draft PhD. The “windmill attack” is a black-market strategy that uses hostile aggressive parenting, fraudulent litigation, protection orders and forensic reports to capture the coercive power of the state on behalf of a malicious divorcing spouse's pursuit of a one-sided outcome (sole custody and money). It is named for a series of check-and-capture moves in the game of chess that pin the target and progressively strip him of his assets until he is completely isolated and destroyed, and surrenders. Chess is a zero-sum competitive game where sharing and cooperation is not possible and all moves are predatory, with the tactical goal of domination and victory. This matches the mindset of a borderline personality disorder, narcissist, psychopath or sociopath. The windmill attack is thus a feature of competitive spouses seeking sole custody / maximum income in the divorce with no empathy for the victims, and reflects a personality disorder in any or all of the agents.
Draft for PhD 2016:
Context
Despite s6(4) of the Children’s Act prohibiting confrontational ap... more Draft for PhD 2016:
Context
Despite s6(4) of the Children’s Act prohibiting confrontational approaches in cases involving children, some attorneys in South Africa sell divorcing spouses a “windmill attack” litigation strategy. It involves repeat attacks on the target until everything is taken. The name comes from an assault strategy in chess1. It relies on loopholes that favour the accuser and involves false reports and protection orders. In its mild version, the target loses his/her reputation, relationships and liberties. In its extreme version, the target loses everything and commits suicide.
http://www.chesskid.com/article/view/torres-windmill-attack
Research
This study tracks cases before the Justice and Reconciliation Centre to understand why attorneys supply, intimate (ex)partners demand, health workers enable and courts approve an adversarial approach when the Children’s Act explicitly requires and provides for conciliation. It assesses the costs, process and outcomes of both approaches against the standards of the Constitution and the Children’s Act. The archetype is in 1 Kings 21: when Ahab wanted a property he had no rights to, Jezebel bribed scoundrels to accuse him and incite a mob to murder the owner and his children.
The "windmill attack"
It decomposes the strategy into 10 steps (expulsion from the home, denial of contact, the unilateral forensic report, the urgent interdict/protection order, the combined summons, the Rule 43, the parental plan, the Family Advocate's report, the divorce order and the maintenance order). It assesses the legality of the approach and the attorney's product liability for consequential damages. It applies Principal-Agent theory to the client-attorney relationship.
The Intimate Partner
It links domestic violence in the marriage and conflict in the divorce. It explores psychological, economic, institutional and legal factors. It frames Hostile Aggressive Parenting and Parental Alienation Syndrome as child abuse mixed with witness tampering. It suggests an algorithm to measure and predict HAP and PAS and the measures to prevent them. It presents a payoff matrix between mediation and litigation in terms of Game Theory.
Information Asymmetry
It describes the problem of ignorance that leaves the higher and lower courts vulnerable to perjury in divorce-related urgent interdicts. It tracks the problem of adverse selection before and the problem of moral hazard after protection and divorce orders are granted. It reviews the legal fictions that allow courts to condone divorce abuse. It explores the perverse incentives that the Domestic Violence Act, the Maintenance Act, the Rule 43 and the parental plan offer for domestic violence, perjury and child abuse. It discusses the regression in the law and practice of evidence that drops the burden of proof for the accuser and shifts the burden to the accused. It identifies the weaknesses in institutional surveillance that allow mental illness to shape the marriage and divorce, and professionals to become hired guns.
Court orders
It measures the efficiency and equity of the different paths to divorce orders in terms of their costs and outcomes. It develops a variation of the Gini coefficient to measure decision rights and contact hours by gender pre/post divorce. It develops an algorithm to track and forecast fakse accusations and witness tampering.
The Remedy
It develops tools to track and proposes the legal reforms, ethical protocols and technical platform to minimise domestic violence in the marriage, to minimise economic and emotional loss in the divorce, to ensure legal compliance and to protect spouses and children from abuse.
