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‘Oft turning others' leaves' : la contrainte de l' imitatio dans les sonnets anglais des XVIe et XVIIe siècles
2009
In the sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries, imitation was not usually considered a constraint by poets. Yet Sir Philip Sidney, in his sonnet cycle Astrophil and Stella, seems to advocate a new form of poetic writing based on personal experience and originality, even if he uses the traditional device of impossible love imitated from Petrarchan sonneteers. Stella appears as a new constraint, and her absence and coldness trigger a reflection on the impossibility to write.
Sidney Armor Reeve: Engineer, Inventor, Progressive, and Underappreciated Utopian
2022
Sidney Armor Reeve, professional engineer and amateur historian, economist, and sociologist, writing during what has been described as the Progressive Era, at-tacked the very foundations of the existing economic and social orders. He explic-itly criticized the dominant commercialism of the capitalist society as being a can-cer, a major cause of inequality and unemployment, offering instead a program of reform that, while some reviewers characterized it as consistent with the program of the socialists, presented something of an alternative vision, one recognizing the primacy of the Ultimate Consumer. His remedy, favoring as it did the central con-trol of the economy, shared at least commonal…
The past and future of evolutionary economics: some reflections based on new bibliometric evidence
2016
The modern wave of ‘evolutionary economics’ was launched in 1982 with the classic study by Nelson and Winter. This paper reports a broad bibliometric analysis of ‘evolutionary’ research in the disciplines of management, business, economics, and sociology over 25 years from 1986 to 2010. It confirms that Nelson and Winter's book (An evolutionary theory of economic change, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1982) is an enduring nodal reference point for this broad field. The bibliometric evidence suggests that ‘evolutionary economics’ has benefitted from the rise of business schools and other interdisciplinary institutions, which have provided a home for evolutionary terminology, but it…