AT THE OUTSET OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION, JOHN MAYNARD Keynes penned a remarkable economic prognostication: that despite the ominous storm that was then enfolding the world, mankind was in fact on the brink of solving “the economic problem”—that is, the quest for daily subsistence.The...
I am really confused about the Kami. Also, alas I have not even been going to Shrines much lately. But here I will describe Shinto as a sort of Nacalian philosophy, a sort of reversal of world as described by Jacques Lacan. I have long been interested in what God might be. I was ...
This imagery of individuals and their actions as causal drivers of large-scale institutional change is exceptional in a discipline constitutionally skeptical of individual-level explanations. The scale of US postsecondary massification after World War II is no modest side note to social change in the ...
The Venice is based on the standard 456, meaning it gets a 5.5-litre V12 engine. Most 456s left the factory with auto gearboxes, rather than the open-gate six-speed manual. Mine would need the manual, obviously, because who doesn’t want a nat-asp V12 estate with a manual ‘box ...
1. IN THIS WARRANTY (a) 'acceptable quality' as referred to in clause 10 of this warranty has the same meaning referred to in the ACL; (b) 'ACL' means Trade Practices Amendment (Australian Consumer Law) Act (No.2) 2010; (c) 'Appliance' means any Residentia Group product ...
Unregulated financial instruments like derivatives can be sold over the counter (OTC), meaning they can be purchased outside of the formal exchange markets, like the New York Stock Exchange. Since no regulation exists on the derivatives, they can be traded from one party to another. There's ...
In science, the simplicity of a theory is a hallmark of its elegance. According to Einstein (or Louis Zukofsky or Roger Sessions or William of Ockham…I give up, who knows), “everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.” Hence, the strength of a theory is rela...
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