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Anderson, Jennifer Susan. "Selfish, Excessive, Greedy: The Psychological Causes and Consequences of Perceptions of Greed." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/316780.
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Perceptions of greed permeate the popular business and management environment, yet the scholarly literature in these areas has given scant attention to greed and perceptions of greed. In three laboratory studies, I investigated both the antecedents and consequences of perceived greed. Contrary to a number of literatures' treatment of greed as simply a synonym for selfishness, I proposed that the three antecedents of perceived greed are distributive injustice, inference of a selfish motive to acquire, and relative deprivation. I then explored four key outcomes of perceived of greed: personal anger, moral outrage, punishment behaviors, and social distancing behaviors. Results demonstrated that perceptions of greed are formed when an individual experiences a distributive injustice, combined with an inference of a selfish motive to acquire, and that each of personal anger, moral outrage, punishment behaviors and social distancing are consequences of perceiving others as greedy. Relative deprivation contributed to perceptions of greed, but in a manner different from the hypothesized model.
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Altschuler, Jason (Jason M. ). "Greed, hedging, and acceleration in convex optimization." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/120409.
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Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2018.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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This thesis revisits the well-studied and practically motivated problem of minimizing a strongly convex, smooth function with first-order information. The first main message of the thesis is that, surprisingly, algorithms which are individually suboptimal can be combined to achieve accelerated convergence rates. This phenomenon can be intuively understood as "hedging" between safe strategies (e.g. slowly converging algorithms) and aggressive strategies (e.g. divergent algorithms) since bad cases for the former are good cases for the latter, and vice versa. Concretely, we implement the optimal hedging by simply running Gradient Descent (GD) with prudently chosen stepsizes. This result goes against the conventional wisdom that acceleration is impossible without momentum. The second main message is a universality result for quadratic optimization. We show that, roughly speaking, "most" Krylov-subspace algorithms are asymptotically optimal (in the worst-case) and "most" quadratic functions are asymptotically worst-case functions (for all algorithms). From an algorithmic perspective, this goes against the conventional wisdom that accelerated algorithms require extremely careful parameter tuning. From a lower-bound perspective, this goes against the conventional wisdom that there are relatively few "worst functions in the world" and they have lots of structure. It also goes against the conventional wisdom that a quadratic function is easier to optimize when the initialization error is more concentrated on certain eigenspaces - counterintuitively, we show that so long as this concentration is not "pathologically" extreme, this only leads to faster convergence in the beginning iterations and is irrelevant asymptotically. Part I of the thesis shows the algorithmic side of this universality by leveraging tools from potential theory and harmonic analysis. The main result is a characterization of non-adaptive randomized Krylov-subspace algorithms which asymptotically achieve the so-called "accelerated rate" in the worst case. As a special case, this recovers the known fact that GD accelerates when inverse stepsizes are i.i.d. from the Arcsine distribution. This distribution has a remarkable "equalizing" property: every quadratic function is equally easy to optimize. We interpret this as "optimal hedging" since there is no worst-case function. Leveraging the equalizing property also provides other new insights including asymptotic isotropy of the iterates around the optimum, and uniform convergence guarantees for extending our analysis to l2. Part II of the thesis shows the lower-bound side of this universality by connecting quadratic optimization to the universality of orthogonal polynomials. We also characterize, for every finite number of iterations n, all worst-case quadratic functions for n iterations of any Krylov-subspace algorithm. Previously no tight constructions were known. (Note the classical construction of [Nemirovskii and Yudin, 1983] is only tight asymptotically.) As a corollary, this result also proves that randomness does not help Krylov-subspace algorithms. Combining the results in Parts I and II uncovers a duality between optimal Krylov-subspace algorithms and worst-case quadratic functions. It also shows new close connections between quadratic optimization, orthogonal polynomials, Gaussian quadrature, Jacobi operators, and their spectral measures. Part III of the thesis extends the algorithmic techniques in Part I to convex optimization. We first show that running the aforementioned random GD algorithm accelerates on separable convex functions. This is the first convergence rate that exactly matches the classical quadratic-optimization lower bound of [Nemirovskii and Yudin, 1983] on any class of convex functions richer than quadratics. This provides partial evidence suggesting that convex optimization might be no harder than quadratic optimization. However, these techniques (provably) do not extend to general convex functions. This is roughly because they do not require all observed data to be consistent with a single valid function - we call this "stitching." We turn to a semidefinite programming formulation of worst-case rate from [Taylor et al., 2017] that ensures stitching. Using this we compute the optimal GD stepsize schedules for 1, 2, and 3 iterations, and show that they partially accelerate on general convex functions. These optimal schedules for convex optimization are remarkably different from the optimal schedules for quadratic optimization. The rate improves as the number of iterations increases, but the algebraic systems become increasingly complicated to solve and the general case eludes us.
by Jason Altschuler.
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Hill, Declan. "Greed and Glory : Match-fixing in Professional Football." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.504026.
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Crandall, Gary E. "The relation of the believer's completeness to Christ's completeness in Colossians 2:9-10." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1986. http://www.tren.com.
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Engeldahl, Niclas, and Christer Jonsson. "Greed is good? : Om sambandet mellan aktiekurs och rörlig ersättning." Thesis, Umeå University, Umeå School of Business, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-1647.
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I Sverige började användandet av incitamentsprogram under 1980-talet. Sedan dess har formerna för incitamentsprogram utvecklats och de har kommit att bli allt vanligare och allt mer omfattande. Efter ett antal ”bonusskandaler” under början av 2000-talet blev det vanligare att koppla incitamentsprogrammen till någon form av motprestation. Det var våra funderingar kring hur kopplingen hänger ihop som ledde oss fram till problemformuleringen om det finns något samband mellan vd:ns rörliga ersättning och bolagets aktiekurs. Vi har utifrån en positivistisk syn behandlat problemet med ett deduktivt angreppssätt. Med en kvantitativ metod har vi undersökt sambandet i 66 svenska börsnoterade bolag. Undersökningen genomfördes via datainsamling från bolagens årsredovisningar under åren 2002-2006. De data som vi erhållit har analyserats statistiskt med hjälp av bland annat regressionsanalys. Den teoretiska grunden utgörs av agentteorin som kompletteras med motivations- och förväntningsteori. Tidigare forskning visar på blandade resultat när det gäller sambandet mellan ersättning och prestation. Tydligt är att det finns en mängd olika variabler som påverkar hur väl ett samband framträder, samt att åsikterna är delade om vilka dessa kan vara. De empiriska resultaten visar att det linjära sambandet mellan rörlig ersättning och kursutveckling är mycket svagt. Detta har varit den genomgående trenden i undersökningen. Vår undersökning har därför inte kunnat fastställa att det finns något samband mellan vd:ns rörliga ersättning och bolagets aktiekursutveckling. Den låga förklaringsgraden och de låga Betavärdena leder till slutsatsen att det är andra faktorer än de vi undersökt som påverkar vd:ns ersättning.
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Hartley, Christopher. "Fear and greed : financial crisis in the novel since 1850." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:f10d11fd-916d-480f-ac24-0379b1a5a71b.
