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Economics: From the Dismal Science to the Moral Science: The Moral Economics of Kendall P. Cochran
No full textAdam Smith published The Theory of Moral Sentiments in 1759 and established the ethical foundation for The Wealth of Nations (1776) as well as the important role played by custom and fashion in shaping behaviors and outcomes. Kendall P. Cochran believed in Smith’s emphasis on value-driven analysis and seeking solutions to major problems of the day. Cochran believed that economists moved too far in the direction of analysis free of words like ought and should and devoted his career to establishing that economics is a moral science.
A recent study by two Harvard professors, Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff, Growth in a Time of Debt (2010), asserted that healthy economic growth and high levels of government debt are incompatible. These conclusions are associated with the austerity movement, which calls for policymakers to reduce government spending in order to reduce the government’s debt and improve long-term growth prospects. The austerity movement has been used to justify the sharp decline in public sector employment that has restrained job growth since the recession of 2007.
In 2013, a graduate student named Thomas Herndon discovered an error in the calculations of Reinhart and Rogoff, publishing his findings in a paper co-authored by his professors, called "Does High Public Debt Consistently Stifle Economic Growth? A Critique of Reinhart and Rogoff." These findings call the entire austerity movement into question, causing many to reconsider the current obsession with reducing the government debt during a time of economic stagnation. Cochran would have held a celebration to toast Herndon and his professors for their work, not only for the sake of technical accuracy, but also because the policy prescriptions associated with the austerity movement are misguided and harmful to the unemployed and underemployed during times of economic hardship.
Cochran’s articles are significant at this time because he is able to argue persuasively that economists have a moral obligation to provide policy recommendations that are consistent with a social agenda of fairness and opportunity. While many agree with Adam Smith that individuals are motivated by self-interest, it does not follow that any action or policy that promotes an individual’s self-interest is therefore worthwhile or beneficial from society’s perspective. If a person is handsomely rewarded for placing a bomb in the city center, does the potential gain for that individual justify the harm to society? Cochran makes an eloquent case that economists must identify instances in which government policy can and should be used to protect and promote society’s well-being
Cochran, Eugene Brown
No full textEugene Brown Cochran, LL.B.
Lancaster, Kentucky
Δ. X., Managing Editor - Kentucky Law Journal, Φ.A.Δ.
-The Kentuckian, 1926----------------------------------
Eugene Brown Cochran (December 12, 1903 - October 24, 1975) was born in Paint Lick, Kentucky to Samuel David Cochran and Dora Josephine Denton. Cochran practiced law in Louisville after graduation. He married Leonora Potter in 1931.https://uknowledge.uky.edu/klapp_1926/1003/thumbnail.jp
Letters, David R. Bowen from Congressman Thad Cochran and Senator John C. Stennis, June 1982
No full textSenators Stennis and Cochran give thier thoughts on Congressman Bowen leaving office.https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/db-correspondence/1034/thumbnail.jp
America noir underground writers and filmmakers of the postwar era
No full text"In America Noir David Cochran details how ten writers and filmmakers probed the Cold War's cultural contradictions and indirectly challenged its social pieties: the superiority of American democracy, the benevolence of free enterprise, and the sanctity of the suburban family." "Cochran argues that these artists pioneered a detached, ironic sensibility in fictions that radically juxtaposed cultural references and blurred the distinctions between "high" and "low" art. Their works would play a crucial role in the emergence of not only a 1960s counterculture but also the postmodernism of a later era."--BOOK JACKET
Jere Nash and Andy Taggart Interview with Thad Cochran
No full textInterview conducted by author Jere Nash with U.S. Senator Thad Cochran as research for Mississippi Politics: The Struggle for Power, 1976-2006. Topics covered include Cochran\u27s decision to run as a Republican in the 1972 congressional race; Richard Nixon; Walter Brown; helping on an Ellis Bodron campaign; Charles Evers and Muhammed Ali; participation in Nixon\u27s 1968 campaign; Gerald Ford\u27s 1976 presidential campaign in Mississippi; Trent Lott; 1978 senate race; Bill Waller and 1976 senate race; James O. Eastland; Charles Pickering; Haley Barbour; Jon Hinson; working with Senator John Stennis; 1984 senate race against William Winter; John Bell Williams; Senate Majority Leader race against Lott; 1962 integration riot at the University of Mississippi; Ross Barnett; Senate Appropriations Committee; Jamie Whitten; and Jefferson Davis\u27s senate desk
A MIND, A MAN, A MYSTERY: The Complex Life of David Shelton Cochran
No full textAbstractThis is a life-story of David Shelton Cochran, who is also my father. This ethnography is an attempt to use my father’s own voice gathered over the course of his 90 years of life in a way that shares his perspective through his more personal memories and information gathered from various other sources. He began an ambitious biographical writing project about a decade ago, when he was still a youthful octogenarian, but has long since set it aside, incomplete, and unfinished. He is now hoping that this work here will create the fuller and richer life history of both his personal and professional life beyond those documented by mostly technology writers and electrical engineering enthusiasts. I have built a bridge between ethnographic narrative and history by conducting interviews of my father while researching the well documented historical context of his career achievements. Using my father’s personal documents as a take-off point, I focus my interview questions on those areas that he had at one time begun to recollect and write down but needed to be expanded and more fully developed. I spent many hours both in person and virtually to assist him with his autobiographical work, helping him to accomplish his dream of leaving a legacy for his family beyond just his professional achievements. What we accomplished together here is to illuminate his unique string of pearls of a life actively, voraciously, and fully lived. In the process of interviewing my father, it transformed us both in a way that was enriching as it was delightful. This work is a gift to both my father as my subject and myself as the interviewer; for what is a life that bears rich fruits if not one of compassionate and generous reciprocity.masters, M.A., Letters Arts & Social Sciences -- University of Idaho - College of Graduate Studies, 2022-1
