The advertising standardisation debate revisited

’Gift vs. commoditiy’ debate revisited

The purpose of this article is to offer some new insights into the ‘gift vs. commodity’ debate. It examines the assumption that commodities and gifts represent two different realities, as first proposed by Marcel Mauss and later elaborated by Chriss Gregory and other anthropologists. It analyzes the conjecture that commodity-exchange is an exchange of alienable, impersonal and anonymous items, ...

Left atrial appendage occlusion debate revisited.

756 T he left atrial appendage (LAA) has been deemed by some to be our " most lethal attachment, " and the concept of excluding it from systemic circulation has been thought to hold great promise. This concept has been around since 1948, when John Madden 1 proclaimed it a plausible therapy for recurrent emboli in atrial fibrillation. Despite this, higher-quality evidence in the field is only ju...

The Population Debate in Historical Perspective: Revisionism Revisited 1.0 Revisionism and the Population Debate 1.1 Setting

Demographic Studies, Duke University. An early version of this paper was presented at the Nobel Symposium in Economics, December 5-7, Lund, Sweden, 1991. I wish to acknowledge comments on this earlier draft by Nancy Birdsall, John Bongaarts, Martin Bronfenbrenner, A. W. Coats, Ansley J. Coale, Peter J. Donaldson, Richard A. Easterlin, Dennis Hodgson, Nathan Keyfitz, Geoffrey McNicoll, Thomas W....

‘Tension between Standardisation and Flexibility’ Revisited: A Critique

This paper is a critique on Hanseth et al. (1996), a study that centres on the question: does standardisation fix the parameters of ICT development and thus hamper innovation. Its conclusions are based on arguments drawn from the classic OSI (Open Systems Interconnection) TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) debate. This paper starts with an analysis of the different aspects...

Dogmatism, Pragmatism, Essentialism, Relativism: The Boas/Mason Museum Debate Revisited