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Referential Intentions and the Theory of Error One advantage of a theory of reference based on referential intentions rather than causal regulation is that it can take advantage of ``reference-borrowing.'' These sorts of cases are familiar in the literature on the causal theory of names. Instead of a theory of reference defined in terms of the causal regulation of moral claims, they define the reference-fixing relation in terms of objects of the agents' referential intentions. However, rather than considering which moral judgments count in determining the referent as was the case with the causal regulation theories, we need to consider which referential intentions count in determining the referent. www.stanford.edu /~dlafave/moralsem/node5.html

The Interest-Group Theory of Government Stigler, G.J. "Theory of Economic Regulation." Bell Journal of Economics and Management Science 2 (Spring): 3-21. In the past twenty-five years, however, the interest-group theory has grown from an intuitive but loose idea about how government works into a rigorous theory of government with testable implications that are not nearly so obvious as the "few" versus the "many" logic would seem to suggest. The interest-group theory of government is about lobbying, and the theory of rent seeking is about the costs of lobbying. www.thelockeinstitute.org /journals/luminary_v1_n1_p4.html   (1371 words)

Trickle-down theory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Trickle down was used to justify a range of changes under both British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and President Ronald Reagan, specifically those which attempted to break the power of unions, reduce impediments to hiring and firing, reducing environmental regulation, and in general pursue a more pro-corporate stance to legislation and economic policy. The term fell out of favor in the late 1980s and early 1990s, even though the economic program, of lowering marginal tax rates, selling off government stakes in assets and reducing regulation, continued to be the center piece of the Republican Party in the United States. Trickle Down Economics was coined from a speech made by David Stockman, who was Ronald Reagan's chief economic advisor. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Trickle_down_economics   (1371 words)

Welcome to CFLR- Centre for Feminist Legal Research The research draws a distinction between the legal regulation of sexual speech and of hate speech - two very different kinds of speech, with two very different kinds of laws. Sexual speech laws or the legal regulation of sexual speech are designed to reinforce traditional and highly conservative sexual moralities. The Centre examines how interventions by right wing political forces, human rights groups or feminist groups on issues such as sexual harassment or obscenity compromise the right to free speech, especially to sexual speech, and the implications of this move on the rights of sexual subalterns. www.cflr.org /about.htm   (1194 words)

Book Listing by Subject: Public-sector Economics and Public Choice Theory (Economics Network) The Limits of Public Choice: A Sociological Critique of the Economic Theory of Politics (Lars Udehn) The Limits of Public Choice: A Sociological Critique of the Economic Theory of Politics Games and Public Administration: The Law and Economics of Regulation and Licensing www.economicsnetwork.ac.uk /books/PublicsectorEconomics.htm   (2185 words)

USNews.com: Jodie T. Allen: The tiresome second best (11/1/04) But when the defects are severe, the theory of the second best (first enunciated by economists Richard Lipsey and Kelvin Lancaster in 1956) tells us that the normal prescriptions dispensed by practitioners of the dismal science--namely, more deregulation and competition--don't apply. In fact, where the second best is firmly entrenched, it's impossible even to predict whether a move to less regulation or--gasp!--to more regulation will improve efficiency. Unfortunately, the demonstrated ability of Washington policymakers to deal with this tough sort of question is all too often, well, second best, at best. www.usnews.com /usnews/opinion/articles/041101/1money_2.htm   (240 words)

Of Public Interest Column They call it the "theory of second best." Removing one or two elements of regulation in a highly regulated market may worsen matters, even if a thoroughgoing deregulation improves them. The relevance of the theory of second best is quite evident in the sad tale coming out of California. If open competition is superior to intense regulation, it would seem but simple common sense to assert that some deregulation is better than none, even if this may in turn be inferior to full deregulation. www.limitedgovernment.org /publications/opi_columns/OPI3-1.htm   (853 words)

SIGGS Theory Model: Regulation Regulation takes the viewpoint of the educational negasystem, and is the adjustment or restriction of fromput. Regulation monitors what becomes fromput, and what is therefore eligible to become output. If educational system size increases and complexity growth is constant, then regulation increases to some value and then decreases. www.indiana.edu /~educr547/frick/regulatn.html   (463 words)

