The Evolution of Evolution, by Phin Upham
By contributor Phin Upham The word evolution has changed its meaning over the past century with the introduction of Darwinian theories. Despite this shift in usage, many of the connotations and shades of meaning of older usages have carried over to today. The word evolution is sometimes used today as a crude amalgamation of two ...
‘Economic Sociology’ by Phin Upham
By Phin Upham Garry Becker, who won the Nobel Prize in economics in 1998, and others have used economics to explain not only the pricing of airplane tickets, but also a broader range of phenomena – the effects of war on savings rates, why we vote or do not vote, and why people discriminate on ...
“CEO Longevity” by Phin Upham
By Phin Upham William Ocasio’s essay Political Dynamics and the Circulation of Power: CEO succession in U.S. Industrial Corporations, 1960-1990, explores central structural factors that influence CEO longevity. He identified two competing frameworks with which to view CEO longevity, the model of the institutionalization of power and the model of the circulation of power. Each ...
The House of Mirth
By Phin Upham In The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton refers to New York society as a “great gilt cage.”(p59) Wharton gives us an intricate account of how Lily Bart, a beautiful, charming, sensitive young woman was debased and destroyed in that fashionable society in which she was born and reared. To some extent Lily ...
“What is a Justified Belief?” by Phin Upham
By Phin Upham Having a justified belief does require you to know that your belief is justified but it does not require you to know what this justification is. You need not be able to defend your beliefs against criticism. In holding these beliefs I take the Weak Internalist position. Most of our beliefs are ...
Firm Excellence
By contributing author Phin Upham The knowledge based view builds on the capabilities view and adds crucial and distinct elements. The resource based view emphasizesvaluable, rare, imperfectly imitable, and without common, imitable, or strategically equivalent substitutes (Barney 1991) and sees firms as a bundle of capabilities which can be explained or built up to gain ...
Empiricist Humanism
By Phin Upham Paul Valery’s aphorism “’man thinks, therefor I am’ said the universe” epitomizes the idea expressed by Keats’ in “Autumn.” The act of observing does more than recognize, for Keats, it creates. The concept of length, for example, is not measured but created with the invention of the ruler. In ”Autumn,” Keats revolutionizes ...
Experience America
By Phin Upham As debate about Afghanistan and Iraq rages in the US, and Radio Free America tries to spread free market ideas and encourage democracy in the former USSR and Middle East, it is often left out that experience is the best teacher. We should be welcoming the best youths of the world to ...
Hercules Firing Arrows at his Children
By Phin Upham “Hercules Firing Arrows at his Children,” by Antonio Canova, is a moving and masterful piece of art. The genius of this work lies not only in its subtle use of detail to convey meaning, but also in the way it conveys emotion. Painted with oil on paper in 1799 and glued to ...