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Competing models of socially constructed economic man : differentiating Defoe's Crusoe from the Robinson of neoclassical economics
No full textDaniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe has seldom been read as an explicitly political text. When it has, it appears that the central character was designed to warn the early eighteenth-century reader against political challenges to the existing economic order. Insofar as Defoe’s Crusoe stands for "economic man", he is a reflection of historically-produced assumptions about the need for social conformity, not the embodiment of any genuinely essential economic characteristics. This insight is used to compare Defoe’s conception of economic man with that of the neoclassical Robinson Crusoe economy. On the most important of the ostensibly generic principles espoused by neoclassical theorists, their "Robinson" has no parallels with Defoe’s Crusoe. Despite the shared name, two quite distinct social constructions serve two equally distinct pedagogical purposes. Defoe’s Crusoe extols the virtues of passive middle-class sobriety for effective social organisation; the neoclassical Robinson champions the establishment of markets for the sake of productive efficiency
Assessing the effects of chloride deicer applications on groundwater near the Siskiyou Pass, southwestern Oregon, July 2018-February 2021
No full textby Stephen B. Gingerich, Daniel R. Wise, and Adam J. Stonewall ; prepared in cooperation with Oregon Department of Transportation.This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Includes bibliographical references (pages 33-35).Mode of access: Internet from the State Library of Oregon U.S. Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Austrian economics: a tale of lost opportunities
No full textThis is a, somewhat indirect, rejoinder to Boettke (2019, this volume, Chapter 1). Doing Austrian economics is low prestige: Austrian economics does not get published in high-prestige journals and Austrian economists are not employed by top universities. And yet, up until World War II Austrian economics was an important part of the international economics community. The author argues that Austrian economists made several theoretical innovations that could have placed them at the frontier of research in economics, and present a brief coun-terfactual history of a thriving Austrian economics based on those innovations. However, the actual history of the Austrian School is quite different. A par-ticularly decisive factor that has made Austrian economics a fringe movement was the rejection of formal methods in theory and empirics. The author argues that Austrian economics is basically dying out as a voice in the conversation of modern economists
Ethnic identity, political identity and ethnic conflict: simulating the effect of congruence between the two identities on ethnic violence and conflict
No full textThis thesis outlines and presents an alternative hypothetical process to the emergence of ethnic conflict. Ethnic conflicts, rather than being dependent upon pre-existing 'ancient hatreds', are instead the result of a congruence between ethnic and political identity which grants individuals the ability to use ethnicity to identify and eliminate political threats. This hypothesis is formed by the examination of three case studies of ethnic conflict: Lebanon, Northern Ireland and Croatia. This hypothesis is then formalised and tested using an agent based simulation in which agent interactions are dependent upon ethnic and political identity and the congruence between the two. As predicted there was a strong positive correlation between how accurately ethnic identity reflected political identity and the level of ethnically motivated violence in the simulation, although the relationship was not linear. Furthermore the effect of a shift in congruence was found to be roughly comparable to the effect of initialising agents with a moderate level of pre-existing ethnic antagonism
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Carried meaning in the Mahābhārata
No full textThe Mahābhārata describes itself as both a comprehensive and exhaustive text, incorporating a range of genres while presenting diverse perspectives through a matrix of interacting narratives. Its main story and subtales are the subject of productive contemporary studies that underscore the significance of the Sanskrit epic, though this scholarship is also famously criticized for overlooking literary inquiry. The following dissertation enacts a close reading of four subtales, Nala’s Tale, Rāma’s Tale, Sāvitrī’s Tale, and The Yakṣa’s Questions, in context with the larger work to uncover the implications of a literary study of the Mahābhārata. By conducting translations of passages from the epic, this dissertation builds sites of alliance among frame and subtale, literary and translation theory, critical analysis and contemporary scholarship, as well as the Mahābhārata and other works of literature in order to consider the ways in which meaning is generated throughout the text. Language, constituent parts, and operative principles are found to reverberate in the epic, eschewing didacticism and stasis for literary vitality. Themes of loss, love, disguise, and discovery veer throughout the subtales as sideshadows that at once collaborate and contradict to continuously redefine one another. The Mahābhārata’s self-conscious and reiterative reinterpretation of its own constructs presents critical insights on translation as dialogical correspondence, occurring within utterances as well as between languages. The act of translation, utilized by the poem itself to develop and proliferate significance, reveals difference and bears legibility within the epic.Asian Studie
Imperfect speakers
No full textImperfect Speakers is a novel set in Taiwan, about an English young professional, Robyn Anglesea, who hopes to abandon her stressful existence back in London for a more relaxed ex-pat life in the city of Taipei, but, in the process of making that new life successful, encounters many new conflicts with morality, identity and globalization, meeting examples of Taiwanese society at its most superficial and its most profound. Her
failures to deal with these situations lead her into greater troubles, never understanding, until the novel’s climax, that her own attitude to the world is at the root of many of her difficulties. The novel comments on several canonical travel texts, such as The Sun Also Rises and A Passage to India, and uses the contemporary experience of teaching English in Asia as a lens for re-examining their themes. The novel is not yet finished: here is included the first thirty five pages (the opening chapter) of the latest draft, re-written with the feedback from my thesis advisor and classmates taken into consideration, and a little over a hundred pages of the previous draft.M.F.A.by Daniel Wallac
Theology in suspense : how the detective fiction of P.D. James provokes theological thought
No full textElectronic redacted version excludes material for which permission has not been granted by the rights holderThe following dissertation argues that the detective fiction of P.D. James
provokes her readers to think theologically. I present evidence from the body of
James’s work, including her detective fiction that features the Detective Adam
Dalgliesh, as well as her other novels, autobiography, and non-fiction work. I also
present a brief history of detective fiction. This history provides the reader with a
better understanding of how P.D James is influenced by the detective genre as well as
how she stands apart from the genre’s traditions.
