... Professions andthepublicinterest Do professions subordinate their own self-interests to thepublic interest? In Professions andthePublicInterest Mike Saks develops a theoretical and ... underlining the normative content of thepublic interest, there must be grave doubts as to whether they can be used to assess the extent to which professional self-interests hold sway over thepublicinterest ... for the defence of the established professions in England From the outset, the new ideology contained references to the duty of professions to serve the wider, public interest; Percival’s standard...
... objections to the notion that there is some genuine light between what the Court says and does, on the one hand, andthe true Constitution somewhere in the background, on the other Fallon himself ... historical understandings of the practices that constitutional rights prohibited, on the one hand, and historical understandings of the practices that rights did not proscribe, on the other, and contends ... document (and its amendments).96 After all, to wrench the document away from the understandings of the drafters, the ratifiers, andthe rest of the founding generation, is to exacerbate the tension...
... from thepublic power of ruling elites and from the ‘people’, who lacked the skills and opportunity to make public use of their reason The basis of public opinion, Habermas argues, was ‘class interest , ... within thepublic sphere, however defined They investigate who owned the papers, who wrote for them, how they were distributed and who read them, and attempt to assess how far audience composition and ... texts, their presentation and format, the topics they covered, the way issues were presented andthe messages, overt and implicit, that they contained Such a comprehensive approach to the comparative...
... conservative propaganda, and with the break up of the radical associations andthe consequent erosion of the links between these organisations and other intellectual currents and circles, the conditions ... in the more pressing conflicts of the age The complex intersection of these two histories – the political turmoil of the 1790s andthe broader hegemonic shift towards the meritocratic bias of the ... borrowed from thepublic stock of art and science, they repaid with interest, by the pleasure and instruction which they afford mankind’ (1 (1812): 358–9) Far from equating literature – the public...
... a theoretical framework to highlight the transformability of professionalism and to assess the changing relationships between professions, the state andthepublic in the wake of new demands and ... of professions, the state andthe public; andthe potential, as well as the obstacles, of corporatism and professional self-regulation for modernisation The options and limitations of a new professionalism, ... 2004) They also highlight the tensions between culture and discourse, on the one hand, and regulation and action that are based on professional interests, on the other Saks argues that the professionalisation...
... dedicated to the furtherance of science and technology and to their use for the general welfare Upon the authority of the charter granted to it by the Congress in 1863, the Academy has a mandate that ... from the councils of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, andthe Institute of Medicine The members of the committee responsible for the report were chosen for their ... secure the services of eminent members of appropriate professions in the examination of policy matters pertaining to the health of thepublicThe Institute acts under the responsibility given to the...
... utility when they send their child to university andthe right hand side the utility when they not The household with a child of ability am will be called the marginal household The marginal ... benefit from the university and those who send their children to the university The left hand side of (2.37) is average marginal social welfare from the former group, andthe right hand side of ... know that the level of public good will be produced to the point where summation of MRS is less than MRT The right hand side is MRT between thepublic good andthe private good Define X as the total...
... of public health on the premise that public health is more properly accountable to politics and economics and so falls outside the domain of law The tensions between private andpublic law, and ... treatment is Eg, Mumford, L, The City in History, 1961, Harmondsworth: Penguin Eg, the work of Plato and Aristotle on theorising the citizen andthepublic domain; Plato, The Republic, Lee, D (trans), ... How the individual is perceived, the nature of individual responsibility andthe relationship between the State andthe individual are all relevant aspects of the categorisations of public and...
... related to climate change and require states and localities to report the findings to thepublicand federal government I The U.S Centers for Disease Control and Prevention andthe National Institutes ... people inland Public health and health care professionals must be ready to address the added stress on thepublic health and health care infrastructure 19 RESEARCH AND ACCOUNTABILITY While there ... (ASTHO, NACCHO), and other non-traditional public health partners affected by the impacts of climate change; and I Educated thepublicand professionals by presenting to community groups, professional...
... Diagnosing the Roller Coaster 10 The Income Gap The Consumption Gap The Housing Crisis Investment and Profit The Credit B alloon andthe Financial Crisis Government Spending and Taxes The Trade ... purchase the goods they badly need And then yet more employees will lose their jobs The number of unemployed climbs by millions as the economy produces less and less, and employs fewer and fewer ... another example of the topsy-turvy nature of the economy Employees lose their j obs because the commodities they produce go unsold But without a job or income , they too will lack the money they...
