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The primary goal of this text is a practical one. Equipping
students with the enough knowledge and creating an independent
research platform, the author strives to prepare students for
professional careers. Providing students with a marketable skill
set requires topics from many areas of optimization. The initial
goal of this text is to develop marketable skill set for
mathematics majors but also for students of engineering, computer
science, economics, statistics, and business. Optimization reaches
into many different fields. This text provides a balance where one
is needed. Mathematics optimization books are often too heavy on
theory without enough applications; texts aimed at business
students are often strong on applications, but weak on math. The
book represents an attempt at overcoming this imbalance for all
students taking such a course. The book contains many applications
but also explains the mathematics behind the techniques. There are
even definitions and theorems. Optimization techniques are at the
heart of the first spam filters, are used in self-driving cars,
play a great role in machine learning and can be used in such
places as determining a batting order in a Major League Baseball
game. Additionally, it has seemingly limitless other applications
in business and industry. In short, knowledge of this subject
offers an individual both a very marketable skill set for a wealth
of jobs as well as useful tools for research in many academic
disciplines. Many of the problems rely on using a computer.
Microsoft’s Excelis most often used as this is common in
business, but Python and other languages are considered. The reason
for this is to experience mathematics and engineering students
using MatLab or Mathematica, the economics and business majors
using Excel, and the computer science students writing their own
programs in Java or Python.
Whether it is a result of nature, the consequence of a choice to
escape the state of nature, or the outcome of some other process of
deliberation, the fact of human association gives rise to recurrent
themes in political and social philosophy. The character and
requirements of justice, the profile of political legitimacy, and
the relationship between the powers of government and the rights of
the governed are some of the subjects of ongoing consideration and
debate in the disciplines of philosophy, political theory,
economics, and law. This volume represents a contribution to the
investigation of these issues of perennial interest and import,
featuring essays whose authors hope to extend, deepen, and, in some
cases, move in new directions, the current state of discussion.
The essays in this collection investigate two political traditions
and their critical interactions. The first series of essays deals
with the development of natural rights individualism, some
examining its origins in the thought of the seminal political
theorist, John Locke, and the influential constitutional theorist,
Montesquieu, others the impact of their theories on intellectual
leaders during the American Revolution and the Founding era, and
still others the culmination of this tradition in the writings of
nineteenth-century individualists such as Lysander Spooner. The
second series of essays focuses on the Progressive repudiation of
natural rights individualism and its far-reaching effect on
American politics and public policy.
Modern industrial societies have achieved a level of economic
prosperity undreamed of in earlier times, but in the view of the
contemporary environmental movement, the prosperity has come at the
cost of serious degradations to the natural world. For
environmental advocates, problems such as resource depletion, air
and water pollution, global warming, and the loss of biodiversity
represent due threats to the well-being of human societies and the
planet itself. But just how serious are these threats, and how
should we go about confronting them? Do environmental problems call
for more extensive government controls over industrial activity,
energy policy, and the like, or is it possible to find solutions by
harnessing the incentives of the free market? The essays in this
collection address these questions and explore related issues.
Do we desire things because they are good, or are they good because
we desire them? Objectivists answer that we desire things because
they are good; subjectivists answer that things are good because we
desire them. Further, does it make sense to account for moral
disagreement by claiming, as the moral relativist does, that
something might be good for one person but not for another? Some
essays in this book consider whether objective moral truths can be
grounded in an understanding of the nature of human beings as
rational and social animals. Some discuss the ethical theories of
historical figures-Aristotle, Aquinas, or Kant-or offer critical
assessments of the work of recent and contemporary theorists-such
as Moore, Putnam, Ayn Rand, Philippa Foot, and Rosalind Hursthouse.
Other essays ask whether moral principles and values can be
constructed through a process of practical reasoning or
deliberation. Still others consider what the phenomenology of our
moral experiences can reveal about moral objectivity.
The essays in this volume assess the empirical and theoretical questions raised by inequalities of income and wealth. Some consider empirical claims about the amount of equality in modern market economies, assessing the allegation that income and wealth have become more unequally distributed in the past quarter-century. Others consider the extent to which various government initiatives can ameliorate the problems inequality putatively poses. They consider which standards of equality meet the requirements of distributive justice. They also ask if inequality is intrinsically immoral, regardless of its consequences.
This volume examines human flourishing and its relationship to other key concepts in moral theory. Some essays question whether a theory of human nature can allow us to develop an objective list of goods valuable to all agents. Some look at the role of relationships in a good life, or ask whether an ethical theory based on human flourishing can accommodate concern for others. Other essays analyze the function of social-political institutions in promoting the flourishing of individuals. Still others explore the implications of flourishing for political theory and principles of social justice.
With the collapse of Communist totalitarianism, the countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union face political instabililty and an uncertain economic future. The people of the region are struggling to emulate the success of the West by moving toward Western-style democracy and markets. The essays in this volume address the liberal transition currently underway. Some of them explore the models offered by political theorists to guide the course of reforms. Some discuss obstacles to change posed by existing attitudes, institutions, and cultural traditions. Some examine the nature of liberalism itself, and consider whether democratic politics and free-market economics can coexist without undermining one another. Some offer alternatives to specific Western institutions, arguing that in certain cases it would be unwise for the East to follow the West. Addressing the issues from a variety of perspectives, the contributors to this volume offer valuable insights into the nature of liberalism and the problems facing liberal reformers today.