Presentation by Errol E Goetsch
3 FTAs (The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), the East Africa Community (EA... more 3 FTAs (The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), the East Africa Community (EAC), and the Southern African Development Community (SADC)) form the Tripartite Free Trade Area. The Southern African office of Oxfam (Great Britain), based in Pretoria, South Africa, compiled this report to inform cross-border traders and producers when engaging with their representatives. While promoting equity, efficiency and democracy in general, Oxfam Great Britain and Oxfam International are not involved in negotiations, do not promote particular outcomes and are neutral to the parties and their positions.
Project failure has its roots in 3 sources; organisational gaps, systemic mismanagement and poor ... more Project failure has its roots in 3 sources; organisational gaps, systemic mismanagement and poor targets. This presentation describes 10 tools to recognise and remove the common problems in those areas.
ECS1500 Intro to Economics by Errol E Goetsch
Teaching tool to accompany preparations for the UNISA ECS1500 exams. Contains the solutions and p... more Teaching tool to accompany preparations for the UNISA ECS1500 exams. Contains the solutions and practice calculators for the 2015 (semester 1), 2014 (semester 1 & 2) and 2013 (semester 1 & 2) papers.
The Economic Environment can best be understood when mapped to the circular flow of goods and ser... more The Economic Environment can best be understood when mapped to the circular flow of goods and services and other sectors, as shown in this presentation for the 1st unit for the UNISA ECS1500 course.
Economic graphs can best be understood when mapped to the circular flow of goods and services, as... more Economic graphs can best be understood when mapped to the circular flow of goods and services, as shown in this presentation for the 2nd unit for the UNISA ECS1500 course.
Demand, supply and prices can best be understood when mapped to the supply and demand graphs and ... more Demand, supply and prices can best be understood when mapped to the supply and demand graphs and to the circular flow of goods and services, as shown in this presentation for the 3rd unit for the UNISA ECS1500 course.
The effects of changes in supply and demand on prices can best be understood when using animated ... more The effects of changes in supply and demand on prices can best be understood when using animated supply and demand graphs and mapped to the circular flow of goods and services, as seen in this presentation for the 4th unit of the UNISA ECS1500 course.
The price, income and cross elasticities of demand and supply can best be understood when describ... more The price, income and cross elasticities of demand and supply can best be understood when described in terms of the supply and demand curves and mapped to the circular flow of goods and services, as shown in this presentation for the 5th unit for the UNISA ECS1500 course.
The economy can best be measured and related to the macroeconomic objectives when mapped to the c... more The economy can best be measured and related to the macroeconomic objectives when mapped to the circular flow of goods and services, as shown in this presentation for the 6th unit for the UNISA ECS1500 course.
The indicators of economic performance can best be understood when mapped to the circular flow of... more The indicators of economic performance can best be understood when mapped to the circular flow of goods and services, as shown in this presentation for the 7th unit for the UNISA ECS1500 course. In this presentation, 4 sets (Inflation, Unemployment, Income Equality and Economic Growth) are described and mapped.
The Public Sector can best be understood when mapped to the circular flow of goods and services, ... more The Public Sector can best be understood when mapped to the circular flow of goods and services, as shown in this presentation for the 8th unit for the UNISA ECS1500 course.
The Financial Sector can best be understood when mapped to the circular flow of goods and service... more The Financial Sector can best be understood when mapped to the circular flow of goods and services, as shown in this presentation for the 9th unit for the UNISA ECS1500 course.
The Foreign Sector can best be understood when mapped to the circular flow of goods and services,... more The Foreign Sector can best be understood when mapped to the circular flow of goods and services, as shown in this presentation for the 10th unit for the UNISA ECS1500 course.
FEC1501 Foundations of Economics by Errol E Goetsch
The economy, microeconomics and macroeconomics can best be understood when mapped to the circular... more The economy, microeconomics and macroeconomics can best be understood when mapped to the circular flow of goods and services, as seen in this presentation for the 1st unit of the FEC1501 module for UNISA.
