The Fed as a moral enterprise - a framework for decision-making

Central bankers are currently rethinking the frameworks of monetary policy in light of the extreme disruptions and unprecedented policies of the Global Financial Crisis. The paper examines whether a rule based approach that incorporates moral considerations beyond economic utilitarianism could provide a more fair, effective and stable monetary system. It demonstrates that criticisms of Fed policies raise moral questions that reflect a widely held normative framework in the monetary arena. The paper abstracts from the criticisms and elaborates a pluralistic framework based in the work of moral philosopher W.D. Ross consisting of the basic duties of non-harm, beneficence, fidelity, justice, and reparation. It outlines a decision system that relies on moral intuition and strict attention to the facts to balance competing considerations and derive the duty to be followed in the particular circumstance.Les banquiers centraux repensent actuellement les cadres de la politique monétaire à la lumière des perturbations extrêmes et des politiques sans précédent de la crise financière mondiale. L’article examine si une approche fondée sur des règles qui intègre des considérations morales au-delà de l'utilitarisme économique pourrait fournir un système monétaire plus juste, efficace et stable. Il démontre que les critiques des politiques de la Fed soulèvent des questions morales qui reflètent un cadre normatif largement répandu dans le domaine monétaire. L'article résume les critiques et élabore un cadre pluraliste basé sur le travail du philosophe moral W.D.Ross, composé des devoirs fondamentaux de non-préjudice, de bienfaisance, de fidélité, de justice et de réparation. Il décrit un système de décision qui repose sur l'intuition morale et une attention stricte aux faits pour équilibrer les considérations alternatives et dériver le devoir à suivre dans les circonstances particulières

Conservation Biology & U.S. Forest Service Views of Ecosystem Management and What They Imply About Policies Needed to Achieve Sustainability of Biodiversity

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Are Delayed Issues Harder to Resolve? Revisiting Cost-to-Fix of Defects throughout the Lifecycle

Many practitioners and academics believe in a delayed issue effect (DIE); i.e. the longer an issue lingers in the system, the more effort it requires to resolve. This belief is often used to justify major investments in new development processes that promise to retire more issues sooner. This paper tests for the delayed issue effect in 171 software projects conducted around the world in the period from 2006--2014. To the best of our knowledge, this is the largest study yet published on this effect. We found no evidence for the delayed issue effect; i.e. the effort to resolve issues in a later phase was not consistently or substantially greater than when issues were resolved soon after their introduction. This paper documents the above study and explores reasons for this mismatch between this common rule of thumb and empirical data. In summary, DIE is not some constant across all projects. Rather, DIE might be an historical relic that occurs intermittently only in certain kinds of projects. This is a significant result since it predicts that new development processes that promise to faster retire more issues will not have a guaranteed return on investment (depending on the context where applied), and that a long-held truth in software engineering should not be considered a global truism.Comment: 31 pages. Accepted with minor revisions to Journal of Empirical Software Engineering. Keywords: software economics, phase delay, cost to fi

Rethinking Secular Time in Victorian England

This open access book draws on conceptual resources ranging from medieval scholasticism to postmodern theory to propose a new understanding of secular time and its mediation in nineteenth-century technological networks. Untethering the concept of secularity from questions of ‘religion’ and ‘belief’, it offers an innovative rethinking of the history of secularisation that will appeal to students, scholars, and everyone interested in secularity, Victorian culture, the history of technology, and the temporalities of modernity

Rethinking Secular Time in Victorian England

This open access book draws on conceptual resources ranging from medieval scholasticism to postmodern theory to propose a new understanding of secular time and its mediation in nineteenth-century technological networks. Untethering the concept of secularity from questions of ‘religion’ and ‘belief’, it offers an innovative rethinking of the history of secularisation that will appeal to students, scholars, and everyone interested in secularity, Victorian culture, the history of technology, and the temporalities of modernity

Rethinking Secular Time in Victorian England

This open access book draws on conceptual resources ranging from medieval scholasticism to postmodern theory to propose a new understanding of secular time and its mediation in nineteenth-century technological networks. Untethering the concept of secularity from questions of ‘religion’ and ‘belief’, it offers an innovative rethinking of the history of secularisation that will appeal to students, scholars, and everyone interested in secularity, Victorian culture, the history of technology, and the temporalities of modernity.Rethinking Secular Time in Victorian EnglandpublishedVersio

Time Machines: technology, temporality, and the Victorian social imaginary

Drawing on the conceptual framework developed by Charles Taylor in his A Secular Age (2007), this thesis seeks to recast the question of Victorian ‘secularization’ – a notion largely abandoned by historians. It does so by analysing the temporal dimension of three Victorian social imaginaries and their technological performance: railways and the establishment of a uniform national time; newspapers and the public sphere; and Bank of England paper notes and the integration of a national economy. It argues that in all three cases, a concept of secular time was actively invested and embedded on the level of the social imaginary and its material mediation. This allows historians again to speak of a process of secularization, albeit only on this particular level. However—and contrary to Taylor—the thesis argues that the temporal structure of Victorian modernity comprised two kinds of time at this very level, articulated together in a dialectic fashion: a secular time conceived as isochronic, abstract, and independent of motion; and a historical time conceived as pure qualitative duration. In this way, the thesis contributes towards the development of a genuinely postsecular paradigm for future research into the nature of Victorian modernity

Rethinking Secular Time in Victorian England

This open access book draws on conceptual resources ranging from medieval scholasticism to postmodern theory to propose a new understanding of secular time and its mediation in nineteenth-century technological networks. Untethering the concept of secularity from questions of ‘religion’ and ‘belief’, it offers an innovative rethinking of the history of secularisation that will appeal to students, scholars, and everyone interested in secularity, Victorian culture, the history of technology, and the temporalities of modernity

Narratives and stories of an “anti-racist racist:” making whiteness visible, bridging the gap between the individual and systems of oppression

The central purpose of this research is to make whiteness visible, to help white students’ overcome resistance to and denial of racism, white privilege, and racial inequities in the classroom. This research uses autoethnography, as a methodological approach with an emphasis on an analysis of the interactions between individuals and institutions. This research draws upon the emphasis on institutions from “institutional ethnography.” The methodological approach is framed by letter writing with elements of the “storytelling project model” using personal narratives and composite stories from the classroom. The theoretical framework for this research incorporates various theories, including constructivism theory, standpoint theory, critical theory, critical race theory, and critical Whiteness theory. This research examines my lived experiences and reflections, in the context of institutional social relations with the application of theoretical analysis, which work to deconstruct my whiteness to produce an authentic and rich explanation of white resistance to and denial of racism. This research is about bridging the gap between the individual and structure in order to alter oppressive cycles, seeking to raise awareness and create a space for open dialogue on racism to promote a more socially just society