This dissertation relies on an interview that I conducted with P.D. James in
November, 2008. During the interview, I asked James how Christianity has
influenced her detective fiction and her responses greatly contribute to this
dissertation. However, James’s novels should be interpreted and explored in the
manner that they are received by the reader. How the reader receives and responds to
the novels, not only how James writes the novels, is what causes her stories to
provoke theological thinking.
By examining Christian symbolism that is present in setting, character, the
Detective Adam Dalgliesh, and plot, this dissertation seeks to assert that James
contributes to a theological conversation through her popular detective fiction
Powszechna obrona powietrzna ludności cywilnej jako integralny element systemu bezpieczeństwa państwa
No full textSentence present in this article focuses on considerations about place of universal air defense of the civilian population in the state security system. For this purpose, author made a statement of universal civil defense with the new strategy of national security. Also he have make analiz consider needs of organization universal air defense in terms of non-military in Poland in the XXI century. For this reason, the author postulates the need organizations UAD due to the air threat, geographical terms, historical experiences, legal obligations and the deficiencies of specialized AD in defense and citizens.Treści przedstawione w artykule koncentrują się na rozważaniach dotyczących miejsca powszechnej obrony powietrznej ludności cywilnej w systemie bezpieczeństwa państwa. W tym celu autor dokonał zestawienia powszechnej obrony cywilnej z nową strategią bezpieczeństwa narodowego. Dokonano również analizy potrzeby organizacji powszechnej obrony powietrznej w aspekcie pozamilitarnym w Polsce w XXI wieku. W tym zakresie autor postuluje potrzebę organizacji POP ze względu na zagrożenie powietrzne, uwarunkowania geograficzne, doświadczenia historyczne, zobowiązania prawne oraz niedomagania specjalistycznej OP pod względem obrony i ochrony ludności cywilnej
Katinka Daniel: Her life and her contributions to Kodaly pedagogy in the United States.
No full textKatinka Scipiades Daniel (b. 1913) was raised and educated in Hungary. She graduated from the Franz Liszt Music Academy with degrees in piano performance and music education and earned the Absolutorium in art history pedagogy from the Pazmany Peter University. Daniel was teaching music in the Budapest schools at the time the music education program in Hungary was changed to align with the educational philosophy of Zoltan Kodaly. Jeno Adam, author of the first Kodaly-approach curriculum, mentored Daniel during her teaching tenure in Hungary.Daniel has traveled extensively and presented the Kodaly approach at the invitation of universities, schools, and music education groups. Participants in her classes have expressed admiration for Daniel's knowledge, materials, and positive influence on music education in the United States. She has been the recipient of many honors and awards from individuals and organizations who recognize her positive contributions to music education.The data from this study was gathered from historical accounts of the Kodaly approach in Hungary and in the United States, interviews with Daniel, questionnaires distributed to Daniel's students and colleages, and Daniel's personal papers. The conclusions from the data analysis suggest Daniel has contributed to the music education profession in the United States in two ways. She has influenced hundreds of individuals, inspiring them to become master musicians and teachers, and she has created and published an adaptation of the Kodaly approach for the United States in wide use today. Daniel has been teaching and writing in the United States since 1960 and continues her work today.In 1960 Daniel came to the United States and settled in Santa Barbara. She began developing an American adaptation of Jeno Adam's curriculum, collecting American folk songs and games and choosing key songs from the culture to present musical concepts. Daniel field tested her method at the San Roque school in Santa Barbara for ten years. Adam and Kodaly examined her collection and approved her work
Daniel Katz - ein Fremder in der finnischen Literatur?
No full textThe focal point of the article is the position of Daniel Katz, a writer of Jewish origin who has published in Finnish, in the Finnish literature of the second part of the 20<sup>th</sup> century. Katz has introduced new elements to Finnish writing, which until the 1960s was limited to purely Finnish problems and motifs. Literary critics and scholars have been for years engaged in a debate on whether Katz is a Finnish writer or a foreign author who writes in Finnish about problems marginal to Finns. This article attempts to answer this question
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