Louis Cochran: Mississippi Novelist
No full textThis study is designed to introduce and evaluate the works of a relatively unknown author. To date the name of Louis Cochran has been important only to Faulkner scholars because Cochran attended the University of Mississippi with Faulkner, and to the Disciples of Christ because he brought attention to their founder, Alexander Campbell, in a biographical novel, The Fool of God. It was discovered that in addition Cochran has written eight other books, most of which deal with his native Mississippi. The four sections of this study are a biographical sketch, an account of the Cochran-Faulkner relationship, an evaluation of the six regional novels, and criticism of the two biographical novels. The biographical sketch reveals that Cochran\u27s writing is deeply rooted in his own experience and locale. His relationship with Faulkner was found to be personal, not literary. Cochran\u27s regional novels, when compared with maps, histories, and sociological studies, are accurate portraits of the Mississippi Delta region. When examined for a consistent symbolic meaning they are partially successful. The biographical novels were evaluated as both biography and fiction; some of the pitfalls of the genre became obvious. It also became obvious that when he abandoned the restrictions of biography, Cochran wrote his best novel, Raccoon John Smith. Throughout the study it was observed that Cochran demonstrates a capacity for improvement that might lead one to predict that Cochran\u27s contributions are yet to come
, Cochran and Goin, 1970 (Anura: Centrolenidae)
No full textHutter, Carl Richard, Esobar-Lasso, Sergio, Rojas-Morales, Julián Andrés, Gutiérrez-Cárdenas, Paul David Alfonso, Imba, Henry, Guayasamin, Juan Manuel (2013): The territoriality, vocalizations and aggressive interactions of the red-spotted glassfrog, Nymphargus grandisonae, Cochran and Goin, 1970 (Anura: Centrolenidae). Journal of Natural History 47 (47-48): 3011-3032, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2013.792961, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2013.79296
Andrea Cochran : Landscapes
No full textStudies in repetition and order, orchestrations of movement in the landscape, and elements placed in geometric conversation," is how author Mary Myers describes the twenty-five-year career of San Francisco-based landscape architect Andrea Cochran. Poetic language suits these functional and often lyrical works of art. They are sensuous, captivating oases that absorb the eye in a totality of spatial composition. Andrea Cochran: Landscapes presents eleven residential, commercial, and institutional landscape projects in detail, including Walden Studios in Alexander Valley, California; the sculpture garden for the Portland Art Museum in Portland, Oregon; and the award-winning Children\u27s Garden in San Francisco.
Andrea Cochran seeks to put her clients\u27 individual narratives in conversation with the land. Her work is distinguished by its careful consideration of site, climate, and existing architecture. A stacked plane of planters, each housing a different variety of succulent, mimics the compression found in hills banked against each other in the distance. Drawing on an encyclopedic knowledge of plant species, Cochran uses vegetation to blur edges, and porous and permeable materials to create grade changes that enlighten and disappear. Materials such as COR-TEN steel allow her to draw boundaries on the land with ultrathin edges while also reflecting the earthy tones of the soil beneath. Cochran\u27s landscapes are clean, but not cold. In her hands, polished black
Cochran named Minnesota Vikings and ‘UND & Me’ scholarship winner at last football game in Metrodome
No full textCochran named Minnesota Vikings and ‘UND & Me’ scholarship winner at last football game in Metrodome It was the end of an era at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome in Minneapolis Sunday, but for MacKenzie Cochran, who was at the dome, it was all about beginning her college career at the University of North Dakota.
Cochran, a senior at Sebeka (Minn.) Public School, has been named the 2013 Minnesota Vikings and \u27UND & Me\u27 winner of a $10,000 scholarship to attend UND. She and her family were in Minneapolis for Sunday\u27s Vikings game at the Metrodome, which is slated to be the last football game ever to be played in the storied Twin Cities facility.
While there, Cochran was given a check on the Mall of America Field turf by retired Vikings great and former UND standout player Jim Kleinsasser.
I had just finished my first-ever visit to UND and was just about to open the door of my car to leave when I got the news, said Cochran, a National Honor Society member whose favorite subjects are chemistry, physics and mathematics. I was so excited — I couldn\u27t stop smiling, and it just felt unreal. I was excited to tell my family.
This scholarship is terrific for me because it will go towards tuition. It takes a big load off my mind. Cochran plans to major in atmospheric sciences at UND.
When I was little I was really scared of the tornadoes and thunderstorms that are frequent in our area, said Cochran, who also is a member of the Sebeka Public School choir. When the big tornado went through Wadena — which is 15 minutes from my home town — in June 2010, it energized by desire to learn a lot more about the weather and have had that interest ever since.
While the Wadena tornado certainly made her interest grow, Cochran says the weather always fascinated her.
I don\u27t know how it started; I just have always thought it was cool, she said. I\u27ve always loved being outdoors. I like fishing, and I have a dogsledding team that I run around the surrounding farm fields.
Her interest sparked some family research about atmospheric science programs.
It\u27s kind of been common knowledge in my family for a while that UND\u27s program for atmospheric sciences is excellent, Cochran said. My dad helped me a lot to research different college programs as well, but this one has always stood out. I would like to use a degree in meteorology to organize research on severe storms and gain a further understanding of how they develop to aid in forecasting.
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