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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,
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.
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,
Retroactive spatializer
No full textThe aim of this project is increasing the research carried out by Sylvain
Marchand, researcher of the LaBRI (Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en
Informatique), about the RetroSpat System.
RetroSpat stands for "Retroactive Spatializer" and it is a free software project
for the spatialization of sounds represented in the spectral domain. This system
is intended to be a spatializer with perceptive feedback. More precisely,
RetroSpat can guess positions of physical sound sources (e.g. loudspeakers)
from binaural inputs, and can then output multichannel signals to the
loudspeakers while controlling the spatial location of virtual sound sources.
So, the project will be based practically on improving the localization method as
a result of the localization corresponding to a sound source, changing the
software architecture to merge the localization and spatialization parts and on
an improvement of the graphical user interface.
This project is organized as follows. In the first section is presented some
history of acousmatic music. Next a description of the model in Section 2 is
done including the spatialization and localization methods. Section 3 is
dedicated to the Source code. The problems with the actual software and its
possible reasons of appearance are discussed in Section 4. Finally there are
some conclusions of the work done
Retroactive spatializer
No full textThe aim of this project is increasing the research carried out by Sylvain
Marchand, researcher of the LaBRI (Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en
Informatique), about the RetroSpat System.
RetroSpat stands for "Retroactive Spatializer" and it is a free software project
for the spatialization of sounds represented in the spectral domain. This system
is intended to be a spatializer with perceptive feedback. More precisely,
RetroSpat can guess positions of physical sound sources (e.g. loudspeakers)
from binaural inputs, and can then output multichannel signals to the
loudspeakers while controlling the spatial location of virtual sound sources.
So, the project will be based practically on improving the localization method as
a result of the localization corresponding to a sound source, changing the
software architecture to merge the localization and spatialization parts and on
an improvement of the graphical user interface.
This project is organized as follows. In the first section is presented some
history of acousmatic music. Next a description of the model in Section 2 is
done including the spatialization and localization methods. Section 3 is
dedicated to the Source code. The problems with the actual software and its
possible reasons of appearance are discussed in Section 4. Finally there are
some conclusions of the work done
Retroactive spatializer
No full textThe aim of this project is increasing the research carried out by Sylvain
Marchand, researcher of the LaBRI (Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en
Informatique), about the RetroSpat System.
RetroSpat stands for "Retroactive Spatializer" and it is a free software project
for the spatialization of sounds represented in the spectral domain. This system
is intended to be a spatializer with perceptive feedback. More precisely,
RetroSpat can guess positions of physical sound sources (e.g. loudspeakers)
from binaural inputs, and can then output multichannel signals to the
loudspeakers while controlling the spatial location of virtual sound sources.
So, the project will be based practically on improving the localization method as
a result of the localization corresponding to a sound source, changing the
software architecture to merge the localization and spatialization parts and on
an improvement of the graphical user interface.
This project is organized as follows. In the first section is presented some
history of acousmatic music. Next a description of the model in Section 2 is
done including the spatialization and localization methods. Section 3 is
dedicated to the Source code. The problems with the actual software and its
possible reasons of appearance are discussed in Section 4. Finally there are
some conclusions of the work done
Séminaire - L'Islam et ses marges
No full textDans le cadre du séminaire "l'Islam et ses marges" animé par Abbès Zouache (CNRS, CIHAM - UMR 5648), Sylvain Dhennin et Julie Marchand présenteront une communication sur Kôm Abou Billou. Elle se tiendra le vendredi 31 mars 2017, de 9h à 12h, salle Elise Rivet, ISH, 14 avenue Berthelot, Lyon 7e. Pour plus d'informations, voir le site internet du CIHA
Adam Smith and Roman Servitudes
No full textThis essay is a preprint of an article that appeared at: Tijdschrift voor Rechstsgeschiedenis, 72 (2004), 327–57.This essay discusses Adam Smith historical jurisprudence and his use of Roman law materials in his Lectures on Jurisprudence. It argues that Smith found it difficult to maintain his theory of legal development in the face of a highly developed body of Roman law literature
Le mobilier des structures domestiques
No full textCharpentier Annette, Martin Jean-François, Boulen Muriel, Auxiette Ginette, Marchand Grégory, Rajade Aliénor, Thouvenot Sylvain, Fédi Laurent, Goret Jean François, Desplanque Gilles. Le mobilier des structures domestiques. In: Revue archéologique de Picardie, n°1-2, 2011. pp. 125-171
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