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Cooperatives and Group Action
(Texas A&M University, 1993)
The primary objective of this paper is to synthesize and summarize organizational issues and challenges facing U.S. agricultural cooperatives as they analyze their strategic options in preparing to meet the needs of their ...
F.A. Hayek: Austrian Economist and Social Theorist
(Ludwig von Mises Institute, 1999)
Frederich August von Hayek is undoubtedly the most eminent of the modern Austrian economists. Student of Friedrich von Wieser, protégé and colleague of Ludwig von Mises, and foremost representative of an outstanding ...
New Institutional Economics
(Edward Elgar, 2000)
This chapter surveys the new institutional economics, a rapidly growing literature combining economics, law, organization theory, political science, sociology and anthropology to understand social, political and commercial ...
The theory of the firm and its critics: a stocktaking and assessment
(Cambridge University Press, 2005)
Since its emergence in the 1970s the modern economic or Coasian theory of the firm has been discussed and challenged by sociologists, heterodox economists, management scholars, and other critics. This chapter reviews and ...
Operation rescue, vocabularies of motive, and tactical action: a study of movement framing in the practice of quasi-nonviolence
(JAI Press, Inc., 1997)
Since the end of World War II an increasing number of social movements have claimed that they are practicing nonviolent civil disobedience tactics. Too often these claims are uncritically accepted even when proposed by ...
Advances in Cooperative Theory since 1990: A Review of Agricultural Economics Literature
(Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam School of Management, 2004)
This article reviews the advances in neoclassical, coalition-game theoretic, and new institutional-nexus of contracts applications of economic theory to agricultural cooperative literature published in English language ...
Organizational Governance
(Russell Sage Foundation, 2008)
This chapter reviews and discusses rational-choice approaches to organizational governance. These approaches are found primarily in organizational economics (virtually no rational-choice organizational sociology exists), ...
The Make-or-Buy Decision: Lessons from Empirical Studies
(Springer, 2005)
The ��transaction cost �� theory of the firm introduced by Coase (1937) has become a standard framework for the study of institutional arrangements. The Coasian framework helps explain not only the existence of the firm, ...
Person-Affecting Paretian Egalitarianism with Variable Population Size
(Palgrave-Macmillan, 2007)
Where there is a fixed population (i.e., who exists does not depend on what choice an agent makes), the deontic version of anonymous Paretian egalitarianism holds that an option is just if and only if (1) it is anonymously ...
Consequentialism
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2006)
The three main general approaches to moral theory are consequentialism, deontology, and virtue theory. I shall describe and assess consequentialism. First, however, I shall make a few background remarks on morality.
Desert and Entitlement: An Introduction
(Routledge, 2003)
This is the sixth volume of Equality and Justice, a six-volume collection of the most important articles of the twentieth century on the topic of justice and equality. This volume addresses two issues: (1) desert-based ...
Introduction to Equality and Justice: The Demands of Equality
(Routledge, 2003)
This is the second volume of Equality and Justice, a six-volume collection of the most important articles of the twentieth century on the topic of justice and equality. This volume addresses the question of whether justice ...
The Biopsychosocial Model of Clinical Practice in Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders
(Academy Profession Information Services, 1999)
The biomedical model limits the role of the physician to the diagnosis and treatment of diseases. It fails when applied to patients whose symptoms cannot be reduced to physiochemical terms or “cured” by technological means. ...
Care and Managed Care: Psychological Factors Relevant to Healthcare and its Delivery
(2002)
What is the essence of clinical caring, how can its value be determined, and what are its origins? Caring for a patient is a bit like loving someone. In both cases, the wellbeing of the person who is loved or the patient ...
Integration of Biomedical and Psychosocial Management
(Pediatric Gastrointestinal Motility Disorders. New York: Academy Professional Information Services, 1994)
Two concepts helped and hindered clinicians throughout the 20th Century: 1) the most important and legitimate use of physicians' time is in the diagnosis and cure of disease; and 2) patients are cured of illness through ...
An extremely small and efficient identification scheme
(2000)
We present a new identification scheme which is based on Legendre symbols modulo a certain hidden prime and which is naturally suited for low power, low memory applications.
Nonlinear complexity of the Naor-Reingold pseudo-random function
(2000)
We obtain an exponential lower bound on the non-linear complexity of the new pseudo-random function, introduced recently by M. Naor and O. Reingold. This bound is an extension of the lower bound on the linear complexity ...
On the dimension of the Jacquet module of a certain induced representation
(2001)
The Fourier coefficients of certain metaplectic Eisenstein series contain L-series of arithmetic interest. This fact has been repeatedly exploited by various authors in order to obtain analytic information about these ...
Graduates : University of Missouri School of Medicine, 1841-1997
(University of Missouri Medical School Foundation, Inc., 1998)
This list includes names of University of Missouri School of Medicine graduates from 1841-1997.
A listing of present and former faculty members [of the University of Missouri School of Medicine, 1841-1997]
(University of Missouri Medical School Foundation, Inc., 1998)
"The following list contains almost 2,000 names of present and former members of the Medical School
faculty since the re-establishment of the four-year medical school on our campus"--Page 943.