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Programmatic Risk-Taking by American Opera Companies

Pierce, J. - In: Journal of Cultural Economics 24 (2000) 1, pp. 45-63

This study explores the relationships between culture,politics, and the decision-making process of theAmerican opera company. It combines socio-economicdata with the financial and program data of key operacompanies to explore important influences inprogramming decisions. It tests the...

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The ethical foundations of economics in ancient Greece, focussing on Socrates and Xenophon

Alvey, James E. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 38 (2011) July, pp. 714-733

Purpose – Economics had a strong linkage to ethics up to the 1930s but this has virtually disappeared today. Amartya … Sen first sketched the historical relationship in his book On Ethics & Economics. This article seeks to explore the … elements of Sen's understanding of good human functioning. There is a strong linkage between ethics and economics in Socrates …

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UNETHICAL PRACTICES IN INDIAN MUSIC INDUSTRY: CORRUPTION DEEPENING!

Vimal, BABU - In: Studies in Business and Economics 7 (2012) 2, pp. 35-42

music industry. It offers a clear depiction of on-demand behaviour which otherwise is ethically uncalled for, in the larger …

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Adam Smith's Ethics and the “Noble Arts”

Wight, Jonathan - In: Review of Social Economy 64 (2006) 2, pp. 155-180

this system, the arts perform a critical role. Smith's essays “Of the Imitative Arts” and his Lectures on Rhetoric and … arts excite moral development. The arts stretch the boundaries of imagination and perspective, stimulating self … to this view, the arts provide positive externalities for society and should be encouraged through public policy. The …

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A legal and economic analysis of graffiti

Daniel J. D’Amico; Block, Walter - In: Humanomics: The International Journal of Systems and Ethics 23 (2007) February, pp. 29-38

Purpose – To analyze the legal, ethical, and economic implications of governmentally criminalized graffiti. Design/methodology/approach – First the paper presents the act of graffiti as a minor form of rebellion against an unjust government according to the criteria of just war theory. Once...

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Foundations of the economic and social history of the United States: Metaphysical

Albers, Scott - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

"Oppositional Analysis" - the name I give to the metaphysics presented in this volume - proposes a number of dichotomies through which one may analyze and understand systematically the structure of every level of reality. Macroeconomic theory, as well as social research, are two excellent stages...

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Foundations of the economic and social history of the United States: Apologia

Albers, Scott - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This set of three volumes argues that the mind – human consciousness – may be measured by considering mathematically the aggregate of that consciousness, i.e. social history. From this beginning theme of discussion three questions must arise. 1. How might this measurement be made? 2. Of what...

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Foundations of the economic and social history of the United States: Empirical

Albers, Scott - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

I argue that a form of consciousness may be found in American economic history, one which is both mathematically demonstrable and important. In this book I present a model of economic and political growth based upon systematic addition. We begin with a philosophic model of trade (pp. 34-46);...

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Foundations of the economic and social history of the United States: Theoretical

Albers, Scott - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

In sum, in these essays I explore the self-similarity between levels, the fractal structure of reality, through an investigation of an inherent and unavoidable uncertainty which is unique to each level. These essays will demonstrate that as each level struggles to resolve its own inherent...

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Predicting crises: Five essays on the mathematic prediction of economic and social crises

Albers, Scott - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This volume – Predicting Crisis: Five Essays on the Mathematic Prediction of Economic and Social Crises – is the first of three sets of essays. In this first set the economic and social history of the United States is shown to be a “system of movement,” i.e. a logical and mathematic...

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