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From apathy to apogee
(MU Alumni Association, University of Missouri, 2014)
science funding agencies. But he refuses to quit. By the 1980s, molecular biologists begin to recognize Amhidopsis thalia"a as a model organism for studying all flowering plants, including corn and wheat. At his death in 2008, at age 87, with more than 16...
Parameterizing Case and Activity: Hyper-raising in Bantu
(2009)
Case theory has long played a crucial role in explaining the distribution of nominal
expressions. Raising constructions are a well-established case in point (Chomsky 1981,
George & Kornfilt 1981, Chomsky 2000, Chomsky ...
Hyperactivity and Hyperagreement in Bantu
(2011)
Many Bantu languages exhibit A-movements and patterns of iterating agreement that are disallowed in Indo-European languages. In Minimalist theory, both agreement and movement are constrained by an Activity requirement ...
Opportunity discovery, entrepreneurial action, and economic organization
(Wiley, 2008)
This paper reviews and critiques the "opportunity discovery" approach to entrepreneurship and argues that entrepreneurship can be more thoroughly grounded, and more closely linked to more general problems of economic ...
Economic Calculation and the Limits of Organization
(Ludwig Von Mises Institute, 1996)
This paper highlights some distinctive Austrian contributions to the theory of the firm, contributions that have been largely neglected, both inside and outside the Austrian literature. In particular, Mises's concept of ...
An Anatomy of a Cartel: The National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933 and the Compliance Crisis of 1934
(Research in Economic History, 2008)
This paper explores the nature and causes of the cartel compliance crisis that befell the National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) one year after its passage in 1933. We employ a simple game-theoretic model of the NIRA's ...
Politics and Productivity
(Western Economic Association International, 2003-07)
We use a stochastic frontier approach to study the effects of political and regulatory institutions on aggregate productivity in 39 countries from 1975 to 1990. We show that technical efficiency is positively related to ...
How Much Can GMO and Non-GMO Cultivars Coexist in a Megadiverse Country?
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, 2014)
The relevance of addressing coexistence between GM, conventional, and organic agricultural production mostly has been driven in industrialized countries by (international) commercial issues and consumer choices. While some ...
Examination of regional-level efficient refuge requirements for Bt cotton in India
(AgBioForum, 2013)
Refuge requirements for Bt cotton varieties were examined for three cotton-growing regions in India, considering resistance evolution in cotton bollworm (Helicoverpa armigera) to Bt toxin and pyrethroid pesticides. Biological, ...
A new approach to the classification of Gaelic song
(2018-03)
"A good deal of water has flowed under the bridge since James Ross published “A
Classification of Gaelic Folk-Song” in 1957.1 Ross’s study was typical of a time when scholars
favored a clinical and taxonomical approach to ...