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... understanding of “self ” and a sense of separation f rom others Our right brain creates a f eeling of “we,” that wonderf ul sense of connection with one another and the inef f able awe of living in the ... categorize the sensory experiences ofthe right brain As Taylor explains, “My lef t brain is doing the best job it can with the inf ormation it has to work with I need to remember, however, that there ... hese are the seven steps: 1) Interrupt the Pattern 2) Create Comf ort 3) 4) 5) 6) 7) Lead the Imagination [Link to previous article] Shif t the Feeling Satisf y the Critical Mind Change the Associations...
... auditors on the board of client firms.”3 Fifth, the main bank monitors on behalf of all creditors Other banks delegate the job of monitoring the debtor to the main bank, in other words, and thereby ... (the columns) and by the total amounts 288 Does Relationship Banking Matter? they borrow from banks (the rows) For each ofthe resulting 16 cells, we then calculate the mean ofthe fraction of ... collapsed at the end ofthe decade, they found themselves without recourse As their best clients abandoned them for bonds during the 1980s boom, moreover, the banks began to court firms they had earlier...
... Norway, and Sweden The Netherlands accounted for the other two instances Four of these six adjustments took place in the mid-1990s, a period of robust growth in most ofthe world The other two instances ... feeling the pain ofthe downturn They have managed to adjust to an environment of lower output by increasing their profit margins Even CEPR TheMythof Expansionary Fiscal Austerity though their ... and 1b Losses of this magnitude swamp the damage done by even the worst policy mistakes ofthe last half-century The losses from the recession also vastly exceed the cost of any ofthe government...
... mythology and cosmogony, to resort to the era of that primal reconstruction ofthe theory of a Deity, when the human philosophy in the oriental world ascribed the godship ofthe universe to the ... nor they employ words which are not known to their vocabulary It is in these legends that we obtain their true views of life and death, their religion, their theory ofthe state ofthe dead, their ... way through the regions of space, to the Indian paradise; and also in the legend ofthe White Stone Canoe The general myth, is recognized in the legend ofthe Iroquois, under the name of Hiawatha,...
... itself.”17 The modern field of southern history came of age during the reign ofthe “liberal consensus,” when the myths of American exceptionalism were at their most powerful, and when the conflation of ... the “apogee” of southern distinctiveness in the late 1800s, a majority ofthe residents ofthe southern states would not have “accepted ‘southern’ as the social identity most explanatory of their ... because ofthe exclusion of black southerners from his concept ofthe “Southern people,” and because ofthe existence of multiple “Souths” and multiple “Americas” rather than a unitary version of...
... of these is the theory ofthe ‘comparative advantages’ ofthe underdeveloped countries According to this theory, a hyper-free market is required so that the advantages that the countries ofthe ... elected decide the value of a country’s currency, the price of its raw materials, the cost of credit, and the prices of energy or food These unknown persons thus affect the fate of millions of people ... ofthe explosive growth ofthe poor urban population ofthe underdeveloped countries In this new edition ofTheMythof Development, I also discuss another enormous obstacle to development: the...
... America— "the climate, the soil, the length ofthe day, the wants ofthe people, the habit and form ofthe government"—in short, to make the present facts of American life as important a source of inspiration ... there is a general sloughing off ofthe old skin, towards a new youth It is themythof America."6 The "shedding ofthe skin" that Lawrence associated with the American myth was, of course, the ... frontier experience of its recent past The books are noteworthy not only in their theme but also in the way their theme is dramatized by the order of their composition The first, The Pioneers, composed...
... Cassirer, dubbed the ‘father ofthe modern study of myths’²⁹ who described myth as a potentially destructive force in his highly influential TheMythofthe State published after the Second World ... elements of other historical narratives His myth was closely entwined with the notion of German ‘innocence’ for the outbreak of war in 1914, the saviour theme, the ‘stab-in -the- back’ legend, and the ... worthy of touching the sole ofthe feet ofthe genius it depicts: it’s blasphemy.’⁸³ The mayor of Berlin, on the other hand, remained entirely unmoved by such allegations Despite the fact that the...