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The financial crisis of 2008 has been the most significant global economic phenomenon of the new century. Sudden and largely unanticipated, this crisis nonetheless marks the latest in a series of financial panics that forms a welldocumented feature of finance capitalism stretching back to the Dutch Tulip Bubble of 1637 and beyond, including such notorious crises as the South Sea Bubble of 1720, the Railway Shares panics of 1837 and 1847, the Wall Street Crash of 1929, and Black Monday in 1987. These and other crises have fostered a complex and diverse intellectual response - particularly since the South Sea Bubble - that has included interventions not only from economists and economic historians, but poets, dramatists, novelists, and others. This raises the question of whether the novel’s contribution to our wider understanding of financial crises has been fully acknowledged and assessed. In this thesis, the complex and shifting relationship between literary and non-literary responses to financial crisis is explored through an examination of the ideas of political economists, philosophers, journalists, financiers, and others, including Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Lord Overstone, Walter Bagehot, Herbert Spencer, Thorstein Veblen, Joseph Schumpeter, and J.M. Keynes, that situates their theories alongside readings of novels of financial crisis from the 1850s onward.
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Patrick, Philippa Jane. "'Greed, gluttony and intemperance'? : testing the stereotype of the 'obese medieval monk'." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.414736.
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Potter, Gary. "Weed, need and greed : domestic marijuana production and the UK cannabis market." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2006. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/10377/.
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This study explores the phenomenon of domestic cannabis cultivation in the UK and examines its impact on the wider cannabis market. Cannabis growers were studied using both traditional and on-line ethnographic methods. Data was analysed both to produce a description of cannabis cultivation (and cannabis cultivators) in Britain and to analyse how domestic production of cannabis fits into our wider understanding of illegal drug markets. The thesis explores UK cannabis growing on a number of levels. Firstly it seeks to describe how cannabis is grown in Britain. Some is grown outside in natural conditions but most British cannabis is grown indoors with increasingly hi-tech cultivation methods being utilised. The method employed by an individual grower will depend on his opportunities, his intention for the crop and any ideological position which may influence his choice. We then explore who is involved in cannabis growing. At a basic level featuresdemographic and' ideological' - common to cannabis growers are considered. At a deeper level a typology of cannabis growers is offered based predominantly on motivation and ideology. The key point here is that a large number of cannabis growers seek no financial reward whatsoever for their involvement in what is essentially an act of drug trafficking. Others grow cannabis to make money, but are equally motivated by non-financial 'drivers'. Still others are mostly or entirely driven by financial considerations. These growers often display the same hall-marks as other organised crime outfits. Consumer concerns can be seen to influence the market with smaller independent 'social' and 'social/commercial' growers offering an ideo logical - ethical, even - alternative to larger scale organised crime outfits. Finally explanations for the recent surge in domestic cannabis cultivation are offered along with predictions for the future domestic production, not just of cannabis but other drugs as well.
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Voiles, Rebekah, and Clay Matthews. "Greed and Parrots: Examining the Emergence of Pirate Tropes in Treasure Island." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/asrf/2018/schedule/6.
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In modern pop-culture, the prevalence of tropes is eminent. Without a knowledge of common themes and overgeneralizations, an author’s work will fail to attract a sufficient audience. One of these encompassing tropes includes the pirate trope. Pirate tropes range from physical aspects, such as eyepatches and tricornes, to the psychological implications of greed and villainy. Understanding the origin of tropes helps eliminate the over usage and transformation of tropes. The current study, a textual analysis, examines the popularized pirate novel Treasure Island and compares its’ tropes to the first collection of pirate biographies, A General History of Pyrates. The researcher hopes to discover many, if not all, of the tropes found in Treasure Island originated, through explicit evidence or variances, from A General History of Pyrates. The study will also utilize the New Historicism approach. Through New Historicism, the researcher will examine what historical accounts, including political, cultural, and economic strife, led Treasure Island to emerge as the most well-known pirate novel, rather than its predecessors. Thus far, the research has indicated that Treasure Island emerged as the prime pirate novel due to several factors, including America’s proximity to piracy during the 18th century. These associations include, but are not limited to: America’s trade system with pirates, proximity to pirate dwellings in North America, Americans’ desire of freedom associated with pirates, and democracy based politics practiced among outlaw captains and crewmembers. Stevenson illustrated these points in Treasure Island, which ties the novel’s timeless tropes with today’s conceptions of piracy. In addition, Stevenson used tropes from other novels associated with pirates including: Sir Walter Scott’s The Pirate; Washington Irving’s Tales of a Traveller; Captain Frederick Marryat’s “The Pirate”; Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Gold-Bug”; and several works by Daniel Defoe. Stevenson combined these tropes in Treasure Island while also using A General History of Pirates as a guide to ensure creditability. These tropes, brought to attention by Stevenson, continue to flourish in modern depictions of 18th century pirates.
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VAN, HOUTEN Sjoukje Marloes. "Greed, grief, a gift. War-traumatized women and contextualizing expressive arts therapy." Digital Commons @ Lingnan University, 2016. https://commons.ln.edu.hk/cs_etd/31.
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This dissertation explores the universality of trauma-storing in the body and the need for contextualization when it comes to treatment. Of the two central themes addressed, the first is war-related trauma and the intersection of expressive arts therapy and South (East) Asia (Nepal and Hong Kong in particular) with its specific imagery, art, and culture, and to see how both feed into each another and can transform as a result. The question is how to locally sensitize expressive arts therapy, which has its roots in Europe and the United States, to the Hong Kong setting; more specifically, to working with Nepali women who try to make Hong Kong their new home. The dissertation suggests a holistic, locally, and culturally sensitive approach to expressive arts therapy. This means adjusting the expressive arts framework and practices to the local and cultural setting, as well as looking at the resources (myths, dance forms, breathing practices, rituals, etc.) present in the local culture and including them in the anthropological approach to trauma transformation.
The second theme addressed is the importance of critically reflecting on power within therapeutic relationships, especially in trauma treatment, and recognizing the ontological underpinnings underlying therapy as well as our ‘human self-concept’, which leads to the acknowledgement of only a certain type of human experience, that of conscious, self-aware subjects in control of their acts. The latter leaves little room for understanding traumatic experiences, in which trauma victims seem to be unable to remember or shape the traumatic event. In Walter Benjamin’s dissertation, any kind of representation of our personal and collective identities is seen as a curation. When approaching history as a ‘collection’ of memories, it creates room for traumatic experiences to exist. Benjamin’s dissertation is applied to understanding trauma in such a way where it is precisely the discontinuity, the disparities, the ruptures of history and memory that make trauma visible; these are the gifts handed to the next generation. It is the piecing together of fragments and uncertainties that transforms trauma into a space of insight, creating meaning from what is known and unknown, bridging the stories and images of history present in our implicit and explicit memory.
In the critical reflection on traumatology, a Foucauldian approach is taken regarding the therapist-client relationship. Foucault speaks of a top-down apparatus with policies that act under the guise of ‘protect and serve’, and language that frames the clients as a helpless victim in need of ‘betterment’ by the therapist. The only way for therapists to tackle the problem of trauma and psychotherapy, and to admit its social/cultural construction and the role of power, is to read themselves into the problem, to go beyond one-way mirroring, to analyze their pathology, and attempt to change patterns of communication that reproduce the psy-complex apparatus. In this thesis the latter is done by including the creative and analytic reflections of expressive arts therapists and of the author herself.
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Simno, Claire D. "Hysteria, Greed, and the Public Purse: The Litigation Impacting a Local Governmental Agency." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2007. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1081.