Probability - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Governments typically apply probability methods in environment regulation where it is called "pathway analysis", and are often measuring well-being using methods that are stochastic in nature, and choosing projects to undertake based on their perceived probable effect on the population as a whole, statistically. Probability axioms form the basis for mathematical probability theory. Probabilities are equivalently expressed as odds, which is the ratio of the probability of one event to the probability of all other events. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Probability   (2730 words)

Course Description No less alluring than the depictions in Greek mythology of Gaia the dancer, daughter of Chaos and mother of the Titans, Gaia theory and the science of geophysiology are founded on the fundamental idea that all the ecosystems of the earth operate and evolve coherently to achieve planetary self-regulation. Gaia, the name given to the Greek goddess of mother earth, is also the name given to a recently formulated scientific theory that the earth is alive, a theory conceived and advanced by several notable scientists, including British scholar James Lovelock and American iconoclast Lynn Margulis. Gaia is the theory of the earth as an autopoietic, living system. www.ed-x.com /courselistings/courseinfo.asp?NewsID=9983   (2730 words)

Theme 8: Political Theories I think philosophy is driven by politics to some extent too, and so the drive for this new regulation is paralleled at the state level in many states because there's a perceived public anxiety and clearly professional and physician anxiety and anger that this legislation is trying to deal with. Politics tends to be domain of conflict among equals 30, 34 We couldn’t resolve that because where we were going was just to be silent and just defer to states and sort of leave a void where a state had not acted, and let that state's court sort of tease it out. home.gwu.edu /~kalae/th8.htm   (2106 words)

Zero to Three Journal: Attachment Theory and Research A basic tenet of attachment theory is that the infant seeks comfort and reassurance from the caregiver during times of distress and at other times uses the caregiver as a secure base from which to explore. According to this view, the attachment relationship is central to the regulation of emotion and arousal. Attachment is the term used by John Bowlby (1969, 1982) to describe the affective bond that develops between an infant and a primary caregiver. www.zerotothree.org /vol20-2.html   (4982 words)

CFAI: Policy implications Regulation would probably selectively embrace unworkable theories of Friendly AI, to a far more negative degree than the free choice of the researchers on the AI projects closest to a hard takeoff at any given point. This would still slow down Friendly AI relative to computing power, relative to other ultratechnologies, and so on, but at least the emerging theory of Friendly AI wouldn't be crippled. Friendliness is intrinsically harder - not too much harder, but still harder - with directed evolution; furthermore, with supersaturated computing power, directed evolution can proceed fast enough that Friendship content becomes the dominant sink for programmer effort. www.singinst.org /CFAI/policy.html   (4572 words)

Search Results for caloric - Encyclopædia Britannica Whereas Avogadro's theory of diatomic molecules was ignored for 50 years, the kinetic theory of gases was rejected for more than a century. Includes discussion of the nutritional and caloric content of candy, federal regulation of the manufacture of candy, and information about the nutrients in the different kinds of chocolate used to make candy bars and other confections. The goal is to regulate the patient's blood glucose level to as close to normal as possible and for the patient to... www.britannica.com /search?query=caloric&submit=Find&source=MWTEXT   (474 words)

words:  queer theory The resulting analyses reveal complicated cultural strategies for the regulation of sexual behavior that often result in the oppression of sexual dissidents who violate sexual taboos or don't conform to culturally sanctioned gender roles. In San Francisco, the gay pride parade has been renamed the gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender parade in deference to the inclusiveness that queer theory is founded on. Queer theory is a product of the university but it is allied with the broader www.gayhistory.com /rev2/words/queertheory.htm   (386 words)

IHDP-IT Research Proposal In so doing, ecological modernization theory profits from and tries to ‘integrate’ distinct bodies of academic knowledge, including theories on industrial ecology and industrial metabolism; theories on socio-technological change; perspectives on changing state regulation styles and strategies regarding the environment; new social movement theories; and contributions from institutional economics. Our central argument is that ecological modernization theory forms a useful starting point to understand and contribute to environmental reform processes in such countries, be it that an ecological modernization theory for transitional and newly industrializing countries will differ on major points from the original, West-European centrist one. In doing so, this program takes ecological modernization theory as a rather loose theoretical framework for investigating the relevant relations between industry and state, between industries and various representative organizations from ‘civil society’ and the relations within the (industrial) economy, both from a national and global perspective. www.tricity.wsu.edu /sonn/ihdp-it.htm   (3257 words)