The differences between a market and command economy, and between perfect competition and monopol... more The differences between a market and command economy, and between perfect competition and monopoly, can best be understood when mapped to the circular flow of goods and services, as seen in this presentation of Unit 2 of the FEC1501 course for UNISA.
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PhD 2016 by Errol E Goetsch
The "windmill attack" is a black-market strategy where a lawyer, social worker and divorcing spouse collude to turn false accusations into abnormal profits in the divorce, using the Domestic Violence Act, false reports and sham litigation. This is the questionaire that accompanies the 1st workshop on the windmill attack to expose the practice, on 20 June 2015.
Context
Despite s6(4) of the Children’s Act prohibiting confrontational approaches in cases involving children, some attorneys in South Africa sell divorcing spouses a “windmill attack” litigation strategy. It involves repeat attacks on the target until everything is taken. The name comes from an assault strategy in chess1. It relies on loopholes that favour the accuser and involves false reports and protection orders. In its mild version, the target loses his/her reputation, relationships and liberties. In its extreme version, the target loses everything and commits suicide.
http://www.chesskid.com/article/view/torres-windmill-attack
Research
This study tracks cases before the Justice and Reconciliation Centre to understand why attorneys supply, intimate (ex)partners demand, health workers enable and courts approve an adversarial approach when the Children’s Act explicitly requires and provides for conciliation. It assesses the costs, process and outcomes of both approaches against the standards of the Constitution and the Children’s Act. The archetype is in 1 Kings 21: when Ahab wanted a property he had no rights to, Jezebel bribed scoundrels to accuse him and incite a mob to murder the owner and his children.
The "windmill attack"
It decomposes the strategy into 10 steps (expulsion from the home, denial of contact, the unilateral forensic report, the urgent interdict/protection order, the combined summons, the Rule 43, the parental plan, the Family Advocate's report, the divorce order and the maintenance order). It assesses the legality of the approach and the attorney's product liability for consequential damages. It applies Principal-Agent theory to the client-attorney relationship.
The Intimate Partner
It links domestic violence in the marriage and conflict in the divorce. It explores psychological, economic, institutional and legal factors. It frames Hostile Aggressive Parenting and Parental Alienation Syndrome as child abuse mixed with witness tampering. It suggests an algorithm to measure and predict HAP and PAS and the measures to prevent them. It presents a payoff matrix between mediation and litigation in terms of Game Theory.
Information Asymmetry
It describes the problem of ignorance that leaves the higher and lower courts vulnerable to perjury in divorce-related urgent interdicts. It tracks the problem of adverse selection before and the problem of moral hazard after protection and divorce orders are granted. It reviews the legal fictions that allow courts to condone divorce abuse. It explores the perverse incentives that the Domestic Violence Act, the Maintenance Act, the Rule 43 and the parental plan offer for domestic violence, perjury and child abuse. It discusses the regression in the law and practice of evidence that drops the burden of proof for the accuser and shifts the burden to the accused. It identifies the weaknesses in institutional surveillance that allow mental illness to shape the marriage and divorce, and professionals to become hired guns.
Court orders
It measures the efficiency and equity of the different paths to divorce orders in terms of their costs and outcomes. It develops a variation of the Gini coefficient to measure decision rights and contact hours by gender pre/post divorce. It develops an algorithm to track and forecast fakse accusations and witness tampering.
The Remedy
It develops tools to track and proposes the legal reforms, ethical protocols and technical platform to minimise domestic violence in the marriage, to minimise economic and emotional loss in the divorce, to ensure legal compliance and to protect spouses and children from abuse.
Presentation by Errol E Goetsch
ECS1500 Intro to Economics by Errol E Goetsch
FEC1501 Foundations of Economics by Errol E Goetsch
The "windmill attack" is a black-market strategy where a lawyer, social worker and divorcing spouse collude to turn false accusations into abnormal profits in the divorce, using the Domestic Violence Act, false reports and sham litigation. This is the questionaire that accompanies the 1st workshop on the windmill attack to expose the practice, on 20 June 2015.
