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...d now I had a chance to treat my life as a living laboratory and put this theory to the test. I resolved to be easy on myself and to approach the fu... ...cs. The business that shows it cares for its customers, and en­ sures that consumers get the best deal possible, is bound to be reinforced by the mar...

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...ce of all acquired characteristics as the sole vehicle of evolution) and Evolution Theory postulate that function determines form. Natural selectio... ...m is efficiently conveyed to all other divisions. T E C H NICAL NOT E - Complexity Theory and Ambiguity or Vagueness A Glossary of the terms used ... ...ecause we cannot predict future "borderline cases". It would seem that a complexity theory formalism can accurately describe both ambiguity and vagu... ...ates")? Indeed, pointer States are reminiscent of the "strange attractors" of chaos theory! Most measurements are indirect - they tally the effects ... ...oints in a line served as the logical floodgate which led to the development of Set Theory by Cantor at the end of the 19 th century. It took almos... ... "customized" to the circumstances of each and every patient (client). The user or consumer is incorporated in the resulting narrative as the main ...

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... is ingenious, beautiful and elegant. It is an interpretation based on the theory of Cosmo-Art, which unites heaven and earth, life and death, men ... ...e our life and our destiny (see A.M. “Teoria dell’inconscio esistenziale” {Theory of the Existential Unconscious}, Published by Costellazione di Ari... ...at operates within us and for us, even when we are unaware of it (see A.M. Theory of the Person and Existential Personalistic Anthropology, publishe... ... can keep us imprisoned our whole lives and force us to be simply listless consumers of life. ***** 54 CHAPTER XII THE PERSONAL SELF AND T... ...ond what Freud, Jung and Reich have already said, I described in my book: “Theory of the Person and Existential Personalistic Anthropology” (publish... ... learn to transform them. The Christian ascetics do not agree with this theory but I prefer Indian wisdom and the wisdom of Homer when dealing wi... ...nnot devour it gets revenge anyway by becoming destructive. In this oral, consumer society, is there anyone who was not once devoured and does not ...

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... Thorstein Veblen A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen is a publication of the Pen... ... document or for the file as an electronic trans- mission, in any way. The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen, the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...ylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Veblen The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen Chapter O Chapter O Chapter... ...The oc- cupations of the class are correspondingly diversified; but 4 The Theory of the Leisure Class they have the common economic characteristic of... ...ake account of. Such con- sumption may of course be conceived to serve the consumer’s physical wants — his physical comfort — or his so-called higher ... ...he way of dwellings, furniture, bric- a-brac, wardrobe and meals, that the consumers of these things cannot make way with them in the required manner ... ...xuries, in the true sense, is a consumption directed to the comfort of the consumer himself, and is, therefore, a mark of the master. Any such consump... ... attached to their persons a more or less comprehensive group of vicarious consumer in the persons of their wives and chil- dren, their servants, reta... ...or uniform. With the disappearance of servitude, the number of vi- carious consumers attached to any one gentleman tends, on the whole, to decrease. T...

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...lace the ?philosophy of human affairs;? but more frequently Political or Social Science. In the two works taken together we have their author?s whole theory of human conduct or practical activity, that is, of all human activity which is not directed merely to knowledge or truth. The two parts of this treatise are mutually complementary, but in a literary sense each is inde...

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...cial Science. In the two works taken together we have their author’s whole theory of human conduct or practical activity, that is, of all human activi... ... the other with that of the State, nor once more that the one gives us the theory of human conduct, while the other discusses its ap- plication in pra... ...e us what goodness or virtue is, and how it is to be reached, remains mere theory or talk. By itself it does not enable us to become, or to help other... ...e and circumstances and attainable by his efforts. There is in Aristotle’s theory of human conduct no trace of Plato’s “other worldliness”, he brings ... ...ics The result is a Moral Philosophy set against a background of Political Theory and general Philosophy. The most characteristic features of this Mor... ...rrespondence in point of quantity and quality between the producer and the consumer. For, we must remember, no dealing arises between two of the same ...