A Brief Overview of Adult Attachment Theory and Research R. Chris Fraley The attachment behavior system is an important concept in attachment theory because it provides the conceptual linkage between ethological models of human development and modern theories on emotion regulation and personality. Perhaps the most provocative and controversial implication of adult attachment theory is that a person's attachment style as an adult is shaped by his or her interactions with parental attachment figures. Research on adult attachment is guided by the assumption that the same motivational system that gives rise to the close emotional bond between parents and their children is responsible for the bond that develops between adults in emotionally intimate relationships. www.psych.uiuc.edu /~rcfraley/attachment.htm   (3816 words)

Self-efficacy defined In this volume, Bandura also further situated self-efficacy within a social cognitive theory of personal and collective agency that operates in concert with other sociocognitive factors in regulating human well-being and attainment. He also addressed the major facets of agency—the nature and structure of self-efficacy beliefs, their origins and effects, the processes through which such self-beliefs operate, and the modes by which they can be created and strengthened. The aims of a task and the performance levels required for successful execution must be accurately appraised for self-efficacy judgments to serve as useful regulators and predictors of performance. www.des.emory.edu /mfp/eff.html   (5065 words)

Regime Theory It includes such theories as regime theory, growth machine thesis, regulation theory, fiscal crisis theory, local state theory etc. What is common to all of these theories is the emphasis on contextual aspects in analysing the changes of and challenges to local governance and urban policy. The theory appears to have gained a dominant position in the american literature on local politics precisely because it dispenses with the stalled debates on conventionally conceptualised tensions like those between elite hegemony and pluralist interest group politics, between economic determinism and political machination, and between structural determinants and local choices. The recent transference of urban regime theory to contexts outside of the United States as well as its use in comparative cross-national research attests to its dominant position in urban political scholarship. www.uta.fi /~kuaran/regime.html   (2587 words)

He's Still "That Man" - The Bushies' war on Franklin Roosevelt. By Daniel Gross The theory that new taxes and regulation would inevitably hamper economic growth and destroy America exerted a powerful hold on the minds of the business establishment and the economic right in the 1930s—just as it does today. For 70 years, conservatives have been telling us that the American economy—whether it's in recession or whether it's booming—is laboring under the shackles of the burdensome taxation and misguided regulation placed upon it by FDR and his successors. In particular, FDR upended the hallowed equation: taxes and regulation equals tyranny and depression. www.slate.com /id/2112796   (1147 words)

Chapter 1: Theory of Markets Government regulation is subject to the well-known possible failures of rigid, costly, and/or ineffective rules. Compared to government regulation, it is plausible that self-regulation will do a better job of inducing voluntary compliance with norms--a sense of honor or ethical pride in adhering to high standards might be diluted if enforcement is done through bureaucratic rules and procedures. For regulation of ICA members, a particular disclosure rule might have relatively small costs to industry, such as the cost of placing the privacy disclosure forms on their Web site. www.ntia.doc.gov /reports/privacy/selfreg1.htm   (20267 words)

Overview In various research projects and related publications to date, I have charted and discussed the complex ways in which theory has been a primary vehicle of cultural appropriation and regulation of architecture. Concerned as architectural theory has been with the delimitation of its subject, and the determination of what it is that architectural practitioners must do, architectural theory has and continues to be a highly instrumental normative and regulative cultural construct. History and theory courses provide an effective framework for making students aware of the complex relationship between architecture and culture, as well as help them acquire the analytical skills they require. web.pdx.edu /%7eameri/P%26T/folder/Overview/Overview.html   (20267 words)