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This research is a case study of the litigation in progress by hundreds of St. Bernard Parish families against the Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans and Browning Ferris Industries (BFI). The families are suing for personal and property damages sustained as a result of the poor operation and maintenance of the East Bank Sewerage Treatment Plant (EBSTP) and the Crescent Acres Landfill. The purpose of the study will be to examine the consequences, links, and process of interaction among three key units of analysis: the plaintiffs, their lawyers, and one of the major defendants in the litigation, the Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans; and, three basic concepts related to each study group: the hysteria of the neighborhood, the greed of the lawyers, and the vulnerability of the public sector to litigation. I postulate that the plaintiffs' lawyers, originally retained to assist the neighborhood in their fight for closure of the landfill, became motivated by greed to expand the neighborhood fight and bring it to a more lucrative conclusion. By engaging their trust, the lawyers were able to organize the neighborhood and plant the seeds for mass psychogenic illness and neighborhood hysteria. The resulting litigation illustrates the vulnerability of the public sector to contrived litigation and the concomitant consequences to John Q. Citizen and the public purse. This research will contribute to our understanding of the concepts of greed and hysteria, will provide much needed insight on public service agency vulnerability, and will offer solutions to the problems encountered by public service agencies in providing legally mandated services.
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Akintola, Olanshile M. "Beyond greed and grievance : understanding the multi-causal factors of the Niger Delta conflicts." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2018. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:5c755c8e-d0ff-4b69-a2ad-76ef077a7716.
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This thesis attempts to highlight some of the factors driving the Niger Delta conflicts. First, by exploring the limitations of economic understanding of conflicts and reviewing the policy implications of assessing these unrests through a singular economic lens, my research sought to underline the need to shift beyond singular issue understanding of the region's unrests. To drive this shift in the assessment of conflicts, I adopted a multifocal, interdisciplinary approach to complement the economic school and its assessment of conflictual issues in the region. This was achieved by assessing the micro dynamics of disputes in four communities in the Niger Delta. Structured as three case studies, emphasis was placed on examining the nuances that undergirded some of the frequent clashes in the region. In assessing these randomly selected communities, I was attempting to explore in detail, the factors that continue to drive conflicts in the Niger Delta. Through this examination, it was possible to focus on some factors that had previously received very little attention in the study of the region. In a case study exploring militancy, charting Ateke Tom's rise, I was able to show that militant leaders were dextrous actors who leveraged federal government's dependency on the region's oil to secure privileges for themselves and for the people of the Niger Delta. Though commonly understood as 'criminals masquerading as freedom fighters' I was able to show that ex-militant leaders are important actors in a new system of alternative governance in the Niger Delta. This system involves ex-militant leaders providing goods and services in lieu of state provisions. This allows these actors to manage tensions in the region - in return for these provisions, they maintain access to state's decision making and the privileges attached to accessing key stakeholders. In another section of the thesis, I explored communal conflicts in the region and identified that government's interest in the region's peace is directly correlated with presence of natural resources. Communities with no natural resources were more likely to be ignored by state institutions. Instead of relying on state intervention, communities involved in conflicts appear to depend heavily on the existence of 'sons of the soil'. These actors, in my case studies, were patrons who treated their communities as 'communal clients' who had to be protected from external threats. Often using state resources, patrons who were 'sons of the soil' leveraged their government positions to disenfranchise rival communities. Instead of assuaging competing factions, the process of using federal government resources to protect communal clients was found to exacerbate tensions in the region. The thesis was also able to highlight the frictions emanating from internal governance struggles. By focusing on a community with ongoing chieftaincy disputes, I was able to explore the source of the tensions between chiefs in the community. Interestingly, the chieftaincy dispute had a generational dimension where youths were pitted against each other, but also against traditional elites. After many interviews, and discussions with opposing camps and interest groups, I was able to challenge the idea of generational crisis where modernity is assumed to be in direct competition with tradition. I conclude by positing that there is in fact a transgenerational continuum whereby the interests of youths, the agents of modernity, and traditional elites, the custodian of tradition, are much more aligned than was previously thought. Overall, the thesis was able to draw attention to some of the multiple causes of the Niger Delta conflicts. It was important to note that the factors driving conflicts in the region are many and are varied, but it was also important to emphasise that the conflicts in the Niger Delta were neither unique nor exceptional. I conclude by challenging the idea of Niger Delta exceptionalisam. I argue that, although the region unlike many other regions in Nigeria has been able to leverage its resources to gain attention domestically and internationally, the underlying factors driving conflicts in Niger Delta can be found across Nigeria.
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Cserhalmi, Nora. "Konstruerad utsatthet : En bildsemiotisk analys av Nathalie Djurbergs stop motion-filmer Greed och Cave." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Konstvetenskapliga institutionen, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-378575.
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This essay aims to analyse how the exposedness is constructed in the Swedish contemporary artist Nathalie Djurberg’s two stop motion-films Greed and Cave. Five stills from Greed and three stills from Cave will be examined from a feminist perspective with a theoretical viewpoint based on theories from both art history and film studies. The method applied is visual semiotics which focuses on how meaning is created within an artwork rather than what the meaning is. The stills from Djurberg’s films are analysed first on a denotative level and then on a connotative level. Furthermore, visual semiotics theorises that everything is made up of systems of signs which allows this essay to study how the women in Djurberg’s movies functions as signs. The essay demonstrated that the women in Djurberg’s films can be seen as passive objects under the power of the male gaze. However, the analysis also displayed that the woman in Cave can be perceived as someone who defies the patriarchal norms for how a woman should behave and look. Nonetheless, the exposedness of these women seems to be constructed firstly in their bodies and how they are represented, both in looks but also how they are posed to reinforce patriarchal conventions in the female representation, and secondly in their relation to male characters - or the implied male gaze from a spectator - in the films. The women in Djurberg’s films can thus be understood as signs for male sexual desires, as signs for the Woman posing as the Man’s opposite, as the objective for His gaze.
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Foley, Ryan Alison. "'It's need, not greed' : needs and values at work in an Italian social cooperative." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2018. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:2ef8f87b-0cf1-472c-88a3-1638d2a7d6bc.
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Among the key issues that arise in research of cooperatives are their supposedly hybrid nature and how they are able to balance both social and economic goals. I contend that the concept of 'needs' has become an important differentiating factor for the cooperatives I studied in Emilia Romagna. Placing this concept centrally in an analysis of cooperative practice helps to reveal the interplay between various value systems, reaching beyond arguments of the degeneration of cooperatives or the reproduction of dominant models, which both assume a one-way flow of influence. The recent history of the cooperative movement in Italy shows that these institutions have developed along with changing conceptions of need, supported by broader social movements and value systems. The cooperative network is today of central importance, and seen as an egalitarian means to share ideals and drive local innovation. However, my research shows that the instrumentalisation of the concept of 'need' also naturalises certain aspects of capitalist practice and has consequences for the enactment of other values within the cooperative. For example, in one cooperative I examined, the focus on meeting the members' needs for work was important in justifying a decision to merge with another cooperative despite a decision-making process that was seen as less than entirely democratic. This orientation also justified the use of precarious labour, and the need to protect members' livelihoods helped to justify low pay for internships and municipal job placements, as opposed to furthering the cooperative values of equity and equality. While the cooperative workers desired an element of personal relations, this was sometimes seen to be at odds with the focus on production and the maintenance of jobs. The marketing of more ethical products with reference to their social added value highlighted the central role of individual consumer citizens in bringing about change, which also reinforced divisions within the cooperatives based on who was more or less able to make these choices. In conclusion, I argue that while 'needs', like 'added value', can unite social and economic concepts of value, this also naturalises certain aspects of capitalist practice, particularly in this case where employment emerges as the primary need to be met. This leads me to suggest that the focus on meeting needs, as opposed to focusing on achieving specific ideals such as democracy and equality, may not be as effective to create alternative practice.
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Brandt, Shelby Simone. "The Role of Gender in the Formation of Perceptions of Greed, and Subsequent Social Reactions." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/578552.
