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Robert Buchanan 1841-1901: an assessment of his career.
No full textPhDRobert Buchanan was widely regarded during his
lifetime as a poet of distinction, a capable and powerful
novelist, and a critic of some perception, yet his name is
now associated only with one regrettable episode, while
those of lesser men and women continue to be remembered for
work inferior to his. A man possessing large reserves of
energy, and pressed to write for a living at an early age,
he produced much work that deserves the oblivion it has
found; but his early verse, expressing his profound compassion
for the sufferings of the unfortunate in the simplest
language, some of his ballads, and not a little of his
later more vatic verse, is still worthy of study. As a
novelist his work is provocative and readable, but too
often descends to the level of the sentimental melodrama
which earned him, for a while, a very good income from the
stage. As a critic he was not profound, but was quick to
detect and praise expression of his own sympathy for humanity
that came to represent for him art's highest aspiration;
Dickens, Browning and Whitman were his heroes, and for the
last two he did sterling work in helping them to gain widespread
recognition. As a polemist he rushed into several
arenas, for some of which his talents were not especially
suited; but he publicly supported C. S. Parnell and Oscar
Wilde when few found the courage to do so. An interesting
man of impressive variety and undoubted talent has found an
undeserved neglect, and a full-scale critical biography of
Robert Buchanan is long overdue
The Theory of `Internal Exit', a comment on Buchanan and Faith (1987)
No full textThe purpose of this note is to correct an error in the seminal article on secession by Buchanan and Faith (1987). In their paper, Buchanan and Faith neglected an important effect: political separation affects markets and consequently individual private incomes.secession;public good.
Letters and documents, James Franklin Buchanan, W. P. Smith, and E. P. Spivey, January 16-30, 1939
No full textThis series of letters and documents between James Franklin Buchanan, W. P. Smith, and E. P. Spivey discuss the budget and finances related to the Choctaw County Extension Office. Invoices and credit memos were included with the letter from W. P. Smith.https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/mss-james-franklin-buchanan/1359/thumbnail.jp
The Theory of `Internal Exit', a comment on Buchanan and Faith (1987)
No full textThe purpose of this note is to correct an error in the seminal article on secession by Buchanan and Faith (1987). In their paper, Buchanan and Faith neglected an important effect: political separation affects markets and consequently individual private incomes.secession, public good.
Letters, J. P. Coleman to James Franklin Buchanan, December 21, 1954 through January 3, 1955
No full textIn this series of letters, dated December 21, 1954 through January 3, 1955, Mississippi Attorney General J. P. Coleman writes to James Franklin Buchanan to ask him to provide him information on who in Attala County may or may not be in his favor during the upcoming election. Buchanan writes back to inform him that he is unable to fulfill that request due to the Hatch Act and directs Coleman to another man in the county who may be able to help him in which Coleman responds with his thanks.https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/mss-james-franklin-buchanan/1376/thumbnail.jp
Letter, George P. Mullendare to James Franklin Buchanan, February 1961
No full textIn this memo style letter, George P. Mullendare writes to James Franklin Frank Buchanan to say he was glad to see an elder do a good job and offer congratulations. The letter is written on Cooperative Extension Work in Agriculture and Home Economics, State of Mississippi memo cover letter stationary.https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/mss-james-franklin-buchanan/1449/thumbnail.jp
Why Brennan and Buchanan are wrong (after all)
No full textIn their book The Power to Tax, Brennan and Buchanan have pointed to a central weakness of the traditional theory of public finance and especially of the theory of optimal taxation: This approach overlooked the problem of governmental power and the tendency of this power to be abused. It was important to demonstrate how grossly misleading the optimal taxation theory appears to be once the problem of power is considered. Nevertheless, Brennan and Buchanan's suggestions for constitutional rules are no less misleading, after all. Technically speaking, the public-policy implications of their approach are only valid under extremely unrealistic assumptions. What is worse: Shifting these assumptions somewhat closer to reality does not just reduce the extent to which the public-policy implications of their approach are true but rather turns them completely upside down. Hence, Barry Weingast's (1993, p. 287) fundamental trade off, according to which a 'government strong enough to protect property rights is also strong enough to confiscate the wealth of its citizens', remains unsolved. --public choice,optimal taxation,Leviathan theory,elasticity of tax bases,constitutional economics
Letter, J. P. Coleman to James Franklin Buchanan, August 17, 1953
No full textIn this letter, dated August 21, 1953, Mississippi Attorney General J. P. Coleman writes to Attala County Extension agent, James Franklin Buchanan to congratulate him on his promotion to Extension Agent to Attala County. A response of thank you from Buchanan, dated August 24, 1953, is included.https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/mss-james-franklin-buchanan/1372/thumbnail.jp
John P. Cunningham to Captain Charles Buchanan, October 9, 1863
No full textIn this letter of October 9, 1863, John P. Cunningham writes Charles S. Buchanan to send him a bond or lease for land and discusses the sale of his property
Diritti umani: i limiti del ragionamento filosofico
No full textL'autore, Allen Buchanan, prende le mosse dalla constatazione che i diritti umani rappresentano oggi un fondamentale criterio di legittimità dell’ordine internazionale, e che tuttavia la loro stessa giustificazione viene talvolta messa in discussione. Egli prende in considerazione una particolare concezione dei diritti umani, definita come la concezione moderna dei diritti umani, che si basa su un complesso sistema di norme di diritto internazionale e meccanismi istituzionali sul piano interno e internazionale. A partire da questa concezione, egli porta avanti un’analisi dettagliata di una critica che frequentemente le viene mossa (la critica del campanilismo dei diritti – analizzata nelle sue tre versioni della critica dell’individualismo eccessivo, della critica dell’astrattezza frutto di pregiudizio, e della critica di una eccessiva enfasi sull’autonomia). L’autore sottolinea la rilevanza, nell’ambito di una simile concezione, dei processi istituzionali, ossia delle pratiche istituzionalizzate come pratiche giustificative dei diritti. Ciò comporta che per indagare l’adeguatezza di una simile concezione dei diritti, il ragionamento filosofico, cioè l’indagine sui principi che giustificano diritti e doveri, dovrà necessariamente essere accostata da una indagine di diversa natura, avente a oggetto gli stessi processi istituzionali che sostanziano la pratica dei diritti. In entrambi i casi si mira in ultima analisi a rintracciare la giustificazione dei diritti, ma sulla base di criteri differenti. Mentre nel primo ci si richiama alla forza degli argomenti giustificativi, nel secondo si valutano le virtù epistemiche delle istituzioni, in particolare la loro capacità di alimentare ed essere influenzate da processi pubblici di ragionamento pratico. Questi processi istituzionalizzati saranno virtuosi nella misura in cui contemplino una rappresentazione di punti di vista quanto più possibile inclusiva, prevedano meccanismi di verifica e di vaglio critico dei valori per i quali viene richiesta tutela, e si basino su strumenti affidabili di raccolta e analisi dei dati di fatto. Su queste basi deve essere ricercata la giustificazione della pratica dei diritti uman
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