HyperRust: "Look out Mama, there's a big discussion comin' up..." Could be Civil War-related, could be revenue-related (the moonshine theory) though I don't think moonshining was illegal until Prohibition in the 1920s and later government regulation of alcohol production. But, and here's where I guess I wasn't clear, I was referring to being covered by the thoughts of the person who shot the narrator (assuming of course you don't buy into the suicide/gun backfires/bloody glove in the Bronco theory). That's more plausible than the theory that 22 did himself in deliberately. hyperrust.org /Rust/PowderFinger.html   (20267 words)

Japanese Theory of Modernization Though economists of later generations might wonder how his economic theory and his public activity are related, we should remember that he succeeded a socio-economical perspective from his mentors, Fukuda and Schumpeter. Contrary to them, Fukuda was a very lively Marx-critic whose understanding of Marxian theory often surpassed his Marxian opponents. Nihon kogyo tosei-ron) (1937), he developed his theory of the managed economy that was based on the Marxian as well as German monopoly theories. www.siue.edu /EASTASIA/Yagi_110800.htm   (7503 words)

Search Results for vitalism - Encyclopædia Britannica French physiologist known chiefly for his discoveries concerning the role of the pancreas in digestion, the glycogenic function of the liver, and the regulation of the blood supply by the vasomotor... German experimental embryologist and philosopher who was the last great spokesman for vitalism, the theory that life cannot be explained as physical or chemical phenomena. Basically and traditionally, there are three distinct philosophical stands regarding the biological nature of life: vitalism, mechanism, and organicism. www.britannica.com /search?query=vitalism&submit=Find&source=MWTEXT   (257 words)

Journal of Public Economic Theory Home Page Coverage includes a wide range of theoretical approaches, including general equilibrium theory, game theory, evolution, experimentation, control theory and dynamics, simulation, axiomatic characterization, and first order and comparative static methods. Edited by two well-known scholars who have contributed broadly to the theory of public economics, its star-studded editorial board boasts all the who's who in this area. This quarterly journal focuses on such topics as public goods, local public goods, club economies, externalities, taxation, growth, public choice, social and public decision making, voting, market failure, regulation, project evaluation, equity, and political systems. www.blackwellpublishing.com /journal.asp?ref=1097-3923   (257 words)

New Deal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The New Dealers borrowed their opposition to monopoly and their move toward government regulation of the economy from ideas of the progressive era, and were influenced by the dispelling of age-old notions that poverty was a personal moral failure rather than a product of impersonal social and economic forces. The New Deal drew heavily on the experiences of its leaders; it reflected the ideas of, and was influenced by, the programs that Roosevelt and most of his original associates had absorbed in their political youths early in the progressive era, while serving in the Wilson administration, and while holding other offices in the 1920s. However, the New Deal did lay the ground work for the "broker state" to be expanded a generation later, mostly through the work of the next wave of liberal reform—the civil rights movement and the Great Society —to embrace groups marginalized in the New Deal coalition, especially racial and ethnic minorities. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_Deal   (257 words)

Thermal Stress in Sudden Infant Death: Is There an Ambiguity With the Rebreathing Hypothesis? -- Guntheroth and Spiers 107 (4): 693 -- Pediatrics Thermal stress describes a condition that is a threat to the organism's thermal regulation, but may be mild enough to permit A strong association between thermal regulation and ventilatory control was found, specifically for prolonged apnea. It may seem counterintuitive to a theory of thermal stress that there is an inverse relation between the mean climatic temperature pediatrics.aappublications.org /cgi/content/full/107/4/693   (257 words)

A Psychology Press Journal: Self and Identity Self and Identity is devoted to the study of social and psychological processes (e.g., cognition, motivation, emotion, and interpersonal behavior) that involve the human capacity for self-awareness, self-representation, and self-regulation. Because this ability to self-reflect has important implications for understanding human behavior, the self has emerged as a central focus of theory and research in many domains of social and behavioral science. Examples of topics appropriate for the Journal include self-attention, self-perception, self-concept, identity, self-knowledge, self-evaluation, self-esteem, self-consciousness, motivation, emotion, self-regulation, self-presentation, role of self in perception of others, self-processes in interpersonal behavior, and cultural influences on the self. www.tandf.co.uk /journals/pp/selfandidentity.html   (253 words)

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