The motivations vary by discipline, but a short list would include the largely physical pleasure of the Utilitarians, the desire for survival of the Darwinians, the incestuous sexual cravings of the Freudians, the quest for power and class domination of the Marxists, and the blind search for unlimited affluence
of modern economists.
Not exact matches
Hypothesizing that «a decrease in the cost
of syphilis due to penicillin [which, in 1943, was found to treat syphilis effectively] spurred an increase in risky non-traditional sex,» the Emory University
economist Andrew Francis discovered evidence that «the era
of modern sexuality originated in the mid to late 1950s,» prior to the debut
of oral contraceptive pills in 1960.
David Hume Scottish Empiricist Philosopher, Historian, and
Economist, Founder
of Modern Skepticism Church
of Scotland (Presbyterian)
The model
of the human being with which
economists work, Homo economicus, is also purely
modern.
The Healthy Home
Economist is a blog
of refuge from
modern nutritional dogma using Traditional Wisdom as the guide.
So in a sense then people have been seduced by models, both by the informal materialist theoretical mechanisms
of the Marxists and by the mathematical models
of modern - day
economists.
Andrew Haldane, the Bank
of England's free - thinking Chief
Economist, characterised the relationship between
modern banks and the state as a «doom loop».
For years Adam Smith has been celebrated as the founder
of modern economics, but as Nicholas Phillipson demonstrates in Adam Smith An Enlightened Life (Allen Lane, # 25.00) Smith saw himself primarily as a philosopher rather than an
economist.
Still, all biophysical
economists see only very bleak prospects for the future
of modern civilization, putting a whole new spin on the phrase «the dismal science.»
The Healthy Home
Economist is a blog
of refuge from
modern nutritional dogma using Traditional Wisdom as the guide.
Modern - day voucher advocates often cite
economist Milton Friedman as the visionary
of today's programs.
Communism Paper Philosophy Term: Introductory Aspects
Modern day Communism is based on the writings
of two German
economists, Karl Marx and Fredric Engels, who answered the question Continue reading
The book's criticism
of Modern Portfolio Theory, another idealistic creation
of economists that neglects real world data is excellent.
The late John Kenneth Galbraith, one
of the most renowned
economists of modern times once quipped: «In economics the majority is always wrong.»
While the «4 % rule» has its followers, the respected
economist William Sharpe (one
of the minds behind
Modern Portfolio Theory) dismissed it as simplistic and an open door to retirement income shortfalls in a widely cited 2009 essay in the Journal
of Investment Management.1, 2
Marie - Josée, a Canadian
economist who has served on the board
of the Federal Reserve Bank
of New York, was named president
of the Museum
of Modern Art board
of trustees in 2005.
He has written for Artforum, Screen, New York Times, International Herald Tribune, and the
Economist, among other newspapers and journals; and has contributed texts for exhibitions at the Louvre; the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam; Centre Pompidou; MoMA P.S. 1; Tate
Modern; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía; the Metropolitan Museum
of Art; the Albertina; the Museum
of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Los Angeles County Museum
of Art; the Sydney Biennial; Ludwig Múzeum, Budapest; Haus der Kunst, Munich; Edinburgh Festival; and Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana, Cuba.
He has written for Artforum (where he had a column in the late 1980s and early 90s), Screen, the New York Times, International Herald Tribune, the
Economist among other newspapers and journals; and contributed essays to catalogues and associated publications at Documenta (Kassel), the Louvre (Paris), Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), Centre Pompidou (Paris), MoMA PS1 (NY), Tate
Modern and Tate Liverpool, Reina Sophia (Madrid), Metropolitan Museum
of Art (NY), The New Museum (NY), Albertina, Vienna, Museum
of Contemporary Art (LA), LA County Museum
of Art, Sydney Biennial, Venice Biennale, Vienna Museum
of Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver), Ludwig Museum (Budapest), Haus der Kunst (Munich), Edinburgh Festival, and Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana.
I see Hans Ulrich as a
modern - day incarnation
of Musil's Diotima, who runs salons in The Man Without Qualities, connecting writers to
economists and philosophers to artists, statesmen, and scientists, and everything in between.
(Rineke Dijkstra, photography, Tate
Modern Museum, London, England) The
Economist (US); June 28, 2003; 700 + words... century documentary photography at Tate
Modern — Ms Dijkstra has asked three almost... at the Museum
of Modern Art in New York.
(opening
of museum in London, England)(Brief Article) The
Economist (US); May 13, 2000; 700 + words... the opening
of the Tate
Modern art gallery on the south... landscape in Britain.
The lecture and panel discussion series will include a full program
of daily presentations; Michael Kimmelman, Chief Architecture Critic and Former Chief Art Critic for The New York Times, «The View from Over There, Over Here»; Jun Kaneko, «In Between»; William Warmus, Former Curator
of Modern Glass at Corning Museum
of Glass will moderate roundtable discussion, «The Studio Glass Experiment — The First 50 Years 1962 - 2012»; a thought provoking panel moderated by Bruce Helander, Editor - in - Chief
of The Art
Economist; Willis «Buzz» Hartshorn
of International Center
of Photography, «The ICP Legacy and New Directions in Photography»; Ullysees Dietz, Curator
of Decorative Arts at the Newark Museum, «Ceramics as Art, Not a New Idea»; and Mark Leach, Executive Director
of the SECCA, Southeastern Center
of Contemporary Art will present «The New SECCA: Directions in Contemporary Art».
Considering that, I would say that the greatest threat to real progress is
modern economic theory, which still insists that «
economists have done away with the notion
of physical limits to growth.»
It is widely recognized that climate sciences have profound implications for society (IPCC 2007), but one concern is that
modern research is veering away from the scientific ideal
of replication and transparency (Cartlidge 2013a; The
Economist 2013).
It isn't the end
of modern economic theory,
economists don't rely on continual growth to work their theories, they are just as happy to tell you how much your shrinking as how much your growing.
It has been recognized and documented by everyone from conservative
economists like Richard Posner, to Rand's Institute for Civil Justice, to William L. Prosser, the father
of modern tort law.
«This is an important story
of the
modern world, painstakingly researched, and masterfully narrated with the sort
of balanced and detached passion one would expect from an
Economist writer.»
Ian Brinkley, a Chief
Economist at The Work Foundation adds: «The nature
of modern, knowledge - based economies means that demand for IT - related skills can only go in one direction — upwards.»