between the virtue of constancy and a ‘calling’ work orientation. This enhances our understanding of the virtues that are …–directors of traditional circuses. Inspired by MacIntyre’s arguments for the necessity of a narrative understanding of the virtues …, interviews explored how British and Irish circus directors accounted for their working lives. A purposive sample was used to …

“calling”, whereby work can be viewed as a specific aspect of a more general calling to pursue, through the practice of the …

Contemporary virtue ethics was revolutionized by Alasdair MacIntyre’s reconfiguration using practices as the starting … point for understanding virtues. However, MacIntyre has very pointedly excluded the professions of the financial world from … profession of investment advising. First, the paper lays out MacIntyre’s soon-to-be-published charges against the investment …

for constancy of parameters in logistic regression models, and explore the connection between Bayes-type tests and Rao …