SHORTLY BEFORE THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION the English philosopher John Locke put forward a theory of property that reflected the emerging capitalist system. This theory has often been interpreted as supposing that we, the human race, live on a frontier with the natural world, looking across to plentiful resources in an as yet un-tamed and un-owned wilderness. In the 1960s Kenneth Boulding, an ec...

mortality in excess of 20 percent was expected and endured. Successive expeditions into the interior ended in disaster. In Laird's 1831 expedition up the Niger River, 40 of the 49 European expedition members died, most of them from "fevers." In a second expedition of 1841, 130 of 145 expedition members had been ill and 40 of these had died. It was noted that indigenous Africans serving on the e...

Bargaining with reading habit is no need. Reading is not kind of something sold that you can take or not. It is a thing that will change your life to life better. It is the thing that will give you many things around the world and this universe, in the real world and here after. As what will be given by this the covenant of reason rationality and the commitments of thought, how can you bargain ...

We examine how the level of chief executive officer (CEO) overconfidence might affect a borrowing firm's ex ante covenant intensity and post violations. find that overconfident CEOs are less effective in steering firm away from unfavorable opportunistic behavior, hence creditors include more stringent restrictions loan contracts their firms. The interpretational bias other positive illusions co...

Abstract One of the notorious interpretive cruces within Synoptic Gospels concerns blasphemy against Holy Spirit. According to Jesus, this sin stands apart from and above all others as an unforgivable offense. Attempts explain internal logic these sayings their place Jesus’s teaching have left New Testament scholarship at impasse. The present study advances a fresh perspective: that Spirit mean...

After having received little attention over the past decades, one of the least known human rights--the right to enjoy the benefits of scientific progress and its applications--has had its dust blown off. Although included in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR)--be it at the very end of both instrumen...