The British government's current educational policy for England draws on E.D. Hirsch's writings 'cultural literacy'. This paper aims to uncover the roots of Hirsch’s influential views through a genealogical critique. Hirsch admired Scottish Enlightenment educator Hugh Blair as model architect hegemonic culture unite disparate members nation. Following Hirsch, government Department Education in ...

In this paper we consider the genealogy of two nested mutant alleles, assuming the constant-size neutral coalescent model with infinite sites mutation. We study the conditional genealogy and derive explicit formulas for the joint and marginal site frequency spectra for the double, single and zero mutant allele. In addition, we find the mean ages of the two mutations. We show that the age of the...

Software reliability is determined by software changes. How do these changes relate to each other? By analyzing the impacted method definitions and usages, we determine dependencies between changes, resulting in a change genealogy that captures how earlier changes enable and cause later ones. Model checking this genealogy reveals temporal process patterns that encode key features of the softwar...

This working paper – like its companion, Caldwell and Klausinger 2021 grew out of the authors’ joint work on Hayek: A Life, 1899–1950 (Caldwell 2022) it contains material supplementing it. draws to a large extent Friedrich Hayek’s own investigations into genealogical roots his family. On paternal side family ancestry is traced back ennoblement Friedrich’s great-great-grandfather Josef Hayek in ...