Abstract After the recapture of Constantinople (1261), Michael VIII Palaiologos (1259–82) re-shaped city through extensive building activities. Though scholars have previously considered involvement Emperor in urban restoration capital, no attention has been devoted to links between different aspects this programme renewal. This paper advocates for presence an ambitious and systematic plan behi...

Conceptions of indiûidual autonomy and of rational autonomy have played large parts in twentieth century moral philosophy, yet it is hard to see how either could be basic to morality. Kant’s conception of autonomy is radically different. He predicated autonomy neither of individual selves nor of processes of choosing, but of principles of action. Principles of action are Kantianly autonomous on...

Prior research, especially in the UK, has established a positive relationship, in crosssectional regression analyses, between market value and dividends. This result holds after controlling for the effects of earnings, book value, major media advertising expenditures, research and development expenditures, capital expenditures, capital contributions and ‘other information’. Papers with this res...