In The Medicine of Peace, Jeffrey Ansloos explores the complex
intersections of colonial violence, the current status of
Indigenous youth in Canada in regards to violence and the
possibilities of critical-Indigenous psychologies of nonviolence.
Indigenous youth are disproportionately at risk for violent
victimization and incarceration within the justice system. They are
also marginalized and oppressed within our systems of academia,
mental health and social work. By linking the contemporary
experiences of Indigenous youth with broader contexts of
intergenerational colonial violence in Canadian society and
history, Ansloos highlights the colonial nature of current
approaches to Indigenous youth care. Using a critical-Indigenous
discourse to critique, deconstruct and de-legitimize the hegemony
of Western social science, Ansloos advances an Indigenous peace
psychology to promote the revitalization of Indigenous identity for
these youth.
What are the core values of liberalism and how can they best be
promoted? Liberals in the classical tradition championed individual
freedom, limited government and a capitalist economic system with
strong rights to private property. Contemporary liberals, in
contrast, embrace more egalitarian values and allow for a far more
prominent role for government intervention in the market to reduce
inequality, redistribute wealth and regulate economic activity.
What accounts for these very disparate liberal views of property
rights and economic freedom? How should we understand the
transition from the classical view of liberalism to its more
egalitarian modern version? And what, ideally, should the
relationship be between the central values of liberalism and the
economic institutions of capitalism? The eleven essays in this
volume address these questions and examine related issues.
The essays in this volume--written by prominent philosophers,
political scientists, and legal scholars--address these questions
and explore related issues. Some essays examine the basic purposes
of constitutions and their status as fundamental law. Some deal
with specific constitutional provisions: they ask, for example,
which branches of government should have the authority to conduct
foreign policy, or how the judiciary should be organized, or what
role a preamble should play in a nation's founding document. Other
essays explore questions of constitutional design: they consider
the advantages of a federal system of government, or the challenges
of designing a constitution for a pluralistic society--or they ask
what form of constitution best promotes personal liberty and
economic prosperity.
The notion of obligation--of what an agent owes to himself, to
others, or to society generally--occupies a central place in
morality. But what are the sources of our moral obligations, and
what are their limits? To what extent do obligations vary in their
stringency and severity, and does it make sense to talk about
imperfect obligations, that is, obligations that leave the
individual with a road range of freedom to determine how and when
to fulfill them? The twelve essays in this volume address these and
other questions and explore related issues. Some of them discuss
broad theoretical questions, some essays look at moral reasons for
action. Others discuss specific moral obligations or the tensions
that may exist between our obligations and our other concerns.
The essays in this volume address some of the most enduring questions involved in the search for moral knowledge. Can morality be founded upon facts about human nature, social agreement, volition, subjective preference, a priori reasoning, intuition, or some other basis? Is morality knowable in any objective sense that would make it universal and, therefore, binding on humans in all times, places, and circumstances? Or, rather, is morality inherently subjective, culture bound, or more radically still, uniquely determined by each individual for that individual? Is there an answer to those who maintain that it is misguided even to think in terms of moral knowledge, on the grounds that moral utterances are expressions of feelings or attitudes rather than claims that can be known to be true or false?
Here it is: the first-time look at the remarkable American
multinational mass media empire and its century of
entertainment-the story of Twentieth Century Fox (1915-2015). Or,
to borrow the title of a classic 1959 Fox film, The Best of
Everything. This is the complete revelatory story-bookended by
empire builders William Fox and Rupert Murdoch-aimed as both a
grand, entertaining, nostalgic and picture-filled interactive read
and the ultimate guide to all things Twentieth Century Fox. The
controversies and scandals are here, as are the extraordinary
achievements. Among other firsts, the book offers fun tours of its
historic production and ranch facilities including
never-before-told stories about its stars and creative
personalities (Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, James Dean, and
Shirley Temple got started there). Finally, it is the first such
work approved by the company and utilizing its own unique
resources. The authors primarily tell a celebratory tale, but most
importantly, an accurate one.
Two of the largest minority groups in modern Japan-Koreans, who
emigrated to the metropole as colonial subjects, and a social
minority known as the Burakumin, who descended from former
outcastes-share a history of discrimination and marginalization
that spans the decades of the nation's modern transformation, from
the relatively liberal decade of the 1920s, through the militarism
and nationalism of the 1930s, to the empire's demise in 1945.
Through an analysis of the stereotypes of Koreans and Burakumin
that were constructed in tandem with Japan's modernization and
imperial expansion, Jeffrey Bayliss explores the historical
processes that cast both groups as the antithesis of the emerging
image of the proper Japanese citizen/subject. This study provides
new insights into the majority prejudices, social and political
movements, and state policies that influenced not only their
perceived positions as "others" on the margins of the Japanese
empire, but also the minorities' views of themselves, their place
in the nation, and the often strained relations between the two
groups.
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