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There is little work done that looks into gender and perceptions of greed. Using information from the first experiment in Anderson, (2014), this thesis looked at the possible role of gender in the formation of perceptions of greed as well as some of the subsequent social reactions. Two hypotheses were formed off of previous work done in the subject area. The first hypothesis is that even with distributive injustice, inference of selfish motive to acquire, and relative deprivation held constant, females will have greater perceptions of greed because males tend to view competition and aggression as normal, whereas females do not. The second hypothesis is that because of the greater perceptions of greed, females will also have greater moral outrage and personal anger. The data that was supposed to be used to find results was lost due to computer failure. Therefore, no conclusions could be found, only hypothetical possibilities.
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Niemi, Malin. "The Coca and the Kidnappings : A Colombian Experience." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Nationalekonomiska institutionen, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-194408.
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Colombia differs from the rest of the world due to the amount of kidnappings and coca cultivation taking place. Using data between 1999-2008, this paper studies to what extent and in what direction there exists a causal relationship of coca cultivation on kidnappings. A study that has never been done in the previous published economic literature. A negative relationship would mean that policies implemented to reduce coca cultivation would also increase the number of kidnappings. A positive relationship, on the other hand would reduce the number of kidnappings. Using OLS-, fixed effects- and instrumental variable regressions, the results imply a negative relationship. Meaning implementing policies with the aim of eradicating coca production would come with negative externalities in the form of more kidnappings.
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Tseng, Yun-Hsuan. "Global greed and local crimes : financial crime in an emergent economy (case study of Taiwan ROC)." Thesis, University of Kent, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.320541.
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Lillo, Fuentes Danissa. "Sextortion : ett korruptionsperspektiv." Thesis, Enskilda Högskolan Stockholm, Avdelningen för mänskliga rättigheter och demokrati, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ths:diva-1363.
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Sextortion is a gendered form of corruption that takes place when those trusted with power abuse it, to sexually take advantage of those dependent on that power. This type of crime has long been anonymous but it is gaining importance through reports, studies and awareness actions by well-known international organizations. The purpose of this study was to review sextortion from a corruption point of view. As well as to examine if sextortion has been integrated in Sida’s anticorruption agenda and map efficient actions against sextortion. By conducting a literature study and interviews, it has been possible to create a comprehensive description of its challenges. A feminist approach in combination with intersectionality helped to visualize how sextortion is trivialized and attributed as normalized and institutionalized in some parts of the world. The term sextortion is associated with several meanings that make unambiguous acceptance difficult. In the same way, it is difficult to identify sextortion in Sida's anti-corruption plan in spite of their commitment to fight sextortion. On the bright side, Jammu and Kashmir became in 2018 the first state in India to criminalize sextortion against women and sextortion has been included in the Global Corruption Barometer 2019 for LAC and MENA. To conclude, the best option is to incorporate sextortion under anti-corruption laws. Where there is an abuse of power and an undue advantage, should be enough to invoke the law.
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Walters, Robert. "Greed, Excess, and the Evolution of Financial Capitalism: A History of Hedge Funds in the Modern Era." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2013. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/678.
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Our story begins in the years following World War II with an eccentric dilettante named Alfred basis of a powerful and opaque industry that would come to play a powerful role in world society and economy.
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Kershaw, Christine. "Influencing Intergroup Behavior with Cultural Mindsets: The Role of Distrust, Greed, and the Norm of Group Interest." University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1470258364.
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van, der Neut Wendy. "Consensual exploitation : the moral wrong in exploitation and legal restrictions on consensual exploitative transactions." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/9594.
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This thesis is about so-‐called consensual exploitative transactions: transactions to which all parties agree voluntarily, and which are beneficial for all parties, but which are still widely considered exploitative, and for that reason legally restricted in many countries. The thesis asks two main questions: 1. What is wrong with consensual exploitation? 2.What implications does the answer to this question have for the legal restriction of consensual transactions that are regarded exploitative in modern liberal societies? In answer to the first research question, the thesis starts by distinguishing and analysing five competing views of the wrong in consensual exploitation that exist in the present-‐day philosophical debate on exploitation; and rejects all five answers. Next, the thesis offers an alternative answer, which is that the wrong in consensual exploitation can best be understood as a matter of greediness—a failure of the virtue of generosity. The thesis then turns to the second research question: what understanding exploitation as greediness implies for the legal restriction of exploitative transactions. It discusses and rejects the view that law ought only to be used to regulate ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ behaviour, and not to promote virtues or discourage vices, such as generosity and greediness. The thesis argues that legal restrictions on consensual exploitative transactions can be justified as a means to prevent greediness, and to promote a certain other-‐regardingness, and illustrates this argument with two examples of laws that regulate consensual transactions which are widely regarded exploitative: minimum wage laws and payday loan laws.
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Lee, Thad F. "Meno and Euphrates Elementary: Episodes 1 & 2." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2017. https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2416.
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Perry, Megan R. "ALL THAT GLITTERS IS NOT GOLD: THEORIES OF NOBLESSE OBLIGE IN CAROLINGIAN FRANCIA." UKnowledge, 2018. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/history_etds/54.
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This thesis argues that conceptions of commerce in the Carolingian era were intertwined with the discourse of ethics, and that concepts of the Carolingian ‘economy’ may be profitably illuminated by consideration of pre-modern ethical and social categories. I explore a pre-modern pattern of personhood that framed persons in terms of political rôles, and exchange in terms of the interactions of those rôles. In moral letters addressed to counts and kings, ethical counsel about greed for each lay rôle was grounded in particular geographic spaces and historical moments, creating a rich valence of specific meanings for greed and charity. I examine letters in which Paulinus of Aquileia, Alcuin of York, Jonas of Orléans, and Dhuoda of Uzés treated the greed of counts, and those in which Smaragdus of St. Mihiel, Sedulius Scottus, and Hincmar of Rheims treated that of kings. In each letter’s definition of greed are found interactions with specific elements exchanged, and correlative meanings of greed far from limited to the ‘love of silver’, but also not wholly vague and spiritualized. Greed and largesse constituted the language in which Carolingian writers discussed economic exploitation, tyranny, plunder, investment, credit, and noblesse oblige.
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Fatyi, Khanyisa. "A critical evaluation of the 'greed versus grievance' theory in the analysis of civil wars - - the case of Angola." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/3768.
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Tungumuna, Francisca Kidienga. "Conflito, spoilers e segurança humana : estudo de caso do leste da República Democrática do Congo." Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/7897.
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Mestrado em Desenvolvimento e Cooperação InternacionalA presente dissertação tem como objetivo central analisar as motivações e as ações dos presumíveis spoilers no leste da RD Congo e o seu impacto no desenvolvimento humano. A relevância do assunto justifica-se pelos escassos trabalhos científicos e académicos que focam, simultaneamente, as ações e motivações dos presumíveis spoilers, a estratégia de pacificação e o modo como afetam o desenvolvimento humano. A maioria dos estudos realizam análises de cross-country que tendem a menosprezar as especificidades inerentes ao caso. Pelo que este trabalho trata-se de um "estudo de caso" que foca as ações dos grupos CNDP e M23 entre 2006 e 2013, na região do Kivu. A problemática de análise assenta na discussão teórico-conceptual de violência armada, segurança humana, vulnerabilidade e resiliência humanas, spoilers e das motivações subjacentes ao eclodir e prolongamento dos conflitos internos. Os resultados permitiram verificar que a história e a geopolítica assumem-se relevantes na compreensão das motivações e das ações de ambos os grupos que têm na sua base, tanto o ressentimento como a ganância e, também, que as estratégias de pacificação adotadas não têm implicado o comprometimento mútuo com a paz.
