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ADAM SMITH'S OPTIMISTIC TELEOLOGICAL VIEW OF HISTORY
No full textAdam Smith's four-stage theory provides the framework for his writings on history. The fourth stage is the commercial epoch; the culmination of history in this stage is a key component in the conventional interpretation of Adam Smith as a prophet of commercialism. In two historical case studies Smith shows the capacity of commercial society to regenerate itself. This potent capacity suggests that commercial society is inevitable. At a certain point in time it also overcomes the major obstacles to its permanence. Smith's philosophy of history anticipates the end of history views of Kant and Hegel.Political Economy,
How Might Adam Smith Pay Professors Today?
No full textAdam Smith’s proposal for paying professors was intended to induce increased faculty knowledge. If students have imperfect information about what they learn, and universities can only imperfectly measure the input of faculty time in student learning, publications may be used to measure faculty knowledge. If professors’ ability to publish is positively related to their ability to produce student learning, which universities can imperfectly measure, publications may be necessary to attract more able professors. Since research signals faculty knowledge, schools that do not value publications per se could require higher publication standards and pay higher wages than schools that value only publications.
Irwin Cohen Collection
No full textIrwin Cohen (1947- ), a bibliophile and book collector, is manager of the Time Warner, Inc., Bookstore in New York City. When was in high school, Mr. Cohen first encountered and read Djuna Barnes's Nightwood, which led him to collect works by and about her. He eventually met Miss Barnes, when his wife, Francesca Belanger, then senior designer at Dial Press was assigned to Miss Barnes's last book, Creatures in an Alphabet. The Cohen collection consists of artwork, clippings, manuscripts, proofs, photographs, and publications by and about Djuna Barnes and her era. Materials related to the publication of Creatures in an Alphabet form a large part of the collection. The books that came with the collection were transferred to the Marylandia and Rare Books Department and the reference collection of the Archives and Manuscripts Department
CFC data from WECT Project (Cohen et al. 2014, JPSP)
No full textThis SPSS file contains data from the 12-item Consideration of Future Consequences scale (Strathman, Gleicher, Boninger, & Edwards, 1994, JPSP), along with demographic information, from the WECT Project:
Cohen, T. R. & Panter, A. T. (2011-2012). The WECT Project: Workplace experiences and character traits [project information]. Information available at: http://www.wectproject.org/ and on the Open Science Framework https://osf.io/w3hgr/.
These data were first used in:
Cohen, T. R., Panter, A. T., Turan, N., Morse, L. A., & Kim, Y. (2014). Moral character in the workplace. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 107(5), 943-963. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a003724
CFC data from WECT Project (Cohen et al. 2014, JPSP)
No full textThis SPSS file contains data from the 12-item Consideration of Future Consequences scale (Strathman, Gleicher, Boninger, & Edwards, 1994, JPSP), along with demographic information, from the WECT Project:
Cohen, T. R. & Panter, A. T. (2011-2012). The WECT Project: Workplace experiences and character traits [project information]. Information available at: http://www.wectproject.org/ and on the Open Science Framework https://osf.io/w3hgr/.
These data were first used in:
Cohen, T. R., Panter, A. T., Turan, N., Morse, L. A., & Kim, Y. (2014). Moral character in the workplace. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 107(5), 943-963. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a003724
ADAM SMITH'S VIEW OF HISTORY: CONSISTENT OR PARADOXICAL?
No full textThe conventional interpretation of Adam Smith is that he is a prophet of commercialism. The liberal capitalist reading of Smith is consistent with the view that history culminates in commercial society. The first part of the article develops this optimistic interpretation of Smith's view of history. Smith implies that commercial society is the end of history because 1) it supplies the ends of nature that he identifies; 2) it is inevitable; and 3) it is permanent. The second part of the article shows that Smith has some dark moments in his writings where he seems to reject completely such teleological notions. In this more civic humanist mood he confesses that commercial society does not supply the ends of nature, nor is it inevitable, nor is it permanent. Both views exist in Smith and the commentator is forced to choose between passages in Smith's work in order to support a particular interpretation of the former's view of history.Political Economy,
John Adam Street [Adelphi development]
No full textNumber 8 John Adam Street (Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce), detail, medallion; Adam House (7-10 John Adam Street) is part of the Adelphi development designed in 1768-1772 by brothers Robert and John Adam. In addition to individual town houses, Robert Adam engaged in a number of urban-planning schemes. He often introduced varied shapes, including squares, crescents and circuses, although his long terraces of juxtaposed houses or unified façades on the sides of a square were more common. For these, he took the principles of his individual town-house compositions and adapted them to large and more complex groupings, often applying the delicate ornamentation in Liardet’s cement. The grandest of Adam’s schemes was the Adelphi, built on leased land between the Strand and the Thames. He embanked the Thames, raising the Royal Terrace’s houses (destroyed) above vaulted warehouses that he hoped the Government would lease. For this, and for the rest of this H-shaped development, he employed his favourite decorative elements, but in a composition without an obvious central emphasis. Though aesthetically satisfying, the Adelphi was a failure financially for the brothers. Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/ (accessed 7/17/2010
Poland, Pogroms, 1918-19 (Box 2, Folder 19)
No full textReport by Cohen, special comissioner of the Zionist Organization, "The Pogroms in Poland." 2 manuscripts authored by Cohen: "The Lember Pogroms" and "Diary of My Mission to Poland."Digital ImageDigital finding aid available
Upper Cohen-Macaulay Dimension
No full textIn this paper, we define a homological invariant for finitely generated modules over a commutative noetherian local ring, which we call upper Cohen-Macaulay dimension. This invariant is quite similar to Cohen-Macaulay dimension that has been introduced by Gerko. Also we
define a homological invariant with respect to a local homomorphism of local rings. This invariant links upper Cohen-Macaulay dimension with Gorenstein dimension.</p
Austria (Box 1, Folder 1)
No full textLetter to Cohen from Viennese branch of Palestine Foundation Fund, Keren Hajessod, with information on the Austrian Israelite Union. Also includes a letter to Cohen from leader of the Jewish community of Vienna, Dr. Josef Löwenherz.Digital ImageDigital finding aid available
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