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...y are full of stories about each other’s blunders and errors, and that the theory of their omniscience and omnipotence no more holds good among themse... ...d before 1860, who were usually contemptuous of or indifferent to the germ theory and bacteriological therapeutics; but now that these veterans have m... ...alin nourishes the tubercle bacillus handsomely and kills men. The popular theory of disease is the common medical theory: namely, that every disease ... ... frequently was, in per- sons who were not suffering from the disease, the theory was saved by simply calling the bacillus an impostor, or pseudobacil... ... is a right that is as yet very imperfectly recognized in practice. But in theory it is admitted that an adult person in pursuit of knowledge must not... ... on our butchers supplying us with white veal, and were large and constant consumers of pate de foie gras; both comestibles being obtained by revoltin...

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...t and life, though they should clothe God with shape and color. Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot, and flee. A foolish c... ...e head and neck are enlarged, the trunk and extremities are cut short. The theory of the mechanic forces is another example. What we gain in power is ... ... he should be able to give account of his faith and expound to another the theory of his self-union and free- dom. This requires rare gifts. Yet witho... ...movableness was willingness and self-annihilation. Could Shakspeare give a theory of Shakspeare? Could ever a man of prodigious mathematical genius co... ...ization. Does the fact look crass and material, threatening to degrade thy theory of spirit? Resist it not; it goes to refine and raise thy theory of ... ...regions are visited, find their way into countries where the purchaser and consumer can hardly be ranked in one race with these cannibals and man-stea...

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...oth cap, a dingy wool colored greatcoat, and cowhide boots. He was a great consumer of meat, usually carrying his dinner to his work a couple of miles... ...y to the last uttered or the forth coming jest. We made many a “bran new” theory of life over a thin dish of gruel, which combined the advan tages o...

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...anctity of Human Life" by Baruch A. Brody). One form of calculus is the utilitarian theory. It calls for the maximization of utility (life, happines... ...es. Despite strong philosophical objections to some of the premises of utilitarian theory - I agree with its practical prescriptions. In this cont... ...or falsified. Attaining an achievement involves the construction of an ad-hoc mini theory. Reality has to be thoroughly surveyed, models constructe... ...at the incentives are. That economists pretend otherwise - in "optimal contracting theory" - just serves to demonstrate how divorced economics is f... ...usterity measures is universally unpopular. Employers and employees, producers and consumers - these are all instances of the Principal-Agent Probl... ...OSOPHY OF COMPETITION The aims of competition (anti-trust) laws are to ensure that consumers pay the lowest possible price (=the most efficient pri... ...so tends to have a deflationary effect by reducing the general price level. It pits consumers against producers, producers against other producers (... ...st producers, producers against other producers (in the battle to win the heart of consumers) and even consumers against consumers (for example in ... ...t the national economy. More simply: producers do not waste resources (capital), consumers and businesses pay less for the same goods and service...

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...arger family of mind comprising the whole of the artistic modernism, in a theory of creation that could explain the fields of activity. For this rea... ...n this way the metalinguistic possibilities of communication. Then, in the theory of the paradoxes, as we can see, we leap in continually from a para... ...of the third part. The classical binomial becomes a trinitarian antinomy (theory appreciated by this other theorist of the paradox, Solomon Marcus: ... ...absence of paradox was considered as their state of welfare”). Lupasco’s theory explains the combinative propensity of the paradox and the illimita... ...o fold expectancy and the inexpressible. And so, in front of the notorious theory of the untranslatable nature of poetry, of the impossibility of an ... ...tivity, if we can 10 speak of a complicity between the creator and the consumer of art, which latter can then be inhibited by the proposal of an ...

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...unias at very close to the cost of growing them and bringing them to market. Consumer desires are satisfied and productive resources are allocated effic... ... sound so good. Patents, by contrast, keep the knowledge public, at least in theory; 3 you must describe it to own it.) And again, decisions about the... ...o the economists, the answer is that trademark law does two things. It saves consumers time. We have good reason to believe that a soap that says “Ivo... ...at quality and commercial information flow regulate themselves, with rational consumers judging among goods of consistent quality produced by manufac- ... ...xclude others from one’s trade name, symbol, or slogan produces a market for consumer information in which firms have incentives to establish quality b... ...formation in which firms have incentives to establish quality brand names and consumers can rely on the meaning and the stability of the logos that sur... ... could turn to the cutting edge of technology or to economics or information theory. But none of those would be as useful a starting place as a letter... ... one of the supporters of copyright extension declared that it was merely “a theory” that monopoly makes things expensive. Macaulay agrees, tongue in ... ... monopoly makes things expensive. Macaulay agrees, tongue in cheek. “It is a theory in Chapter 2 22 -1 ___ 0 ___ 1 ___ 37278_u01.qxd 8/28/08 11:04 A...