The present dissertation's main goal is to analyze the motivations and actions of so-called spoilers in eastern DR Congo and it's impact on human development. The relevance of the subject is justified by the few scientific and academic relevant papers that, simultaneously, focus on the actions and motivations of the so-called spoilers, the strategy of pacification and how they affect human development. Majority of the studies related to this subject make a cross-country analysis that tend to ignore the specificities of the case. This article consist on a "case study" that focus on the actions of CNDP and M23 groups in the region of Kivu, between 2006 and 2013. The theoretical and conceptual discussion is based on the definitions of armed violence, human security , human resilience and vulnerability, spoilers, and motivations underlying the outbreak and prolongation of internal conflicts. The results show that the story and geopolitics are relevant to understand the motivations and actions of both groups, based in Greed and Grievance and also that, the pacification strategies adopted have not implicated the mutual commitment with peace.
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LaMont, Mackenzie Jacob. "Not About Posies." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin149156079490344.
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Soesilo, Primidya KM. "NO LONGER GREEN WITH ENVY: HOW TURNING EMOTIONS INTO OBJECTS ENABLES CONSUMERS TO PHYSICALLY DESTROY THEM." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2014. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/272755.
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Business Administration/MarketingPh.D.
Envy, as a result of upward social comparisons, is an unpleasant emotion that occurs when a consumer sees others as being more advantaged than him- or herself, in terms of achievements and/or possessions. Envy may drive the envious consumer to 'compete' with the envied-target through purchase of similar or better products; for that reason, envy is frequently used in advertising to motivate consumers to buy better products. While envy may be good for businesses as it may promote economic growth through the “keeping up with the Joneses” mechanism, envy tends to bring destructive behavior to consumers, especially in the long run. Departing from the view to maintain consumer welfare, we argue that envy should be reduced or perhaps, temporarily deactivated. Through a series of studies, we attempt to see if envy, as an emotion, can be transformed into an object upon which physical actions can be performed to destroy it, which thus reduces or temporarily deactivates envy. Furthermore, we want to see if any of these actions, assuming that envy is reduced or temporarily deactivated as a result, would lead consumers to adopt more pro-social behavior, as opposed to typical destructive behavior of envy.
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Corominas, Larsson Daniel Sven, and Smolski Ilia Alexeevich Bobadilla. "ICOs - A Tale of Greed and Opportunity : A qualitative study of how entrepreneurs in Sweden perceive this novel and unique financing method." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-415892.
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This study is within the field of financial innovation and entrepreneurship. The thesis’s primary purpose is to investigate how and why entrepreneurs in Sweden are positioning themselves in regarding Initial Coin Offerings as a new financial vehicle based on the Swedish regulations and the underlying factors to the entrepreneur’s point of view. The literature contributes a limited knowledge of the Swedish industry concerning ICOs, and therefore this research aims to enhance awareness. Through qualitative research based on eleven interviews, we conclude there is a general lack of knowledge and risk-aversion from the absence of regulations in Sweden. Furthermore, all interviewed entrepreneurs were open-minded about an ICO with certain limitations. Considering that, on average, an enticing secondary market has existed for the tokens issued by ICOs, and a remarkable amount of money has been left on the table by project promoters, investors seeking for potential profit have hoarded the cryptocurrency space, creating a situation similar to the dot-com bubble. Thus, we also discuss the benefits, drawbacks, and the possible fate regarding ICOs, a new financing method that should not be overlooked.
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Barrière, Maeva. "Manger l'art : art comestible et gastronomie esthétique." Thesis, Toulouse 2, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014TOU20060.
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Ancrer le goût comme liant plastique dans un processus artistique et gastronomique, c’est construire la liberté d’un langage surréaliste, transposant et faisant exister le gustatif comme émotif et motif graphique. Points, lignes, couleurs sont offerts au spectateur dans la jouissance esthétique d’une dégustation. Manger l’art invite à redéfinir l'essence de la gastronomie, une esthétique du goût dans le champ des arts plastiques. Je vous propose une entrée plastique pour saisir l'art culinaire et inversement une entrée gustative pour apprécier l'art. Des fonds noirs de Francisco de Zurbarán, aux noirs torréfiés de Michel Bras, comment traduire la sacralisation du goût comme expérience sensible de l’ordre du plastique et de l’esthétique au sein d’une démarche artistique ? Du concept à la pratique participative, l'espace-assiette devient espace architectural et en définitive espace gourmand. L'espace architectural étant le moteur des projets plastico-gastronomiques, c'est à partir du corps de l’espace que les installations comestibles sont créées, afin que la gourmandise, concept imaginaire et impalpable se concrétise en œuvre d'art totale. Chair d’une couleur intime, la gourmandise se révèle dans l’incorporation d’une offrande à partagerIntroducing taste as a fine art ingredient in the artistic and gastronomic process is a way of building a free and surrealist language, by which the gustatory becomes a graphic pattern. Dots, lines, colors are given to the viewer as an aesthetic and pleasurable tasting. Eating art invites you to redefine the essence of gastronomy and the aesthetic of taste in the field of fine art. It is an artistic starter to understand culinary art, and a culinary starter to appreciate fine art. From Zurbaran dark backgrounds to Bras roasted blacks, how to translate the (sacralisation) of taste as a sensitive, aesthetic and artistic experience? From a concept to a shared practice, the space-plate becomes an architectural space and, finally, a gourmet space. The architectural space being at the start of the artistic and gastronomic projects, the edible installations are created from the (space body/structure), so that the “gourmandise”, an immaterial and imaginary concept, takes shape in a total art work
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Dumas, Jennifer. "Gender Inequality and Terrorism: An Analysis of the Effects of Socioeconomic Gender Inequality on Terrorism." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2010. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1202.
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Studies of terrorism have explored a number of factors thought to drive the phenomenon. Authors often tie socioeconomic development to reducing terrorism. Among structural explanations of terrorism, however, authors generally neglect the effect of gender inequality, though studies show that gender inequality increases the risk of international and civil conflict. Therefore I explore the impact of gender inequality in important socioeconomic issues on terrorism for 143 countries from 1998-2009. I argue that socioeconomic gender inequality reflects poor state capacity, resulting in grievances that contribute to domestic non-suicide and suicide terrorism. I study gender inequality in the areas of education, labor participation, and life expectancy. Results indicate that education and life expectancy inequality increase the risk of terrorism, while labor inequality is unrelated. While the time frame and data used in this study limit generalizability, results indicate that states should provide socioeconomic gender parity to reduce the risk of domestic terrorism.
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Thießen, Friedrich. "Bausteine der Nutzenfunktion." Universitätsbibliothek Chemnitz, 2015. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:ch1-qucosa-179655.
