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Carl A. Fehr Oral History Interview
No full textThe original manuscript transcript of this interview is available in University Archives Oral History Collection in the Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.This interview was conducted as part of the College of William and Mary Oral History Project. Carl "Pappy" Fehr, as he is known to most at William and Mary, came as choir director in 1945 and built that organization from a small, struggling group into an outstanding college choir, adding a woman's chorus as well. The nickname is significant, for "Pappy", in his devotion to excellence and precision has made his students part of his family.College of William and Mar
Interview with Howard Fehr
No full textThis interview was conducted by Prof. Donald Raichle in preparation for his book From a Normal Beginning: the Origins of Kean College of New Jersey, printed in 1980. It’s a transcript between Howard Fehr and Raichle. In this interview, Fehr reflects on tenure, faculty rights, and the evolution of teacher education in New Jersey
Michael Fehr: raw music
No full textTranslation into English of a volume of texts by Swiss author and musician Michael Fehr.</p
An Extension to the Model of Inequity Aversion by Fehr and Schmidt
No full textThe aim of this paper is to improve on the model by Fehr and Schmidt (1999) by developing a non-linear model (that leads to interior rather than corner solutions) and by taking into account that different levels of income imply different reactions of fair-minded people. We suggest to modify the inequity-aversion utility function proposed by Fehr and Schmidt by taking into account not only the difference between players' payoffs, but also their absolute value. This allows for a non-linear utility function where different stakes lead to different unique optimal interior solutions.
On Inequity Aversion - A Reply to Binmore and Shaked
No full textIn this paper we reply to Binmore and Shaked’s criticism of the Fehr-Schmidt model of inequity aversion. We put the theory and their arguments into perspective and show that their criticism is not substantiated. Finally, we briefly comment on the main challenges for future research on social preferences.Experiments; other-regarding preferences; inequity aversion;
On Inequity Aversion - A Reply to Binmore and Shaked
No full textIn this paper we reply to Binmore and Shaked’s criticism of the Fehr-Schmidt model of inequity aversion. We put the theory and their arguments into perspective and show that their criticism is not substantiated. Finally, we briefly comment on the main challenges for future research on social preferences
Competition and relational contracts: The role of unemployment as a disciplinary device
No full textWhen workers are faced with the threat of unemployment, their relationship with a particular firm becomes valuable. As a result, a worker may comply with the terms of a relational contract that demands high effort even when performance is not enforceable by a third party. But can relational contracts motivate high effort when workers can easily find alternative jobs? We examine how competition for labor affects the emergence of relational contracts and their effectiveness in overcoming moral hazard in the labor market. We show that effective relational contracts do emerge in a market with excess demand for labor. Long-term relationships turn out to be less frequent when there is excess demand for labor than they are in a market characterized by exogenous unemployment. However, stronger competition for labor does not impair labor market efficiency: higher wages induced by competition lead to higher effort out of concerns for reciprocity
Bernhard Fehr
No full textBernhard FehrProfessor of English Language and Literature at the University of Zurich. Fehr wrote some of the earliest scholarly appreciations of Ulysses and became a friend of JJ, introducing him to the music of Othmar Schoeck. William Brockman</p
Female Desire in Prose Poetry: Susan Holbrook's "as thirsty as" and Hilary Clark's "Tomato"
No full textKathleen Fraser, in her examination of the line in poetry by contemporary women, argues that the poetic line is often the location for experimentation with and departure from received poetic norms. As a result, she contends, the line provides women poets with "the difficult pleasure of reinventing the givens of poetry, imagining in visual, structural terms core states of female social and psychological experience not yet adequately tracked: hesitancy, silencing or speechlessness, continuous disruption of time, "illogical" resistance, simultaneous perception, social marginality" (153). She then proceeds to support her position with a detailed examination of works by eleven women poets, including reference to her own poetry. With each poet, she demonstrates how that woman alters the poetic line to enact certain female experiences. Although Fraser occasionally mentions female desire, she never fully explores in this essay how these women writers might visualize female sexual desire. She begins her essay by stating, "The line, for a poet, locates the gesture of longing brought into language," but does not elaborate in terms of sexual longing, sexual desire (152). In this essay, I examine what Fraser does not. I begin by investigating both Susan Winnett's contention that female sexual desire manifests itself in female specific narrative patterns and Luce Irigaray's assertion that woman registers her multiple sources of pleasure in language. I, then, adapt Winnett's and Irigaray's theories to a tracing of female sexual desire in the prose poetry of two Western Canadian female poets, Susan Holbrook and Hilary Clark. I argue that Holbrook and Clark use language to enact a female sexual desire that contradicts the linearity of male desire. Both poets challenge grammatical conventions, problematise referentiality, and deploy an associational erotic that weaves in and out, between and around passages and words to speak a female sexuality
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