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    [Stammbuch Hedwig Wanner]

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    [STAMMBUCH HEDWIG WANNER] [Stammbuch Hedwig Wanner] ( - ) Cover ( - ) Besitzvermerk (vorderer Spiegel) Einträge Bl. 1 - 10 (0v 1r) Einträge Bl. 11 - 18 (10v 11r

    ADAM SMITH'S OPTIMISTIC TELEOLOGICAL VIEW OF HISTORY

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    Adam 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?

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    Adam 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.

    Ministrorum verbi apud Constanciam ad P. Anthonium Pyratam vicarium Fratrum Dominicalium epistola ...

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    [Johannes Wanner, Jacobus Windner, Bartholomäus Metzler]Vorbesitzer Zwingli, Huldrych: unsicherDruckjahr nach Möller und Pegg. - Datum auf Bl. c₇verso: V Idus Iulii Anno MDXXIIII [11. Juli 1524]. - Druckort und Drucker nach Pegg: Nürnberg : J. PetreiusSign.: A⁸,B⁴,C⁸. - Bl. C₈ lee

    ADAM SMITH'S VIEW OF HISTORY: CONSISTENT OR PARADOXICAL?

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    The 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,

    John Adam Street [Adelphi development]

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    Number 8 John Adam Street (Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce), detail, medallion; Adam House (7-10 John Adam Street) is part of the Adelphi development designed in 1768-1772 by brothers Robert and John Adam. In addition to individual town houses, Robert Adam engaged in a number of urban-planning schemes. He often introduced varied shapes, including squares, crescents and circuses, although his long terraces of juxtaposed houses or unified façades on the sides of a square were more common. For these, he took the principles of his individual town-house compositions and adapted them to large and more complex groupings, often applying the delicate ornamentation in Liardet’s cement. The grandest of Adam’s schemes was the Adelphi, built on leased land between the Strand and the Thames. He embanked the Thames, raising the Royal Terrace’s houses (destroyed) above vaulted warehouses that he hoped the Government would lease. For this, and for the rest of this H-shaped development, he employed his favourite decorative elements, but in a composition without an obvious central emphasis. Though aesthetically satisfying, the Adelphi was a failure financially for the brothers. Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/ (accessed 7/17/2010

    Geothermie – Energiequelle aus dem Untergrund

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    Geothermie – Energiequelle aus dem Untergrund. Gespräch mit PD. Dr. Christoph Wanner, Institut für Geologie, Universität Bern. Moderation: Christian von Bur

    Lou Wanner, Pauline Gennet, Olive Wanner & Irv Gennet

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    Lou Wanner, Pauline Gennet, Olive Wanner & Irv Genne
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