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In einem wichtigen Beitrag „on self-interest and greed“ hat Gebhard Kirchgässner im Journal of Business Economics die zu beobachtende Verhaltensvielfalt von Wirtschaftssubjekten hinterfragt. Die ökonomische Standardannahme rationalen, egoistischen Verhaltens trifft die Realität nicht immer. Menschen handeln auch irrational, teils sozialorientiert und teils sozial desinteressiert, teils unmoralisch-gierig, teils aber auch altruistisch-großzügig. Welches Modell erklärt die Vielfalt? In diesem Beitrag wird die von Kirchgässner aufgezeigte Verhaltensvielfalt mit den Erkenntnissen abgeglichen, die sich aus der Hamiltonschen Fitnessthese und den Ergänzungen durch Trivers, Fiske und de Botton ergeben. Damit kann gezeigt werden, dass sich je nach Gruppe, in welcher sich ein Mensch bewegt, Verhaltensweisen einstellen, die von extrem prosozialem Verhalten (z.B. zur Statussicherung durch Vorbild oder aus Angst vor Sanktionen) bis zu sehr unsozial „gierigem“ Verhalten reichen. Der Nutzen dieser Sichtweise für die Ökonomik wird aufgezeigt. Es sind nur drei exogene Mechanismen nötig, die Verhaltensvielfalt zu erzeugenIn an important article „on self-interest and greed” in the Journal of Business Economics, Gebhard Kirchgässner questioned the variety observed in the behavior of economic subjects. The economic standard assumption of rational, egoist behavior does not comply with reality in many cases. People act irrationally, socially oriented as well as socially uninterested, immorally-greedy as well as altruistically-generously. The variety is immense. The question occurs: which model is capable of explaining the diversity? In this article, the variety of human behavior is being compared to findings that emerge from Hamilton’s Fitness Thesis and extensions by Trivers, Fiske and de Botton. The Fitness Thesis lays the ground. Depending on the social group to which an individual belongs in a certain situation, behavior can vary from extremely prosocial (e. g. to maintain status or to avoid sanctions) to very unsocial-greedy. As any individual is part of many groups he or she can act prosocially with respect to one group and unsocially-greedy with respect to another, will say: greed and altruism is not a question of character but a consequence of the specific situation in which an individual acts. Merely three exogenous mechanisms are required to create the observed variety in behavior
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Boda, Siham. "Greed or grievance : why is South African youth crime so violent in nature? : First world taste on a third world budget or simply marginalised from centre-stage?" Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/3893.
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How can criminological theory assist in making sense of the youth subcultures that are involved in criminal activity of a violent nature in the contemporary South African context? - T.p.
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Swiden, Wick RoseAnn. "Personality and interpersonal aspects of the work environment." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2013. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/917.
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Workplace arrogance has emerged as a research focus area for many industrial-organizational psychologists. Employees who demonstrate arrogance tend to demonstrate poor job performance, executive failure and poor overall organizational success. The present study investigates arrogance measured by the Workplace Arrogance Scale (WARS: Johnson et al., 2010) in relation to the Honesty Humility facet of the HEXACO Personality Index-Revised (HEXACO PI-R: LEE & Ashton, 2004). A total of 273 participants completed the WARS and HEXACO PI-R Honesty-Humility Facet of the HEXACO. Results show significant, strong negative correlations between the Honesty-Humility subfacets and the overall Honesty Humility facet score with the WARS scores. These findings indicate that workers high in arrogance lack important honesty-humility characteristics. Once we fully understand the complex mixture of personality traits that make up workplace arrogance, we can begin to screen for it in the hiring process and develop ways to better address it in the workplace.B.S.
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Botetzagias, Iosif. "The environmental movement in Greece, 1973 to the present : an illusory social movement in a semi-peripheral country." Thesis, Keele University, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.252598.
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Montesinos, García David. "Desarmar la codicia. Una propuesta ética ante el armamentismo." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Jaume I, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/400873.
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La tesis se contextualiza en un panorama mundial en el que existe una acumulación exponencial por parte de las «Élites de poder» sumada a un gigantesco gasto militar y a una, cada vez más visible, corrupción sistémica. Estos factores provocan violencia, pobreza, sufrimiento y muerte. Por ello, se indaga la relación causal entre la codicia, la violencia y el armamentismo partiendo de una clara y valiosa intuición de Gandhi: «si no hubiera codicia las armas no tendrían razón de ser».
Asimismo, se visualiza cómo la corrupción anida en la codicia y cómo el gasto militar supone un gran «coste de oportunidad» para otras partidas presupuestarias (educación, salud, medioambiente…) que sí que generan una auténtica experiencia de seguridad (humana) para las personas. Finalmente, a modo de alternativa, se apuntan una serie de orientaciones y actitudes para prevenir o desarmar la codicia y nutrir desde niveles profundos una Cultura de paz.The thesis is contextualized in a world in which there is exponential accumulation by the “Power Elite” added to an enormous military spending and, an ever more noticeable, systemic corruption. These issues cause violence, poverty, suffering and deaths. Therefore, it explores the connecting relationship between greed, violence and the arms race on the foundations of a clear and valuable intuition by Gandhi: "If there were no greed, there could be no occasion for armaments". Furthermore, it shows how corruption nests in greed, and how military spending is a great “opportunity cost” for other budget items (education, health, and environment) which do generate a true experience of human security for people. Finally, as an alternative, some orientations and attitudes are provided to prevent or disarm greed and nurture a "Culture of Peace" from the deepest levels.
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Denning, Laurie Langlois. "L. T. Meade's Avaricious Anomaly: Â Madame Sara, British Imperialism, and Greedy Wolves in The Sorceress of the Strand." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2018. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/6848.
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L. T. Meade's Avaricious Anomaly: Madame Sara, British Imperialism, and Greedy Wolves in The Sorceress of the Strand. Laurie Langlois Denning, Department of English, BYU Master of Arts. Critics interested in the prolific late Victorian author L.T. Meade have primarily focused on her work as an author of girls' stories and novels for young people, which enjoyed fantastic commercial success in her lifetime but fell into obscurity after her death. Recent scholarship on her detective fiction shows Meade's significant contributions to the genre as well as her engagement with social and political discourse. Scholars have noted ways that Meade's popular series, The Sorceress of the Strand, contributes to the New Woman debate and expresses anxiety over the British imperial project. This project examines Meade's villain in the series as a social anomaly that functions to interrogate the greed at the heart of imperialism. Examining the series' conclusion and the unusual nature of its ending sheds new light on Meade's contribution to debate over empire at the fin de siécle. Meade's fascinating villain, Madame Sara, is doggedly pursued by two detective figures--one is considered the top forensic specialist in the British police force and the other is the head of a business fraud agency--but the detectives are never able to bring Madam Sara to justice. Instead, it is a wolf that finally defeats the brilliant criminal mastermind. Why a wolf? Madam Sara's unusual demise serves as a deus ex machina that invites the reader to consider the Dante symbolism embedded in the text. Other critics see Meade's ending as reinforcing the empire; however, given the Dante imagery that has Madam Sara symbolizing a greedy imperial force, Meade's series indicts imperial greed and warns British citizens about failure to apprehend the evil in empire.
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Green, Alison E. "New Zealand migrants to Australia: social construction of migrant identity/Alison E. Green." Gold Coast, Australia : Bond University, 2006. http://epublications.bond.edu.au/theses/green.
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Thesis (PhD) -- Bond University, 2006."This thesis submitted to Bond University in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy". Bibliography: pages 258-284. Also available via the World Wide Web.
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Karamichas, John. "The 'logic' of Green Party formation : a comparative study of the Greek and Spanish cases." Thesis, University of Kent, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.405521.
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Deronzier, Déborah. "Dialogue entre le bébé et les aspects bébés du self dans les contextes d’anorexie : le bébé dans sa famille, l’adulte et sa parentalité interne." Thesis, Lyon 2, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014LYO20140.