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...ne of the Essay. A prejudice appears to exist in many quarters against the theory in question, on the supposition of its being opposed to one of the m... ... the national capital to replace itself with a profit. The futility of the theory implied in these and similar phrases, was an obvious consequence fro... ...each other will adjust itself to the inclinations and circumstances of the consumers on both sides, in such manner that the quantities required by eac... ...ficient to pay for one an- other. As the inclinations and circumstances of consumers cannot be reduced to any rule, so neither can the propor- tions i... ...n; and still more, any thing which has fallen. They there- fore benefit as consumers of cloth, not merely to the extent to which cloth has fallen, but... ...ceived into our treasury has come indirectly out of the pockets of our own consumers of linen, who pay a higher price for that imported commodity, in ... ...e to pay the increased money value of the imports; and although the German consumers have now not only cloth at the old price, but likewise increased ... ...ces exports, operates upon the prices of imports. According to the ancient theory of the balance of trade, and to the asso- ciations of the generality... ...ary resources employed in their construction would, according to the above theory, be considered pro- ductive, if every occupier of land were compelle...

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...phy” (1847). They, like him, tend to base their arguments upon a Ricardian theory of value, but they have not his scope or erudition or scientific bre... ...he Communists is the conquests of political power by the proletariat. “The theory of the Com- munists may be summed up in the single sentence: Aboliti... ...and substance to the theses of the Communist Manifesto. It contributed the theory of surplus value, which professed to explain the actual mechanism of... ...rine is very complicated and is scarcely tenable as a contribution to pure theory. It is rather to be viewed as a translation into ab- stract terms of... ...ssentially for the point of view of the producer as opposed to that of the consumer; it is concerned with reforming actual work, and the organization ... ...nal equally representing the whole body of producers and the whole body of consumers. This Joint Committee would be the ultimate sovereign body , the ... ... ists regard the State as consisting of the community in their capacity as consumers, while the Guilds will represent them in their capacity as produc... ...t and the Guild Congress for decid- ing matters involving the interests of consumers and produc- ers alike. The view of the Guild Socialists is that S... ...he Guild Socialists is that State Social- ism takes account of men only as consumers, while Syndical- ism takes account of them only as producers. “Th...

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...ing the weight in their practical judgment, which is always allowed to it in theory; for while every one well knows him self to be fallible, few thin... ... intoler ance, sufficiently remarkable not to be passed with out notice. A theory which maintains that truth may justifi ably be persecuted because... ...ard should be to be dealt with as the vilest of criminals, is not, upon this theory, a de plorable error and misfortune, for which humanity should mo... ...dergoing it is the being clearly proved not to deserve it. The rule, and the theory it im plies, are hardly less insulting to believers than to infid... ...is always some other explanation possible of the same facts; some geocentric theory instead of he liocentric, some phlogiston instead of oxygen; and ... ...plained of is not on the liberty of the seller, but on that of the buyer and consumer; since the State might just as well forbid him to drink wine, as... ...y of the State to consider, in the imposition of taxes, what commodities the consumers can best spare; and a fortiori, to select in preference those o...

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...st be paid by the inhab- itants of the two other States in the capacity of consumers of what we import. New York would neither be willing nor able to ... ...n to the general authority of the union, it would still be, in fact and in theory, an association of states, or a confederacy. The proposed Constituti... ...ll be led to conclude, that they are the novel refinements of an erroneous theory. Publius. 41 The Federalist Papers FEDERALIST No. 10 The Same Subje... ...di- vidual citizens of America. The consequence of this is, that though in theory their resolutions concerning those objects are laws, constitutionall... ...ath, and to inflict vengeance on sacrilegious despoilers of the temple. In theory, and upon paper, this apparatus of powers seems amply sufficient for... ... who is often obliged to pay them himself without any retribution from the consumer. When the demand is equal to the quantity of goods at market, the ... ...eeping prices down in order to a more expeditious sale. The maxim that the consumer is the payer, is so much 148 The Federalist Papers oftener true t... ...ing State, whose citizens pay their proportion of them in the character of consumers. In this view they are productive of inequality among the States;... ... sole field of labor, the importation of manufactures must increase as the consumers multiply. As soon as domestic manufac- tures are begun by the han...