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Interview with Robert Gordon
No full textThis interview with Robert Gordon, Illinois Tech architecture alumnus, architect, planner, artist, and author, was conducted on June 6, 2017 by Ralph Pugh and Adam Strohm
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,
Portrait of Gordon Adam Clapp
No full textPortrait of Gordon Adam Clapp, Tualatin Academy class of 1904.Gordon Clapp; student and alumni; C-
Lettre d'Adam Gordon à H. W. Ryland sur le désir de lord Liverpool de voir Ryland le lendemain
No full text6 pages, originalAvec enveloppe et sceauLettre d'[Adam] Gordon à [H. W.] Ryland sur: le désir de lord Liverpool de voir Ryland le lendemain
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.
The Duke of York giving a speech after unveiling the bust of Adam Lindsay Gordon in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey, London, 11 May 1934 [picture]
No full textTitle devised by cataloguer from accompanying information.; Part of collection: Unveiling of a memorial bust of the Australian poet, Adam Lindsay Gordon, in the Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey, London, 11 May 1934.; Condition: Faded, yellowing, stained, folds, creases.; Also available in electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn4773573; Donated by Launceston Library + Online Access Centre, 2010. Front row, left to right: Dr. Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury, the Duchess of York, the Duke of York (speaking), William Foxley Norris, Dean of Westminster Abbey and Sir Edward Knapp Fisher, Receiver-General of Westminster Abbey
NA4004 Gordon Oswald, interviewed by Adam Lee Cilli
No full textNA4004 Gordon Oswald, interviewed by Adam Lee Cilli, November 15, 2013, over the phone,with Oswald near Cambridge, England and Cilli in Orono, Maine. Oswald talks about Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge, England; conducting research in Antarctica; working for various industries; his beginnings at the Climate Change Institute; his role as research professor for the CCI; his interdisciplinary research with James Fastook and Roger Hooke; and the reality of anthropogenic climate change.
Text: 6 pp. transcript
Recording: mfc_na4004_audio001 30 minutes
Photo provided by the Climate Change Institute.https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mf192/1026/thumbnail.jp
NA2754 Gordon Hamilton, interviewed by Adam Lee Cilli
No full text2754 Gordon Hamilton, interviewed by Adam Lee Cilli, September 19, 2013, in his office in the Sawyer Lab Annex at the University of Maine, Orono. Hamilton talks about the beginnings of his career in glaciology; public perceptions of science and climate change; the influence of early Climate Change Institute scientists on his career, particularly George Denton and Terry Hughes; his beginnings in the CCI; and the future of the CCI.
Text: 9 pp. transcript
Recording: mfc_na2754_audio001 43 minutes
Photo provided by the Climate Change Institute.https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mf192/1013/thumbnail.jp
Gordon Brown's misplaced Smithian appeal : the eclipse of sympathy in changing British welfare norms
No full textGordon Brown has eagerly lauded his fellow Kirkcaldy citizen, Adam Smith, as his main policy inspiration. This article tests the rigour of such a claim by matching Brown's promotion of Smithian ‘sympathy’ as the centrepiece of his programme for government with the changes introduced by his Treasury to the British welfare model. In the 1970s, Thomas Wilson showed that the traditions of the post-war British welfare state were compatible with a modified form of Smithian sympathy socialised at the level of the state. New Labour has set about reforming the welfare model with respect to both its underlying institutions and the basic subjectivities of its recipients. I show that Brown's substantive preference for an asset-based system of welfare moves those subjectivities away from the ‘relational self’ of Smithian sympathy and towards a much more ‘autonomous self’. Consequently, I conclude that it is stretching Smith's concept of sympathy too far, even in a modified socialised form, to associate it with New Labour's asset-based system of welfare
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,
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