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Cette thèse propose une modélisation de la dynamique psychique à l’œuvre dans les contextes d’anorexie. A partir d’une approche processuelle, elle explore la continuité psychodynamique entre les anorexies du bébé-dans-sa-famille et les anorexies mentales de l’adulte. La première partie est consacrée à une revue de la littérature psychanalytique considérant les travaux portant sur l’anorexie mentale de l’adolescente et de l’adulte, les travaux consacrés aux anorexies du bébé et les travaux traitant des anorexies aux différents âges de la vie. La seconde partie présente les fondements épistémologiques de cette recherche. Elle ouvre une réflexion sur la recherche en psychologie clinique et sur ses liens avec la pratique et l’enseignement. Elle précise ma filiation théorique et praticienne. La troisième partie est consacrée à la méthodologie de la recherche clinique, et principalement aux spécificités de l’observation clinique psychanalytique. Elle présente la méthode E. Bick d’observation du bébé dans sa famille, ses apports à la recherche et à la pratique cliniques ainsi que l’adaptation réalisée auprès des patients souffrant d’anorexies. La quatrième partie propose une réflexion sur les enjeux psychiques de la « relation de nourrissage ». Cette relation est envisagée comme une relation commensale (W.R. Bion, 1962), paradigme de la rencontre intersubjective, de la croissance psychique de la subjectivité du bébé et de l’essor de la parentalité, mais aussi terrain privilégié de la transmission psychique inconsciente. La cinquième partie est consacrée à la mise en dialogue entre le bébé-dans-sa-famille et les aspects bébés du self de l’adulte dans les contextes d’anorexie. Les anorexies sont envisagées en terme de refus-impossibilité alimentaire témoignant d’une tentative d’organisation de modalités de survie psychique. Deux angoisses communes apparaissent au centre de la dynamique psychique : une angoisse catastrophique et une angoisse de persécution. L’angoisse catastrophique prend la forme d’une « chute sans fin désintégrante », signe d’une dépression primaire. Elle est surchargée par une angoisse de vampirisation-dévoration qui est notamment envisagée comme une forme d’objectalisation de l’angoisse de « chute sans fin désintégrante ». Les modalités de défenses adhésives ont pour fonction de lutter contre la chute sans fin désintégrante. Elles sont accompagnées d’une inhibition de la vie pulsionnelle —plus particulièrement de l’avidité secondaire— ainsi que de son clivage, son déni et sa projection. Le contact avec la vie émotionnelle du bébé réactive la dépression primaire contre laquelle les aspects bébés du self parental se sont organisés dans une économie de survie psychique. Le refus-impossibilité alimentaire du bébé apparaît en miroir d’un refus-impossibilité d’accueil et de mise en sens de la vie émotionnelle qui caractérise la parentalité anorexique. Le lien entre le bébé et la parentalité, mais aussi entre les aspects bébés du self et la parentalité interne, est caractérisé par une réflexivité opaque et persécutoire intériorisée par le bébé —et les aspects bébés du self— sous la forme d’un cercle pernicieux et involutif. Ce travail se conclut sur la proposition d’un gradient du lien de nourrissage structuré par deux pôles. Le plus intégré, celui de la relation de nourrissage, est caractérisé par une relation d’intimité entre le bébé et la parentalité et l’introjection d’une relation de réflexivité commensale, mutuelle et asymétrique, soutenant l’intégration pulsionnelle, le développement des bases d’un surmoi protecteur et la croissance psychique. Le second est défini comme un lien d’anourrissage, caractérisé par une relation d’ex-timité entre le bébé et la parentalité, l’intériorisation d’un réflexivité opaque et persécutoire sous la forme d’un cercle involutif entraînant la désintrication pulsionnelle et le développement d’un « surmoi sévère et destructeur du moi » (W.R. Bion, 1959)This dissertation offers a modelisation of the psychological dynamics which are at work in the contexts of anorexia. Process is the cornerstone to the exploration of the ongoing psychodynamic that is at work with the anorexia of the baby-in-its-family and the anorexia nervosa of the adult. The first part reviews the existing psychoanalytical literature and considers the works dealing with the anorexia nervosa of the teenager and of the adult, then the works dedicated to the anorexias of the baby; last but not least, the works offering an approach that considers the anorexias at the different stages of life. The second part deals with the epistemological basis of this work. It explores the research in clinical psychology and the way it is linked to practice and teaching. It looks into the theoretical and practical filiation that operates in our approach to the mental life and to the care relationship. The third part is dedicated to the methodology of the clinical research – mainly the specificities of psychoanalytical observation. It presents E. Bick’s method of infant observation and how this method was adapted for the clinical work with anorexic patients. The fourth part ponders on what is psychologically at stake in the ‘feeding relation’. This relation is seen as commensal (W.R. Bion, 1962), the paradigm of the intersubjective encounter, of the psychological development of the baby’s subjectivity and the emerging parentality, but also the most favored ground of the unconscious psychological transmission. The fifth part creates a dialogue between the baby-in-its-family and the babies aspects of the adult self in the contexts of anorexia. Anorexias are considered in terms of food refusal-impossibility demonstrating an attempt to organise psychological survival. Two common anxieties are at the center of the psychological dynamic : a catastrophic anxiety and a persecution anxiety. The catastrophic anxiety appears as an « endless and disintegrative fall », a sign of a primary depression, which is overloaded with a vampirising and devouring anxiety. The persecution anxiety is also thought as a form of objectalisation of the anxiety of « endless and disintegrative fall ». The adhesive defenses, which are organised to fight against the « endless and disintegrative fall », are accompagnied by an inhibition of the instinctual drives —especially of secondary greed— as well as their splitting, denial and projection. The contact with the baby’s emotional life reactivates the primary depression against which the babies aspects of the parental self are organised in an economy of psychological survival. The food refusal-impossibility of the baby appears as a mirror to the refusal-impossibility to receive and give meaning to the emotionnal life that characterises anorexic parentality. The link between the baby and its parentality, but also between the babies aspects of the self and the internal parentality, presents an opaque and persecutory reflexivity that is interiorized by the baby and the babies aspects of the self, with the form of a pernicious and involutive circle. Finally, this dissertation concludes with the proposition of a range of the feeding relation that is structured by two poles. The first pole is the more integrated one : that of the feeding relation. It is marked by a relation of intimacy between the baby and its parentality and by the introjection of a commensal reflexivity which is both mutual and asymmetrical, and which sustains the integration of instinctual drives, the development of the bases of a protective superego and of the mental growth. The second pole, the un-linked one, is that of the relation of un-feeding characterized by a relation of ex-timity between the baby and its parentality, and the interiorization of a persecutory and opaque reflexivity in the form of a involutive circle leading to the desintegration of the drive and the development of an ego destructive superego (W.R.Bion, 1959)
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Nielsen, Soldati Gabriel. "Pak Ch'an-Uk's Oldboy: A Film About Futile Violence and Revenge." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Avdelningen för koreanska, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-157966.
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Pak Ch’an-uk is one of the most popular directors in Korea and his films have been successful both domestically and internationally. His films are known to contain a large amount of violence and other sensitive subjects, which has raised a lot of discussion and criticism. Pak Ch’an-uk’s most well-known film, Oldboy, is no exception. Oldboy has been discussed by film studies scholars from a variety of angles. This thesis discusses the film rather from the perspective of Korean Studies, taking the Korean cultural and historical context in mind. This study analyzes the meaning of the violence and revenge in Oldboy and explores how the themes and references in the film relate to non-diegetic events in Korea’s recent history, as well as how those references function as social criticism. The thesis also looks into the question why the film has received criticism for its violence and suggests cultural and linguistic barriers as a potential reason for this criticism.Pak Ch’an-uk är en av Koreas mest populära regissörer i Korea. Hans filmer har haft stor succé både inrikes och utrikes. Hans filmer är rika på våld och andra känsliga ämnen, vilket har resulterat i mycket diskussion och kritik mot hans filmer. Han mest välkända film, Oldboy, är inget undantag. Oldboy har blivit diskuterad av forskare inom film, men den här studien diskuterar filmen från ett koreastudieperspektiv, och analyserar därmed filmen med Koreas kultur i åtanke. Den här studien analyserar betydelsen av våldet och hämnden i Oldboy och undersöker hur teman och referenserna i filmen relaterar till extradiegetiska händelser i Koreas historia, samt hur dessa referenser fungerar som kritik. Studien tar även upp kritiken som Oldboy har fått på grund av filmens våld och framställer kulturella och språkliga hinder som en potentiell anledning för kritiken.
