A Place to Stand

A place to stand.

234 January 2014 OOur job was to render her unconscious and insensate to the scraping within her body. Barely nineteen, Lisa had come to us to terminate a pregnancy. Now, she lay stiffly on the table, grasping her fingers so tightly that her nails left an imprint. I had placed a 16-gauge IV, our single point of access, and within minutes her fears, hopes and pains were entangled in tubes and wi...

Studying and Teaching “Law as Rhetoric”: A Place to Stand

A Place to Stand For Environmental Law and Economic Analysis ?

In doing normative environmental economics economists usually use WTP figures for losses when WTA figures are correct. We puzzle over moral issues involved in using discount rates and worry about equity effect not normally considered in benefit cost analysis. We wonder if individuals who will never use an amenity should have their existence values counted and if so if then we should also count ...

Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.

The fundamental challenge of C2 agility is to increase the rationality of operations. An important vehicle for doing so is by increasing the rationality of assessment, from seeing rationality as a mere matter of “facts” and “objective analysis”, to seeing rationality as a function of human cognition in relation to the structures of the environment. At the heart of C2 lies the problem of dealing...

To stand or not to stand.

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