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Publication date: 15 September 2017

Till Düppe

Economic ideas are the product of contemplation, but also of our economic lives. In the history of ideas, Gérard Debreu’s shining book of 1959, Theory of Value, represents the…

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Economic ideas are the product of contemplation, but also of our economic lives. In the history of ideas, Gérard Debreu’s shining book of 1959, Theory of Value, represents the pinnacle of purity in contemplating economic life. Rather than contextualizing this oeuvre through his intellectual life, as is usually done, this essay describes his axiomatic analysis by contextualizing it through his economic life. What do we learn about Debreu’s axioms on consumption when thinking of his own consumption? What do we learn about his theory of value when thinking of his own values? Historiographically, this approach permits the use of a widely neglected source in the history of economics: anecdotes. Epistemologically, blending axioms and anecdotes offers a description of how axioms regulate an economic discourse. Finally, this essay offers a language for the material dimensions of economic life that are so underexposed in Debreu’s own work.

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Including a Symposium on the Historical Epistemology of Economics
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ISBN: 978-1-78714-537-5

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Publication date: 15 September 2017

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Including a Symposium on the Historical Epistemology of Economics
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ISBN: 978-1-78714-537-5

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Publication date: 22 April 2003

Geoffrey Walford

Understanding the concepts of policy and policy-making is far from straightforward. There has now been considerable empirical and theoretical work on the nature of policy…

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Understanding the concepts of policy and policy-making is far from straightforward. There has now been considerable empirical and theoretical work on the nature of policy development and implementation, and it is abundantly clear that the whole process is far more complex, dynamic, and interactive than any of the traditional linear or staged models suggest. There have been many attempts to describe and analyses this complexity, and the models produced have frequently been highly contested. However, it is evident that policy is not made ‘once and for all’ by people called ‘policy-makers’. Any attempt to make change within the educational system is the result of compromise and circumstance and, even where the change is incorporated in law, the nature of that change that results is often far from clear. This ambiguity and lack of clarity is not necessarily due to poor drafting of the law, but is usually the result of the constraints within which most legislation comes to be agreed.

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Investigating Educational Policy Through Ethnography
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ISBN: 978-0-76231-018-0

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Interparliamentary Relations and the Future of Devolution in the UK 1998-2018
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ISBN: 978-1-80262-552-3

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Publication date: 1 April 1997

Helen Connor

The second in a series of four articles that seek to answer questions about where and where not action learning is most applicable. Aims to identify the kinds of people who…

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The second in a series of four articles that seek to answer questions about where and where not action learning is most applicable. Aims to identify the kinds of people who benefit most from action learning and the most appropriate times in their lives to undertake an action learning programme. The authors reflect on their own experience as action learning participants and set advisers to identify those who have got most and least out of action learning. Concludes that action learning has worked best with people who are willing and able to take action, are skilled at reflection and want to take responsibility for their own learning. Such people are likely to be mature adults who want to learn about themselves, as well as the world they inhabit, with a view to changing both themselves and their worlds.

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Education + Training, vol. 39 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0040-0912

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Publication date: 1 January 1984

D.H. Simpson

A few years ago, at an SSRC‐sponsored conference on the management function in industrial relations, a contributor analysing the industrial relations of six separate…

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A few years ago, at an SSRC‐sponsored conference on the management function in industrial relations, a contributor analysing the industrial relations of six separate establishments, one of which was a merchant bank, was asked, “Do Merchant Banks have industrial relations?” The same question could be asked of universities, and the answer given today would be fundamentally different than if the question had been posed 20 or even ten years ago. Following the extrapolation of the Robbins principle, universities in the late 1960s and 1970s went through an un‐paralleled explosion with jobs, promotions and salaries (the latter subject to moral pressure) all in the ascendancy. The renunciation of Robbins has reversed these trends and, as all students of German industrial relations know, growth equates with good and recession with bad industrial relations (taking for the moment the superficial media definitions). In the case of universities it has been not so much the change to bad industrial relations as the emergence of industrial relations itself.

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Employee Relations, vol. 6 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0142-5455

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Publication date: 1 August 1998

Sue Wallis

Attempts to raise some of the sometimes unconsidered factors involved in partnership work that may hamper success. Aims, by examining one company’s approach and proposing a few…

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Attempts to raise some of the sometimes unconsidered factors involved in partnership work that may hamper success. Aims, by examining one company’s approach and proposing a few ideas, to stimulate further thoughts and hopefully initiate discussion about the way forward. Particularly important is the need for co‐ordination at national level. The process of matching national needs to those of individual organizations to enable a more strategic approach is the key issue.

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Education + Training, vol. 40 no. 6/7
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0040-0912

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Publication date: 1 May 1976

Anthony Holbrook

Further education in Britain is beginning a period of severe economic restraint, with colleges being obliged to operate on static or even falling levels of finance and staffing…

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Further education in Britain is beginning a period of severe economic restraint, with colleges being obliged to operate on static or even falling levels of finance and staffing. Libraries in FE are, naturally, subject to these same pressures: the effect of inflation on book‐funds needs no underlining. Librarians in many colleges are trying to provide a college service with dwindling resources—in real terms—without lowering standards. Whatever the designation of the librarian in charge (tutor librarian, college librarian etc,) his main task must be to maximise benefits from the given level of resources allocated to the library. This paper aims to describe very briefly some of the management techniques which may be helpful to, but often ignored by the typical librarian in charge of 1 or 2 clerical assistants, and, at the most, a professionally qualified deputy.

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New Library World, vol. 77 no. 5
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0307-4803

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Recognising Students who Care for Children while Studying
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ISBN: 978-1-83982-672-6

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Publication date: 1 January 2004

Sanford Ikeda

The term “dynamics of interventionism” refers to a social process, i.e., a sequence of adjustments to change over time, among a great many individuals, who largely share a common…

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The term “dynamics of interventionism” refers to a social process, i.e., a sequence of adjustments to change over time, among a great many individuals, who largely share a common set of rules of interaction.1 It is constituted by the unintended consequences at the interface between the governmental and market processes, when the scope of government is either expanding or contracting in relation to the market. Interventionism is the doctrine or system based on the limited use of political means (i.e., legitimized violent aggression (Oppenheimer, 1975[1914])) to address problems identified with laissez-faire capitalism. Thus, an intervention refers to the use of, or the threat of using, political means to influence non-violent actions and exchanges. Supporters of interventionism do not completely reject the institutions of capitalism, such as private property and the price system, but do favor using piecemeal interventions that extend beyond so-called minimal-state capitalism2 in order to combat suspected failures or abuses they associate with the unhampered market. Examples of this would include, but are not limited to, market power, externality, asymmetric information, income inequality, racial and sexual discrimination, and the business cycle.

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The Dynamics of Intervention: Regulation and Redistribution in the Mixed Economy
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ISBN: 978-0-76231-053-1

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