Why do informal markets resist formalizing, even when the gains of doing so outweigh its costs in the long run? While a number of responses to this questio
Whereas in the last 170-odd years many have used Leibniz’s argument as a reason to deny the existence of souls altogether in favor of materialism, Leibniz took dualism for granted but denied the soul-bodyinteractionposited by Descartes. One might almost say that soul-body interaction was also...
New York University professor Scott Galloway toldCNNsays that part of the issue is the continued rising cost of college without much change in the quality of education over the years. Galloway says that many young men can simply apply for other jobs, such as construction and other manual labor...
2 In addition to different needs, it was also hampered by legal chal- lenges for about 20 years. See Peterman et al., HSR in the United States, p. 11. 3 "20 years of high speed in Germany," UIC, http://www.uic.org/com/ article/20-years-of-high-speed-in-germany?page=...
Again it was the Liberal, rationalist, anti-Vatican, patrician leadership who regained power after the defeat of the Sonderbund and who maintained it in distant alliance with the very different sort of liberalism represented in the victorious Protestant cantons until the 1870s. These conflicts, the...
North Atlantic region.5‘Precarity’ hasalso become a fashionable new concept in labour studies.6It seems to imply thatwhereas in the past, capital was striving to systematically extract surplus valuefrom a large and growing workforce that at the same time had to be tamed, todaymore and more ...
Of course, as I child I knew who Furtwängler was. I had heard him in Buenos Aires conducting the St. Matthew Passion, and naturally it was something very special when I was introduced to him in the summer of 1954. Just think: I loved to play piano; I would have played for anybody...
etre. But in that same time real corporate performance hasgone down. The average rate of return on invested capital for public companies in the USA is aquarter of what it was in 1965. Sure productivity has gone up, but that can be done throughautomation or by beating more...