Context
Despite s6(4) of the Children’s Act prohibiting confrontational approaches in cases involving children, some attorneys in South Africa sell divorcing spouses a “windmill attack” litigation strategy. It involves repeat attacks on the target until everything is taken. The name comes from an assault strategy in chess1. It relies on loopholes that favour the accuser and involves false reports and protection orders. In its mild version, the target loses his/her reputation, relationships and liberties. In its extreme version, the target loses everything and commits suicide.
http://www.chesskid.com/article/view/torres-windmill-attack
Research
This study tracks cases before the Justice and Reconciliation Centre to understand why attorneys supply, intimate (ex)partners demand, health workers enable and courts approve an adversarial approach when the Children’s Act explicitly requires and provides for conciliation. It assesses the costs, process and outcomes of both approaches against the standards of the Constitution and the Children’s Act. The archetype is in 1 Kings 21: when Ahab wanted a property he had no rights to, Jezebel bribed scoundrels to accuse him and incite a mob to murder the owner and his children.
The "windmill attack"
It decomposes the strategy into 10 steps (expulsion from the home, denial of contact, the unilateral forensic report, the urgent interdict/protection order, the combined summons, the Rule 43, the parental plan, the Family Advocate's report, the divorce order and the maintenance order). It assesses the legality of the approach and the attorney's product liability for consequential damages. It applies Principal-Agent theory to the client-attorney relationship.
The Intimate Partner
It links domestic violence in the marriage and conflict in the divorce. It explores psychological, economic, institutional and legal factors. It frames Hostile Aggressive Parenting and Parental Alienation Syndrome as child abuse mixed with witness tampering. It suggests an algorithm to measure and predict HAP and PAS and the measures to prevent them. It presents a payoff matrix between mediation and litigation in terms of Game Theory.
Information Asymmetry
It describes the problem of ignorance that leaves the higher and lower courts vulnerable to perjury in divorce-related urgent interdicts. It tracks the problem of adverse selection before and the problem of moral hazard after protection and divorce orders are granted. It reviews the legal fictions that allow courts to condone divorce abuse. It explores the perverse incentives that the Domestic Violence Act, the Maintenance Act, the Rule 43 and the parental plan offer for domestic violence, perjury and child abuse. It discusses the regression in the law and practice of evidence that drops the burden of proof for the accuser and shifts the burden to the accused. It identifies the weaknesses in institutional surveillance that allow mental illness to shape the marriage and divorce, and professionals to become hired guns.
Court orders
It measures the efficiency and equity of the different paths to divorce orders in terms of their costs and outcomes. It develops a variation of the Gini coefficient to measure decision rights and contact hours by gender pre/post divorce. It develops an algorithm to track and forecast fakse accusations and witness tampering.
The Remedy
It develops tools to track and proposes the legal reforms, ethical protocols and technical platform to minimise domestic violence in the marriage, to minimise economic and emotional loss in the divorce, to ensure legal compliance and to protect spouses and children from abuse.
[Mishkin, S.F. The Economics of Money, Banking and Financial Markets, 2012 10th ed]
[Mishkin, S.F. The Economics of Money, Banking and Financial Markets, 2012 10th ed]
[Mishkin, S.F. The Economics of Money, Banking and Financial Markets, 2012 10th ed]
[Mishkin, S.F. The Economics of Money, Banking and Financial Markets, 2012 10th ed]
[Mishkin, S.F. The Economics of Money, Banking and Financial Markets, 2012 10th ed]
[Mishkin, S.F. The Economics of Money, Banking and Financial Markets, 2012 10th ed]
[Mishkin, S.F. The Economics of Money, Banking and Financial Markets, 2012 10th ed]
[Mishkin, S.F. The Economics of Money, Banking and Financial Markets, 2012 10th ed]
[Mishkin, S.F. The Economics of Money, Banking and Financial Markets, 2012 10th ed]
[Mishkin, S.F. The Economics of Money, Banking and Financial Markets, 2012 10th ed]
[Mishkin, S.F. The Economics of Money, Banking and Financial Markets, 2012 (10th Global ed]