... Night andthe following day, they were ‘‘everyone’’ and ‘‘London’’ and even ‘‘England.’’ They were created as a group by the newspapers, and this chapter examines the mechanism of their creation and ... the food stocks, andthe mood of the garrison The tactics of the Daily Mail captured the attention of the nation; the newspaper dramatized the situation of the town by emphasizing the danger that ... don’t know they know thepublic ’ (quoted in Koss Rise and Fall ) The Victorian cult of personality had moved into the press by the turn of the century, andthe military version of the focus...
... service they provide, they will try to expand both the size of their operation andthe funds spent on it—but they have to make tradeoffs between the two objectives Whenever they expand their size, they ... instance, that the Republican candidate chooses position R, but the Democrat remains at D1 The Republican will take all the votes to the left of R and roughly half the votes between R and D1 She ... receive the majority support from A, B and C Similarly, the road will pass with the support of A, C, and E, andthe school will pass Chapter 16 Public Choice: Politics in Government andthe Workplace...
... Program, 2004-2005 The Appraisal of Development Expenditures Project appraisal and risk management for thepublic sector A IDEA AND PROJECT DEFINITION KEY QUESTIONS: a Where is the demand? b is this ... appraisal and risk management for thepublic sector OUTPUT OF MODULE – Technology and life of project – Quantities of inputs by type needed – For investment and operation – Labour required by type and ... Program, 2004-2005 The Appraisal of Development Expenditures Project appraisal and risk management for thepublic sector C FEASIBILITY STUDY Focus is on improving accuracy of the key Variables...
... Sexual and Reproductive Health andthe Millennium Development Goals takes these arguments further and presents the evidence of the relationship between SRH and each Goal It underscores the urgent ... of the report defines the concept of SRH and rights and brings out the linkages between the Programme of Action from the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) andthe ... in these ways that the MDGs build on the important outcomes of the ICPD, and they should be viewed as a strong recommitment to the vision, aspirations and goals of that landmark event Four of the...
... Staikouras (2003) and Staikouras (2006) for a survey) The first one is about the determinants of the banks’ exposure to interest rate risk, andthe second one deals with the relationship of theinterest ... (which explains the multiplication with Ei (t) andthe division by 130) The variable ki (t) states the ratio of the bank’s interest rate exposure to theinterest rate risk exposure of the bond portfolio, ... disentangle the contributions of the systematic factor and of the regulation One can expect some correlation between the regulatory variables outi (t) and out2i (t) on the one hand, andthe variables...
... +1 ], (12) 0, otherwise, and where x is the value of the explanatory variable (the time distance to the merger, in our case) The values xi denote the “knots” of the spline, andthe coefficients, ... opposite, the “structureconduct-performance hypothesis” The “efficiency hypothesis” states that the merged bank might reach economies of scale and other efficiency gains and transfer these to the customers ... rather than to other stakeholders The “structure-conduct-performance hypothesis”, on the other hand, states that the merged bank may exploit its increased market power and impose interest rates...
... orthodoxy Therefore, it also seems likely that the recent financial and economic crisis the Great Panic and Recession of 2008 and 2009—will both rearrange the economic landscape and affect the focus ... solved and responses given Quarters of the term premium andthe other variables of the model to economic shocks can be computed Figures and show the impulse response functions of the term premium and ... from the Blue Chip Consensus survey at the five-year horizon and from the Survey of Professional Forecasters at the ten-year horizon The relatively close match between the model-implied and the...
... experience THE SUMMIT ON INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE ANDTHE HEALTH OF THEPUBLICThe IOM Summit on Integrative Medicine andthe Health of thePublic was sponsored by the Bravewell Collaborative, and was ... of their own health and wellness This publication, Integrative Medicine andthe Health of the Public: A Summary of the 2009 Summit, provides an account of the discussion and presentations of the ... ON INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE ANDTHE HEALTH OF THEPUBLICThe IOM Summit on Integrative Medicine andthe Health of thePublic was sponsored by the Bravewell Collaborative and was planned by a 14-member...
... of the urban landscape as a whole On the other hand, commercial businesses and retail spaces are a constituent part of city life and a contributing factor to the integration of people andthe ... on the everyday life and culture of the pedestrian precinct The fourth chapter, Shopping andthe Rhythms of Urban Life, deals with the impact of retail rhythms on urban life andthe urban landscape, ... the middle of their city, where they come together to cheat each other and forswear themselves If I live, the Spartans shall have troubles enough of their own to talk of, without concerning themselves...