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• Cambridge University tries to soft soap elitist image

  - 2008-09-02

  LONDON AFP — Cambridge University is trying to shake off its elitist image by courting the scriptwriters of Britain's favourite soap operas, a spokesman confirmed Tuesday. The university's PR department has suggested appropriate plotlines to story editors at "EastEnders", which chronicles life in a modest east London square, and...

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• Reciprocal Comparison and African History: Tackling Conceptual Eurocentrism in the Study of Africa's Economic Past

  - 2007-12-01

  Abstract: This article argues for constructive responses to the dominance, in the analysis of African economic history, of concepts derived from Western experience. It reviews the existing responses of this kind, highlighting the fact that some of the most influential ideas applied to African economies, past and present, have been...

  Tags: Africa, African, Cambridge, economist, Europe, Famine, London, theory, University of Cambridge

• Mill versus liberty: a review of Linda C. Raeder's John Stuart Mill and the Religion of Humanity

  - 2005-04-01

  Introduction SINCE MAURICE COWLING'S CLASSIC BUT SADLY NEGLECTED STUDY 40 years ago, only Joseph Hamburger (1976, 1991, 1995, 1999) has identified the "anti-Christian theme" in the Essay on Liberty or has considered the significance for our understanding of Mill's thought as a whole of his "profound commitment to the...

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• The conduct of policy analysis: philosophical points of reference.

  - 2004-07-01

  Introduction This paper explicates and critically reviews, within a philosophical framework, the competing approaches to policy analysis. It does so by drawing upon the philosophy of the social sciences to construct a taxonomy of contesting epistemological and ontological understandings. With the resultant set...

  Tags: agency, analysis, analyst, Cambridge, compliance, ethics, knowledge, London, theory, University of Cambridge

• Books received: JSEAS 2004, 1.

  - 2004-02-01

  Asia Mobile cultures: New media in queer Asia Edited by CHRIS BERRY, FRAN MARTIN, and AUDREY YUE. Durham: Duke University Press, 2003. ISBN 0 8223 3087 3 Nature in the global South: Environmental projects in South and Southeast Asia...

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• offa's dyke between NATURE AND CULTURE

  - 2004-01-01

  AT THE END of the twentieth century, postclassical Europe basked in the warm glow cast by a revisionist historiography that emphasized the early Middle Ages' many accomplishments. This was quite an achievement for a period often disparaged as the Dark Ages. But in the decades after the second World War,...

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• Marshall's dilemma: equilibrium versus evolution

  - 2003-12-01

  Alfred Marshall remains somewhat of an enigmatic figure in the evolution of economic analysis. Historians of economic thought almost invariably accord Marshall a prominent role in the early development of "neoclassical" economics and in partial equilibrium analysis in particular. However, as Gerald Shove's (1942) and Joseph Schumpeter's (1941) semi-centennial appraisals...

  Tags: analysis, biology, Cambridge, G., London, M., Marshall, metaphor, Spencer, Strategy, theory, University of Cambridge

• Help one another, use one another: toward an anthropology of family business

  - 2003-06-22

  Anthropological kinship theory is explored for potential contributions to a theory of family business. This article considers the costs and benefits of a role for kinship in business. Both derive from the discrepancy between the normative orders of kinship and markets; respectively, long-term generalized reciprocity and short-term balanced reciprocity. Because...

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• Evolutionary history: Prospectus for a new field

  - 2003-04-01

  IT WAS, evolutionary biologist Theodosius Dobzhansky wrote in 1937, "probably the best proof of the effectiveness of natural selection yet obtained."1 If we were guessing what Dobzhansky had in mind, we might nominate some of the classic examples from evolutionary biology and paleontology. Charles Darwin's tortoises in the Galapagos Islands?...

  Tags: biology, Cambridge, London, species, University of Cambridge

• extent of Charles Darwin's knowledge of Mendel, The

  - 2003-01-01

  ABSTRACTAccording to several publications, Charles Darwin received a copy of Gregor Mendel's cornerstone paper, "Versuche uber pflanzen hybriden" (1865) but did not read it. Furthermore, a recent book refers to the "mystery" of Darwin supplying Mendel's name for inclusion in the hybridism entry for the Encyclopaedia Britannica in 1880. The...

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