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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

.... But it is not clear whether it has a right to go on using the mother's body, or resources, or to burden her in any way in order to sustain its o... ...one have the right to use other people's bodies, their property, their time, their resources and to deprive them of pleasure, comfort, material pos... ...tain, or prolong them at SOCIETY's expense (no matter how major and significant the resources required are). Still, if a contract has been signed -... ...ssive, coercive, or bureaucratic." (Honderich, Ted, ed. - The Oxford Companion to Philosophy - Oxford University Press, New York, 1995 - p. 31) A... ...ed: Natural Selection IS the vital power itself. Modern Physics is converging with Philosophy (possibly with the philosophical side of Religion as ... ...onse in his viewers/readers/listeners, he is deemed successful. Every artist has a reference group, his audience. They could be alive or dead (for ... ...esentation from his original experience. Art criticism is impossible. Granted, his reference group (his audience, however limited, whether among th... ...pacity to pass judgement is, therefore, in great doubt. On the other hand, only the reference group, only the audience can aptly judge the represent... ...ors and, lately, by (neuronal) network metaphors. Metaphors are not confined to the philosophy of neurology. Architects and mathematicians, for inst...

...Cyclopedia of issues in modern philosophy: The philosophy of science and religion, the cognitive sciences, cultural studies, aesthetics, art and literature, the philosophy of economics, the philosophy of psychology, and ethics....

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

.... But it is not clear whether it has a right to go on using the mother's body, or resources, or to burden her in any way in order to sustain its o... ...one have the right to use other people's bodies, their property, their time, their resources and to deprive them of pleasure, comfort, material pos... ...tain, or prolong them at SOCIETY's expense (no matter how major and significant the resources required are). Still, if a contract has been signed -... ...ssive, coercive, or bureaucratic." (Honderich, Ted, ed. - The Oxford Companion to Philosophy - Oxford University Press, New York, 1995 - p. 31) A... ...ed: Natural Selection IS the vital power itself. Modern Physics is converging with Philosophy (possibly with the philosophical side of Religion as ... ...onse in his viewers/readers/listeners, he is deemed successful. Every artist has a reference group, his audience. They could be alive or dead (for ... ...esentation from his original experience. Art criticism is impossible. Granted, his reference group (his audience, however limited, whether among th... ...pacity to pass judgement is, therefore, in great doubt. On the other hand, only the reference group, only the audience can aptly judge the represent... ...ors and, lately, by (neuronal) network metaphors. Metaphors are not confined to the philosophy of neurology. Architects and mathematicians, for inst...

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Capitalistic Musings

By: Sam Vaknin

...henomena such as "strong reciprocity" - the propensity to "irrationally" sacrifice resources to reward forthcoming collaborators and punish free-ri... ...ound the Malthusian concept of scarcity. Our infinite wants, the finiteness of our resources and the bad job we too often make of allocating them e... ...We are forever forced to choose between opportunities, between alternative uses of resources, painfully mindful of their costs. This is how the p... ... - "pay per view" in the cable TV industry, or "pay per print" in scholarly online reference. Other prices combine a fixed element (e.g., a subscri... ...s) is morally dubious. Anti-tax movements have sprung all over the world and their philosophy permeates the ideology of political parties in many c... ...proach. That the market is wiser than any of its participants is a pillar of the philosophy of capitalism. In its pure form, the theory claims th... ...a Spanish author and thinker, once wrote that it is impossible to design a coherent philosophy of economics not founded on our mortality. The Grim ... ...cly traded components. Gains and losses will be determined by arbitrary rules or by reference to extraneous events. Real estate, commodities, and ca... ...l and social factors such as one's values, perceptions, preferences, one's status, reference groups, family, and role models. Thus, the customer's ...

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Contributing to Efforts for Greater Financial Markets Stability in Apec Economies

By: Apec Finance Minister Process

... Mexicana de Valores, Valuacion Operativa y Referencias de Mercado/VALMER (Securities Reference Price Setting Agency), Contraparte Central de Valore... ........ 133 IV.2 Policy Recommendations...................……………………...…………………. 139 References ....................................................... ...ing to Weber (2008:1) “describes a financial system’s ability to efficiently allocate resources, reliably assess and tackle risks, and securely settl... ...tion of financial stability engenders the ability of the financial system to allocate resources efficiently, over time and space, and engender the e... ... that financial stability exists when the financial system is resilient in allocating resources efficiently, and ensures effective assessment, prici... ...nancial crisis. Performance indicators were sustained and improved, particularly with reference to the intermediation function that underpinned real... ...TC), and having the more rules based SEC adopt the more principles-based regulatory philosophy of the CFTC.” • The long term recommendations ent...

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Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy

By: John Stuart Mill

...is never any thing approaching in magnitude to what it might be if all the resources devoted to reproduction, if all the capital, in short, of the cou... ...hich exists in the state of unsold goods; and if the dealer has additional resources, which were productively invested (in the public funds, for insta... ...manner, to the increase of production and wealth. The labour and pecuniary resources employed in their construction would, according to the above theo... ..., when he observed that the first principles of all sciences belong to the philosophy of the human mind. The observation is just; and the first princi... ...branches of knowledge. If we open any book, even of mathematics or natural philosophy, it is impossible not to be struck with the mistiness of what we... ... of being founded upon it. The science of mechanics, a branch of natu- ral philosophy, lays down the laws of motion, and the prop- erties of what are ... ...into the value of the precious metals, elicits truths which have immediate reference to the produc- tion solely of a peculiar kind of wealth; yet thes... ...d. Many, therefore, of the physical sciences may be treated of without any reference to mind, and as if the mind existed as a recipient of knowledge o... ... mental nature, is the subject-matter of all the moral sciences, may, with reference to that part of his nature, form the subject of philosophical inq...

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