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Dushtakov, Aleksey. "Fenomén občanské války." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2013. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-197890.
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The research issue of this diploma thesis is a civil war. The main aim is to uncover mechanisms that form a logical chain reasons - mechanisms - indicators. The work is composed of a theoretical research and 2 case studies (Sudan, Georgia). A list of general indicators of CW is included. Our of a comples analysis of a civil war there's a main emphasis on previous context and reasons.
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Baresel-Bofinger, Andreas C. R. "Implementation of innovative green management methods in the supply chain : the case of the Greek manufacturing sector." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2016. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/17985/.
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Purpose: The objective of this study is to examine what are the common practices of green supply chain management in manufacturing companies in Greece and how green management practices can be efficiently implemented along their supply chain in order to achieve a better environmental, economic, operational and social performance. In a globalized market with a growing awareness of an organization’s ecological footprint an increasing number of companies worldwide understand the importance to implement green supply chain management (GSCM) practices. Nevertheless, environmental consciousness and environmental protection differ to a wide degree between countries. For Greece and the region of South East Europe there still exists a gap of theoretical and empirical research regarding GSCM. While Greece’s business community is largely seen as having a low responsiveness to ecological challenges, this research takes a closer look into the pressures, motivators and impediments that Greek manufacturers experience regarding the implementation of GSCM and how far this can be regarded an opportunity for them to create additional value for their companies. Research Methodology/Approach: Facing the relative novelty of the subject for Greece and the region of South East Europe and due to the scarcity of information, this research follows a qualitative exploratory research approach. On the base of a thorough literature review the research draws on a number of five in-depth case studies across Greek manufacturing companies. Semi-structured face-to-face interviews are conducted with several key personnel within the companies. The data are triangulated with additional company documents and publications, as well as on the spot observation. Findings: Findings of this research indicate that Greek manufacturers are generally aware of the ecological challenges but adopt in majority a reactive approach. GSCM does not have high strategic importance. Implementation often lacks vigour. Major drivers are legislative pressure, cost benefits and demands of big customers. Major impediments besides the lack of formal strategy are a mental resistance of employees and partners, and a lack of state support and control. A shift of paradigm is necessary to facilitate a more effective implementation of GSCM measures and foster a multifaceted added value to company performance. Contribution/Practical implications: This study enlarges the lean body of literature about GSCM implementation in Greece and South Eastern Europe. The findings illustrate to what degree and by which mechanisms Greek manufacturers attempt to incorporate an effective greening strategy into their overall business strategy. The practical motivators and impediments in this effort are exemplified. Progress, shortcomings and possible pitfalls are demonstrated. This research aims to contribute to the understanding of companies in the region of the way of the potential how innovative GSCM practices can increase company value. Limitations: Restricted by the limited number of case studies in one specific industry sector this research does not make a claim for generalisation of its results but rather provides an insight into a number of current problems that invite further empirical studies.
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Yatsko, Loni Kay. "Gray, Green and Greedy: Cohort Differences in Proenvironmentalism and the Mediating Role of Generational Variations in Social Values." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1289671071.
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Reeder, Connie. "Jack is Dead." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2008. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/669.
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Milvet, Karly R. "Green, Green, & Tender." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1461168477.
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Iacovetta, Anna C. "Moving Up the Social Ladder: An Analysis of the Role of Temptation in Shaping Characters in Select Fairy Tales Employing Marxist and Psychological Lenses." The Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1491073505893036.
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Teshome, Bisrat. "Poverty and Conflict: A Self-Perpetuating Cycle in the Somali Regional State (Region 5), Ethiopia: 1960-2010." PDXScholar, 2011. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/230.
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Region 5 is one of the most impoverished and insecure regions of Ethiopia. For decades, the region has suffered from a multitude of armed conflicts involving state and non-state actors. Region 5 is also one of the most underserved states of Ethiopia with some of the lowest levels of human development indicators nationwide. Although the adversities of poverty and conflict are widely acknowledged in their own respect, there has been little or no inquest into why poverty and conflict have prevailed under the same space for decades. Poverty and conflict have often been seen as separate phenomena that are dealt with using different sets of theories and practices in the real world. Nonetheless, a closer look at poverty and conflict in Region 5 reveals that both are strongly connected to each other. The poverty-conflict trap has been an on-going cycle in the region for the last five decades. The main intent of this research paper is analyzing the two-way relationship between poverty and conflict in Region 5. By studying this relationship, this analysis seeks to contribute to a new framework that brings peacebuilding and development closer.
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Kerns, David L., John C. Palumbo, and David N. Byrne. "Relative Susceptibility of Red and Gree Color Morphs of the Green Peach Aphid to Foliar and Systemic Insecticides." College of Agriculture, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/221465.
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Foliar and systemic insecticide bioassay techniques were developed for testing insecticide susceptibility to two color morphs of the green peach aphid. Six foliar and one systemic insecticide were used in our evaluations. These insecticides included three organophosphates, two pyrethroids, one organochlorine, and one chloronicotinyl. One of the green colored populations tested was collected from spinach, and red and green color populations were collected from the within the same cabbage field. The red morph was found to be less susceptiblethan the green morphs to Dimethoate, Karate, and Endosulfan. Their were only slight differences in susceptibility to the foliar insecticide between the green morphs. The greenmorph from spinach was found to be the most susceptible to Admire, while the two morphs collected from cabbage did not differ. Leveling off of aphid mortality at about 85% with high doses of Admire may indicate highly tolerant types in the populations, or an artifact of the methodology.
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Battaglia, Marco <1997>. "Green Finance and Green Bubble." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/20965.
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Peinado, Gutiérrez David. "Green Distributed Antenna System (Green DAS)." Thesis, KTH, KTH Center för Trådlösa System, Wireless@kth, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-128174.
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Energy saving is an important factor which must be taken into account when planning a mobile distribution network. Distributed Antenna System (DAS) is a part of mobile distribution infrastructure which is used to extend the coverage of mobile base stations. DAS is a subject of the present study whose goal is to optimize DAS solutions for indoor and outdoor scenarios in terms of energy consumption while preserving the required Quality-of-Service (QoS). The project outdoor scenario is built on an example of a football stadium (Friends Arena in Stockholm) and the indoor scenario on an example of an office building (Electrum). The propagation model is build under realistic assumptions. The energy efficiency is defined as Joule/bit. Taking into account the radio part only, it is shown that increasing the number of antennas allows to improve the energy efficiency. It is also shown that by adjusting the positions of the antennas using an optimization algorithm, one can further improve the energy efficiency. It is finally shown that taking into account both radio and optical parts, there is an upper bound for the energy efficiency (as a function of the number of antennas), i.e. there is generally an optimal number of antennas which provide the best energy efficiency with a fixed QoS for the system. This thesis is a part of the joint project “Green Distributed Antenna Systems” between Wireless@KTH, Acreo AB and MIC Nordic ABGreen solutions for dynamic Distributed Antenna Systems, DAS (gDAS)