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NA2745 Daniel Dixon, interviewed by Adam Lee Cilli
Full text linkNA2745 Daniel Dixon, interviewed by Adam Lee Cilli, March 27, 2014, in his office in Alumni Hall at the University of Maine, Orono. Dixon talks about his experiences with the Climate Change Institute as a graduate student; conducting research in Antarctica; his role as Sustainability Coordinator at UMaine; and the contributions of the CCI, specifically the discovery of abrupt climate change.
Text: 14 pp. transcript
Recording: mfc_na2745_audio001 64 minutes
Photo provided by the Climate Change Institute.https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mf192/1004/thumbnail.jp
ADAM SMITH'S OPTIMISTIC TELEOLOGICAL VIEW OF HISTORY
Full text linkAdam 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,
Adam Dixon, trombone
No full textStjepan SulekDimitri Shostakovich, arr. Doug YeoRobert Schumann, trans. Ralph SauerEnrique CrespoRichard PeasleeNo program receive
Adam Dixon, trombone
No full textEnrique CrespoGustav MahlerBert AppermontTommy PedersonNo program receive
How Might Adam Smith Pay Professors Today?
Full text linkAdam 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.
ADAM SMITH'S VIEW OF HISTORY: CONSISTENT OR PARADOXICAL?
Full text linkThe 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,
Adam Dixon, trombone
No full textFerdinand DavidMaurice RavelNorman BolterSergei RachmaninoffEric Ewaze
The Spectre of State Capitalism:Ilias Alami and Adam D. Dixon. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2024. xvii and 304 pp., index. $122.81 cloth (ISBN 9780198925194), open access electronic (ISBN 9780198925224)
No full textIlias Alami and Adam D. Dixon. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2024. xvii and 304 pp., index. $122.81 cloth (ISBN 9780198925194), open access electronic (ISBN 9780198925224)
Adam Dixon, trombone
Full text linkMalcolm ArnoldJohan de MeijGabriel Faure, arr. Douglas YeoGiacomo Puccini, arr. Robert ElkjerNorman BolterClaude Debussy, arr. Michael Levi
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